Liminal Architecture: Blurring a Limitation into a Design Research Perspective

The doctoral research "Liminal architecture. Enduring Experimentation on the Threshold of the Moving Border" is a manifesto of liminal architecture for the Italo-Slovenian border, detecting the design strategies and tactics to deconstruct the border spatial ordering while creating alternative design imaginaries to facilitate the spatial coexistence and dialogue between cultures. By framing the category of the liminal, this research offers a theoretical position able to read a shifting border from the perspective of architectural discourse and practice, thus suggesting a particular extension and understanding of the notion of liminality in the architectural discourse. The specificity of this field and the phenomenology under observation offer an interpretative grid able to turn and blur a limitation in a potential design perspective, yet to (be) explore(d).