6 to 10 September 2012
Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Interior: a State of Becoming
Hosted and convened by the Interior Architecture program, School of the Built Environment, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.

Close of 400 word abstracts: 1 October 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS and CREATIVE WORKS for EXHIBITION:
Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to submit design research papers, critical project works and / or creative works that engage with interior design/interior architecture theory and practice for the IDEA Symposium 2012: Interior: a State of Becoming.

For further information: Lynn Churchill, l.churchill@curtin.edu.au

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Provocation:

Interior: a State of Becoming explores, extends and challenges the world of the interior as a state of constant and dynamic ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’. The focus of the 2012 Symposium, the interior in flux, draws attention to the following questions:

Entropy followed by death and renewal is the natural cycle. How do we reconsider the interior and the occupant becoming ‘old’? Where is the value in constantly ‘becoming’ new? How do facebook, the virtual window of the computer, the mobile phone, and their precedents, the book, the magazine, the camera, the ‘big’ screen and the television drive our expectations, visions and experiences of actual, physical interiors? What is adaptive re‐use (as distinct from the practice of ‘conservation’)? What and how do we recycle? How do we re‐vision the history of interiors in the light of ‘becoming’? What are the potential roles and responsibilities for Interior Designers / Architects in addressing becoming homeless and ‘being’ disadvantaged?

Streams:
Topics will be streamed in relation to the themes: (TBC)

• Interior: in flux
• Interior: as adaptation
• Interior: as less
• Interior: as a force field
• Interior: as virtual
• Interior: as performance
• Interior: as waste
• Interior: as cinematic
• Interior: in its everydayness

Keynote speakers:

Professor Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture, Director Graduate Studies, PhD, Founding Director Program in Media and Modernity Princeton University.

Professor Charles Rice, Professor Architectural History and Theory and Head of School of Art and Design History Kingston University.

Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University.
She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and has been published in eight languages, Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects, and Domesticity at War (ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007).
Recently she curated with a team of Ph.D. students from Princeton the exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X‐197X,” which opened at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and travelled to the CCA in Montreal, Documenta 12, the Architectural Association in London, Norsk Form in Oslo, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, the Disseny Hub Barcelona, the Colegio de Arquitectos de Murcia and the NAI Maastricht/Bureau Europe in Maastricht. The catalogue of the exhibition, Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X‐197X, co‐edited with Craig Buckley, has just been published by ACTAR. Her next research project is “X‐Ray Architecture: Illness as Metaphor.”

Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He received a Bachelor of Design Studies (Honours) from the University of Queensland in 1996, a Master of Research from the London Consortium (Birkbeck, University of London) in 1998, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2003. He was a lecturer in the Architecture Programme at the University of New South Wales from 2000‐2005, and was most recently Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, where he had taught since 2005. Charles was appointed Professor of Architectural History and Theory and Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University in December 2010. He has lectured at universities and cultural institutions internationally, and has taught architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Charles’ research considers questions of the interior in the context of domestic and urban culture. His book The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity was published by Routledge in 2007. He has co‐edited special issues of The Journal of Architecture and AD. Recent essays have appeared in anthologies including Architecture and Authorship (2007), Intimate Metropolis (2009), and Space Reader (2009). He is currently working on a project investigating the emergence of interior urbanism in the atrium hotels and urban developments of architect and developer John Portman.

CALL for PAPERS:

We invite abstracts of 400 words from researchers, theorists, historians and practitioners to reflect upon the themes of Interior: a State of Becoming in all its possible contexts. We welcome research on a broad range of topics that engage notions of ‘becoming’ including historical, psychological, philosophical, spatial, virtual, political, economic and significantly, futuristic notions of ‘becoming’. We encourage early career researchers to contribute. Please include a 50 word biographical statement including name and affiliation to be entered online. Submit the complete proposal using the URL below by 1 October 2011.

PROCEEDINGS: Abstracts and papers are to be double‐blind refereed and published as CD Rom of papers and a booklet of abstracts. Abstracts and papers will be uploaded on the IDEA website.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES / DATES

Call for abstracts 400 words: 28 August 2011

Close of abstracts: 1 October 2011

Author notification refereed abstracts: 14 November 2012

Submission of Papers: 1 March 2012

Author notification refereed papers: 1 May 2012

Final submission of papers: 1 July 2012

Publication of hardcopy abstracts CD ROM of Conference Proceedings: Sept 1 2012

Event: Symposium OPENING/ REGISTRATION: 6pm Thursday 06 September 2012

PARALLEL SESSIONS: Friday 07 ‐ Sunday 09 September 2012

Adjunct Events: refereed exhibition (6‐9 September 2012), public lectures (7, 8 September 2012) and Master Class (10 September 2012)

