ABSTRACT
This chapter uses interviews conducted in focus groups to gain a deeper understanding of how the residents of three minority communities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, perceive their place in the world. These perceptions reveal that identifications of interiority need not be limited to the interiors of a building but include urban-scale senses of belonging (or not). The generalizable findings help interior designers to use the focus group interview as one method for comprehending client needs, and to see that those needs stretch far beyond the scale of a physical interior to the community.
