NO ONE SEES THEM LIKE WE DO, Notes on Animal Interiors
by HEAD – Geneva
No One Sees Them Like We Do. Notes on Animal Interiors explores contemporary relationships between humans and so-called companion animals through six spatial narratives. Conceived by students of the MAIA – Master of Arts in Interior Architecture at HEAD – Geneva, the project examines the fragile, in-between condition of these domestic presences—neither wild nor human—embedded within homes and human-designed infrastructures. Developed through a non-interventionist approach, the project focuses on everyday gestures of care, situations of coexistence, and often invisible domestic infrastructures. Animals are approached as active presences capable of displacing human centrality and questioning established hierarchies of cohabitation.
MAIA is a two-year full-time graduate program exploring interior architecture at the intersection of space, ecology, and media. It addresses environmental and societal challenges while engaging new ecological paradigms. Through multidisciplinary training and full-scale projects, the program expands interior architecture across design, research, media, and curatorial practices.s.