Master Interior Architecture:
Research + Design

Piet Zwart Institute
Willem de Kooning Academy

archive

Spatial practice binds the collection. Projects are rooted in current issues; climate crisis, social justice, artificial intelligence, post-colonial practice, materialism, gender politics, global health, and post-humanism, to name a few. The search portal gives visitors access to the projects through different navigational features. Photographs, prototypes, videos, drawings, writings, installations, exhibitions, and publications are interconnected offering multiple ways to interface with and study the content.

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One Half of an Imaginary Conversation, Mila Broomberg

A Moth in the Room

A Moth in the Room is an exhibition featuring graduation works by eight researchers and designers from the Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, who explore what it means to practise within the field of spatial design today. The exhibition includes projects by: Silvia Elisa Bianchini, Mila Broomberg, Anna Krikke, Josephine Goverts, Nicole Jessé, Artemis Mitsiou, Sungryul Jun and Anna Maria Zuech.

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photo by Michéle Margot

Domestic Territories

Domestic Territories is a design based studio, during which we look at the interior and its thresholds as mediators between living and non-living beings, which defines forms of occupation and relation between habitats, species, climates, territories. With Domestic Territories we engage with the concepts of ecology – the relations between living beings and their environment – and domesticity – the construction of an interior, as well as the result of “domestication”, the active process through which people transform, select and represent other forms of life, both around them, and at a planetary scale.

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hand-painted reproduction of the painting, The Flood Of The Biesbosch In 1421 by Alma Tadema

Extraction — A trans-scalar inquiry

This publication is the first issue of Spatial Folders, a thematic periodical that is produced by the faculty of Master Interior Architecture: Research and Design (MIARD) program at Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. It is composed of a selection of graduation theses alongside contributions by guest authors that focus on urgent socio-cultural, socio-political, and ecological issues that affect the (built) environment and its representation regimes.

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photo by Chiara Catalini

conversations

Founder, Federica Zambeletti of KoozArch in conversation with Alex Augusto Suárez, Course Director at MIARD, on the potential of the archive as a polyphonic tool to approach the present and future of design and architecture.

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image: Dual Truths by Daniël de Jong, Blise Orr

workshop with TJ DEMOS, Radical Futurism

Is all coming to an end – ecosystems, democracies, and civilization as we know it? Art historian and cultural critic T.J. Demos proposes strategies of temporal re-orientation towards the ‘worlds-to-come’. How can we imagine radical futures beyond end-of-the-world narratives? What does radical futurism, emerging from the traditions of the oppressed and those already living in postapocalyptic conditions, look like? How can we decolonize the future and cultivate certain modalities of chronopolitics to imagine the ‘not-yet’, a ‘justice-to-come’, solidarity and multispecies flourishing?

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image: book cover

alumni what? Shiila Infriccioli, ADI Design Museum, ITALY: A New Collective Landscape

The challenges facing us at this global moment and the ongoing ecological and social transformations are the starting point for the work of young Italian designers presented by Italy: A New Collective Landscape. Produced by the ADI Design Museum, the exhibition is curated by Angela Rui with Elisabetta Donati de Conti and Matilde Losi, the graphic design by Alice Zanicon Paola Bombelli and the installation by the Parasite 2.0 studio.

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photo by @delfino_sl

Spatial Tales of Unearthly Critters, book launch @ MELLY

Many thinkers have argued that desire and disgust share a diametrically opposed relationship, almost as if they were two sides of the same coin. Initially, this opposition seems logical, until one realizes that the disgusting can also possess an alluring quality.

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talks

MIARD engages with communities through a mix of activities – guest talks, studio visits, workshops, and intimate conversations coupled with excursions, collaborations, and exhibitions. People join us from diverse practices to talk about their projects and work with our students.

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Image: Constant — New Babylon, Kunstinstituut Melly