BIDA Support

The British Interior Design Association has kindly offered to support Interior Tools, Interior Tactics, the IFS 2008 Conference being held in Edinburgh, to the tune of £500. Our thanks to them for their help in making this event as successful as possible.

Book Launch, March 14th 2008

The Interiors Forum Scotland and Middlesex University Press co-hosted the launch of Thinking Inside the Box: a reader in Interiors for the 21st Century. The event was held on Friday evening the 14th March at 6pm in the Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Thinking Inside the Box is a reader designed to help students, academics, thinkers and practitioners of interiors do just that. Thinking Inside the Box is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers in the field of interiors: from Mark Taylor, co-author of ‘Intimus’, to Shashi Caan, practitioner and former head of interiors at Parsons, the new School of Design in New York. They address themes ranging from cushions, curtains, and feminism to the relationship between the interior and the enclave in the contemporary age of terror; from the regulation of the profession of interiors to the representation of the interior on the page, and in history.

IDEA 2007

The Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association of Australia and New Zealand publishes the highly acclaimed IDEA journal once a year. The 2007 issue contains the article Rethinking Inside the Box: Reflections on the Interiors Forum Scotland 2007 Conference written by  Andy Milligan, Ed Hollis, Alex Milton, Drew Plunkett, Frazer Hay and John Gigli. One of only four papers accepted for publication this year, it is available to view online on http://www.idea-edu.com/abstracts.htm.