Emotional Intimacy: Bed Conversations
Gesa Martha Bachmann Stefanie Feiertag Rocco Jaeger
Student
Gesa Martha Bachmann Stefanie Feiertag Rocco Jaeger Academic staff
Davide Ferrando Course
The Media Bedroom This project explores the bed as a safe emotional space where physical closeness and comfort encourage honesty and vulnerability. Based on research into emotional intimacy, we filmed friends having personal conversations in bed. Many participants found the setting unexpectedly exposing, revealing the tension between privacy and observation. This experience shaped the final installation, which presents the footage without sound, allowing viewers to witness gestures, presence, and emotional connection while the conversations themselves remain private.
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A project made in the course
The Media Bedroom
The Media Bedroom is a bachelor-level course in Interior & Exhibit Design that introduces students to the fundamental principles of exhibition design through the critical investigation of the bedroom as a post-domestic space. Drawing on Paul B. Preciado’s notion of post-domesticity, the course approaches the bed not as an intimate, isolated object, but as a media-saturated device—an infrastructural node where bodies, images, data, labor, and desire converge. Once understood as the ultimate site of privacy, the bedroom today is continuously perforated by communication technologies that transform it into a stage, a studio, a workplace, and a broadcast interface.
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