Two Way Hinged

This creative work interrogated the idea of 'interior' as a condition of flux; understood as contingent, dynamic and interdependent through relations to its participants and the temporal forces that affect it. The work is positioned within a field of research related to the examination of 'Interior' and the practice of designing interiors that is considered expansive and moves beyond the conventional understanding of interior as fixed and contained. These ideas are examined by leading academics in the Discipline of Interior Design and Spatial design in the IDEA Journal including Associate Professor Suzie Attiwill, RMIT University and Professor Lois Weinthal, Rode Island School of Design. 'Two Way Hinged' identified the design of display environments, in this instance the display of jewellery, as an opportunity to examine this understanding of interior as a set of relations where object and subject are in constant negotiation. Conventional methods of display of jewellery in galleries, museums or retail settings, often in the form of cabinet, plinth, mannequin, or wall leave little opportunity for interactivity or the multidimensional engagement that occurs through the wearing or holding of the object. These systems of display also set up a scale and orientation of spatial relations synonymous with museological conditions of repose that resist bodily activity of movement and touch. This approach to display is one that privileges materiality and form of the object over other spatial-temporal intentions considered important to the jewellery piece. 'Two Way Hinged' is a collaboration between two creative practices; a research focused spatial practice exploring ideas of 'interior', and a jeweller whose work explores the activation of objects and qualities of engagement through movement. The display is approached as an operative device; an active producer of encounters that challenges notions of stability between object, subject and the gallery site.