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OBSERVING THRESHOLD TEXTILES

The thesis investigates textile elements used for articula-

ting thresholds, giving climatic shelter and creating hospi-

table common spaces in cities and architecture. Series of

observations, through a phenomenological and experienced

approach, are documented in a travel archive within the

thesis. Understood as a spatial concept, thresholds are

part of boundaries, opening up and organizing transitions

in space, between spatial bodies. Thresholds are therefore

both boundary and transition, thriving on the ambiguity

and potentiality of opening and closing off spaces. Textiles

as flexible space-defining elements are part of threshold

spaces, articulating transitions between inside and outside,

public and private, profane and sacral.

Oscar Eriksson Furunes

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