Wrong Norma is an exhibition of the graduation work of researchers, designers and artists from the Master’s programme Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. The exhibition explores what it means to be a spatial designer today.

The title, borrowed from the collection of the same name by classicist and poet Anne Carson, refers here to a collection of projects that operate along an ‘axis of disobedience’. The graduates challenge conventional spatial thinking through forms of architecture that foam, leak, fall apart, falter and ferment. These works are rooted in (material) research and resist fixed design methods and models. They navigate soft transitions, political residuals and speculative missteps—and explore interior space not as a boundary, but as a question. Making mistakes or deviating from academic and architectural norms becomes a strategy here: a way to feel, reject and imagine in a different way.

The exhibition shows work by Julia Banaszewska, Dzintars Berzinskis, Mailys Bonnet, Sjoerd De Jong, Iza Koczanowska, Martynas Nikitenka, Youbin Kim, Isabel Legate, Eric Stynes, Philipp Their and Sarasadat Zakernejad.