Urban Interiors: A Retroactive Investigation

In recent years, the sudden success of “tactical” modes of urbanism has begun to challenge the traditional parameters of public space design by requiring new tools and methodologies of “place–making” within cities. In this regard, interior architecture and design could provide a fundamental perspective to address this new issue if they were not constantly in need of theoretical framing to legitimize their interest in the field. In many cases, in fact, the conjunction between the terms “urban” and “interior” is still seen as a provocation, and the history of the different attempts through which interior disciplines have developed a design approach about the city, although now consolidated, is little known in its complexity.