Interiors on Display
Exhibited home interiors have played an important role in transferring ideas on dwelling and domestic design. Both architects and designers continue to use these 1:1 installations to illustrate their position in an ongoing debate on the proper relationship between architecture, design and the domestic interior. A number of these influential 'interiors on display', documented in the latest issue of DASH, were presented.
12 February 2015 20:00 - 22:00
A number of these influential 'interiors on display', documented in the latest issue of DASH, were presented by editors of the publication, Jurjen Zeinstra and Hans Teerds. Architect Herman Verkerk (EventArchitecture) and researcher Fredie Floré (KU Leuven) were questioned about the relevance of these installations for contemporary domestic design and architecture.
DASH 11: Interiors on Display
The home interior is a measure of time. It envelops and reveals the home, the private sphere; it explains how we deal with the past, as well as with the things that surround us. It shows how the complex world around us forms part of our lives. A history of the home interior can also be read as a historiography of everyday life, which is more and more in the grip of technology, as well as about changing attitudes towards family relationships, privacy and publicity, consumption and information. Although the interior of a home can be very personal, in the past century this meant that the interior has been a theme par excellence that architects use to reflect on modern dwelling, and a tool for unfolding future visions about dwelling and everyday life. Dwelling, after all, is very close to the skin, and the home is also an accessible tool for drawing attention to the future. The 11th issue of DASH, entitled "Interiors on Display", examines the interior as a tool for depicting architectural visions by publishing 15 exhibited interiors from the last century - interiors that were not intended to be lived in, but that instead had an artistic, educational or commercial purpose.
1:1 Period Rooms by Andreas Angelidakis
For 1:1 Period Rooms, the Greek architect and artist Andreas Angelidakis designs an installation and draws on period rooms held in the collection at the Amsterdam Museum that have not been presented to the public since the 1970s. For Het Nieuwe Instituut the period room forms the starting point for a series of lectures and debates, intended to enrich the discourse on the future of museum models within the historical context.
This event was organized in collaboration with DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) / TU Delft.