taxonomy
Spatial interstices - physical space between things
• natural interstices: forest edges, wetlands, shorelines, spaces between ecosystems
• interstices urbains : ruelles, friches, marges des bâtiments ou des villes
• interstices domestiques : recoins oubliés, entre les objets, espaces sous-utilisés
• espaces liminaux : seuils, gares, halls d’attente, couloirs
Temporal interstices - suspended moments, nonlinear time
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waiting time: latency, transit, transitions
• residual time: the in-between, moments of apparent stillness, before and after
• cyclical time: twilight, changing seasons, thresholds of transformation
• fractured time: memory gaps, silences, interruptions, slips
Relational interstices - the spaces between beings
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between presence and absence: longing, memory, connection to the disappeared or the not-yet-born
•between intimate and collective: deep conversations with strangers, fleeting communities
•negotiation spaces: levels of agreement or disagreement, levels of understanding or misunderstanding
•cohabitation spaces: neighbors, coexistence, parallel lives
Cognitive interstices - different ways of thinking
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between disciplines: friction or dialogue between fields of knowledge
• between languages: what escapes words, the unspeakable, the unspoken
• between reason and intuition: blurry zones, nonlinear thinking, embodied perception
• between fiction and reality: dreams, contemporary mythologies, speculation, fabulation
Perceptual interstices: sensory spaces
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between sound and silence: resonance, echo, subtle vibrations, layering
•between material and immaterial: touch, digital spaces, the virtual
•between body and environment: blurred boundaries, sensory extensions, interfaces
•between surface and depth: texture, transparency, shadow
Photo credit: Michele Caleffi
Temporal interstices: cyclical time
Between seasons, light becomes matter. The natural world quietly shifts from one threshold to another.
Photo credit: Michele Caleffi
Temporal interstices: fractured time
Interruptions open cracks in the narrative ; places where the unspoken finds its way in.
Photo credit: Michele Caleffi
Cognitive interstices: between fiction and reality
Fabulation as a porous narrative where imagination reshapes the real, opens a passage between worlds.
Photo credit: Michele Caleffi
Temporal interstices: waiting time
Suspended moments weave a different kind of time, made of latency, uncertainty and attention.
Photo credit: Michele Caleffi
Cognitive interstices: between fiction and reality
Entre le savoir et le pressentiment, l’interstice laisse émerger des formes mouvantes, pensées dans le corps.
Spatial interstices: natural interstices
Edges, neither forest nor clearing, shelter hybrid forms. Life emerges from ecological uncertainty.
Photo credit: Santi Minasi
Perceptual interstices: between body and environment
The body tunes into the world’s subtle modulations.
Photo credit: Raul Corrêa-Smith
Spatial interstices: domestic interstices
In the shadow of daily use, the spaces beneath staircases hold traces of forgetting, of silence, of the hidden.
Interstitial workshop. Photo credit: Charlotte Hochman
Cognitive interstices: between disciplines
It is in the friction between forms of knowledge that composite forms emerge. Forms that are rigorous, intuitive and free.