Here below you find the registration form:

IFW2010 registration form

You can pay the registration fee through bank transfer: remember to send us – via email – the filled form and a copy of the money transfer.

Rates include: access to all open plenary and technical sessions (including keynotes presentation), 1 copy of Proceedings (one book with the papers and one with the posters), Coffee breaks, 2 Lunches and 1 Cocktail party.

The proceedings will be published by an italian editor of international level; you’ll receive a copy of the two books at the opening of the Conference; the books will be also available on line with the possibility to buy either the pdf format either the printed version (printed on demand).

Conference venues

Following some suggestions for the accomodation:

IBIS Hotel Albergo Ibis – Milan Center
www.ibishotel.com

Hotel Palazzo Delle Stelline
www.hotelpalazzostelline.it

BB Navigli
www.bbhotels.it

Villa Xenia
www.villaxenia.it

Galileo Galilei (Polimi Students’ house)

Corso Via Corridoni, 22

20122 MILANO – ITALY

patrizia.motta@polimi.it > ph +39 02.541681

Prof. Mariella Brenna – IFW2010

DPA-Politecnico di Milano

POBox Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32

IT-20133 Milano ITALIA

-   deadline: 15th of May > due the large number of complaining received for a misunderstanding of the new delivering date, the deadline has been extended to the 24th of May.
-    lenght: 1750 words
-    delivering address: IFW2010paper@interiorsforumworld.net

Paper style guidelines

All papers submitted must conform to the style guidelines below, and must be written in English.

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Permission to publish [for each image delivered]

Title: The scenography of the interior.

The reference is prof. Kris Pint.

The completed application forms must reach the above mentioned address no later than September 15th 2010.

PhD Reaserch_info

NEXT DEADLINES:

- 11 june 2010: Last submission date for Posters (as. PDF file)

- 15 june 2010: Feedback on Posters sent

- 15 july 2010: Final Posters submission date (as.TIFF file)

- 10 september 2010: Last Poster delivering date (in original)

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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.

Deadline for registration of interest: 7 June 2010. Final date for submission of full papers, 3 September 2010.

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.

IDEAJOURNALcallforpapers2010

Keynote speaker (to be confirmed): Prof David Leatherbarrow
(University of Pennsylvania School of Design)

“In architecture, as in ecology, equilibrium between inside and outside
is rather like paradise, something too good to be true, therefore not
good enough.”

David Leatherbarrow

Call for Papers
Is architecture a cult of the externalised object? It would seem so: of
46 images of prize winning entries on the 2009 World Architecture
Festival website, for example, only four show interiors.[ii] This
object-cult and neglect of the interior is a symptom of architecture’s
domination by a polarised nineteenth-century conception of containment.
So efficiently are interior and exterior sealed off from each other that
they are frequently treated as discrete professional domains.

However, inside and outside are always ready to be reversed – their
boundaries full of tension and at points occupied by beings who awaken
“two-way dreams” (Bachelard). In Benjamin’s Arcades Project, 19th
century petit bourgeois encased themselves in their interior as in a
“spider’s web, in whose toils world events hang loosely suspended like
so many insect bodies sucked dry”. In his dissection of their culture,
where the private sphere of the dwelling and public spheres of work and
politics are opposites, the interior appears as a counterpart to the
global consciousness of empire. European traders and travellers
retreated after their worldly adventures into their wallpapered
interiors, to “save their souls” (Sloterdijk). However, the sealed world
of the 1851 Crystal Palace turned the exterior world into a magic form
of immanence – by asserting the values of imperialist capitalism in a
spectacular domestication of the globe. Conversely, the Parisian arcades
appear as the workers’ living rooms.

To many, today’s spaces seem more involuted, fragile and unsettled than
those of the past. Phenomenological theories of architecture, like those
of Pallaasma, Pérez-Gómez, and Leatherbarrow, represent an intense focus
on the proximate qualities of architecture, and a possible avenue for a
new emphasis on the interior. Other approaches highlight different modes
of every-day proximity, such as digital, intimate involvements.
Sloterdijk posits the ability to say “we” as the fundamental condition
of space, which creates interior spaces as spheres for dwelling. Like
immersive plants, these elaborate human existence and embed human
relationships – even if this interiority is, from the beginning, touched
by an exteriority against which it must assert itself. Opposite forces
create the climatised hothouses of luxury consumption, relaxation and
privileged cosmopolitanism familiar to us today, in which nature and
culture are indoor affairs and history is left outside. Those with
purchasing power stage their daydreams on the inside as, on the outside,
more or less forgotten majorities try to survive amongst traditions,
adaptations, revolutions and improvisations.

How can interiority be conjugated in new ways? If interiority is a way
of thinking of ourselves as being-in-the-world, to the exclusion of
whatever we fail to integrate, how do we draw the lines and name the
territories today? What constitutes interiority? What does it have to
say about the institutionalised containment of refugee centres or gated
communities; the improvised urbanism of Freetown’s shanties or Brazilian
favela; or, indeed, the openness of the Pacific? How are transpositions
of space from sacred to common, public to private, mind to body affected
by interiority? What is it like to negotiate the pae [iii] from inside?
Where are the spaces of Self and Other? How do global and regional flows
circulate in interiors, and how do we register difference? How are
interior immensity and claustrophobia related, and is there a special
relationship between interiority and possession? When is a set of walls
an interior, when is an object a container, and when is a container a
world?

