INTERIOR LIVES - CONFERENCE REMINDER

The Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference, Kingston University, London Thursday 13 and Friday 14 May 2010
Online booking for this conference is now open at:   

http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fada/research/mir/mir_conf.php

Please find details of the conference programme below.  Further conference details and abstracts can be found on the Modern Interiors Research Centre website (see link above).

This conference will consider the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer architectural and design historians; the methodological issues that arise from the use of ethno/auto/biographical sources to explore the history of the interior as a site in which everyday life is experienced and performed; and the ways in which contemporary architects and interior designers draw on personal and collective histories in their practice.  

DAY ONE 

0845 	Registration and Refreshments

0930 	Emma Ferry - Writing Home: the colonial memories of Lady Barker, 1870-1904
0950 	Barbara Penner and Charles Rice - The many lives of The Red House
1010 	Richard Hayes - At home, 16 Tite Street
1030 	David Parker - Dickens's Drawing Room: a case study
1050 	Questions and discussion 

1110 	Tea/Coffee 

1150 	Keynote Address: Carolyn Steedman

1245 	Lunch 

1410 	Inga Fraser - Body, Room, Photograph: negotiating identity in the self-portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell
1430 	Harriet Riches - Negotiating Interiority: narratives of displacement and belonging in the autoportraits of Lydia Maria Julien
1450 	Gene Bawden - Illusion and Delusion: validating the artificial interior
1510 	Questions and discussion 

1530 	Tea/Coffee 

1610 	Colin Holden - 'Expanding House' Stirling and Gowan (1957) and 'Put-Away House' The Smithsons (1993-2000)
1630 	Inga Bryden - While the hands are busy the mind is free to roam: designs on the kitchen
1650 	Celina Lemos and Giovana De Miranda Monteiro - Home Lifestyle in Belo Horizonte, Mg, Brazil: comparing past and present social-spatial practices and interiors 
1710 	Questions and close

1800 	Reception at Dorich House Museum

DAY TWO 

0845 	Registration and refreshments

0930 	Shax Riegler - Mario Praz: writing the artifactual autobiography
0950 	Ed Hollis - The House of Life and the Memory Palace
1010 	Tom Tredway - Inside Out: Elsa Schiaparelli, interiors, and autobiography
1030 	Cristina Fiordimela - Resonance of domestic interiors, fragments of a story, from memory to becoming.
1050 	Questions and discussion 

1110 	Tea/Coffee 

1150 	Keynote Address: Vesna Goldsworthy

1245 	Lunch 

1410 	Cristobal Amunategui - Jean Genet, or the interiors of the outlaw in the 1930s Europe.
1430 	Elias Constantopoulos - Interior living as a spatial equivalent of Balzac's "Unknown Masterpiece"
1450 	Stephanie Dadour and Jennifer Dadour - Appropriations of domestic spaces, Beirut 2009
1510 	Questions and Discussion 

1530 	Tea/Coffee 

1610 	Aline Coelho Sanches Corato - Art, Architecture and Life: the interior of Casa de Vidro, designed by Lina Bo Bardi.
1630 	Robert Gassner - Dwelling as Assembling Temporal Continuities: the Heiberg House in Vanløse 
1650 	Aino Niskanen - Views into the homes of Finnish architects
1710 	Questions and close