IDEA - Interior Design / Interior Architecture Educators Association

• Foyer
• Events
• Conferences
• Awards
• Journal
• History
• Links
• Contact

Journal

• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003

• 2004 IDEA Journal
• Towards an Interior History
• Side-by-side: A Pedagogical Basis for (Design) Transdisciplinarity
• Cooperative Learning in an Interior Architecture Studio
• Architecture of Alienation: The Double Bind and Public Space
• The SICO Color Naming Project: Forging Ties Between Educators and Industry
• Visual and Textual Interfaces in Design Research: Considering the Value of Concept Maps as an Interior Design Research Tool
• Re-discovering the Creative Collage in the Architectural Representation
• inside-out: speculating on the interior
• COLOUR and SPACE: An Investigation of Three-Dimensionality

inside-out: speculating on the interior

Cathy Smith

• Download Here

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Abstract: In this paper, I have speculated on the interior as a site and an idea of betweeness. Feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray (Irigaray 1999) has associated the concept of interior with dualist and gendered philosophies. Nevertheless, the interior as a site has offered many opportunities for artists and occupants to challenge how we inhabit and change architecture. In this paper, I will focus on a design project that involves experimental making and living as part of a subversive approach to architecture: suggesting that we might re-conceptualise ‘interior’ as the space of betweeness rather than the space of the contained. This paper, part of my ongoing doctoral research, has extended ideas about the interior that I explored in the 2003 IDEA journal and has reflected my personal experience of collaborative, experimental design practices. The purpose of my research is to explore the betweeness of spatial practice.