Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu “Liminal Ground”
Harvard GSD - Piper Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
We project ourselves toward the future from a liminal space, where cultural boundaries are active sites of translation, discursive hybridity, and perpetual transformation. Rooted etymologically in the Latin limen, meaning “threshold,” liminality situates us between fixed positions of cultural action, unsettling established orders while enabling a us to engage with the past, present, and future. In this space, linear narrative yields to fluid and relational modes of perception. This lecture presents a selection of the studio’s past and ongoing works, examining how we engage with boundaries within what Homi Bhabha terms the “third space”, not as loci of resolution, but rather as continuous fields of negotiation, tension, and emergent possibility. Lyndon Neri(MArch ’92)andRossana Huare Founding Partners of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, as well as of Design Republic in Shanghai, a platform that offers retail, education, and design and cultural exhibitions. Whether through objects of intimate daily use or vessels of inhabitation, Neri and Hu approach design from multiple disciplines to provide experiences that enrich contemporary life while maintaining a critical linkage to…