WORLD INTERIORS DAY 2012

May 26-27, 2012
Everywhere

World Interiors Day held during the last weekend in May, is an annual worldwide event initiated by IFI to bring Interior Architecture/Design to the attention of the public, to enhance knowledge and understanding about the profession, and to encourage cooperation between professionals with a focus on the range of work of Interior Designers and their contributions to society. World Interiors Day is not a centrally organized event. Multiple events are organized and executed by individual Interior Architects/Designers all over the world, linked by an annual theme designated by IFI membership, which reflects social and sustainable values.

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Spaces and Places: British Design 1948-2012

May 11-12, 2012
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre – London

This conference explores the domestic spaces in which we live, the places in which we are educated, where we shop and how we travel from the perspective of world class British design in the post-war period.

Speakers include: David Kynaston, Owen Hatherley, Thomas Heatherwick, Alison Clarke, Cheryl Buckley, Paul Gorman and Jules Lubbock.

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In collaboration with the Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University.

This event is part of the British Design Season at the V&A.

LAS CASAS DE LA VIDA
Relatos habitados de la modernidad

de Daniel Cid y Teresa-M. Sala

Una obra exquisita para amantes de la literatura y el arte.

Esta selección de escritos realizados por el habitante y/o el visitante nos guía por las casas de diversos creadores: Soane, Goethe, Dickinson, Victor Català, Curie, Rilke, Dalí, Neruda, Pessoa, Le Corbusier… Una detallada visita que nos permite adentrarnos en el universo imaginario del creador, en donde la vivencia de la casa, la experiencia íntima y los rituales domésticos son revividos por nosotros en la soledad de la lectura y en el seno del espacio infinito de la literatura.

Un libro extraño a la vez que fascinante, entre catálogo descriptivo y pasaje de memorias proustiano, donde se mezclan el desorden de las cosas, la vida y la vivienda.
Una obra abierta al memorial y a la hospitalidad de nuevas existencias –las nuestrasque algún día también serán memoria y olvido.

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Probing the Interior 1800-2012

May 25, 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College – London

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Bodily, psychic and spatial interiors can be mapped, traversed and violated in multiple ways. This one-day conference will interrogate and re-evaluate the contested terrain of the interior in its varied forms. It will examine the interlacing and overlapping of different types of interiors, and seek to re-position the ‘interior’ in critical terms. Moreover, it will attempt to develop new ways of thinking about the relationship between the decorative arts, furniture, bio-technologies, anatomy and space. The conference will take place in The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and conclude with a keynote address in the Anatomy Theatre at King’s College London.

The conference will be built around three themes: Threshold, Incision and Autopsy. We encourage prospective speakers to outline how their papers engage with one or more of these themes.

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immaterial materialities: materiality and interactivity in art and architecture

28–30 November 2012
The University of Technology Sydney, Schools of Architecture and Design

Submission of a 500-words abstract June 25, 2012

keynote speakers:

• Professor Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett – University College London
• Professor Philip Ursprung, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Materiality has recently claimed centre stage in architectural discourse and practice, yet its critical meaning is ever receding. Tropes like material honesty, digital materiality, material responsiveness and dematerialisation mark out an interdisciplinary field where scientific fact and artistic experimentation interact, and where what in fact constitutes materiality and immateriality is constantly re-imagined.

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IDEA JOURNAL 2013
Call for Expressions of Interest: Guest Editor

Expressions of interest are to be received by 31 March 2012.

Launched in 1999, the IDEA JOURNAL is an international refereed journal dedicated to the publication of interior design/interior architecture research and as such provides a valuable resource to the discipline and associated design and theoretical fields.

The IDEA JOURNAL is central to IDEA*s objective to foster, publish and disseminate peer reviewed interior design/interior architecture research. The journal recognises and promotes interior design/interior architecture as a research activity relevant to its field where the definition of research includes research about design, research for design as well as research through design. To this end, the IDEA JOURNAL invites a range of contributions related to interior design/interior architecture research.

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International Design Alliance Congress

The next IDA Congress will take place from 17-19 November 2013 in Istanbul (Turkey).

The biennial IDA Congress is the primary event for dialogue between designers and stakeholders of design in a summit format. The aim of the IDA Congress is to- bring together the unified voice of designers around the world in a themed framework to advance the vision and mission of the IDA, by exploring and realising the benefits of design in a variety of fields with a stake in design, such as government (commerce, trade, culture etc.), INGOs, business, science and technology, education or social sciences (ethnography, sociology etc.)

The IDA’s primary objectives for the Congress are:

• To promote the value of design-based collaboration between the IDA disciplines, to highlight their similarities as well as their unique attributes;
• To emphasise the value of design-based collaborations with other fields that have a stake in design;
• To provide an engaging and educational experience for the memberships of the IDA and the global congress audience;
• To promote interaction among the memberships of the IDA and stakeholders of the congress;
• To position the IDA as the global voice of design and an enabler of innovation;
• To platform the host city, country and region for their commitment and contribution to design globally;
• To attract and influence government action to the importance of design.

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Between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’: Furnishing the Elite Interior 1740-1940
European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)

11-14 April 2012
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Deadline February 28, 2012

This session examines European and North American market practice in order to address class difference and identification in the lust for the ‘new’ of the eighteenth century elites and the desire for the ‘old’ amongst the aspirant middle classes thereafter.

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Dottorato in Architettura degli Interni

Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma

Il Dottorato in architettura degli interni, che si inserisce all’interno di un circoscritto numero di dottorati dello stesso settore disciplinare presenti presso la Sapienza – Università di Roma, ha l’obiettivo di formare studiosi in grado di sviluppare capacità d’indagine scientifica e creativa sull’intera estensione disciplinare che permette di giungere alla progettazione esecutiva relativa a situazioni spaziali interne ed esterne (provvisti di determinati elementi d’arredo), allestimenti di ambienti definiti da specifici programmi; e questo, legando gli aspetti progettuali/realizzativi all’evoluzione tecnologica e alle trasformazioni culturali/sociali.

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Assistant Professor – School of Interior Design
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The review of applications will begin March 15, 2012 and continue until the position is filled.

The School of Interior Design in the Faculty of Communication & Design at Ryerson University (RSID) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position, at the Assistant Professor level, beginning August 2012, subject to final budgetary approval. Accredited since 1982, RSID has graduated many of the leading designers practicing today. One of the largest Interior Design programs in North America, the School is located in the vibrant centre of the city, near many of the preeminent design firms, retail outlets, commercial enterprises, and hospitality projects. Part of the annual Interior Design Show and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, the School contributes significantly to Toronto’s reputation as a major design centre in North America. The school has been ranked as one of the top three Interior Design Schools in the world by Azure Magazine.

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