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Space, Object, Experience

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Abstract

This chapter explores the intimate components of the interior as a deep mapping of the interrelationship between things and thinking as presented in Sherry Turkle’s 2011 anthology Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Turkle’s compelling collection offers a disentanglement of the interior and its objects from its familiar architectural context. We privilege certain objects in the interior and attach value, sometimes irrational, to them. For example, a favourite coffee mug without which a contemplative breakfast is a lesser experience, a disappointing start to the day. Or an artefact of cultural significance accessioned into the permanent collection of an important museum. The authors offer new definitions of the value of things within the interior, outside of conventional design thinking, and how this contributes to the experience held within a spatial composition, a temporal, three-dimensional universe of evocative objects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Handbook of Interior Architecture Research
EditorsNisha A. Fernando
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter9
Pages100-108
Number of pages9
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781003475057
ISBN (Print)9781032756578
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2026

Publication series

NameRoutledge International Handbooks

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