MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture
Institute for Postnatural Studies
December 18-19, 2024
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The third edition of the Interior Ecologies conference, organized by MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture at HEAD – Geneva, and the Institute for Postnatural Studies, will address porosity and interiority as frameworks for contemporary architectural thinking. By questioning “what is interior” and “where is interior,” the symposium will enact a discursive virtual space to explore the possibilities of interior architecture as an interface. By approaching indoor space as procured through the intermingling, interacting, and exchanging of diverse elements, the symposium will consider the role of media, technology, and expanded ecologies in rendering “interior” as a relative projection.
The symposium features practitioners spanning the interconnected fields of architecture, design, and art theory from all around the world, addressing topics including the impact of digital platforms on architecture, acoustic ecologies, postnatural territories, machine learning technologies, computational software, gamified landscapes, feminist spatialities, and psychic materialities.
The conference will be fully online, with free registration and open access. It will integrate innovative broadcast formats, fostering interaction between speakers, audience, and digitally rendered environments. Consisting of lectures, round tables, and experimental workshops, the symposium engages the potential of digital gatherings as spaces for imagining radical approaches to ecology, design, and technology.
Scientific Committee:
Javier F. Contreras, Roberto Zancan, Carmen Lael Hines,
Gabriel Alonso, and Yuri Tuma.
Download the conference program here
PROGRAM
Wednesday, Dec 18th, 2024
10:00 – 10:25
Carmen Lael Hines(IPS), Javier F. Contreras and Roberto Zancan
Introduction to MAIA thesis programme
10:30 – 10:55
Emma Canton
Re-coding Space: how protest redefines urban environments through objects and action
Lecture
11:00 – 11:25
Lucia Bergamaschi
Garden Me Tender
Lecture
11:30 – 11:55
Pascal M. Dreier & Leoni Fischer
Night at the factory farm: navigating the thresholds of animal-industrial interiors
Performance
12:00-12:25
Oya Yeşim Armağan Atacan
Neat Ecologies : Tablecloths as Agents of Spatial Interiority
Lecture
12:30-13.15
Lucia Bergamaschi, Oya Yeşim Armağan Atacan, Pascal M. Dreier & Leoni Fischer and Emma Canton
Round Table and Q & A
13:15 – 14:15
BREAK
14:15-14.40
Ye Xu, Katharina Borsi, Jonathan Hale
Working-at-Home: The “Space” of the Zoom Meeting and the Reinvention of the Corridor
Lecture
14:45-15:10
Angelica Ponzio
Reimagining the Interior : Generative AI and Interdisciplinary Narratives
AI generated environment and animated performance
15:15-15:40
Evan Pavka
Liquid Interiors : Revisiting Frances Gabe’s Self Cleaning House
Lecture
15.45 – 16:10
Anna Karina Zepeda
Sounds we inhabit : How a house becomes a home through the sound experience
Lecture
16:15-16:45
Evan Pavka, Angelica Ponzio, Ye Xu and Ana Karina Zepeda
Interiors Reinvention (DRAFT Title)
Round Table and Q+A
17:15-17:40
Monja Simon
Interior as a Living Inter-Species Web
Round Table / Discussion on feminist spatialities, acoustic ecologies, and psychic materialities
Thursday, Dec 19th, 2024
10:00 – 10:25
Sawako Bolch
Teahouse on Mars: Tea Ceremony as a Counter-Narrative of the Terraforming Project
Lecture
10:30-10:55
Inge Meijer
Why are some remembered and others forgotten?
Lecture
11:00-11:25
Madeline Ruggi, Marie-José Crespo
Double-edged zones: waterways, borderscapes and corporeal limits
(Audio-visual) Performance
11:30-11:55
Juan Barcia Mas
Through Bodies and Buildings
Lecture
12:00-12:45
Juan Barcia Mas, Madeline Ruggi, Marie-José Crespo, Inge Meijer, Sawako Bolch
Norms and bodies (DRAFT Title)
Q & A and Round Table
14:00-14:25
Nina Corti
Ecologies of Resonance: Sonic conversations in Living Architecture Spaces
Sonic experience
14:30-14:55
Sofia Tapia
Impossible Memory Architectures: Narrative Subjectivities in L’Année Dernière à Marienbad
Lecture
15:00-15:25
David Roder
Spiritual Manifestations in Marble: From Ancient Cosmic Floors to Baroque Portals and Digital Reproductions
Lecture
15:30-16:30
Final discussion with all participants, and Q&A
