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| Interior Ecologies
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| With Paola Antonelli (Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, MoMA), Philippe Rahm (Principal, Philippe Rahm architectes Studio Critic, HEAD - Genve), Mireia Luzrraga (Founder, TAKK), Javier Contreras (Professor & Head of Department, Space Design/Interior Architecture, HEAD - Genve), Marc Streit (Head of Arts & Creative Industries, Swissnex in Boston and New York). |
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Sep 22 (Tue) @ 06:00 PM
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| | Performance Space New York, 150 1st Ave 4th floor
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From simple greenhouses to botanic facilities, & from data centers to automated interiors, never before in history has architecture produced so many interiors for the non-human, challenging disciplinary notions on tectonics, light, comfort & entire regulatory frameworks. Once designed for & with the human, contemporary interiors have instead become exponentially complex materializations where the politics of our present moment are played out. Ultimately, who are they for?
Interior Ecologies is a critical framework developed within the Master of Arts in Interior Architecture (MAIA) program at Geneva School of Art & Design (HEAD - Genve). It examines how interior architecture engages with climate change, resource circulation & multispecies coexistence alongside posthuman & more-than-human design perspectives. Rather than treating interiors as autonomous spaces, it calls on us to rethink them as complex ecologies in which human & nonhuman actors are entangled across broader planetary scales.
This roundtable brings together voices from HEAD - Genve, MoMA, & Columbia GSAPP to reflect on how interior architecture can contribute to new ecological approaches to design, research, & professional practice.
The event will also include a presentation of the scenographic installation developed by MAIA for Assembly, the Swiss presence at Climate Week NYC. Employing scaffolding & dismantlable systems as an embodiment of circular architecture, the installation demonstrates principles of reuse, adaptability, & reversibility, staking its claim as an active ecological agent within the space.
More information, speakers, & event program
This event is part of Assembly, the main Swiss stage at Climate Week NYC 2026. As world leaders gather in Midtown Manhattan, Swissnex assembles Swiss & global voices - from private sector innovators & researchers to artists & policymakers - in the East Village for three days of communal climate thinking & action. Assembly speaks to deliberation & democracy - the idea that communities must collectively define their futures - as well as the ongoing, creative, improvisational process of constructing those futures from the pieces of our present.
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