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ItemDesign in our industrialised world of capitalist flows: A Scandinavian perspective(URO, 2022-04)This book explores the far-reaching influence of two 20th-century design icons: the Bauhaus art school and the furniture company IKEA.
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ItemDo we change, or do we comply?(URO, 2022-04)This book explores the far-reaching influence of two 20th-century design icons: the Bauhaus art school and the furniture company IKEA.
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ItemA Future Interior is an Urban Interior(Crucible Press, 2019)A future interior will trespass the architectural envelope to take up its place in the city, on the streets, and in those urban spaces that remain open to a public. A future interior shelters the capacity to become an urban interior, emerging as a site of contest between commercial interests and the desire of a provisional community to gather, to voice its concerns, to imagine other possible futures, or simply hang out together. The future of practices dedicated to the interior must develop an attitude to the status of the urban interior, and the kinds of spaces it can carve out. The greatest risk to urban interiors is the compulsion to produce commercial economic outcomes, to curate atmospheric spaces that arouse experiences that can be monetized as part of the experience economy. Those urban interiors in which nothing in particular takes place, where no specific use is programmed, and yet which invite forms of provisional occupation are becoming increasingly rare in light of the ongoing diminution of public spaces and the lack of places available as a commons that might be indiscriminately shared by all. It is becoming increasingly challenging to even imagine how to occupy what I call an urban interior without attaching some commercial program or financial gain to it. It follows that the interior architect who is socially and politically engaged must pause to ask: How can the urban interior be saved from capitalist recuperation? This is an ongoing challenge for the discipline of interior design and architecture.