Christina Deluchi
Major Project is the Interior Architecture capstone studio that critically re-evaluates the position of key institutional typologies in contemporary Sydney by exploring how the interior can inform new spatial encounters. Students investigate how the interior can create new modes of experience, relationships, possibilities, and identification by subverting ideas of space to narrate alternate scenarios and social contracts. Forming a position on the studio’s key thematic text, Chantal Mouffe’s ‘Agonistic Politics and Artistic Practices’ in Agonistics, our students’ projects test the limits of the institution and concepts of the interior to produce new types of social relations emerging within the cultural industry. In Sydney, these institutions are responsible for shaping our understanding of our urban reality. They take the form of education hubs, art centres and archives, theatres and media outlets, clubs, and iconic pub-hotels.
Studio Leaders: Belqis Youssofzay and David Hart, Eduard Fernandez, Carla Matias, Felix Saw and Kahmun Tham