Addressing Interior Violences 
International Conference

Department of Interior Architecture
HEAD – Genève (HES-SO)

23-24 February 2026

To address spatial violence from within a school of interior architecture is to acknowledge interior spaces as more than politically neutral backgrounds. They should not be understood as mere décors for the everyday lives of predefined identities, but rather as materially situated conditions that actively participate in shaping social and political interactions. Addressing Interior Violences considers interior architecture as a set of biopolitical techniques of control over bodies and subjectivities, techniques that uphold the construction of the “normal” subject. At the same time, the symposium questions the mirror image of this figure: the spatial production of the monstrous, the excluded, and the dehumanized. The symposium seeks to interrogate the role of interior spaces in perpetuating power structures organized around the Western and modern notion of normalcy. The symposium is structured into three panels: Learning Histories of Violence, Questioning Weaponized Interiors and Visibilizing Dissident Practices and Projects Involving Interiors