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WHAT'S IN A CANON?

Suzie ATTIWILL

School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University


Abstract

 

A canon can be defined as a collection of works deemed significant for a particular practice at a point in time; as a repository of those works and as a transmitter of this knowledge through images and words. Writing on the architectural canon, Miriam Gusevich observes that ‘the significance and status of a building as architecture is not dependent on some pre-established set of attributes, on some essential features, but on its status as a cultural object established through critical discourse’ [1]. Are there canonical interiors; spaces that have influenced the practice of interior design more than others? Or does the nature of this multidisciplinary practice make a canon, as it is known from architecture, impossible? Undesirable, even?   The focus of this paper is a forum titled What’s in a canon? The state of interior design at the beginning of the 21st century. The forum was held in Melbourne, Australia on 17 October 2006 and invited editors of Australia’s design media, academics, graduates and interior design practitioners to respond to the provocation: ‘What’s in a canon?’ The question had two potential readings in this context: to question and evaluate the value of a canon for interior design; and as an invitation to identify examples of interior design which are significant at this point in time to the practice of interior design. It should be noted that there was not an underlying assumption that there should be a canon. This paper will analyse the debates, discussion and interiors offered at the forum. In the process, it will consider the design of interiors where the concept of interior is re-posed and in so doing, pose the question of what a history and theory of interior design could be and what kind of platform for practice might be produced. It is hoped that it will provide impetus for new ways of thinking and designing interiors.

Keywords: canon, interior, design history/ theory, architecture, practice

 

 

 

References

[1] Gusevich, M. The Architecture of Criticism: A Question of Autonomy. In Kahn, A., ed. Drawing, Building, Text, p.11 (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1991).

[2] Deleuze, G. What is a dispositif?. In Armstrong, T. trans. Michel Foucault. Philosopher, p. 164 (Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hertfordshire, 1992).

[3] Downton, P. The Canon: a site of architectural epistemology. In Firm(ness) commodity de-light:: questioning the canons, p. (Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, 1998).

[4] Gusevich, M. p.11 (1991).

[5] Downton, P. p. ? (1998).

[6] Downton, P. Theory’s Cupboard: myths of knowing, form, memes and models. In Ostwald, M. and Moore, R.J. eds. Re-Framing Architecture: Theory, Science and Myth, p. (Archadia Press, Sydney, 2000).

[7] Deleuze, G. p. 164 (1992).

[8] Rice, C. Rethinking histories of the interior. The Journal of Architecture, 2004, 9(3), 275-287.

[9] Taylor, M. and Preston, J. eds. Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader, p. 6 (Wiley-Academy, Great Britain, 2006).

[10] Bourriaud, N. Relational Aesthetics, Trans. Pleasance, S. and Woods, F. (Les Presses Du Réel, France, 2002).

[11] Pile, J. A History of Interior Design, p. 9 (Laurence King, London, 2000).

[12] Deleuze, G. Postscript on the Societies of Control. In Leach, N. ed. Rethinking Architecture. A reader in cultural theory, p. 309 (Routledge, London, 1997).

 

Ms Suzie ATTIWILL

Program Director

 

Interior Design

School of Architecture and Design

RMIT University

 

GPO Box 2476V

Melbourne

Australia 3001

 

suzie.attiwill@rmit.edu.au

 

+61 3 9925 3498

 

 



[1][1] The speakers were:

Cameron Bruhn, editor, Artichoke. Interior Design and Architecture. The Design Institute of Australia publication.

Peter Geyer, strategic director, Geyer. Established in 1970s, Geyer is Australia’s oldest interior design practice.

David Clark, editor of Vogue Living, a magazine of interior decoration.

Eliza Downes, recent RMIT graduate

Professor Leon van Schaik, academic, curator, writer (author of Design City Melbourne)

Caroline Vains, interior designer, PhD student (UTS, Sydney)

Andrew Mackenzie, editor-in-chief, inside (Australian Design Review) and Architectural Review Australia.

Note: any quotes with out reference are transcriptions from the forum.



 
 
 

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TEACHING INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO BASED ON A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS, SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

 

José BERNARDI 1 ,Beth HARMON-VAUGHAN 2 Arizona State University 2 Gensler

 

Abstract

This paper explores the potentials of interior design education in a studio setting and its impact on future practice. Through the exploration of the poetic capacity of materials and of processes involved in their assemblage, this course addresses three important facets: A collaborative design process involving criticism from several disciplines of design, research on environmental issues and a reflective process of making. For the last four years this upper division interior design studio has been working on community-oriented and sustainable design projects. The students are assigned a semester-long project that allows them the opportunity to explore real-life design at very important locations in downtown Phoenix, the fifth largest city in the US. For academic purposes the students are given a loose program that later is expanded or adapted upon after conversations and interviews with all interested parties. The major emphasis is on the development of three-dimensional, well-crafted models combined with computer-generated drawings that are exhibited to raise awareness about the potential of the building and its impact on the city.

The studio is complimented by a lecture series in collaboration with Gensler and Herman Miller. The lectures are open to all students in the College of Design as well as the professional community. The paper will consider the context and development of the design process in this studio, addressing the evaluative criteria listed below. Is the design experiential - inspiring, strategic, adding value to the PLACE that was created, and enhancing the user's experience? Is the design thoughtful - enhancing the client's enterprise, is it collaborative, responsive, appropriate, indigenous? Is the design technically excellent - good documentation and communication of the design in the materials developed for presentation? Is the design ethical - sustainable, and socially responsible? Finally, the paper will critically explore the implications of this studio’s approach for design education and its future impact on design practice.

Keywords: design and the environment; design education; environmental design;

 

REFERENCES

[1] Zambonini , G,Notes for a theory of making,” Perspecta 16, Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press/ The Yale Architectural Journal Press/Yale Architectural Press, 1980

 

 

 

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FROM ORGANISATION TO DECORATION

Graeme BROOKER1, Sally STONE2

1Manchester Metropolitan University
2Manchester School
of Architecture

 

Abstract

 

Interior architecture, interior design and building reuse are very closely linked subjects, all of them deal in varying degrees, with the transformation of a given space, whether that is the crumbling ruins of an ancient building or the drawn parameters of a building proposal. This alteration or conversion is a complex process of understanding the qualities of the given existing building while simultaneously combining these factors with the functional requirements of new users. Traditionally this subject has been associated with interior design/decoration and has been seen as peripheral to the central subject of architecture. Recently several large and high profile projects designed by eminent practices have changed the perception of interior architecture. The study of Interiors is a growing intellectual discipline. Issues of conservation and sustainability have become vital to the development of cities. The reuse of existing buildings is a subject that is central to the evolution of the urban environment. Interior Architecture is beginning to be seen as a serious academic subject, an area of interest in its own right rather than an adjunct of architecture or an expansion of surface decoration. Although, some degree courses have been renamed to reflect the reorientation of the subject, the actual subject of interior architecture has very little theoretical background.

 

This paper will examine a number of the main theories of interior architecture, interior design and building re-use. It will attempt to assemble the different ideas, from concepts about installation art to issues of urban design. It will consider the problems of conservation and restoration as well as questions of decoration and ornamentation. From this examination, this paper will summarize the position that interior architecture now finds itself and propose an approach for the future of the subject.

 

Keywords: Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Building Reuse, Remodelling Existing Buildings, Urban Design, Installation Art, Decoration, Design Education.

 

References

[1]     Irwin, R. Being and Circumstance, Notes Towards a Conditional Art. In Kristine Stiles and Peter Sels (eds), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, (University of California Press, USA, 1996).

