Interiors Matter: A Live Interior

"Interiors Matter: A Live Interior"

Presentation of an artistic research project by Ulrika Karlsson, Veronica Skeppe and Cecilia Lundbäck (KTH), and Daniel Norell (Chalmers) and Einar Rodhe (Konstfack).

Commentators/readers:
Dr. Ines Weizman (RCA)
Dr. Pablo Miranda Carranza (KTH)

Moderators:
Dr. Christina Pech (KTH)
Ph.D. Candidate Janek Michal Ozmin (KTH)

Seminar Link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67042903633

Link to the published paper: A Live Interior: Environments, Assemblies, Materialities

The research project Interiors Matter: A Live Interior engages the interior’s temporality, duration and instability. It investigates this through artistic and practice-based research by the coupling of craft and digital techniques with a focus on architectural representation. During the first phase of the research 3D laser scanning was used to study a series of inhabited apartments in Stockholm. Domestic interiors are notoriously difficult to represent. This problem has throughout the history of architecture given rise to productive frictions that have propelled the discipline forward. The first phase of the research targeted the problem of representation of interiors and resulted in a small exhibition and a seminar, as well as in a peer-reviewed article, “A Live Interior: Environments, Assemblies, Materialities” (AJA).

A second phase of the project furthers the research on interiors and techniques for representation. In this phase, we are working towards an exhibition presenting the work, including translations of point clouds to built form, as well as alterations and re-assemblies of existing interior elements and objects.

Interiors Matter: A Live interior is a three-year artistic research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The project is developed in collaboration between KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. It will be carried out as practice based research through two teams – Ulrika Karlsson, Cecilia Lundbäck and Veronica Skeppe (KTH), and Daniel Norell (Chalmers) and Einar Rodhe (Konstfack).

Ines Weizman is Head of the PhD Programme at the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London. She is also the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective of architectural historians, filmmakers and digital technologists.

Pablo Miranda Carranza is an architect and researcher interested in the history, ideologies and aesthetics of programs and code in architecture. He currently researches and teaches at the KTH School of Architecture.

Ulrika Karlsson is a Professor in Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, guest professor at SAC Städelschule and a co-funder of Brrum

Cecilia Lundbäck is a Lecturer in Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a co-founder of Brrum

Veronica Skeppe is a Researcher in Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a co-founder of Brrum

Daniel Norell is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology and co-founder of Norell/Rodhe.

Einar Rodhe is an architect and a Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, and co-founder of Norell/Rodhe.