On Boundary-Drawing Practices
An Eco-systemic Take on Interiors
Robert A. Gorny (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
This chapter argues for a conception of interiors that no longer identifies them (and spaces in general) as (sub)units or parts of an external whole. This partial conception fails to understand in its own terms what constitutes interiors; what they are in their own right; and most importantly how they are, meaning how they are produced and what they thus do. As a queer architecture theorist, I take the liberty of a transversal perspective that attempts to cut through the historical divides between architecture and its perspective of interior as a subdiscipline. Through an immanent vision of environmental systems, and a more eco‑systemic – that is embodied and embedded, relational and affective – notion of interiors, interior spaces, and space in general, I want to problematise part‑to‑whole relations, and the resulting oppositional otherness of interiors and exteriors. [...]