This is a virtual roundtable event sponsored by the Historic Interiors Group Research Committee featuring presentations and a discussion with contributors to the forthcoming edited collection Interior Design on Edge.
This roundtable discussion sponsored by the Historic Interiors Group Research Committee will feature contributors to the forthcoming edited collection Interior Design on Edge (Routledge, 2024). This collection grew out of the annual Interior Provocations symposium held at Pratt Institute in 2022 and it showcases new scholarship that expands and contests traditional relationships between architecture, interiors and the people that use and design them, provoking readers to consider the interior differently, moving beyond its traditional, architectural definition. Focusing on the concept of interiority considered in a wider sense, the collection draws on interdisciplinary modes of investigation and analysis and reflects the latest theoretical developments in the fields of interior design history and practice.
Interior Design on Edge focuses on the ways that interiors both constitute and upset our edges, whether physical, conceptual, or psychological, imagined, implied, necessary or discriminatory. This roundtable discussion, moderated by editor Erica Morawski, will feature brief presentations from several contributors followed by a broader discussion about their respective contributions, their engagement with the theme, as well as their particular research methods and practices. As a roundtable discussion, there will be opportunity for the audience to participate in the larger conversation with questions and comments for the panelists.
Moderator:
Erica Morawski, PhD, Assistant Professor | Pratt Institute
Presentations:
“From the Inside Out: China’s Post-Socialist Housing Reform”
Yang Yang, Associate Director, cityLAB-UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles
“The Production of the Traveling Public: Rest Stop Interior Design 1950–1970”
Gretchen Von Koenig, PhD Student, Hagley Program at University of Delaware | University Lecturer Design History and Theory, Hillier College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
“Moving to the Edge: How the Relocation of the Provincial Higher Architecture Institute in Hasselt, Belgium, Reshaped Its Interior Architecture Program”
Sam Vanhee, PhD Student, Interior Architecture | University of Antwerp
