Inside Out: When objects inhabit the streets

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Gretchen Coombs

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This essay will explore the contemporary intersection of art and interior design on the level of social practice, surveying two projects that deal with pubic participation from a critical art perspective and Jacques Rancie?re's 'art as dissensus'.These 'design activations' offer urban inhabitants a phenomenological exchange that occurs with shifts between art and design, interior and exterior, and the subjective and intersubjective awareness of the city. A manual sewing machine and manual typewriter offer a different representation and experience of the Tenderloin District in San Francisco, the Berlin Wall and San Francisco parks.




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Coombs, Gretchen. 2018. “Inside Out:: When Objects Inhabit the Streets”. idea journal 15 (1):90-101. https://doi.org/10.37113/ideaj.vi0.55.
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text-based research essay