[2]     ibid

[3]     Machado, R, Old Buildings as Palimpsest. Progressive Architecture, pp 46-49. Nov 1976

[4]     Brooker, G. Stone, S. Rereadings. RIBA Publications. 2004

 

 

 

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THE TAILORED HOME - CREATING AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN COOKIE CUTTER HOUSE

John BROWN University of Calgary

 

Abstract

 

The North American residential construction industry is dominated by large land development conglomerates, home building corporations, and big box retail outlets. The cheaply made and thoughtlessly designed houses they produce are like fast food, homogenous and standardized. These houses and neighbourhoods are conceived, marketed and consumed in manners little different from that for handbags, soap or cars. In many ways this situation parallels the impact of the fast food industry on America. Fast food and production housing share a common genesis in the early 20th Century’s belief in the power of technology to make life better by making it easier. A problem arises, however, because with this ease of use comes a lack of engagement and a corresponding dissolution of the deep relationships that connect the individual to their world. Slow food is an effective option antidote to this problem in the world of food. It promotes a re-engagement with the culture of the table through individual everyday involvement with the selection, preparation and enjoyment of food. Drawing from this precedent, the idea a Slow Home is proposed as an alternative to the fast houses and communities being churned out by the development industry. The Slow Home philosophy fosters a re-engagement with the culture of the house. It creates a more mature role for the homeowner as they assume more responsibility for both the way in which the house is acquired and the manner in which it is lived in. The Tailored Home is a case study application of the Slow Home philosophy. It negotiates the space between the home as mass produced commodity and the home as a one off uniquely designed high end project. It replaces the one off “bespoke” made approach of traditional practice with a mass customization strategy. In clothing, high design is made affordable to a larger number of consumers with factory produced garments that are individually customized through alterations at the point of sale. In the same way, a Tailored Home begins with helping the client find an existing residential property that is the right size, price and location. This property is then tailored to fit with a series of interventions assembled from an edited kit of design strategies.  The process creates an affordable way for individuals at a variety of economic levels to work with a professional designer to assemble their interior domestic world. 

 

Keywords: all-in design process, design & innovation processes, interdisciplinary, residential interiors, alternatives to suburbia

 

 

References

 

[1] Ford, Edward The Details of Modern Architecture. ( MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990, P. 4).

[2] Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. (Houghton Mifflin Co.,

     Boston, 2001, p. 7).      

[3] Hayden, Dolores Redesigning the American Dream. (WW Norton, New York, 2000, p.54).

[4] Leach, William Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life. (New York: Vintage

     Books, 1999, p.13).

[5] Archer, John Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House 1690-

     2000. (University of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, 2005, p. 292).

[6]             Borgmann, Albert Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry.

     (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984, p.51).

[7] Washburn, Katharine and Thornton, John eds. Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of

     American Culture, ( W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1996, p.15).

[8] Waxman, Nahum ‘Cooking Dumb, Eating Dumb’, In Katharine Washburn and John Thornton eds.,

     Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture, ( W.W. Norton & Co., New York,

    1996, p.302).

[9] Archer, John Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House 1690-

     2000. (University of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, 2005, p. 336).

[10] Honoree, Carl In Praise of Slow, (Random House, Toronto, 2004, p.59).

[11] Petrini, Carlo, Available HTTP. http://www.slowfood.com (Accessed on 2006, 1 September).

[12] Borgmann, Albert Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry.

      (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984, p.271).

[13] Honoree, Carl In Praise of Slow, [Random House, Toronto, 2004, p.14].

[14] Archer, John Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House 1690-

      2000. (University of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, 2005, p. 318).

[15] Archer, John Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House 1690-

       2000. (University of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, 2005, p. 350).

 

 

 

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Hertzian Space:

Differentiating the Modern Interior

 

Mark BURRY, Mark TAYLOR

Victoria University, Wellington

 

 

Abstract

 

Design practice tends to exclude the generation of a specific interior environment from particular bodies, occupations and activities unless it is deemed to be exceptional – such as in the automotive industry or hostile climatic environments. Rarely are everyday occupational activities elevated to this status but are held within generalised ‘flexile’ space that can accommodate change through the repositioning of furnishings décor and occupational activity. Moreover boundaries or the physical delimitations of space tend to define territories that are based on visual constructions of space.  This paper describes a design studio that investigates the possibility of defining space beyond conventional perceptions of space, movement and interaction. Drawing from recent writing on hertzian space, a condition that transcends physically constructed boundaries, connectedness between overlapping fields of occupation and activity are used to generate architectural form and space. For this studio the inside as interior is described through the lived traces of use, occupation and environment. As such the interior is generated in response to a field of data that affect, interfere and overlap, creating intensities that are responsive to the changing nature of information. For example they engender kinetic response to shifts in activity or occupation. The paper presents hertzian space as exemplified through student design research, and discusses design outcomes that transcend the comfort of everyday practice including new techniques and processes. The pedagogical objectives for this exercise privilege process as a precursor to product, with modelling rather than drawing the methodology for design investigation. For many students there is a large skills-based learning component included when investigating a design space that precludes convention representational techniques, design collaboration and communication between groups.

 

  

REFERENCES

 

[1]        Syncopated space – wireless media shaping human movement and social interaction, Teri Rueb, http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/10/articles/06_page02.html, accessed June 2006.

[2]        Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Tunable Cities, Architectural Design, vol 68, no 11/12, 1998, p 78.

[3]        Michael Hensel and Achim Menges, Differentiation and Performance: Multi-Performance Architectures and Modulated Environments, Architectural Design, vol 76, no 2, 2006, p 60–9.

[4]        Hensel and Menges, Differentiation and Performance , p 61.

[5]        Hensel and Menges, Differentiation and Performance, p 63.

[6]        Sulan Kolotan and Bill MacDonald, Lumping, Architectural Design, vol 72, no 1, 2002, p 79.

[7]        See Mark Burry, Homo Faber, Bob Sheil (ed), Design Through Making, Architectural Design, vol 75, no 4, July/August (2005), pp 30–37.

[8]        See, Burry, J., Maher, A., Burry, M. C., and Taylor, M., Experiments in Sublimation in Design Education, in Design + Research: Project Based Research in Architecture, (Eds)., Clare Newton, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Simon Wollan, ISSN: 1449 – 1737, Published in Melbourne, Australia, by the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, 2003. This volume is available on the web at http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/events/conferences/aasa/papers

[9]        Teri Rueb in conversation with Sabine Breitsameter: http://www.swr.de/swr2/audiohyperspace/engl_version/interview/rueb.html#bio accessed November 2006.

 

 

 

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 CONSENSUS OR CONFUSION?

Shashi CAAN

Shashi Caan Collective, New York City

INTRODUCTION

“Interiors is a slippery discipline. Among all designed artifacts, Interiors themselves are uniquely ephemeral and hard to define. The practice of Interiors is relatively unregulated. The history of Interiors is patchy and contested. The theoretical basis of Interiors is largely unexplored in comparison to those of other disciplines. How, therefore, might we speculate about the role, validity and purpose of Interiors in the 21st century?” IFS – Thinking Inside The Box: New Visions, New Challenges, New Horizons

This descriptor introducing the questions for the 2007, Interiors Forum Scotland, captures the plight of the Interior Design discipline in the United Kingdom. However, these questions are not just limited to the UK but are pervasive throughout the world and represent the state of affairs for Interior Design today as demonstrated by the participants who came from around the globe. “What is Interior Design?” Why is it necessary? How do we best do it? What constitutes its history, substance, value, content, distinction, theory, practice, etc, are crucial issues that require substantial answers. As Interior Design becomes ever more fashionable and popular with the general public, many of those involved with its education and practice look for ways to distance themselves from the common misconceptions and seek to establish a more intellectually respected, artistic and perhaps more cerebral educational process and practice.This paper, “Consensus or Confusion”, is partly a response to the intense and very full debate which has been provoked by Thinking Inside the Box, ranging from a proposal for re-branding, finding new impetus from the decorative beginnings, legislating what we have, to rethinking the why, what and how. The other part of my response seeks to offer my own point of view as it was influenced and further honed by digesting this diversity of critical thinking. Perhaps the highlight and most encouraging aspect of this debate was the intensity and the focus amongst the educators to consider an Interiors theory that seeks to improve not only the quality and content of education but also to enhance the respect and seriousness for the field. To achieve this many of the presenters saw a need to better define or re-define Interior Design by proposing a new vision, new beginnings or underpinnings and some expressed the desire to re-invent the discipline by broadening its content or by searching for an impetus in other related practices (architecture, furniture design, painting, drawing, sculpture, technology, etc). In this context, the variety of new descriptors proposed for Interior Design, such as Interiors, Interior Environments, Interior Architecture, etc, demonstrated a desire for distance from the title “Interior Design” and all of its connotations as it is reflected in the choice of these new names. It also highlighted the lack of a universal agreement pertaining to existing content or substance of the discipline, which is perhaps one of the reasons for the continued fracturing of the Interior Design discipline and the cause for the ever increasing inter-disciplinary confusion, which brings us back to the fundamental questions that we have to address.

