Public Interiority

Liz Teston is an associate professor of interior architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in the Southeast United States and a Fulbright Scholar. Teston’s research explores public interiority, design politics, atmospheres, and cultures. Teston’s work has been exhibited in Atlanta, Bucharest, Knoxville, New York, Lincoln, Stockholm, and Venice. Teston hosted the Public Interiority Symposium + Exhibition at the University of Tennessee–this volume is a product of that event. Her essays are found in journals such as Interiority, MONU, the Journal of Interior Design, and Int/AR, volumes such as Interior Futures (2019), and such Routledge volumes as Interiors On Edge: History Theory, Praxis (2024), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader (2024), and The Interior Architecture Theory Reader (2018). Karin Tehve is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in the United States, where she coordinates the theory curriculum in interior design. She earned her MArch at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her own research and writing concentrates on taste, media, and identity, and their intersection with the public realm. As a member of Interior Provocations, Karin is co-editor for and contributor to Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors (2020), Appropriate(d) Interiors (2021), and Interiors on Edge: History, Theory, Praxis (2024). Her book, Taste, Media and Interior Design, was published by Routledge in 2023. Tehve is an advisory board member for Public Interiority. Ladi’Sasha Jones is a writer, curator, designer, and a member of Public Interiority’s editorial board. Pursuing a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University in the United States, her research explores Black American spatial histories of play and performance. She has written for Aperture, The Avery Review, Arts.Black, e-flux Criticism, Gagosian Quarterly, and The Art Momentum, among others. Her project, Black Interior Spatial Thought, was the recipient of a 2021 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Jones holds an MA in Arts Politics from NYU and a BA in African American Studies from Temple University. Amy Campos is a professor at California College of the Arts in the United States. Her work focuses on durability and design with a special interest in the impermanent, migratory potentials of the interior. Recent publications include Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge, 2018) and the chapters "Survivalism, Interiorization and Exclusivity" in Interior Futures and "Territory and Inhabitation" in Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2018). Campos serves as an advisory board member for Public Interiority. Campos is leading research in lighting design and materiality through two Donghia Grants for the Interior Design program at CCA. She was the recipient of the 2013 IIDA Teacher of the Year award and the 2014 ASID Design Luminary Award. She received degrees from Columbia University and Cal Poly, SLO.

1. An Introduction to Public Interiority Part 1 Politics + Programs 2. An Introduction to Politics + Programs 3. From Interior Supergraphics to Participation in the Public Sphere 4. In Plain Sight: Civic Assemblages and Co-producing the Micro-Urban Commons 5. Growing Through Greyfields: A Pattern for Broken Promises 6. Museums and Public Interiority: Contributions from Interaction and Exhibit Design 7. Dug by the Devil: Space, Culture, + Material Identity 8. Almost Paradise 9. Play Ground: Empowering the Child in the City Part 2 Virtual + Psychologies 10. An Introduction to Virtual + Psychologies 11. Supreme Privacy: Seven Public Interiorities 12. Digital Enclosures Project 13. Post-PhotographicDomesticity: Using LiDAR to Generate a Personal Archive 14. Exploring Interiority: Unveiling the Layers of Human Experience through Visual Representation 15. Wonder + Dread 16. Moving Interiors: Travel, Images, Psychologies 17. Outdoor Interiority: City Creatures Part 3 Atmospheres + Forms 18. An Introduction to Atmospheres + Forms 19. Jean-Michel Wilmotte’s Interior Urban Design as a Model of Public Interior Practice 20. (Semi-)Public Interiority in British Curative Environments, 1840–1914 21. Movement, Flow, + Materiality at Shahi Qila: Mughal Grandeur as Public Interiority 22. Interiors within Interiors: Visual Outlook on Strategies and Tactics in Constructing Public Interiors During the Sixteenth Century 23. Studies of Study: Interiority by Making 24. Pillows/Planets/Piazzas 25. Rewild 26. Rift Table: Material, Process, + Interiority Part 4 Closing 27. Interiority in the Urban Environment—A Refrain