conference series
curated by Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Alessandra Bosco, Fiorella Bulegato, Lucilla Calogero, Maddalena Dalla Mura
November
2022 > June 2023
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The Interior/Design conference series aims
at mapping and analysing the tensions and potentialities that characterise of
interior design, a field that today is increasingly practised, theorised and
discussed as a productive territory of relations and meanings.
Following the first
cycle organised in 2021/2022, in 2022/2023 the series continues with the
subtitle "Expanding the field".
International experts, designers, historians, critics and theorists will
contribute to broadening the discourse on interior design, by investigating
such themes and issues as the position of interior design among the design
disciplines, the education of interior design, the value of public "interiority",
interiors and nature.
The conferences are
held in English via Teams / Iuav Design Talks: code appg28a
calendar
Graeme Brooker, Royal College of Art, London
Working with the
Not New
19 May 2023
2 pm CEST
Cotonificio / aula L2
In this talk, Graeme
Brooker, Head of the Programme of the Interior Design MA at the Royal College
of Art, will discuss what he considers to be the central and distinctive themes
of contemporary interior design practice and reflect on topics such as reuse,
superuse, heritage, and sensibility.
Jean Whitehead, Senior
Lecturer of Interior Design - Falmouth University, UK
Creating Interior
Atmosphere - Mise-en-scene and Interior Design
16 May 2023
2 pm CEST
In her lecture, Jean
Whitehead, Senior Lecturer of Interior Design at Falmouth University, UK,
examines and explores the parallels between cinematic and theatrical
manifestations of the interior to the practice of interior design. Her research
uses the concept of ‘mise-en-scčne’ and the notion of 'staged
space' as key to understanding the role of the interior designer.
'Mise-en-scčne’ becomes a technique for creating immersive interior
atmospheres as constructed settings that have both a physical and psychological
impact on the user experience.
Andrea Sosa Fontaine, College of Architecture and Environmental
Design, Kent State University, Kent,
Ohio
Wearing Interior Space
9 May 2023
3 pm CEST
In her lecture, Andrea
Sosa Fontaine, a professional interior designer and Assistant Professor at the
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, will propose to rethink interior design
through the lenses of fashion design and clothing, as a way to enhance a more
equitable approach to the design of interiors that respond and fit to the
diverse and evolving characteristics of individual bodies. Drawing on her own
research project, “Spatial Patterning”, Sosa Fontaine will discuss
the centrality of bodies and identities in the design of space as key to the
conceptual and practical expansion of the interior design discipline.
Eva Storgaard, University of Antwerp
Towards Responsive Interiors:
Neuroscience-Informed Approaches to Interior Design
14 April
2023
3 pm CEST
Eva Storgaard, a
researcher and lecturer in interior architecture at the University of Antwerp,
will argue that evidence-based insights from disciplines such as psychology and
neuroscience are key for the future expansion of interior design. Drawing
particularly on recent developments in neuroscience, Storgaard will discuss the
insight they offer into the complex relationship between people and the spatial
environment and will illustrate the pedagogical method she has helped develop
in her school and some results of her students' work.
Richard Buchanan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Surroundings and Environments in Fourth Order
Design
29 November
2022
2 pm CET
Richard Buchanan,
Professor of Design, Management, & Innovation at the Weatherhead School of
Management in Cleveland, will reflect on the theoretical dimension of interior
design and on the latter’s centrality among the design disciplines of the
21st century. In particular, the lecture will discuss the design's shift in
focus from questions of place and space to questions of action and of
'interiors of the mind', which increasingly require a humanistic vision of
design.
Liz Teston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Public Interiority
9 November
2022
3 pm CET
Associate Professor at
the School of Interior Architecture, University of Tennessee, Liz Teston will
discuss her research on "Public Interiority" as a perceived and
phenomenological – rather than spatial – condition. In particular,
the lecture will focus on case studies and on the qualities of interiors in the
public and urban environment.