Design objects for circulating interiors, commissioned by AECID. With Jose Ahedo
Rome (Italy) / 2014
"Desk Informants/Interior Intruders" are devices for the personalization of the desk and reflect on the logics of personalization in contemporary circulating regimes.
The objects that build our interiors perform as nodes in networks of information, matter and capital. They no longer constitute the spaces we inhabit as a privileged realm of privacy—as interiors were conventionally understood—, but rather socialize these spaces. The way we interact with them within our daily routines is also part of the same networks, in ways that overcome the logics of fashion and the notion of habitus understood as a series of stabilizing collective symbolic systems and practices that structure ways of doing and being. Contemporary regimes produce constant disjunctures among those systems and practices and are rather articulated around the simultaneous circulation of images and people creating contingent networks rather than stable structures.
Within these regimes, objects populating interiors link personal decisions with geographies of production, individual physiological needs and collectively built paranoia. These objects enact the logics of these different orders, mobilizing around them new postures, physiologies, economic transactions, geographies of production, opinion making and scientific knowledge. Our drinking devices and the amount of water we consume is connected as much to World Health Organization studies as it is to garbage production. Having a cactus in our work space is no longer mere aesthetic decision, since we learnt they absorb harmful radiation from our computers.
Photo by Begoña Zubero.
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