Spatial Anthropologies

The Centre for Interior Studies and the master program Spatial Design would like to invite you to our forthcoming international one-day seminar Spatial Anthropologies on 6th of May 2022.

The idea of the seminar is to explore space as a topic and a perspective within the discipline of anthropology, and with a gaze toward design and architecture. In this way, we hope to be able to create a framework for unfolding the conditions, frictions, openings, and possibilities of working with spatial anthropology. At this seminar we will focus on the spaces of homes.

Programme
9.45-10.00: Kirsten Marie Raahauge, Professor WSD, Head of Center for Interior Studies: Introduction: Spatial Anthropologies at the Academy               

10.00-10.40: Clare Melhuish, Principal Research Fellow, University College London, Urban Laboratory: Thinking home ethnographically in the multisite nation                                                                   

10.45-11.25: Marie Stender, Senior Researcher at the Department of the Built Environment at Aalborg University: Domestic Boundaries and Architectural Anthropology                                                                                    

11.30-12.00: Discussion moderated by Mette Hübschmann and Sanne Maekelberg

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-13.40: Alison Clarke, Professor at the University of Applied Art in Vienna: The Anxiety of the Normative: Style Biographies of the Home             

13.45-14.25: Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Assistant Professor at Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, the University of Copenhagen: Urgent Minor Matters                                          

14.30-15.00: Discussion moderated by Mette Hübschmann and Sanne Maekelberg