Grime on a Mountain of Haze: Imprecise Instruments of Vague Spaces
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master of Fine Arts (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
This project explores vagueness in space and how it can help us train and sharpen our senses as designers and architects to adapt to the realities of scarcity and how to make less-extractive processes of creating space. Using ephemeral but recurring phenomena such as air flow, reflections, refractions of light and moist in architecture as inspiration, I seek to make everyday-spaces, such as underneath a wash basin, a radiator or behind a door, interesting again. With methods inspired by the land art movement to find new ways of seeing interior spaces, I use attentiveness and the idea to not destroy or disturb to observe already existing spaces. The project seeks to tell a story of neglected beauty in forgotten spaces and translating them into (im)material architectural spatial installations.
I hope this project can bring an understanding that protecting and appreciating what we already have is probably more sustainable than constantly changing and readjusting spaces to fit our wants and what we think we need. To train our senses and get new ideas of beauty and function in already existing interior spaces, brings what is out of focus into the light. This might be a way to partly slow down the industry of interiors and redirect how we work as architects and designers to understand that everything doesn’t need to change, but if we seek change, we can do it by immaterial phenomena, such as light through the interstices, that will occur as long as there is life.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 49
Keywords [en]
Interior Architecture, Spatial Design, Design, Vague Space, Sustainability, Light, Air, Water, Immateriality, Nature, Installation Art, Attentiveness
Keywords [sv]
Inredningsarkitektur, Rumslig gestaltning, Design, Vaga rum, Hållbarhet, Ljus, Luft, Vatten, Perception, Immaterialitet, Natur, Installationskonst, Uppmärksamhet
National Category
Design Architecture Visual Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-8583OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-8583DiVA, id: diva2:1675218
Educational program
Design - Spatial Design (Master)
Examiners
2022-06-232022-06-222022-06-23Bibliographically approved