Teston, Liz
Teston, Liz
Bio Sketch
Liz Teston is a Professor of Interior Architecture at the College of Architecture + Design, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she has taught since 2013 (MArch, Georgia Institute of Technology). A registered interior designer, Fulbright Scholar (Romania) and Fulbright Specialist (Australia), her research explores public interiority, the politics of design, atmospheric interiority, and the impact of memory and cultural identity on everyday design contexts, via drawing, making, and writing. She is the author of "On the Nature of Public Interiority" (Interiority, 2020) and "Politicizing the interior" (2018), and was appointed Interim Director of the School of Interior Architecture at UTK.
Key Works
- *Politicizing the Interior* (2018) — the chapter that opens the political register of interior architectural theory via Augé and the Situationist International: the interior as "both spatial and political," the disciplinary frontier as liminal zone, and design access as a human right.
- On the Nature of Public Interiority (2020) — the extended statement of Teston's public-interiority research program (Interiority 3(1)) — not yet ingested.
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Key Concepts
Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:
- politicizing-the-interior — the interior as "both spatial and political experiences"; the chapter's central concept
- disciplinary-frontiers — the frontier thesis: the disciplinary boundary as "a liminal zone; it has thickness"
- right-to-design — "the responsibility to promote access to design as a basic human right" (UDHR Art. 25(1), 27(1))
- non-places — Augé's concept as the interior's supermodern condition; "heterotopic, transactional experience"
- interiority — the provocation that non-places "allow for experiences of psychological interiority"
- interior-architecture — the discipline whose political theory the chapter founds; "the human experience of the interior volume"
Relevance to the Core Research
Teston is the political theorist of the wiki's interior-architecture cluster: her chapter supplies the ninth Reader-conception (the political conception — the interior as "both spatial and political") and the explicit bridge from the interior cluster to the wiki's everyday cluster (micro-subversions, the elevation of the mundane) and Situationist cluster (psychogeography, dérive as methods appropriable by interior architecture). Her human-rights grounding — design access as a right rather than a consumption choice — gives the everyday-interior position a normative register that the micro-subversion and commodity-signalling traditions lack, connecting the interior cluster to commons, right-to-the-city, and the political registers of power-and-space.
Source Support
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