It continues to be relevant to ask ‘where is the interior?’ When the focus of interiors moves from wall to floor, structures, furniture and other interior objects detach from the wall, and a shift from circular organization around a perimeter of a room to intimate clustered occupation of the floor occurs. This shift suggests that interiors become environments filled with, rather than framed by, belongings that produce other varieties of social activity and climates. Today interiors, theirs rituals and possessions are moving outside, furnishing the urban life, taking the character of urban nested interiors. These interior shifts and imaginations keep challenging the relationship between architecture, interior and the city. The (in)stability of interiors provides opportunities to continually redefine where and what is an interior, to redefine the field and profession of interior architecture and furniture design, and to challenge the cultural project of architecture.

This years’ degree students explore the possibility of interior architectural imaginations to spark the collective imagination. Through the design of speculative proposals and perspectives they demonstrate the discipline’s capacity to contribute to pressing spatial socio-political issues and to critically examine material economies and aesthetic boundaries.

The projects exhibited this year keep asking questions such as:
How long does it take to pass through a door and trespass a threshold? What is a spatial tool? How can an object expand a spatial practice? What is it to reassemble a site? What is a method for shaping air? How can a knitted and woven textile construct a space? What is vague architecture and spatial uncertainty? When is the body a tool? What is a pattern? What is spatial magic realism? What is an urban nature school? What are the differences between to display and exhibit? What is a museum? What can two pigments do to issues of flatness and depth? What happens when light hits a parabola? What are the spatial parameters of a ritual?

Ulrika Karlsson, Professor of Interior Architecture & Furniture Design