2012 IDEA Symposium
6-9 September 2012
State Library Perth Cultural Centre and Form Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Hosted and convened by the Interior Architecture program, School of the Built Environment, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia in collaboration with Form Gallery, Perth, Western Australia
Convenor:
- Dr Lynn Churchill, Senior lecturer, Interior Architecture, Curtin University.
Steering Committee:
- Dr Lynn Churchill, Senior lecturer, Interior Architecture, Curtin University.
- Associate Professor Dianne Smith, Head of Program, Interior Architecture, Curtin University
- Associate Professor Marina Lommerse, Interior Architecture, Curtin University.
Link to Symposium Proceedings [Full Papers]
Conference curatorial outline
INTERIOR: A STATE OF BECOMING
Interior: a State of Becoming explored, extended and challenged the world of the interior as a state of constant and dynamic ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’. The focus of the 2012 Symposium, the interior in flux, drew attention to the following questions: Entropy followed by death and renewal is the natural cycle. How do we reconsider the interior and the occupant becoming ‘old’? Where is the value in constantly ‘becoming’ new? How do facebook, the virtual window of the computer, the mobile phone, and their precedents, the book, the magazine, the camera, the ‘big’ screen and the television drive our expectations, visions and experiences of actual, physical interiors? What is adaptive re-use (as distinct from the practice of ‘conservation’)? What and how do we recycle? How do we re-vision the history of interiors in the light of ‘becoming’? What are the potential roles and responsibilities for Interior Designers / Architects in addressing becoming homeless and ‘being’ disadvantaged?
AN INTERIOR AFFAIR: A STATE OF BECOMING
The curators of the exhibition An Interior Affair: A state of Becoming invited proposals from researchers in interior architecture and interior design education and practice to submit proposals of speculative and or tangible creative work for exhibition. The exhibition ran in conjunction with the 2012 IDEA Symposium Interior: a State of Becoming. Therefore similar to the call for written papers, responses to the same provocation and themes of the 2012 IDEA Symposium were sought for the exhibition.
Interior: a State of Becoming 2012 symposium proceedings
Book 1: Symposium Proceedings [Abstracts] [download PDF]
An Interior Affair: a State of Becoming 2012 exhibition catalogue
Book 2: Exhibition Catalogue [download PDF]
Symposium Proceedings: Full Papers
INTERIOR: IN FLUX
- Damnatio memoriae: remembering and forgetting interior histories, Edward Hollis
- Beyond Building: interior designs, Suzie Attiwill
- SUPERSTUDIO images: persistent hypotheses of space, Sarah Treadwell
- Transgressing Boundaries: skin in the construction of bodily interior, Tarryn Handcock
- Interference: the restless drawing, Susan Hedges
- A state of critical becoming: colour, convention (Orientalism) and eclecticism in the aesthetic interior, Deborah van der Plaat
- Emergent practices in flux: design build, digital fabrication and the mutable interior environment, Diana Nicholas
- Cavity: Historical Interiors of the body, Luke Morgan
- How deep is the rabbit hole? – A deeper exploration of the position of interior design in South Africa, Amanda Breytenbach
- ‘A moment in a movement’: the indeterminate interior, Philippa Murray
- From Adolph Loos to DIY: an alternative to modern design’s emphasis on ‘being’ over ‘becoming’, Mark S.C Nelson
- Oceania: interior topographies, Amanda Yates
- Authentic learning as a case of becoming, Renee Parnell & Dianne Smith
INTERIOR: IN ITS EVERYDAYNESS
- Becoming object, other, or self through designing and making, Penelope Forlano & Dianne Smith
- Domestic things: Takashi Yasumura’s interiors, Jane Simon
- Becoming modern: one hundred kitchens and a cellar or two, Mary Anne Beecher
- The Millennium Dream Home — combining quality of life and quality of surroundings, Sandra Reicis
- A Pandora’s Box: creative practice in the becoming of ‘cognitive impairment’, Dianne Smith
- Seeing the unseen: confronting the real in depictions of lived environments, Vanessa Galvin
- Miasmic ruptures and the fear of a permeable interior, Nadia Wagner
INTERIOR: AS FORCEFIELD
- Sublime acts: desire in the studio, Marissa Lindquist & Jill Franz
- Feet firmly planted (on unstable ground), Jesse O’Neill
- Participation as a critical strategy for the re-examination of interior design curricula, Carmella Jacoby-Volk & Shoshi Bar-Eli
INTERIOR: AS ADAPTATION
- An exhibition model to enable recognition and evaluation of creative works as research in interior design/interior architecture, Sven Mezhoud, Jane Lawrence, Stuart Foster & Marina Lommerse
- Metaphor identifier: a tool or parameter to identify and measure value in interior design projects, Martin Katoppo & Cindy Melissa
- Tragedy and assimilation: missing Australian women in the interior surface, Kirsty Volz & Elle Trevorrow
- In the swerve: transforming identities in the design studio, Deborah Scott & Jason Hare
INTERIOR: AS LESS
INTERIOR: AS PERFORMANCE
- Off-stage: the interior of performance, Benedict Anderson
- Body regained: translations between dance and interior, Nigel Simpkins
- Theatre within the interior, Gene Bawden
- Hypersexual transgressions – the strip club becomes public, Nicole Kalms
- Empowering through design: a case of becoming, Lynn Churchill, Dianne Smith & Marina Lommerse
- Surface: boundary conditions and spatial interactions, Tijen Roshko
INTERIOR: AS VIRTUAL
Acknowledgments
The Curatorial Team, Symposium Committee and Editors would like to thank the individuals and organisations who have enabled this event to be realised through their generous contributions.
Thanks to Professor Jeanette Hacket, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Davis Head of School of the Built Environment and Professor Roy Jones, former Dean of Humanities Research, Curtin University, for funding support.
The Curators would also like to thank IDEA Chair Suzie Attiwill, Fleur Watson, FORM, the Curtin University student exhibition team and IDEA members for their support and advice towards the event.
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