The Relational Surface, in: Interior Futures

London, 2018

Interior Futures is a multi-volume compendium of essays published in January of 2019 by Crucible Press in collaboration with the Royal College of Art’s editors Dr Harriet Harris, Dr Graeme Brooker and Dr Kevin Walker. The publication features avant-garde perspectives on the future of interior design and intentionally probes and provokes readers to envisage alternative practice frameworks.

In collaboration with Kevin Walker, Mále wrote the chapter 'The Relational Surface' which looks into the future of the domestic interior space as a hybrid field between physical and digital surfaces. Looking into the future of AR, the essay proposes that design should focus on the active relations between and within human-centred systems, where human presence in a space is best described not as an observer or user, but as a locus of experience.

The book was launched with an exhibition at the Royal College of Art.