Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Workshops

Interiors and Interiority

April 2011

Building on discussions begun at the 2009 Radcliffe Institute for Advaced Study conference "Inside/Out: Exploring Gender and Space in Life, Culture, and Art," this workshop explored the historical connections between the notions of architectural interior, subjective space (human interiority) and visual and literary representations of space (including virtual space). Participants considered specific images, objects, texts, and discourses featuring space and spatial experience as the basis of historically specific constructions of interiority and also examined the existing conceptual models that helped forge the connection between space and self. 

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Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Beate Söntgen, Ruhr-University of Bochum