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A number of InsideOpen contributors are exploring concepts of interiority with a critical view on what it really means to describe something like an interior.

What is an interior? Is it really the inside of an architectural fabric only? Could the interior be in the city? Could it be in-between cities or be something much smaller; that small that it can only be remembered or imagined.

This does raise the question; “where is the interior?” Where is it localised as a concept and a spatial possibility and/or proposition. On a phenomenological level this nurtures the opportunity to rupture classical notions of space to enter regions of subjective/performative experimentation.

To accommodate this mode of experimentation InsideOpen contributors meander through a trajectory of drawing, model making to eventually arrive at prototyping large scale installations to experience modes of interiority.

As an example; this is some work in progress by Charlotte Milburn and Mckenna Cameron;

RECOMMENDED BLOGS ON INSIDEOPEN

· Lilly Drolsum on ‘Projection’

· Mckenna Cameron on ‘Evolving Spaces’

· Charlotte Milburn on ‘Poetic Potentials’

· Rachel Thomas on ‘Heterotopia’

· Riet Eeckhout on ‘Performance of Drawing’

· Ephraim Joris on ‘Methods’

LIST OF EDITORIAL ARTICLES ON INSIDEOPEN

·Design, Reuse, Team work; September 19th, 2008

Françoise Détienne writes the following in ‘Memory of past designs: distinctive roles in individual and collective design’; “Empirical studies on design have emphasised the role of memory of past solutions… read more

·Challenging the space(s) we live in; November 19th, 2008

Michel Foucault outlines the notion of heterotopia on three occasions: first, in his preface to Les Mots et les Choses (The Order of Things) published in 1966, second…read more

·Altermodernism; January 28th 2009

Nicolas Bourriaud is proposing a new term ‘Altermodernism’ announcing a new era following Postmodernism to describe aesthetic proposals critically engaging with an increasingly global context. The world we experience today is…read more

·Interior-Loci; July 16th 2009

With this exhibition, 5 graduates negotiate implicit concepts on the notion of interiority and seem, through this exercise, not only engaged with the question ‘where is the interior’…read more

·Anna Baranowska on ‘Domestic Superimposition’; July 28th 2009

Anna Baranowska proposes ‘Domestic Superimposition’ as an answer to the exhibition title Interior-Loci. Interior-Loci suggest the questioning of the location of the interior…read more

·Lilly Drolsum on ‘Trace Space’; August 4th 2009

Lilly Drolsum proposes this project titled ‘Trace Space’ as an answer to the exhibition title Interior-Loci. With her images and installation exhibited at Free Range 2009 in London…read more