Open AccessUnsolicited Interiors
Author(s) -
Charity Edwards
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
idea/idea journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2208-9217
pISSN - 1445-5412
DOI - 10.37113/ideaj.vi0.68
Subject(s) - studio , politics , agency (philosophy) , architecture , intervention (counseling) , speculation , sociology , space (punctuation) , psychological intervention , visual arts , media studies , public relations , political science , aesthetics , art , law , psychology , social science , computer science , business , finance , psychiatry , operating system
Developed from a contemporary theory lecture regarding economic realities and guerilla practice, the studio Unsolicited Interiors proposes political engagement as a critical operation of interior architecture agency via the exploration of contested urban volumes, unsolicited intervention and choreographic occupation. A text and image review of this studio considers student response to political texts, design speculation, and public space disruptions through performance, photography, large-scale model-making and self-initiated actions. Discussion of a series of collaborative interventions with visiting Berlin-based collective raumlabor reinforces a positioning of design activism through acts of provocation and social inquiry as critical to spatial decisions in, and of, the city.