Most importantly, as a holistic discipline, we must quickly strive for a unity of voice and get beyond our self created confusion pertaining to the core of Interior Design. We must strive for a consensus of the most important and fundamental attributes so that we are in a position of being able to articulate why we do what we do and how we do it and why it is so unique and great and show what Interior Designers can best do…design interiors.

 

 

 

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BUT IS IT INTERIOR DESIGN? CONSIDERING THE INTERVENTION OF THEORY IN INTERIOR DESIGN EDUCATION

Lynn CHALMERS and Susan CLOSE,  

Department of Interior Design, Faculty of Architecture,
University of Manitoba

 

Abstract

 

This paper examines the application of interdisciplinary theory to Interior Design education and practice. Specially, it argues that interior designers should use theory to enrich both its disciplinary education and its practice. This argument is built from a dialogue between a two interior design educators, one with a background in cultural analysis and the other in practice, and draws on their common concerns.  To date, there is no actual canon of design theory. Like art and architectural theory most design theory is drawn from interdisciplinary sources that includes pertinent issues such as gender identity, performativity and privacy. Research for a theoretical framework that informs this study includes critical and cultural theorists: Mieke Bal, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin and Michel De Certeau. This study also questions the delimited practice of traditional interior design and resituates it in relation to contemporary design culture. Evidence of this paradigm shift is examined in light of recent work of such design theorists as Guy Julier, Tiiu Vaikla-Poldma, Mark Taylor, Julianne Preston and Elizabeth Grosz. A number of significant questions are considered such as: how and why should the connection made between theory and practice be made, why it is important to have theory in the interior design curriculum and what are some of the key challenges involved in teaching theory to visual thinkers? Theory provides an intellectual framework for Interior Design that affords designers with language and tools to understand and enhance the meaning of their work. The place of theory is significant in both the design process and design education as it encourages both students and practitioners to think critically about the creative design process. It is not enough to merely consider what to make but it is necessary to reflect upon how and why it is made.  The future relevance of design theory is to inform and encourage designers to think about significant concepts related to contemporary society.

 

Keywords: Interior Design, Cultural Theory, Education and Practice

 

References

 

         [1]   Culler, J. Philosophy and Literature: The Fortunes of the Performative  Poetics Today, 2000, 21(3), 48-67.

[2] Bachelard, G. The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, Boston, 1994). First published as Poetique

     de l’espace (Orion Press, New York, 1964).

[3] Baudrillard, J. The System of Objects. (Verso, London, 1996). Trans. James Benedict. First

     published as Le systeme des objets  (Gallimard, Paris, France, 1968).

[4] Bal, M. Looking In: The Art of Viewing. (G & B Arts International, Amsterdam:, 2001).

[5] Hays, M. Foreward in.Baudrillard, J and Nouvel. J The Singular Objects of Architecture, pp. ix

     (University of Minneapolis Press, Minneapolis, USA, 2002).

[6] Taylor, M. and Preston, J. Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (Wiley-Academy, Chichester,

     England, 2006).

[7] de Certeau, M. The Practice of Everyday Life (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984).

         [8]   Culler, J. What is Theory, in Literary Theory, A Very Short Introduction  pp.15. (Oxford University Press,

               Oxford, 1997).

[9] Bal, M. Travelling Concepts in the Humanities. pp.5 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002).

         [10] Tagg, J. Practising Theory: an Interview with Joanne Lukitsh in Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural

                 Politics and the Discursive Field, pp.69 (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1992).

[11] Julier, G. The Culture of Design (Sage, London, 2000).

[12] Vaikla-Poldma, Tiiu. An investigation of learning and teaching processes in an interior design

       class: an interpretive and contextual inquiry (Magill University Unpublished PhD Thesis,

       Montreal, 2003)

[13]. Grosz, E. Space, time and perversion: essays on the politics of bodies  (Routledge, New York,

        1995)

         [14] Butler, J. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, (Routledge, London, 1999)

[15] Benjamin, W. Paris the Capitol of the Nineteenth Century. In The Arcades Project ed Roy Tiedeman

        (Harvard Press Harvard 2002)

 

 

 



[1][1] For example, see  books designed specially for introducing theory to architecture and in art history: Nesbitt, Kate, ed. Theorizing A New Agenda for Architecture  An Anthology of Theory, 1965-1995, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1996. and Emerling, Jae. Theory for Art History, Routledge, London, 2005.

 

[2][2] Bal (2001) defines cultural analysis as the study of an object usually taken from the past that is analyzed in the present based on the interdisciplinary use of theory and close reading.



 

 

 

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TOWARDS A HISTORY OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Luis DIAZ

University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design

 

 

Abstract

 

The ideas and questions raised in this paper began with a consideration of a dedicated history and theory programme for the interior architecture course at the University of Brighton. As in many other schools the history and theory programme at Brighton is shared between the Architecture and Interior Architecture programmes. While there are practical benefits to this arrangement there are also problems, not least of which is the tendency to focus on architecture alone. This is not necessarily caused by prejudice or lack of interest. There is a comparative shortage of literature focusing on interior architecture, not to mention an absence of a comprehensive historical overview of the field. The challenge of conceiving a history and theory programme for interior architecture is seen as an opportunity to begin the process of assembling such an historical overview, but it is also, perhaps more importantly, one which raises questions about the definition of the field itself. This paper seeks to introduce and raise issues around which various debates could take place. The work here is tentative and suggestive of areas for further research. The main purpose is to suggest general ground rules and identify weaknesses in various approaches to historiography. These suggestions are generally formed by a review of architectural historiography; this is based on the premise that which interior architecture may be defined as a distinct practice, it is nonetheless closely related to and based on architecture. In these notes a number of limits have been set to simplify the inquiry – for example, the emphasis here is on history (as a taught subject) more than theory.[1] That said, there is an obvious need to invoke theory when considering how a history might be constructed. Another limit to note is that by history I will primarily mean history in the modern period. It is my belief that the problems raised by a history of modernism are different to those raised by general history. It will be suggested that emergence of interior architecture is connected to the history of modernism. The relationship between the development of a history of interior architecture and existing histories of architecture can be compared to the early relationship between art history and emergence of architectural history. Many of the thoughts here are instigated by a look at architectural historiography in the hope that with hindsight of this earlier development the history of interior architecture might avoid the most common pitfalls. The question of a definition of what interior architecture is is closely related to the problems investigated here and cannot be altogether avoided; however, the issue of a definition is raised where necessary but treated simply.

 

 

Keywords: History and theory; identity; historiography; discourse

 

References

 

[1]      For this reason the research material for this paper consists primarily of survey history texts. The same process and questions raised here could be paralleled in a study of theories of interior architecture or even history of theories of interior architecture.

[2]      Banham, R “A Black Box: The Secret Profession of Architecture” in A Critic Writes REF. p.296.

[3]      Ibid. p.294.

[4]      Ibid. p297.           

[5]      The ideas that follow are based on a close reading of Foucault, M. The Archaeology of Knowledge REF.

[6]      Scully, V. Modern Architecture (New York: Braziller, 1961) p.24.

[7]      Watkin, D. Ref. p.8.

[8]      See Tafuri, M. Architecture and Utopia (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976), Theories and History of Architecture (Ref), and ‘There is no criticism, only history: Richard Ingersoll interviews Manfredo Tafuri’ reprinted in Casabella, Jan-Feb 1995. 

[9]      Tafuri, M. ‘There is no criticism, only history’, p.97.

[10]    Kayvanian, C. ‘Manfredo Tafuri: From the Critique of Ideology to Microhistories’ in Design Issues, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2000. The following notes on Tafuri and microhistories is primarily derived from this article.

[11]    To be clear, questioning or suspending concepts does not mean discarding them. Chronology, for example, is pedagogically useful in providing students with an organisational structure. What should be avoided is the idea that chronology necessarily or automatically explains things.

[12]    Crouch, D. History of Architecture, From Stonehenge to Skyscrapers (NY:McGraw-Hill, 1985).

[13]    For example, Etruscan and Roman Architecture by A. Boethius and J.B. Ward-Perkins (Harmondsworth, 1970) and History of ArchitectureStonehenge to Skyscrapers by Dora Crouch (NY: McGraw Hill, 1985). See also William MacDonald’s The Architecture of the Roman Empire (New Haven, 1982).