Contact: l.churchill@curtin.edu.au

Submissions to be lodged at: http://www.ocpms.com.au/conference‐papers/SelfRegistration.php?page=modifyconfID=22

CALL for CREATIVE WORKS for EXHIBITION:

The common desire to be a designer is to create and produce speculative and/or tangible works. For designers who have shifted into education and by association research practice, the framing of research through design and with design has been a challenge. Recently research authorities have broadened their fields to validate creative work in a variety of manifestations. This ‘becoming’ of creative work as research not only addresses the separation [or frustrations] for the design practitioner/educator but also prompts critical reflection on the process and fields of creative work as research.

The state of ‘becoming’ as to happen, from the verb ‘hap’ [as spontaneous event or display] is the tenet to engender creative research output for the Exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming.

The curators of the exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming invite proposals from researchers in interior architecture and interior design education and practice to submit proposals of speculative and or tangible creative work for exhibition. The exhibition will run in conjunction with the 2012 IDEA Symposium Interior: a State of Becoming. Therefore similar to the call for written papers, responses to the same provocation and themes of the 2012 IDEA Symposium are sought for the exhibition. Proposals may include active and static, virtual and non‐virtual, 2‐dimensional and 3‐dimensional, constructed, speculative or performative piece/pieces or installations.

The following must be considered:

1. FUNDING and TRANSPORT: Exhibitors will be responsible for obtaining funding for making, exhibiting and transporting the work (to and from Perth) and strictly within the nominated timeline;

2. TIMELINE AND INSTALLATION: Proposals must outline how and when the work will take place and what additional material, if any, may be required as part of the proposed exhibit;

3. FINAL PRESENTATION OF WORKS: Where, when and how ‐ will be decided via negotiation with the exhibition curatorial team and symposium organisers who will make the final decision;

4. REGISTRATION: All exhibitors must register for the Symposium Interior: a State of Becoming.

Proposal Submission requirements: 1 document (with 3 images as per instructions outlined below)

Proposals are to include a 300 word abstract and 3 images inserted for blind review in PDF format no larger than 10 MB. Please also submit online using the URL below a 50 word biography including your name and affiliation and noting any previous exhibitions. Submit the complete proposal using the URL below by 1 October 2011.

EXHIBITION CATALOGE: proposals and also the creative works to be exhibited along with contextualising statement are to be blind refereed. Contextualising statement and images of work will be published and available at the symposium.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES / DATES

Call for creative works proposals: 28 August 2011

Deadline for submission of proposal abstracts, 3 images and 50 word bio: 1 October 2011

Notification of acceptance of proposals: 14 November 2011

Submission of contextualising 500 word statement and description of work: 1 March 2012

Notification of acceptance of exhibition work: 1 April 2012

Deadline for submission of description of work + images for catalogue: 14 May 2012

Installation of exhibition work: 5 + 6 September 2012

Event: Symposium + Exhibition: Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 Sept 2012

Demount work: 10 + 11 September 2012

Contact: Marina Lommerse
m.lommerse@curtin.edu.au
+61 437 726 459

Submissions to be lodged at: http://www.ocpms.com.au/conference‐papers/SelfRegistration.php?page=modifyconfID=22

INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPLOADING IMAGES:

• Enter the abstract text directly into the submission page. Once the ‘abstract’ has been submitted, you will be automatically logged into the system.
• So to add images you can then go directly to the ‘Upload Documents’ link to upload any images.

Exhibition Working Party:

Associate Professor Marina Lommerse, Interior Architecture, Curtin University
Jane Lawrence, Interior Architecture, University of South Australia
Stuart Foster, Spatial Design, Massey University
Sven Mehzoud, Interior Architecture, Monash University

SYMPOSIUM Convenor: Dr Lynn Churchill, Senior Lecturer, Interior Architecture, Curtin University
Contact: l.churchill@curtin.edu.au
Submissions to be lodged at: http://www.ocpms.com.au/conference‐papers/SelfRegistration.php?page=modifyconfID=22

Steering Committee:

Dr Lynn Churchill
Associate Professor Dianne Smith, Head of Program, Interior Architecture, Curtin University
Associate Professor Marina Lommerse, Interior Architecture, Curtin University

Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Hosted and convened by the Interior Architecture program, School of the Built Environment, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
24 _ 25 June 2010

Consumption and image: these two words can describe the conditions of contemporary society, whose life space is increasingly less real and more and more imagined, increasingly less steady and more transitory. Unreal and represented, the painted or illuminated surface, the sketched project or the model replace the concrete way for things to be, overcoming the traditional concept of “building”, which means creating firm and enduring materialities. In such new conditions, architecture is more and more often an exhibition set and a staged space.