Interstices invites you to unsettle the dichotomy of interior and
exterior; to redefine and reorient the concept of the interior for the
present, and project it towards the future. We welcome postgraduate
students, academics and practitioners to present their investigations in
20 minute papers. Please send a 500 word abstract of your presentation
to Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul (tina.engels@aut.ac.nz) by 5 July 2010.
Abstracts will be double-blind refereed and, if accepted, published on
the Interstices website (www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz
<http://www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz/> ).

The symposium will be held on 8-10 October 2010 at the School of
Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, 22 Symonds St,
Auckland. Students, academics and practitioners will present their
investigations in 20 minute sessions. Abstracts will be double-blind
refereed and those accepted made available on the Interstices website
(www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz
<http://www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz/> ). There will be a workshop
session for emerging researchers, independent of the refereeing process,
which will focus on developing research capability. In November, the
symposium will be followed by a Call for Papers, with the same theme,
for issue 12 of Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts in
2011.[iv]

Whether you are a Historic Properties Director, Historic Site  Director, Museum Director, Custodian, Heritage Researcher, Property  Manager, Programs Coordinator, Chief Executive Officer, Art  Director, Curator, Resident Director, Chairperson, Board Member,  Relative of the architect or original client, current home owner or  representative of a significant house… consider to sign up for this conference!

Further to my initatiative to map those professionales who are  responsible for 20th Century Architects’ and Designers’ Houses in  order to set up a network to explore topical and upcoming issues  with, Hetty Berens (boardmember at ICOM – DEMHIST, dedicated to  Historical House Museums) enthused the conference committee to  boost this initiative at their upcoming annual gathering in BRNO.  You might not be an ICOM – DEMHIST member yet, but you are very  important to share knowledge with.

Joining the ICOM-DEMHIST Conference is your opportunity to get in  on the up-to-the-minute dialogue on professionalizing House Museums  and add your own voice. It is an unique international platform  where fellow directors, curators and house museum employees can  meet and exchange experiences and new ideas, learn from talks and  off record moments. It is for glorious old and new, traditional and  cutting-edge houses that still have to conquer their place in the  world as cultural heritage. Above that, the conference is an  outstanding opportunity to get to see significant grand houses, and  to hear their stories behind the scenes. In Brno Mies van der  Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat (currently closed to public because of  thorough restoration work) is ofcourse part of the programme.  Attached are the programme and info on the post conference excursion.

In my presentation New Lives for Avantgarde Architect’s Houses 21  April, I will report of my recent investigations of 20th century  Architect’s Houses looking for a new purpose:
• Which houses are new on the scene?
• Why is it important to preserve them?
• How does the Van Schijndel House fit in.

We are offered to organize a pre-conference Round Table Discussion  on the evening of 20 April, dealing with: Strategies for  Architects’ houses in times of Economic Crisis.
How to survive when sponsors withdraw and authorities cut budgets.

Other topics on the agenda are:
• Ownership: the pros and cons of different kinds of ownership,  municipal; state; academic; museum; private; foundation
• Scenario’s for use: the pros and cons of artists in residence;  private use in combination with guided tours or academic programme;  house museum
• Museological consequenses of being open for the public:  housekeeping strategies for buildings that are used so differently  from their original purpose
• Communication: how to introduce iPhone apps, virtual reality and  augmented reality (http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/sara) succesfully  in order to convey the message of the house

The deadline for applications has been prolongated to 15 April.
Bring your own questions and issues to the conversation and raise  points that you find meaningful in this important discussion.

We are looking forward to your response!

Kind regards, on behalf of the conference organizers,
The Moravian Gallery in Brno, ICOM-ICDAD and ICOM-DEMHIST.

Natascha Drabbe
Founding President Mart van Schijndel Foundation
Van Schijndel House

Hetty Berens
Senior Conservator NAi/Sonneveld House
Netherlands Architecture Institute

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Conference programme

At submitting deadline for Abstracts of ‘Interior wor[l]ds’ Call for Papers (15 FEB 2010), we received 142 entries, from 33 Countries, for a total of 132 different words.

Thanks to all Partecipants!

As promoters, we are really glad of the large number of submissions but, as scholars, we are even more impressed by the quantity and quality of proposed key-words, all of a great interest. It is a picture of the slowly transformation and widening of Interiors discipline, from traditional subjects to  others coming out from an even more demanding contemporary world.

Reviewers started working to select Authors to invite for Paper submission (for someone – the words in gray – with a request to adjust the title according to Conference Guidelines).

Multidisciplinary approach to the conservation of historic interiors is the subject of the ICOM-CC Joint Interim Meeting to be held in Rome on March 23-26, 2010, at the Complesso Monumentale di San Michele, seat of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. The Stenditoio Hall will host five ICOM-CC Working Groups gathered to discuss historic, environmental, and technical aspects on the conservation-restoration of objects that differ in techniques and materials, but as a whole they make up a unique context to be preserved.

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