[14]       Ref.

[15]    Allen Brooks, H. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Destruction of the Box in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 7-14.

[16]    Wright, F.L. ‘The Destruction of the Box’ from Writings and Buildings (Cleveland: World Publishing, 1960)

[17]    The notion of its anachronism comes from its relative notoriety, but general absence in history texts. During a lecture at the Berlage Institute (1991) Kenneth Frampton admitted to a difficulty in fitting the project within the broader narratives of modern architecture. The project does not appear in his History of Modern Architecture.

 

 

 

 

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ACROSS / BETWEEN: ART INTO DESIGN

Julia DWYER

University of Brighton

 

Abstract

 

Art practice is an essential reference for interior architecture and design (IAD) education and practice, but the terms of its use are questionable. This paper discusses the issue of appropriation, and reviews discourses connected with art practices that critically define site and audience, and those which are paralleled in participative practices in architecture. It presents some recent interdisciplinary art/design projects that draw on the critical positions described, and asks whether IAD is implicated in similar critical theories and practices.

 

Keywords: Multi and interdisciplinary thinking, audience, practitioner, student, theory and practice

 

References

 

[1]     Studio 2 , BA Interior Architecture programme, the University of Brighton.

[[1][ii]] The readymade books were usually paperbacks, and were selected from a shortlist of contemporary American writers, or from texts students had discovered when researching their dissertations.

[[1][iii]]       The word ‘designer’ will be used to include ‘architect’ in this paper, unless the source (as does Fernie), only refers to architects.

[[1][iv]] MA Theory and Practice of Public Art, then MA Design for the Environment, Chelsea College of Art and Design.

[[1][v]] Includes the BA Design and Public Art programme at Chelsea, which I taught on before it closed in 2003.

[[1][vi]] Fernie,J. ed. Two Minds: Artists and Architects in Collaboration. p.110 (London, Black Dog 2006).

[[1][vii]] Fernie,J. ibid.

[[1][viii]]“Engagement with critical and theoretical issues is an integral part of practice for staff and students in Critical Fine Art Practice…Historical and contemporary developments in the practical and critical aspects of art are studied in the wider contexts of culture and society”.  Programme specification 2005, BA Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton.

[[1][ix]]‘Artists who work beyond the confines of the gallery or studio and who use context as an impetus or research tool to make art.’ Clare Doherty in Fernie, J. ibid. p.11.

[[1][x]] ‘I developed a method or a dialectic that involved what I call site and non-site…(it’s a back and forth rhythm that moves between indoors and outdoors).‘ Robert Smithson in Rendell, J. Art and Architecture: A Place Between, p.23 (London, I.B. Taurus, 2006).

[[1][xi]]Deutsche, R. Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City in Out of Site: a Social Criticism of Architecture, Ghirardo, D. ed. (Seattle, Bay Press, 1991).

[[1][xii]]      Lacey, S. ed. Mapping the Terrain:New Genre Public Art, (Seattle, Bay Press, 1995).

[[1][xiii]]     Felshin, N. ed. But is it Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism, (Seattle, Bay Press, 1995).

[[1][xiv]]     Lacey, S. ibid, p.19.

[[1][xv]]      Jencks, C.The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, p.9 (London, Academy, 1977).

[[1][xvi]]     Gablik, S. Connective Aesthetics:Art After Individualism in Lacey, S. ibid.

[[1][xvii]]    Felshin, N. ibid, p.9.

[[1][xviii]]   Avant-garde art, which claims utter development, is infected by strains of maintenance ideas, maintenance activities, and maintenance materials … I am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother. (Random order.) I do a hell of a lot of washing, cleaning, cooking, renewing, supporting, preserving etc. Also, (up to now separately) I “do” Art. Now I will simply do these maintenance everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them as art.’  Mierle L. Ukeles in Phillips,P.C. Maintenance Activity: Creating a Climate for Change, in Felshin, N. ibid.

[[1][xix]]     Phillips,P.C., in Felshin, N. ibid. p.165.

[[1][xx]]      Gablik, S. ibid,p.86.

[[1][xxi]]                                                 Zucchi, B. Giancarlo de Carlo, pp. 204 – 215, (London, Butterworths, 1992).

[[1][xxii]]    Till, J. The Negotiation of Hope, in Blundell-Jones, P., Petrescu, D., Till, J. eds., Architecture and Participation, pp 23 - 41 (Abingdon, Spon Press, 2005).

[[1][xxiii]]   atelier d’architecture autogerée / studio of self managed architecture

[[1][xxiv]]    Petrescu, D., Losing Control, Keeping Desire, in Blundell-Jones, P., Petrescu, D., Till, J. ibid, pp 43 - 63.

[[1][xxv]]     ‘‘vacuoles’, to use Guattari’s term, which are meetings where ’nothing special is expected other than that things just happen and that what is important is said’ Petrescu, D. ibid p.50.

[[1][xxvi]]    London Metropolitan University (TP2) and Sheffield University (TP3)

[[1][xxvii]]   Stratford,H., taking place, Scroope 14, Cambridge Architecture Journal, July 2002, pp.44-48.

[[1][xxviii]] Augé, M. Non Places in Architecturally Speaking Read, A. ed. (Routledge, London, 2000).

[[1][xxix]]    Performed at Taking Place 2, School of Architecture, London Metropolitan University, November 2001. 

[[1][xxx]]     Performed at Taking Place 5 as part of Technologies of Place’ interdisciplinary symposium, February 2005.

[[1][xxxi]]    Michael Warner is author of Publics and Counterpublics (2002). Quotations from Warner’s talk at the Tate Modern, 25/2/2005.

[[1][xxxii]]   Boys, J.  Defining Patterns, in Ridge, S. and Dwyer, J. Digitate Catalogue (Chelsea College of Art and Design, London 2004)

[[1][xxxiii]]  Light box with full-scale image 1930 x 780mm Forty Hall Enfield 2003–

[[1][xxxiv]] Temporary installation: Printed paper, foamcore.1900 x 2100 mm, Forty Hall Enfield 2004.

[[1][xxxv]]   Tondo light box 1000mm diameter, Enfield Civic Centre 2004.

[[1][xxxvi]] 12 temporary signs: 400 x 400mm, printed plastic. 2004.

[[1][xxxvii]] Greene, L., All about a Place in Ridge, S. and Dwyer, J. ibid.

[[1][xxxviii]]                Exhibited at Performance Furniture, Chelsea College of Art and Design, September 2005.

[[1][xxxix]]           Rendell, J. ibid, p.6.

[[1][xl]]  Julia Kristeva in Rendell, J. ibid, p.11.

 

Julia Dwyer

University of Brighton

School of Architecture and Design

Mithras House, Lewes Road,

Brighton BN2 4AT, UK

 

j.m.dwyer@brighton.ac.uk

0044 1273600900

julia.dwyer@virgin.net

0044 2086744846



 

 

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TRANSLATION AND REPRESENTATION OF INTERIOR SPACE

 

 

Lorraine FARRELLY 

University of Portsmouth School of Architecture

 

 

 

Abstract

 

How we design interiors is affected by our understanding of space and how we represent that spatial understanding and investigate and interrogate this through drawings and appropriate representations.

Interior space can be recorded or mapped in various ways. Some techniques can be transposed from other areas of culture or artistic impression, including dance, film, urban design and painting. Dance is an expression of the understanding of the movement of a body through space and choreographic annotation describes the motion of a body through a space. Storyboards are techniques used by film makers to communicate and describe the translation of a narrative into movement and actions in space. An idea of a series of views that describe a journey through interior space, related to a map or plan of a building provides a personal interpretation of a journey. Using shadow, tone to describe spaces, the negative impression of the space, chiaroscuro: using the contrast between light and dark to define space. All these techniques allow a translation of activities into physical space. Understanding these representational processes can provide insights into the design of spaces themselves. The way we chronicle our understanding of external and internal environments is critical analysis to inform the assembling of new environments and subsequent design. Using examples of experimentation in translating interior space into abstract representations, which demonstrate the range of possibilities that can be interpreted and understood, these techniques will be explained to  show a range of responses to these analytical exercises and indicate how they can affect subsequent spatial design. A visual language and dialect of interior scale can be developed, a spatial code that is different from architectural and urban scale, more intimate, connected to the body in space and the narrative or story which surrounds it.

 

Keywords: spatial translation, creative processes and design, critical design, critical thinking , representation, abstraction

 

 

 

References

[1]        Cullen, R. Concise Townscape ( Architectural Press 1995)

[2]        Crowe, N and Laseau P . Visual Notes for Artists and Designers

      (Von Nostrand Rheinhold 1984)

[3]        Tschumi , B. Event City ( MIT 2001)

[4]        De Wit , S. The Enclosed Garden  ( Rotterdam 010 publishers 2001)

[5]        Goldberg  R. Oscar Schlemmer's notes .(Thames andHudson, 1988).

[6]        Saskia de Wit The Enclosed Garden p 5

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Caroline Broadhead for use of her images’ Still light 1999

 

 

 

 

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Glasgow Metropolitan College

 

Joyce Fleming

Glasgow Metropolitan College

 

 

Abstract

 

We teach Interior Design – that specialist branch of architectural design, which is not covered adequately in any architectural course. It is a vocational program, supplying the needs of a growing and increasingly professional industry. The sectors’ main clients fall within the commercial, retail and leisure industries. The industry and its’ client base are well established in Glasgow. Although Interior Design is a specialist course, it has a broad educational application. Students are expected to be independent learners, undertake extensive individual research, and use analytical models and investigative process to develop conceptual ideas into imaginative resolutions. The Interior Design course at Glasgow Metropolitan College is further enhanced by links with Glasgow Caledonian University, which provides articulation to its Honours Degree course. Interior Design is a complex process. It is not easy. It is not self-indulgent, or flippant as portrayed in some TV shows, but it can be witty, fun, and very rewarding. The practitioner has to balance form and void, colour and texture, proportion and scale, light and comfort, material and construction, cost and programme, to accommodate a particular set of functional and sensual human requirements. The articulation of these, their cohesive whole becomes manifest in the visual ‘style’ of the completed work. This ‘style’ is a simple way of saying very complicated things. At its best it evokes memory, delight, and elicits an intellectual response. It is widely supposed that ‘visual style’ is inherent or intuitive in an individual; however we believe that this intuition becomes more acute and articulate with practical experience. This philosophy underlies our teaching program.

 

Three areas are important; creativity, communication and practise. Identification of, and problem solving is the designers’ role. Combining pragmatic functionalism with an idea of quality and aesthetic ingenuity is the main objective.  Original imaginative and conceptual solutions are sought. To facilitate the communication of these ideas, free-hand and orthographic drawing is taught, together with various Computer Aided Drawing, and the usual ICT packages. Direct, verbal communication is encouraged, to supplement the visual, and to engender confidence.  Building construction and interior detailing are taught in a variety of ways. An understanding of the statutory & business framework in which an Interior Designer works is also important, so requirements such as Building Regulations, together with procurement and contract are covered in the latter stages of the degree course.

 

Teaching methods are customized to the further education student. Tuition is intensive in the early stages of the course. Students are challenged. The apprentice model is widely used, the tutor showing ‘how to’, or showing examples of solutions to similar problems, and the student applying the acquisition of learning to a given brief.  Most learning is organised around and integrated into a design project, and will normally be carried out in a wide variety and subsequently more onerous applications to reinforce the acquisition of a variety of skills.  This layering of experience in constantly producing solutions to different design briefs, expands horizons, enables the student to become adept at handling increasing levels of complexity and hones visual articulacy. 

 

 

 

 

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A REGULATED IRREGULARITY

 

Patrick Hannay

Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC

 

 

Abstract

 

The UK interiors education system has been in exponential expansion mode for over a decade. In stark contrast to other environmental disciplines both in the UK, Europe and the developed world, it exists in a virtually unregulated vacuum. Universities may monitor teaching practice and check curricula relevance by counting bums on seats or checking employment records, but is this all we need? Are we on the edge of making our educational output a laughing stock of mediocrity. In the practice of interiors where a sizeable section of it is wedded to conspicuous consumption, is an utter laissez-faire education ethos simply an inevitable extension of that and does it matter to the students, their practitioner/employers, clients and the public? Do they thrive on complete deregulation? Do students benefit from the smokescreen of imprecision? More importantly do other cultures of a more regulated professional environment for interiors secure higher quality outcomes and if so should we follow suit? In a century and a half battle within UK architecture, the issues of who benefits from regulating educational curricula and exit gates into practice and who controls those, have been furiously fought over. They are an everyday battleground even now. Just at the moment when the RIBA is potentially decoupling the monitoring of graduate studies and tightening the final entry gate, interiors education is potentially a laughing stock of deregulated anarchy just at the moment when EU regulatory fever for Interiors is on the horizon. Shouldn’t we get our house in order? The Germans BDIA (Bundes Deutsche Innen Arktekten) could be seen as a polar opposite interiors culture to our own in the UK. There is a highly active professional body (in contrast to CSD interiors) and firm regulatory frameworks. Interior Architecture Cardiff at UWIC has had a ten year student exchange with the Interior Architecture course in the Mainz Facchocschule. Through questionnaires and interviews with former students from Mainz and their teacher/practitioners we can offer outside perceptions of our deregulated educational environment – in contrast to theirs and internal practitioner critiques of their systems.  In contrast, from an alumni base of 15 cohort years at Cardiff we have been monitoring how many, and for what reasons, have a rising number of students gone forward into the more regulated world of post- graduate UK architectural education. The paper will summarise those historic debates about professional education regulation and from the questionnaire outcomes, give us a perspective on our current condition and argue for a loosely creative monitoring body run by educationalists for the UK (as is proposed from the recent forum of educationalists in Interiors in Manchester (IE)) which is in turn based on a critique of the IDEA initiative (Interior Design Educators Association) in Australia.

 

 

References

 

[1]     The UCAS website is www.ucas.ac.uk: Given that a recent fashion is for an Interiors team in a Universityto join a language to interiors or for example property development to an Interiors BA, it is difficult, without an awful lot of extra research, to ascertain what size of cohort are within each of these components. So I have tended to count only one BA per educational institution.

[2]    “Facing the future: a report on advanced courses in Architecture of Higher education in Great Britain.” ‘The Group’  chaired by Lord Esher: London. 1984

[3]     For information on Oceania go to http://www.idea-edu.com/ : For Finland go to http://www.lamk.fi/  See 5,6 below for further national organisations.

[4]     For information on Interiors in the USA go to http://www.ncidq.org/

[5]     For information on the Netherlands www.bni.nl  also contact Ingeborg Holtman at Stichting Bureau Architectenregister, Nassauplein 24, 2585 EC Den Haag, Netherlands. 070 3467020: e-mail info@architectenregister.nl

[6]     For information on France go to www.fnsia.org    or write to FNSAI, 14 rue Fontaine, 75009 Paris, France: e-mail info@fnsai.org: Also look for Conseil Francais des Architectes d’ Interieures (CFAI) 5 rue Saint Anastase, 75003, Paris, France 01 40 27 91 24: e-mail cfia@wanadoo.fr

[7]     Information on the ASAP Association for the recognition of Studies in Architecture and Planning, in English, from Elke Kaiser at the BDIA  Kaiser@bdia.de

[8]     November 1991 conference under auspices of AIDDC ( Association of Interior Design Degree Courses) ‘What is Interior Architecture?’ at the Mall Gallery, London. Fred Scott and many others spoke out strongly for the retention of the ‘Interior Design’ title and more critically not to become involved in the RIBA educational regulation system.

[9]      Information supplied from Erich Weiler; International liason officer on the Interior Architecture course at the Facchoccschule Mainz, Germany.

[10]    Letters have gone from IE (Interiors education) to Frayling; and from various practitioners ( Fred Scott, Ben Kelly, Julian Powell Tuck, Dinah Casson, Lumsdens etc)

The RCA claim nothing has changed. Simply the title.  IE has argued for a distinct course in Interiors not one absorbed into Architecture.

[11]    For information on the European Council of Interior Architects (ECIA) www.ecia.net

[12]    Interviews and questionnaires have been conducted with 8 former Erasmus students who attended Interior Architecture Cardiff.

[13]    Interiors Education (IE) formed in November 2006 out of the former AIDDC. It held its first meeting at Manchester under the chairperson Graeme Brooker. The second is Wednesday Feb 28th 2007 Glasgow.

 

 

  

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Interior Architecture

Frazer HAY

Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

 

Abstract 

 

Interior Architecture is a part of a larger group of professionals referred to by Tony Fretton [Chair of Architectural and Interior Design, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands] as “The Interiorists” which primarily comprise of: Interior designers, interior decorators, interior architects, exhibition designers, lighting designers, stage designers and architects. Although part of a relatively new “Interioreist” movement Interior Architecture has strived for a recognized identity and method of approach whilst creating successful spatial solutions to a brief. Interior architecture’s roots loosely began with the art and craft movement in the nineteenth century, where architects were joined with artists and paid just as much attention to the interior of the building as to the exterior. Interior architecture has evolved in earnest however over the last few decades as a response to the void which arose over the last 20-30 years between Architecture and Interior Design. After the Second World War there was a rise in the number of large corporate architectural firms largely as a result of the massive reconstruction of a War torn society. Due to the scale of these corporate architectural firms, specialisation became a matter of course. There became a general shortage of architects and designers that were prepared to show the same commitment to the interior of a building as they would to the exterior. Although they tried unsuccessfully to bridge the gap by combining both professions educational requirements, by allowing the students to specialise after three years of architectural education in order to create an architect who specialises in interior designer.

 

 

REFERENCES

[1]        AR, special number: Inscape  05/1966 p365

[2]        Rebekah Hieronymus

Int. Architecture

Foster+Partners

[3]        Graeme Brooker & Sally Stone, Rereadings

            RIBA Enterprises Ltd, 2004

 

 

 

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Curatorial thinking: performance space and the Interior

 

Gini LEE

University of South Australia

 

Abstract

 

The theory and practice of Interiors is normally predicated upon the assumption that some type of design intervention is the generator of the spatial and material qualities of enclosed places. This paper reports upon recently completed doctoral research that investigates a curatorial approach to making Interiors; an approach that is responsive to the important ecological and mobility issues that increasingly impact upon how Interiors are conceptualised and realised. The concept of postproduction underpins the theoretical positioning of the paper; a process of intervening that makes use of that which already exists in conceiving of new spaces. Through an examination of existing ‘designed’ places, speculative and event-based Interiors are described through the performed Interior and the performed garden. The performed Interior juxtaposes the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles with a humble and ruined blacksmith’s tack shed in the remote outback of South Australia to uncover qualities of event spaces contained within the material arrangement of walls and artefacts. The performed garden is a search for the Interior spaces experienced while walking through the now disappeared 18th century garden Alticchiero, in Northern Italy, and the working studio space that is the Valamanesh suburban garden in Adelaide, South Australia. This research contends that new spatial associations and ecological relationships are effected through the process of collaboratively curating spaces that are Interiors. Such curated spaces provoke reflective thinking and making around relationships between [enclosed] space and artefact, and between the significance of exploring and experiencing places that are made dynamic and provisional because they are performed, as well as designed.

 

Keywords:  performativity, place, space; critical design; material thinking; design ethics; interdisciplinarity

 

 

 

 

References

 

[1] Zournazi, M, Hope: new philosophies for change, p.244 (Pluto Press Australia Annandale 2002).

[2] Rugoff, R, Beyond Belief: the Museum as Metaphor in Ray, MA and Mangurian, R, Wrapper, p103 (William Stout San Francisco 1999)

[3] Bourriaud, N, Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How art reprograms the world, p7  (Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2002)

[4] Bourriaud, p11

[5] Bourriaud, pp 19-51

[6] Bal, M, Double Exposures The Subject of Cultural Analysis, p128 (Routledge, New York, 1996)

[7] Foucault, M, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias in Leach, N, ed Rethinking Architecture, a reader in cultural theory, pp354-355 (Routledge, London, 1997)

[8] Morton, P in Ray, MA and Mangurian, R, Wrapper, p7 (William Stout San Francisco 1999)

[9] Morton, P, p7

[10] Rugoff, R, p99

[11] The Soane Gallery, p.60, Fig 22, Pages from the Crude Hints towards an History of my House in [incon’s] I[nn] Fields MS. (ff.30-31)

[12] Wynne, J, Alticchiero, self-published, 1780 and 1787

[13] Williamson, R, Giustiniana’s Garden: an Eighteenth Century Woman’s Construction in Bonj Szczygiel, Josephine Carubia and Lorraine Dowler, eds. Gendered Landscapes, An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space , pp48-57 (State University, Pennsylvania, 1999)

 

 

 

 

Contact Information:

 

Dr Gini Lee

Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design

University of South Australia

 

Kaurna Building

Cnr Hindley Street and Fenn Place

Adelaide, South Australia, 5000

 

Tel: +61 8 8302 0203

Fax: +61 8 8302 0211

Email: gini.lee@unisa.edu.au

 

 

 

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FOREWORD FOR INTERIORS FORUM SCOTLAND CONFERENCE

 

Leonie BELL

The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City

 

The Lighthouse is Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City and our mission is to promote architecture, design and Scotland's creative industries.  We create public, business and learning programmes that celebrate the talent within Scotland and bring the best from around the world to Scotland. We believe that architecture and design are major social, cultural, political and economic issues and our programmes aim to engage both the public and profession in the debates that surround these issues. Our belief is, quite simply, that a country that supports and embraces quality design and architecture is a happy and successful one. Since opening in July 1999 we have welcomed over 1.2 million visitors and we have staged around 200 exhibitions, not one of these exhibitions has been dedicated to Interior Design, until February 2007 when we hosted an exhibition and conference by Interiors Forum Scotland. Of course Interior Design had appeared in other exhibitions especially ones that award student work. The 2006 Glasgow 1999 Design Medal was won by an Interior Design Student from Glasgow School of Art.

 

Interiors Forum approached us in Spring 2006 and the first thing we asked is why do you want to do this and why do you want to do it in The Lighthouse? The answer, so people can understand what Interior Design is and because The Lighthouse hasn't devoted a project solely to this discipline.  We couldn't say no. Like the Interiors Forum Scotland, The Lighthouse is concerned by the perception that design is something that we don't really need, that it is a fashionable or luxurious extra. Yet design that is good should be embedded within all that surrounds us in the unnatural world. Good design and architecture improves all our lives, it is not about just about decoration. Interiors Forum Scotland wanted to create an exhibition that defined what interior design is and where it belongs. The design professions classify Interior Design as part of architecture and the public think it is to do with lampshades and wallpaper. The exhibition successfully explains that it can be both these things plus a whole lot more.  Interior Design is a vast and complex discipline that requires intelligent and intensive academic courses. Interior Designers create environments that we work in, live in and play in. These can be an interior in the traditional sense but they can also occur in outdoor spaces like bus shelters, they can be temporary or mobile as part of theatre, film set or exhibition design or they can be virtual digital environments. Many misunderstand Interior Design but the exhibition Thinking Inside the Box and conference have presented a strong case, we need good interior design, it benefits us all and we need visionary teachers to inspire the next generation of Interior Design students.  

 

 

 

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THINKING INSIDE THE BOX -ANXIETIES OF CONTAINMENT

 

Terry MEADE

School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton

 

Abstract

 

Taking a cue from the conference title "Thinking inside the box" this paper will, question the idea that 'Interiors', as a discipline, should ever be, thought about or practised as being within a box. Such a title suggests a conventional view of interior space as static and contained. It also suggests imagined borders around an academic discipline. This paper will attempt to explore questions about Interiors through an examination of certain realities and conditions encountered in the 21st century. New laws rules and regulations in the political sphere, the increased use of surveillance, the militarisation of public space and the use of checkpoints all point to a fear of a disordered and dangerous world. An array of walls and borders have recently emerged, (at gated communities, entrances to shopping malls and barricaded enclaves etc.), all with the intention of isolating, separating and guarding against intrusion of information and unwanted 'others'. This paper will begin by listing some of the forces contributing to the growth of a 'fearful culture' and then examine the spatial consequences. This will in turn, raise questions about the boundaries of 'Interiors' as a discipline in the 21st Century. Specifically, an attempt will be made to unravel the characteristics of the wall as a protective or defensive device, and will examine the effect that security has had on the sense of interior space. The aim will be to challenge an idea that 'Interiors' may be considered as static or fixed within a container formed by defensive boundaries.

