Inner Spaces II · Teaching

What if we look at the interior on its own terms? Especially because we spend so much of our lives in them. We are creatures that dwell in the inside of things. Perhaps we can begin to untangle the interior from its established binary position with the exterior. Perhaps the atmospheric qualities of inside places become generative models on their own.

Inner Spaces / The Interior II (2024 - 2025)

IoA, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Teaching Team:
Gregorio S. Lubroth
Chieh-shu Tzou

1/3students: jiale gao, jones hansen, max gross, orkhan khansanov, yuling yan

1/3students: erfan khosravi, jenny roald lyngstad, ömer gürel, elias geser, riutao wang

1/2students: pang jun wei, sidika cupuroglu, nadine cassar, dario lantschner, xuiting liu

1/2students: lorenz andexer, anastasiia sergeva, lea mittermeier, yanxiao xu, hanna thomaseth, matthew simpson

The seminar is a three part course that concludes in an on-site summer workshop. The course focuses on the interior as a conceptual space formed by lived experiences. The interior should be understood as provisional, either because our time in it is limited or because it is in constant flux with an opposing position, an exterior. We will look at the interior as an intersection between physical, mental, and digital modes of being. Close attention to boundaries, thresholds, and interstices will help us articulate our visions for the interior.

The first semester focuses on research, theory, and schematic/iterative atmospheric ideas. The second semester demands that the student groups select a single motivation to be articulated in detail. Here the groups confront the realities of budget*, planning, and communication. The summer workshop sees the implementation of the selected work itself.

The course is as much about understanding and creating atmospheres and experiences through specific effects, as it is about finding inventive strategies for collective endeavors. The students, as a group, are simultaneously makers, actors, critics, and authors. Moreover, the students are charged with creating a spatial intervention that will be up and in place for a year in a space that is open to the street and caters to a particular informality of urban life. This gives the students a unique opportunity not only to test their ideas as a resolution of a collective design process but also as an actual public artifact in constant interaction with a transient body of people that populate the space or interface with its presence from the street.

students: Lorenz Andexer, NadineCassar, Sidika Cupuroglu, Jiale Gao, Elias Geser, Max Groos, Ömer Gürel, Jonas Hansen, Orkhan Hasanov, Erfan Khosravi, Dario Lantschner, Xueting Liu, Jenny Roald Lyngstad, Lea Mittermeier, Jun Wei Pang, Anastasiia Sergeeva, Matthew Simpson, Hanna Thomaseth, Ruitao Wang, Morgane Wolf, Yanxiao Xu, Yuling Yan

Sponsors:
AREA, XAL, POHA Tischlerie, Schinerl Mettallbau