Urban Interior overcomes the dualism between the interior, habitually conceived as the private realm, and the urban, or what is generally recognised to be the public realm. Creative projects in this book range from social practices to phenomenological investigations, from ephemeral phenomena to spatial insertions, from performances to relational participations; and are situated in Melbourne, Berlin, Karachi, New York, Seoul and Tokyo. Contributors include the architect activist Mathias Heyden, Berlin; the media theorist Scott McQuire, Melbourne; the installation artist Alex Schweder La, New York and Berlin; and the architecture and art theorist Jane Rendell, London.

Rochus Urban Hinkel is a practicing architect, academic, and curator. He is a senior lecturer at RMIT School of Architecture and Design, Melbourne, Australia and has taught at the Academy of Fine Art, Stuttgart, Germany; the University of Stuttgart, Germany; and the Architecture Design Innovation Program at TU Berlin, Germany. His research and curatorial interests investigate the relationship between public and private spaces, and explore ideas of 'Encounters' and 'Occupations' as well as "Spatial Hardware and Spatial Software'. He is a founding member and the current coordinator of the Urban Interior research group {UI}, and has convened the UI colloquia in Berlin (June 2009) and Melbourne (December 2009 and June 2010).