Interior Ecologies: IDEA JOURNAL 2010 

CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS 
Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to submit
design research papers and critical project works that engage with
interior design/interior architecture theory and practice for the IDEA
JOURNAL 2010. 

PROVOCATION
The IDEA JOURNAL 2010 provocation Interior Ecologies: exposing the
evolutionary interior seeks to elicit emergent interior debates on
contemporary spatial, material and performative practices. Can a
critical ecological approach to practice and discourse in interiors
enable expanded locales for research and experiment across disciplinary
and theoretical boundaries? Normative concepts concerned with the
designed habitat, or discursive debates around the interfaces of
interior and exterior conditions, may fall short in provoking interior
thinking to engage through ecologies of practice that contribute to
advancing environments, technologies and cultures. Interior Ecologies
requests expressions of interest regarding theoretical research, design
practice and educational accounts that promote the concept of
evolutionary interiors. Examinations of historical, contemporary and
relational perspectives for constructed situations and/or events are
welcome. 

The IDEA JOURNAL 2010 will expose the engagement of interior practice
in ecological, political, cultural and economic systems. We invite
scholarly accounts of writing and projects that move across disciplinary
perspectives and temporal systems into an open-ended enquiry into
ecologies for and of the interior. 

THE IDEA JOURNAL ACCEPTS: 
DESIGN RESEARCH PAPERS 
that demonstrate development and engagement with interior
design/interior architecture history, theory, education and practice
through critique and synthesis. The focus is on the documentation and
critical review of both speculative research and practice-based research

REFEREED STUDIOS 
that represent the nature and outcomes of refereed design studios which
have either been previously peer reviewed in situ and/or critically
discussed through text and imagery for the IDEA JOURNAL. 
PROJECT REVIEWS 
that critically evaluate design-based works which seek to expand the
nature of spatial and theoretical practice in interior design/interior
architecture and associated disciplines. 
PROPOSALS FOR BOOK REVIEWS 
to encourage debate into the emerging literature dedicated to the
expression and expansion of the theory and practice of interior
design/interior architecture 

REGISTRATION OF INTEREST: 
Authors are invited to register their interest in submitting a paper on
the form following and forward by email to the Executive Editor, Gini
Lee by June 7 2010. 
Registration of interest is not refereed. 
Acknowledgement of Registration constitutes development of proposal to
full research paper, refereed studio or project review. 
Email: [log in to unmask] 

IMPORTANT DEADLINES/DATES: 
Registration of interest June 7 2010 
Final date for submission of full papers September 3 2010 
Final date for return of referees* reports October 15 2010 
Notification to authors October 29 2010 
Final date for submission of revised papers November 19 2010 
Expected publication date December 2010 


The IDEA JOURNAL is a publication of the Interior Design/Interior
Architecture Educators Association. Established in 1996, the purpose of
IDEA is the advancement of education by encouraging and supporting
excellence in interior design/interior architecture education and
research within Australasia; and being the regional authority on, and
advocate for interior design/interior architecture education and
research. 
www.idea-edu.com 
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Interior Ecologies: IDEA JOURNAL 2010 
REGISTRATION OF INTEREST 
To be completed by author/s interested in submitting a paper. If you
are submitting more than one paper/studio/review please complete a
*registration of interest* form for each submission. 

Author/s: 

Institution/s: 

Address: 

Telephone: Fax: 
Email: 

Title of submission: 

Please nominate Design Research Paper, Refereed Studio, Project Review
or Book Review: 

Brief description of paper paper/studio/review: (Approximately 50
words) 

Email or fax Registration of Interest to: 
Dr Gini Lee 
Executive Editor, IDEA Journal 
School of Design, Queensland University of Technology 
GPO Box 2434 Brisbane Queensland 4001 Australia 
t: +61 7 31382535 f:+61 7 31381528 
e: [log in to unmask] 

Deadline for submission: To be received no later than June 7 2010



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Associate Professor Suzie Attiwill
Program Director | Interior Design
School of Architecture + Design
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476 | Melbourne 3001 | Victoria, Australia
T +61 3 9925 3498
F +61 3 9925 1820
M +61 438 571 154
Skype suzie.attiwill

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Chair | IDEA | Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators
Association | www.idea-edu.com 
Member | Urban Interior Research Group | www.urbaninterior.net