We are faced with a peculiar aesthetics of space: it is the aesthetic of the temporary, of media, advertising and spectacle: generally speaking, the aesthetics of communication.
The city, with its architectures and its “exterior” [outdoor] and “interior” [indoor] spaces, cannot be measured only in its volumes, in its voids and heights, but identifies itself more and more often with messages and images, in a sort of disarticulation and pulverization of the elements that used to define it. The new space spreads in different directions, it is overlapping and coexisting; it is a plural idea of public space: space of knowledge, culture, consumerism, goods. The city appears like a chaotic whole of contrasting forces, from which every idea of harmony and composition seems to be banished.

Division and contrast, hybridisation and contamination, these are the new words upon which it seems possible to build a new urban order and a new system of logical connections. They involve the spaces of community life, where interior architecture and exhibition design contribute to spatially and figuratively defining sceneries.

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POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Faculty of Architecture and Society
Faculty of Civil Architecture
Faculty of Design

Department of Architectural Design
Department of Architecture and Planning
INDACO Department

PhD in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design
PhD in Design

Master in Exhibition Design_Architecture of Display
IDEA Associazione Italiana Exhibition Designers

SCIENTIFIC BOARD

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Uwe R. Brueckner Mario Mastropietro / Henri Rivière / Pierluigi Salvadeo / Gernot Tscherteu

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

Maurizio Boriani / Arturo Dell’ Acqua Bellavitis / Patrizia Gabellini

PROJECT AND ORGANISATION

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Pierluigi Salvadeo

Davide Fabio Colaci / Cristina Colombo / Luigi De Ambrogi Cristina Fiordimela / Giorgia Fontana / Chiara Lecce / Lucilla Zanolari Bottelli

PROGRAMME

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First session
24 June 2010_10am / 2pm
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
THE ARCHITECTONIC DRAMATURGIES OF URBAN SPACE

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Second session
24 June 2010_3pm / 7pm
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
EXHIBITION DESIGN IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

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Third session
25 June 2010_10am / 2pm
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
THE “TATTOOED” SKIN OF THE MULTIMEDIA CITY

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Fourth session
THEATRE PERFORMANCE: MATERIALS FOR THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE…
from Eschilo and Erodoto
1st performance 24 June 2010 9pm
2nd performance 25 June 2010 9pm
Spazio Patio, via Ampère, 2, Milano

METTERE IN SCENA
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METTERE IN MOSTRA

CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE
POLITECNICO DI MILANO 
24 _ 25 giugno 2010

Consumo e immagine: con questi due termini possono essere descritte le condizioni della società contemporanea, il cui spazio di vita è sempre meno reale e sempre più immaginato, sempre meno stabile e sempre più transitorio. L’irreale e il rappresentato, la superficie illuminata o dipinta, il progetto abbozzato o il modello, si sostituiscono al modo di essere sostanziale delle cose, superando il concetto classico di “edificare”, cioè di creare materialità stabili e durature. In queste nuove condizioni l’architettura è sempre più spesso luogo allestito e spazio scenografico.

Siamo posti di fronte ad una particolare estetica dello spazio: è l’estetica del provvisorio, dei media, della pubblicità e dello spettacolo: in generale della comunicazione.
La città, con le sue architetture e i suoi spazi “esterni” ed “interni”, non si misura più solo nei suoi volumi, nei suoi vuoti e nei suoi pieni, ma si identifica sempre più spesso con messaggi e immagini, in una sorta di disarticolazione e polverizzazione degli elementi che tradizionalmente la connotano. Il nuovo spazio si è espanso secondo differenti direzioni, è sovrapposto e compresente; è un’idea più plurale degli spazi della vita collettiva: dei saperi, delle culture, dei consumi, delle merci. La città appare come un insieme disordinato di forze che si contrappongono, da cui sembra bandita ogni idea di armonia e di composizione.

Divisione e contrasto, ibridazione e contaminazione, sono i nuovi termini su cui è possibile costruire un nuovo ordine urbano e un nuovo sistema di nessi logici che coinvolgono i luoghi del vissuto collettivo, nei quali le discipline dell’architettura degli interni e dell’allestimento intervengono a qualificarne spazialmente e figurativamente gli scenari.

