The Society of Interiors

The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial practices in urban contexts that allow for a diverse public, express differences, and create other experiences and situations. Authors include the architect and researcher Tatjana Schneider, editor of the publication Spatial Agency (Routledge 2011); the activist architect Petra Pferdmenges from alive architecture in Brussels, the architectural theorist Peter Lang; the architect and artist Tor Lindstrand; as well as Rochus Hinkel, whose research focuses on the intersections between interior, architecture and urban environments.

Rochus Hinkel is Professor of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Konstfack - University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, and Professor of Artistic Design at OTH Regensburg. He has taught at RMIT's School of Architecture and Design,TU Berlin, the University Stuttgart and the State Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart. His practice has been exhibited internationally, including Kortrijk, Belgium, and Basel, Switzerland. Rochus has also served as curator at theWeißenhof Architecture Gallery in Stuttgart where he inaugurated theWeißenhof-Architekturförderpreis. Besides he has established in 2011 a series of roundtable discussions in Berlin, Melbourne and Stockholm, where like-minded practitioners and academics from a diversity of elds meet. He was the editor of Urban Interior - Informal explorations, interventions and occupations (Spurbuchverlag, 2011), Notions of Space (Craft Victoria, 2008) and guest editor of Stadtbauwelt Melbourne (Stadtbauwelt, 2005). Rochus holds a PhD by thesis and creative works from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne.