Symposium

INTERIOR ECOLOGIES

Geneva, December 2022

HEAD – Genève, Geneva


The conference aimed to bring together a series of transversal personalities who addressed the subject of non-human architecture. From simple greenhouses to botanic facilities, data centres and automated interiors, never before in history has architecture produced so many interiors for the non-human, challenging disciplinary notions on tectonics, light and comfort, and entire regulatory frameworks. Once designed for and with the human, contemporary interiors have instead become exponentially complex materialisations where the politics of our present moment are played out. Ultimately, who are they for?

Titled Interior ecologies, this conference examined the glossaries that characterise contemporary ecology and their implications for interior architecture. From the postmodern concept of sustainability in the 1980s to that of the Anthropocene in the 2000s, and from the contemporary paradigms of the Post-human to the Capitalocene and the Cthulucene in the 2010s, a series of lectures and round tables explored the entanglements between interior spaces, environments and media through successive decentralisations: from the old totalitarianisms that humans have built amongst themselves for centuries (inclusivity) to their position in relation to non-humans (ecology), and finally their relation to machines and their outputs, both real and virtual (technology).

Interior Ecologies calls for a vision where the non-human will be central, empowering the agency of traditionally obliterated actors. This involves not only solutions to environmental challenges, but above all the study of the ecosystemic relations between non-living and living organisms (including humans) as crucial for the discipline of interior architecture.

Youtube link to all of the event’s conferences and discussions

TEAM

Scientific Comitee:

Javier F. Contreras

Philippe Rahm

Vera Sacchetti

Scientific Deputy:

Roberto Zancan

Space Design of the conference:

Robin Delerce

Organization:

Javier Fernandez Contreras

Valentina De Luigi

Robin Delerce

Lucie Landenbergue

Phi Nguyen

Cécile-Diama Samb

Vera Sacchetti

 

 

STUDENTS:

Ségolène Davister

Luna Florey

Kristina Kambolova

Natalia Krymskaya

Andreas Laskaris

Alexandra Miskufova

Valentina Carmen Pantalena

Marie Lesley Schild

Marie Torrione

Kirill Vinokurov

Emma Birbaud

Thomas Dreux

Samia Hilal

Vilma Hubalek

Camila Perna

Anaïs Youssefi



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