 

Keywords: Status, identity, local and global, security.

 

 

References

 

[1]            Taussig, Michael The nervous system Routledge, New York 1982

[2]        De Cauter, Lieven The Capsular Civilization, On the City in the Age of Fear NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2004

[3]        Marcuse, Peter Walls of Fear and Walls of Support in Architecture of Fear Ellin Nan Ed, Princeton Architectural Press New York 1997

[4]        Ballard, J.G. Interviewed by V. Vale on 23/11/04 in J.G .Ballard, Conversations RE/Search Publications, San Francisco 2005 P31

[5]        Zizek, Slavoj The Guardian 19th  Feb 2005

[6]        Amis, Martin The Observer 10 September 2006

[7]        Graham, Stephen Specters of Terror in City of Collision Ed Misselwitz, P. and Rieniets, T. Birkhauser Switzerland 2006 P 156

[8]            Virilio, Paul City of Panic Berg , Oxford International publishers 2005 P67

[9]        Apart from individual writers, there have been conferences, journals and exhibitions devoted to these issues.

[10]       Massumi, Brian Fear (the spectrum said) in 5 Codes Edited by Igmade Birkhauser Switzerland 2006 

[11]         Massumi, Brian Ibid. P 286

[12]       "President Bush said after September 11th, America is in a state of war. But the problem is that the US is not in a state of war. For the large majority, daily life goes on and war remains the business of state agencies. The distinction between the state of war and peace is blurred. We are entering a time in which a state of peace can at the same time be a state of emergency" Zizek Slavoj On 9/11, New Yorkers faced the fire in the minds of men The Guardian Monday September 11th 2006

[13]       Jackson, Richard Writing the War on Terrorism Language, Politics and Counter Terrorism Manchester University Press, Manchester 2005

[14]       Jackson, Richard Ibid, page 112

[15]         Bauman, Zygmunt "Society Under Siege"Polity Press, Cambridge UK 2002

[17]         Bunting, Madeleine The age of anxiety The Guardian Monday October 25th 2004

[18]       Davis, Mike The Great Wall of Capital in Against The Wall, Israel's Barrier to Peace. Ed by Sorkin M. The New Press London, 2005, page 88

[19]       Graham, Stephen Cities, War and Terrorism, Towards an Urban Geopolitics, Ed by Stephen Graham, Blackwell Publications 2004, page 11

[20]         Raban, Jonathan We have mutated into a surveillance society - and must share the blame The Guardian Saturday May 20 2006

[21]       Finkel, Leif. H. The Construction of Perception  in "Incorporations" Edited by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, Zone books New York 1992

[22]       Judge, Brenda Thinking About Things A Philosophical Study of Representation Scottish Academic Press Edinburgh 1985

[23]       Rose, Jacqueline On Not Being Able to Sleep, Psychoanalysis and the Modern World Vintage, London 2004 P 55

[24]       Rose, Jacqueline States of Fantasy Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998 P 4

[25]       Schneider, Peter, The Wall Jumper, Penguin Publications 2005 See also Garrett, Jeffrey "Teichoscopy" in the Wall Novels of Peter Schneider and Uri Orlev in Languages of Visuality edited by Beate Allert, Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1996

[27]       Marton, Ruchama and Baum, Dalit Transparent Wall, Opaque Gates in Against The Wall, Israel's Barrier to Peace. Ed by Sorkin M. The New Press London 2005 P 212

[28]         Marton, Ruchama and Baum, Dalit Ibid. P 214

[29]       Cousins, Mark The First House ARCH-TEXT 1 1993

[30]         Porter, Henry How the Englishman's home ceased to be his castle, The Observer 18.06.06

[31]         Weizman, Eyal Lethal Theory published in Log, Winter/Spring 2006.

[32]         Segal, Sune What Lies beneath, Excerpts from an Invasion, Palestine Mirror, November 2002. Quoted in Lethal Theory by Weizman, Eyal published in Log, Winter/Spring 2006.

[33]       Garrett, Jeffrey "Teichoscopy" in the Wall Novels of Peter Schneider and Uri Orlev in Languages of Visuality edited by Beate Allert, Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1996

[34]         Woods, Lebbeus The Wall Game in Against The Wall, Israel's Barrier to Peace. Ed by Sorkin, Michael. The New Press London, 2005, page 260

 

 

 

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INTERIOR DIVERSITY in ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITY out

Andy MILLIGAN1 and Roland ASHCROFT2

Interior and Environmental Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.


Abstract

 

This paper briefly describes the origins, aims and potential futures facing the Interiors Forum Scotland group, (IFS). It explores some of the aspirations of the IFS, and relates these to the culture of enquiry, creative risk and disciplinary diversity within Interior & Environmental Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. Interior’s is a paradoxical discipline which operates, educationally, outside the artefactual framework so common to other art & design disciplines. It is an activity which is diverse, plural and increasingly inter disciplinary in its creative focus. The diversity of career routes, and of disciplines engaged in delivering Interior programmes, particularly within Interior & Environmental Design at Dundee, confirm this. In an educational climate which seems suspicious of disciplinary diversity, uncertain how to frame creativity, and sceptical of the value of the visual, this has repercussions. Interior’s thrives within the intersection of art, design and architecture yet has the capacity to evolve beyond its original co-architectural or pro-decorative role. It is a discipline which rarely exerts control over its destiny, until now. Few critical platforms exist in which Interior’s remains central to the debate, rather than on the periphery of design or architectural symposia. It has difficulty defining and celebrating its difference, continually seduced by alignment to Architecture, but in seeking similarity here it limits its horizons. Interior Design exhibits slightly schizophrenic tendencies, lacking a coherent sense of itself. It operates within multiple spatial frequencies and across distinct interior bandwidths, and activities with multiple selves, may indeed have multiple and multidisciplinary futures.

 

Keywords: multiple selves, interdisciplinarity, intersection, diversity. 

 

REFERENCES

 

 

[1]    www.interiorsforumscotland.com

[2]    Brooker, G., Stone, S. ReReadings: Interior Architecture and the Design Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings,( RIBA Publications, London, 2006)

[3]                           Taylor, M., Preston, J.,Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (Willey Academy Publisher, London, 2006).

[4]  Diaz, L,. Towards a History of Interior Architecture, Interiors Forum Scotland: Thinking Inside the Box Conference, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 1 & 2 March 2007

[5]  Creativity or Conformity: Building Cultures of Creativity in Higher Education, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales, 8,9 &10 January2007, www.creativityconference.org

[6]  Milligan, A., Nelson, J., ‘Dysfunction, Deconstruction & Reconstruction: Exploring Sustainable Thinking Through Design Making’, 4th E&PDE Conference, Educating Designers for a Global Context, Salzburg, Austria, 6 – 8 September 2006

[7]  Collins, B., Robillard, V., ‘The Poetics of Installation; the Poetic Revolt’, SWIG, the Scottish Word & Image Group Conference, University of Dundee, March 2006

[8]  Taylor, D., ‘Class Acts’, Blueprint: Architecture, Design, Culture, No 236, November 2005, pp  74 - 79

[9]   Conway, H., Reonish

[10] Badke, C., Walker, S., ‘Contextualising Consumption’, 3rd E&PDE Conference, Crossing    Design Boundaries, Napier University, Edinburgh, September 2005

[11] Forty, A., ‘Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture’,   (Thames & Hudson, London, March 2004)

[12] Mohr, C., Milligan, A., ‘Throwing Pebbles Across the Pond’, Creativity or Conformity: Building Cultures of Creativity in Higher Education, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales, 8,9 &10 January2007,

[13] Lambert, I., ‘Sketches Don’t Crash’: 4th E&PDE Conference, Educating Designers for a Global Context, Salzburg, Austria, 6 -8 September 2006

[14] Massey, D., ‘Reinventing the Home’, edited from The Intimate Space: Reinventing the House, Blueprint: Architecture, Design, Culture, No 159, March, 1999 pp 24 -25

[15] Milligan, A., Rogers, J., ‘Experience Design & Artefacts after the Fact’, CoDesign: The International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, Special Edition: Crossing Design Boundaries, Vol 2, No 2, Taylor & Francis Publishers, 2006, pp 89 -96

[16] Michele Foucault, Of Other Spaces, Utopias and Heterotopias, 1967, and pub in Lotus International 48/49, Oct 1984

