Public Interiority: Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm

About

Liz Teston is an associate professor of interior architecture at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in the Southeast United States and a Fulbright Scholar. Testons research explores public interiority design politics atmospheres and cultures. Testons work has been exhibited in Atlanta Bucharest Knoxville New York Lincoln Stockholm and Venice. Teston hosted the Public Interiority Symposium + Exhibition at the University of Tennesseethis volume is a product of that event. Her essays are found in journals such as Interiority MONU the Journal of Interior Design and Int/AR volumes such as Interior Futures (2019) and such Routledge volumes as Interiors On Edge: History Theory Praxis (2024) The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader (2024) and The Interior Architecture Theory Reader (2018).Karin Tehve is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY in the United States where she coordinates the theory curriculum in interior design. She earned her MArch at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her own research and writing concentrates on taste media and identity and their intersection with the public realm. As a member of Interior Provocations Karin is co-editor for and contributor to Interior Provocations: History Theory and Practice of Autonomous Interiors (2020) Appropriate(d) Interiors (2021) and Interiors on Edge: History Theory Praxis (2024). Her book Taste Media and Interior Design was published by Routledge in 2023. Tehve is an advisory board member for Public Interiority.LadiSasha Jones is a writer curator designer and a member of Public Interioritys editorial board. Pursuing a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University in the United States her research explores Black American spatial histories of play and performance. She has written for Aperture The Avery Review Arts.Black e-flux Criticism Gagosian Quarterly and The Art Momentum among others. Her project Black Interior Spatial Thought was the recipient of a 2021 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Jones holds an MA in Arts Politics from NYU and a BA in African American Studies from Temple University.Amy Campos is a professor at California College of the Arts in the United States. Her work focuses on durability and design with a special interest in the impermanent migratory potentials of the interior. Recent publications include Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge 2018) and the chapters Survivalism Interiorization and Exclusivity in Interior Futures and Territory and Inhabitation in Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge 2018). Campos serves as an advisory board member for Public Interiority. Campos is leading research in lighting design and materiality through two Donghia Grants for the Interior Design program at CCA. She was the recipient of the 2013 IIDA Teacher of the Year award and the 2014 ASID Design Luminary Award. She received degrees from Columbia University and Cal Poly SLO.