Anthropoietic drawings transmediate in the design of details ceilings. While all building elements tell their own stories, this is particularly true of ceilings. Suspended ceilings are in-between places, cleaving an up-above from a down-below, entwining materials with stories, hiding and revealing narratives within and without the recto-verso condition of architecture. Suspended ceiling stories fall-into place under the abductive hypothesis that ceilings are suspended (sus-pense) in a deeply metaphorical and ephemeral sense. All ceilings-coela are firmly suspended (firmament), especially when one can contemplate through them.

Federica, Goffi. “Suspended Ceiling Stories. Navigating the Cosmo-technologies of Hospital Ceilings.” In Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture. Edited by Paul Emmons, Marcia Feuerstein and Carolina Dayer. Routledge, 2017.