TY - JOUR AU - Kassem, Ayman PY - 2022/10/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Let it Unfold — Performative Exhibitions: the Living Interior of the Austrian Pavilion at Expo Milan 2015 JF - idea journal JA - idea journal VL - 19 IS - 01 SE - Essays DO - 10.37113/ij.v19i01.481 UR - https://journal.idea-edu.com/index.php/home/article/view/481 SP - 93–108 AB - <p>This essay explores the relationship between fantasy, fabulation, and the performative through the lens of exhibition design in general and, in particular, expo pavilions. While studying the case of the Austrian pavilion visited by the author during Expo Milan 2015, it further examines the repertoire of the performative as a spatial fabulation indicator. Furthermore, the essay proposes a dramaturgy of analytical tools that interpret the exhibition space as a metaphor of a fantasy-oriented spatial production, and as an illustration of a performative interior architecture opening newer perspectives through which we may study and analyse interiors.</p> ER -