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Facoltà di Architettura e Società
Facoltà di Architettura Civile
Facoltà del Design

Dipartimento di Progettazione dell’Architettura
Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione
Dipartimento INDACO

Dottorato di Ricerca in Architettura degli Interni e Allestimento
Dottorato di Ricerca in Design

Master in Exhibition Design_Architettura dell’Esporre
IDEA Associazione Italiana Exhibition Designers

COMITATO SCIENTIFICO

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Uwe R. Brueckner Mario Mastropietro / Henri Rivière / Pierluigi Salvadeo / Gernot Tscherteu

DIRETTORI DI DIPARTIMENTO

Maurizio Boriani / Arturo Dell’ Acqua Bellavitis / Patrizia Gabellini

PROGETTO E ORGANIZZAZIONE

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Pierluigi Salvadeo

Davide Fabio Colaci / Cristina Colombo / Luigi De Ambrogi Cristina Fiordimela / Giorgia Fontana / Chiara Lecce / Lucilla Zanolari Bottelli

PROGRAMMA

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Prima sessione
24 giugno 2010_ore 10 / 14
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
LE DRAMMATURGIE ARCHITETTONICHE DELLO SPAZIO URBANO

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Seconda sessione
24 giugno 2010_ore 15 / 19
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
L’EXHIBITION DESIGN NELL’ETA’ DELLA COMUNICAZIONE GLOBALE

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Terza sessione
25 giugno 2010_ore 10 /14
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
LA PELLE “TATUATA” DELLA CITTA’ MULTIMEDIALE

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Quarta sessione
PERFORMANCE TEATRALE: MATERIALI PER LA CADUTA DI UN IMPERO…
da Eschilo e Erodoto
1° rappresentazione 24 giugno 2010 ore 21
2° rappresentazione 25 giugno 2010 ore 21
Spazio Patio, via Ampère, 2, Milano

Interiors Forum World 2010 – 2nd International Interior Conference

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Politecnico di Milano

5-6 October 2010: Conference

27 September – 8 October 2010: Exhibition

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Call for Papers / Call for Posters

IFW2010 is looking for the ‘key words’ for Interiors. What are they? How many are there? What are they about? What stories, people, projects, architectural spaces and shapes do they conjure up? Are they declarations of intent? Or cultural manifestos? Are they words from the past that have survived into the present, or words of the present in which the future is germinating?

The Call is open to scholars, academics, lecturers, Ph.D. students and professionals.

Main Deadlines: Full Papers & Posters 15 MAY 2010

Words tell stories, specify things; words also open onto other worlds and different ways of thinking. We want to understand, discuss, and compare notes, without having to classify: for words generate ideas, not ideas words. Not only that: as they are passed around, words spread ideas, stimulate other ideas to germinate, constantly reinventing themselves because they are never definitive, but free and open to change. Words also represent things, and things can be a means of making new stories, new ideas. As words transform themselves over time in any given society, country or economy we should look for the “key words” for Interiors: let us freeze-frame certain ideas, clarify them, assert them – but always remembering they belong in an open panorama of thought.

The transformations now affecting contemporary society require a critical review of the ground rules that apply to architecture and interior design as disciplines and to the articulations between the two, as they face the challenge of today’s new, more complex forms of social organization. A prominent part of that review is due the critical research activity being developed both on contemporary architecture and on historical one, but also by “Research by Design”, where the beginnings of a radical exercise in critical investigation on Architecture, starting from Interiors, are immediately apparent.

Both teaching and research are showing signs of a change of focus: their concern is not only for the Interior in its essential manifestation (‘the room’, for instance) but they are interested also in Built Environment, Public spaces and in Dwelling, as the expressive surroundings of our collective and private lives, using a multi-disciplinary approach.

This consideration may provide material and stimulus for worthwhile reflection aimed at discovering needs, methods, aims and contents for this unique activity, discussing together about ideas, concepts and thoughts that (in our view) are contained in, and expressed by, certain key words bearing on the basic characteristics that mould and re-mould Interiors – what we refer to as ‘Interior Wor[l]ds’.

The premises laid down by IFW2010 is that in our globalised world it is possible to construct a single unified narrative – though one with different facets – or to describe/specify a complex constellation of Interiors by means of the words that characterise them.

Some possible key-words

BODY – BOUNDARY – DETAIL – GESTURE

HOSPITALIY – MATERIALITY – OBJECT – NATURE

ROOM –  SHAPE – THRESHOLD – TEMPORARINESS

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IFW2010 Committee

Info: IFW2010@polimi.it