The Society of Interiors

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.

Tatjana Schneider is a researcher, writer and educator based at the School of Architecture in Shef eld, UK. Her current work focuses on the changing role of architects and architecture, pedagogy and spatial agency. She has a particular interest in theoretical, methodological and practical approaches that expand the scope of contemporary archi- tectural debates and discourses by integrating political and economic frameworks that question normative ways of thinking, producing and consuming space. She is a co-author of Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture (2011), Flexible Housing (2007), and A Right to Build: The Next Mass-Housebuilding Industry (2011), and (co)editor of Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures (2009) and glaspaper (2001–2007).

Tor Lindstrand (Stockholm) is an Associate Professor at the KTH School of Architecture and a co-owner of the of ce of Larsson Lindstrand Palme Arkitektkontor AB. His practice oscillate between architecture, art and performance in numerous cultural contexts with projects presented in institutions like,TATE Liverpool,VeniceArchi- tecture Biennale 2008, 2010 and 2014, Steirischer Herbst, Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale,Van Abbe Museum, Royal Dramatic Theatre Copenhagen, NAI Rotterdam, Stockholm Architecture Museum,Tensta Art centre, Botkyrka Art centre and Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Dr. Petra Pferdmenges is the founder of the social agency Alive Architecture based in Brussels and a practice-based researcher at the KU Leuven.Through projects, design research, participation in conferences, publications and teaching she explores the role of the architect in the production of lived space in the public realm. The projects she develops are based on active citizen engagement to empower the local to welcome their guests in the gentri cation process of urban development.The most recent publications are the editing of the Parckdesign 2014: Parckfarm booklet as well as the writing on the Parckfarm project in the booklet ’Public Space Prize Vlaanderen’.

Peter Lang is Professor in ArchitecturalTheory and History at the Royal Institute of Art, in the Department of Architecture, Stockholm (KKH). He earned a PhD in Italian history and urbanism at NewYork University and is a Fulbright recipient in Italian studies. Lang works on the history and theory of post-war Italian architecture and design, with a focus on Italian experimental design, media and environments during the 1960s. He has written and curated projects on the Italian Radical Design and Architecture movement; most recently the Mondial Festival in Mashup: the Birth of Modern Culture atVancouverArt Gallery Museum (2016). He also co-curated, together with Luca Molinari and MarkWasiuta, Environments and Counter Environment: Italy the New Domestic Landscape at the Graham Foundation Chicago (2013). Lang has been a member of the Rome based urban arts research group Stalker since 1997.

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.