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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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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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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. Aesthetic discourse has predominantly focused on desire, relegating repulsion to a secondary role, even as our late capitalist world offers many more things to turn away from rather than be drawn towards. Inspired by this assault on traditional taste systems, students were asked to create a chimera myth and develop speculative scenarios for their chimera habitats. Chimeras, hybrids of human and animal bodies, have populated ancient mythologies for millennia.

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MELLY book launch, performance by Gaia D’Arrigo

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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