ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses interior practices derived from positions of immanence—that is, of dwelling and operating within the world, from a position of the oneness of the world—to situate humans and more-than-human beings as relational actors in the making of eco-social interiors.
Following texts by Zoe Todd, Amanda Yates, and Donna Haraway, and spaces created by Maori, Anishinaabeg, Métis, Kichwa, and Wet’suwet’en authors, the chapter presents practices of making-with or becoming-with as distinct approaches to designing interiors and interiority. This allows Indigenous-led movements to teach from deeply rooted practices that do not separate design from ecological and social imperatives.
From intergenerational programming of territory, to the multispecies cultivation of spaces of memory, to the simultaneity of home as frontline, these and many more projects of Indigenous life and resistance are powerful acts that demonstrate ways to design with the world. This chapter examines and proposes a set of interior modalities that recognize enduring Indigenous design practices and their ramifications for the creation, governance, and scalability of interiors situated in a complex, living world.
