Movement - The curtain's role | Petra Blaisse | TEDxTilburg

This talk describes Petra's and her Inside Outside team's adventurous journey of discoveries around the curtain: from 1986 until today, we have continuously developed ways to emancipate the curtain from its traditional role, both in the private and in the public realm. No longer necessarily obedient to the given architecture or cultural expectations, the curtain becomes a personality and presence in its own right, moving in and out of sight and from the inside into the outside, ignoring boundaries, creating unexpected, flexible rooms and changing the acoustic, climatic, spatial and visual sensations of a space in its course. Petra Blaisse – Inside Outside: Petra Blaisse started her career in 1978 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts. From 1986 onwards, she worked as freelance exhibition designer and won distinction for her installations of architectural works. Gradually her focus shifted to the use of textiles, light and finishes in interior space and, at the same time, to the design of gardens and landscapes. In 1991, she founded Inside Outside. The studio worked in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape and exhibition design. From 1999 Blaisse invited specialist of various disciplines to work with her and currently the team consists of about fifteen people of different professions and nationalities. Inside Outside works internationally, on projects of increasing technical sophistication, ambition and scale. Throughout the years, Inside Outside has collaborated with various architects and designers. Blaisse has lectured and taught extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States. Her work has been included in numerous design and architecture exhibits internationally. In the year 2000 a solo exhibition on Inside Outside’s work was organized at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Soho, New York, for which Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom created Blaisse’s first publication, the “Movements, 25%” catalogue. The first monograph on the work of Petra Blaisse / Inside Outside designed by Irma Boom, has been published February in 2007 by NAi Publishers and was reprinted by The Monacelli Press, a division of Random House Inc. New York, October 2009. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx