Body Brought Back to Interior DesignY Spinoza And Interior Design Theory

Ontological Paradigms fabricate not only man’s conception of the whole world but also his understanding of his own body, his different forms of being in the world such as “Architecture” and “Designed interiors” are affected by them to the extend that without a shift in the former, evolution of the latter and its manifestations in architecture may well be reduced to a standard and inapplicable History of Architecture. Scrutinizing this very being called Body and its personifications in architecture of a given time would be the necessity for abolishing that pre-modeled history. Obviously, either for the mass of the standard history data or the built conception of the functions of architecture this scrutiny is rarely performed. The awareness of this problem oriented us to see body and its possible architectural imageries in an unstandard narriation invigorated by a “subterranean” reading of Spinozism. On the basis of spinoza’s assertion that “dimension and mind are Identical” we read history of architecture not through the supposed lense of architect’s Ideas and thoughts but via actual orders of bodies/objects and hence came to find Architectures (and not architecture) for totally diffrent bodies: A non-standard history of architectures resulted from an unprecedent order of data. A design approach could develop from within this paradigm shift _presenting an applicable and ethical history unlike its theoretical long familiar rival_ which by deniying supremacy of any design proffesion (architect, interior designer, urban designer, …) and by rejecting all man’s previlage over Nature, posites Nature as the new core, starting point of design process