ABSTRACT
This article presents part of a research done on children’s bedrooms in socioeconomically privileged households. Considering the increasing importance of this room, a phenomenon called “bedroom culture”, the research analyzed the materiality and the senses given to these spaces by parents and children. As investigation procedures, we conducted interviews with the parents, and produced videos in which 3 to 11-years old children presented their bedrooms. The outcomes were: i) decoration traces that pointed towards an educational ideal of autonomy and a genderized socialization; ii) objects that supported the memory of previous generations; iii) decorations representing a cosmopolitan ethos; and iv) pieces of furniture that give to the bedroom characteristics of a school annex.
Keywords
Children socialization; Architecture; Middle class and elite
