The Closet: A Series of Techno-Affective Devices

David Gil Delgado, Essay, expanding design practices, No Density, Politics and economics

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Originally published as a Master’s thesis in Architecture, in University of Alicante

Tutor: Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel

The closet is the space where we can assert our true selves. It is the opposite of what we are expected to be in the public realm. It is in its interior where we save the masks we avail ourselves of in the outside world. It contains both our biological and socially produced material. Not only is it metaphorical but also a space that we always carry with us, and which is only open when the context permits it.