Interior Spaces in Other Places

An IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association) Symposium
3-5 February 2010
Hosted and convened by the Interior Design program, School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

CALL FOR PAPERS
The focus of this symposium is to question whether interior design is changing relative to local conditions, and the effect globalization has on the performance of regional, particularly Southern hemisphere identities. The intention being to understand how theory and practice is transposed to 'distant lands', and how ideas shift from one place to another. To this extent the symposium invites papers on the export, translation and adoption of theories and practices of interior design to differing climates, cultures, and landscapes.

This process sometimes referred to as a shift from 'the centre to the margins' seeks new perspectives on the adoption of European and US design ideas abroad, as well as their return to their place of origin. Papers are invited from a range of perspectives including the export of ideas/attitudes to interior spaces, history of interior spaces abroad, and the adoption of ideas/processes to new conditions.

Paralleling this trafficking of ideas are broader observations about interior space that emerge through specificity of place. These include new and emerging directions and differences in our understanding of interiority, both real and virtual, and an ever-changing relationship to city, suburb and country. Keeping within the symposium theme the intention is to examine other places, particularly on the margins of the discipline's domain.

Semantic slippage aside, there are a range of approaches that engage outside events and practices enabling a transdisciplinary practice that draws from other philosophical and theoretical frameworks. Moreover as the field expands and new territories are opened up, the virtual worlds of computer gaming, animations, and interactive environments, both rely on and produce new forms of expression. This raises questions about the extent such spaces adopt or translate existing theory and practice, that is the transposition from one area to another and their return to the discipline.


Guidelines for submission of Abstracts
Submitted in Microsoft Word document (max 300 words). Please provide the abstract on the first page and on the second page include your name, institutional affiliation, contact details and a brief biographical statement of 100 words or less.

Deadlines
Abstract: 30 March 2009
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Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts: 1 May 2009
Submission of Full papers: 30 September 2009
Return of Referees Report: 11 November 2009
Final date for submission of revised papers: 21 December 2009

Proceedings: To be published as CD Rom, and papers uploaded to IDEA website http://www.idea-edu.com/.
A selection of papers will be considered for further development in a future IDEA Journal.
Exhibitions: Proposals for exhibitions are welcomed. Please provide an abstract, as above

Keynote: Professor Penny Sparke, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) Kingston University, and is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the Society of Arts. Penny Sparke has worked in the field of late nineteenth and twentieth century Design History and has lectured, curated exhibitions, broadcast and published widely in that broad field both in the UK and overseas in addition to her numerous articles and book chapters her single authored books include An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century (1986, new edition 2004), Japanese Design (1986), Design in Context (1987), Italian Design (1988), As Long As It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995), and Elsie de Wolfe (2005).

Further Information:
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Conveners:
Associate Professor Mark Taylor, Program Coordinator, Interior Design, Queensland University of Technology.
Professor Gini Lee, Executive Editor, IDEA Journal, Queensland University of Technology.
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