[17] Anusas, M., ‘Creativity in Mass Education Contexts’: 4th E&PDE Conference, Educating Designers for a Global Context, Salzburg, Austria, 6 -8 September 2006

 

 

 

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interiors forum scotland 1st and 2nd march 2007

 

INTERIOR DESIGN'S IDENTITY CRISIS: REBRANDING THE PROFESSION

 

C. Thomas MITCHELL1, and Steven M. RUDNER2

1Chair, Interior Design Program, Indiana University, Bloomington
2President, The Streetview Group, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

 

 

Abstract

 

In the United States, at least, the profession of Interior Design faces an identity crisis. Through ever more rigorous licensing requirements and stricter accreditation standards for university programs, interior designers are seeking to become co-equal with other design professions, such as architecture. The public perception for many, however, is that interior design is merely decorating – a view strengthened by the popularity of numerous television shows branded “Interior Design,” but in fact glorified exercises in decorating. In a world where “perception is reality,” the “reality” of interior design has become confused and distorted by the continuous images and perceptions put forth in popular culture.  In essence, the interior design brand is vastly misunderstood, which poses serious issues and consequences for professional practitioners and educators. When there is confusion over a brand in business environments, “re-branding exercises” take place.  Through these initiatives, a company, product or service can be re-examined, assessing its strengths and limitations, and presenting it to its various target audiences in a new, more readily understandable and positive way.   The value of a strong, memorable and easily understood brand is a powerful asset for any organization or profession. The confusion and misperceptions associated with the interior design brand make it an ideal candidate for re-branding.  For this paper, a formal re-branding exercise was performed with a group representing various aspects of the design world -- including interior designers, architects, manufacturer’s representatives, educators and students.  A series of brainstorming exercises was conducted to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by the interior design profession at this time. The steps of the re-branding exercise will be explained and the insights gained from the collaborative brainstorming sessions presented.  The paper’s conclusion will be a strategy proposal setting out how the current misunderstanding of the interior design brand can be clarified in the minds of the public, clients, student, suppliers, and interior designers themselves.

 

Keywords: collaborative design research, perception enhancement, communication, methods and tools for idea generation, rebranding

 

 

 

 

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interiors forum scotland 1st and 2nd march 2007

 

THE MASK OUTSIDE THE MACHINE: THE PERSONA INSIDE THE SPACE

Saltuk ÖZEMİR

Istanbul Technical University

 

Abstract

 

After- Beaux-Arts where the forms without substances had been chosen from the catalogues, the over-designed contemporary world is becoming a world where personas in the form of interior spaces and objects/products help to build personas for people and corporations (brands).  In this paper, it is aimed to expose this very nature of the design world in the context of persona, so as to get some insights about the validity of interior design as a discipline in the 21st Century. Therefore, an examination of aestheticisation of the interior space and consequently of the user/corporation from the 20th to the 21st Centuries is made, so as to expose the advertise-ation of the interior space in a world where users become ‘protagonists’, while approaches and processes in design in general become one in the same with those of advertising industry under the ‘brand’ umbrella. The arguments mentioned above will be buttressed with an oxymoronic combination of Walter Benjamin’s historical materialism with post-structuralist theories, while dealing with the value system of the material world and with the psychoanalytical Jungian – Lacanian – Freudian  terms so as to expose the driving mechanisms behind the ‘protagonist’ individual’s decision making and desires to consume in the post-optimal design world. In order to illustrate the dark side lurking behind the glossy surface of the contemporary interior spaces, filmmaking, advertising and narrative techniques, dealing with concepts like persona, stereotypes, archetypes, aestheticisation, object fetishism, product personification/user objectification will be deployed in sync with the relevant design economies and psychoanalysis terms. Further, the new ‘skins’ without bodies from the product and interior design fields, particularly the ones made of plastic, a material, which can be likened to language due to its abstract nature, will also be dealt with so as to uncover the veil of the contemporary design world.

Keywords: design aesthetics, psychological theory building in the design field, culture and identity, what design is, sign value

 

 

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* “By the 1890s, concrete was being used extensively for engineering projects, such as docks, riverbanks, and bridges, but not for "proper" architecture. It was the material's intrinsic qualities that were causing something of a moral dilemma. Concrete was considered pagan (given its Roman heritage) and so unsuitable as a construction material for Gothic Revival Christian buildings. As it had no natural form of its own, concrete was viewed as a materia/lacking in moral fibre, without character, and, if used at all, it should be faced with a more" moral" material, such as stone. According to Peter Collins in his book Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture, when "Victorians first learnt of concrete they were not so much intrigued by the limitless possibilities offered by its plastic potential, as intimidated by the unprincipled character of its fabrication, since such methods found no place in the annals of Christian architecture and had no precedents except in pagan buildings and text.”, from Goventa, S., Concrete Design, Mitchell Beazley, 2001, p. 16.



 

 

 

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interiors forum scotland 1st and 2nd march 2007

 

THE ARCHITECTURE OF INTERIORS AS SPACE REWRITING: THE CENTRALITY OF GESTURE

 

Gennaro POSTIGLIONE1, Eleonora LUPO2

1Facoltà di Architettura e Società, Politecnico di Milano
2Facoltà del Design, Politecnico di Milano

 

 

Abstract

 

Culture of interiors has been often forced to coincide with the architecture history or with the furniture one, misunderstanding that the specificity of inner-space is shared among both of them. This paper aims to contribute to the definition of the discipline of interiors and proposes an interpretation of its specific character, establishing and grounding its ethic and methodology of design, by discussing some theoretical issues. Main focus will be addressed to those human inhabiting activities, like relations between objects, their use and space, which are basic for the creation of the meaning of places and therefore central in a so called ‘interior design approach’. The centrality of the subject experience is relevant (both in the teaching strategy and in the professional practice) because it becomes the parameter to design uses and shapes and determinates those cultural meanings where objects can be properly set. The interiors approach in fact, stresses the importance of these cultural relations between objects and context as possibility of really using and understanding the places, and therefore to design or re-design them, like in the intervention on the existent.

 

Keywords: Interiors Theory, Identity and Design, Social and Cultural human factors

 

 

 

 

References

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[2]     Cornoldi, A. L’architettura dei luoghi domestici. (Jaca Book, Milano, 1994).

[3]     De Certeau, M. L'invention du quotidian. (Gullimard, Paris, 1990).

[4]     Basso Peressut, L. and Postiglione, G. Il progetto di Interni. In Cornoldi A., Architettura degli Interni. (Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2005).

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[12]   Jabés, E. Le livre de l’hospitalité. (Gullimard, Paris, 1991).

 

Acknowledgements

 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the participation of both the PhD Course in Interior and the one in Design, of Politecnico di Milano, in this research.

 

Corresponding Author  Contact Information

 

1 Associate Professor

Gennaro POSTIGLIONE

2  PhD student

Eleonora LUPO

Facoltà di Architettura e Società, Politecnico di Milano, Dept. DPA

Facoltà del Design, Politecnico di Milano, Dept. INDACO

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci 32,

IT-20133 Milano

Via Durando 38/A, IT-20158 Milano

gennaro.postiglione@polimi.it

eleonora.lupo@polimi.it

+39.022399.5534

+39.022399.5964

 

 

 

 

 

 

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interiors forum scotland 1st and 2nd march 2007

FOR A CONCEPT OF THE DOMESTIC INTERIOR: SOME HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CHALLENGES

 

Charles RICE

School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney


 

Abstract

 

The paper charts the emergence of the domestic sense of the term ‘interior’ around the beginning of the nineteenth century. This emergence was marked with a sense of doubleness: the interior came to refer to both a spatial condition, and an image of such a condition. The paper argues that this emergence gave the interior a conceptual structure that raises some problems to do with the way in which various disciplines study domesticity and the interior. The paper focuses on histories of the interior and domesticity which utilize visual representations as evidence, and particularly the way in which the domestic appeal of Dutch genre paintings of the sixteenth century has been constructed. The paper will argue that these histories assume the interior as a stable and timeless context for the unfolding and development of domestic life, rather than analyzing what the historical emergence of the interior might mean for a critical account of domesticity’s history. Possibilities for a critical account are framed through the work of Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin.

Keywords: domestic interior, conceptual and theoretical issues; visual culture; representation; critical thinking

 

 

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