The title CURATING THE NORMAL  has a double meaning. Borrowed from the field of art, the word curate,here,is initially a form of selection, organisation, analysis and presentation of examples under a common scope: the cause of unusual spatial experiences. Furthermore, the expression Curating the normal reveals the mechanism of art itself, which is the defamiliarisation of the usual (the normal, the everyday).

Thus, in this thesis these examples are presented and analysed :

-examples of the filed of art that are spatial and cause interesting experiences (art installations)

-spaces that are used for practical purposes but have unusual characteristics that make the stay in them strange and different

-everyday spaces which do not have unusual spatial characteristics but their analysis from a distant view constructs a new narrative, difamiliarises them and gives them a new interpretation.