The Public interior and its subjects
M Pimlott (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
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Abstract
The interior in modernity has been regarded as a space at a remove from the public world, a space for the private self and ones intimates, a space in which one can be oneself. The notion of the public interior immediately presents a contradiction, in that interior and public would appear to be irreconcilable. The public would seem to infer an unbearable exposure of the self. How can one occupy a space of ones own, in which one can be oneself, in the midst of those conditions imposed by public life? Furthermore, are these conditions not likely to be reinforced by their confinement in an interior? Is it possible, given that the public interior creates conditions alien to private life, to imagine and realise a public interior that allows the self and the selfs interiority to flourish, and permits the self to be the self, among others, in public?