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• 2010 IDEA Journal
• Interior Ecologies: exposing the evolutionary interior
• Provocation Ten Modest Suggestions for a New Athens Charter
• Spatial culture, learning and design: shifting ecologies of practice
• Silent Witness: Rachel Whiteread’s Nameless Library
• Provocation Ideogram Spatial Intelligence
• Tessellated Floorscape (2010-): interior acts of production, siting and participation
• Domestic Ecologies: a study of gender and domesticity within Harold Pinter’s Rooms
• Provocation Mapping Interior Adjacencies
• Interior Luxury at the Café Australia
• Sustainable practice in retail design: new functions between matter and space
• Provocation in Suzie Attiwill
• The Social Production of Interiority: an Activity Theory approach
• What can we learn from the Bubble Man and his Atmospheric Ecologies?
• Provocation Remote Senses, Intimate Ecologies: Anemocinegraph (2007-2011)
• Enhancement of Critical and Analytical Thinking in the Context of Interior Design History
• ‘Homes for Life’: A critical ecological study of an Independent Living Project
• Book Review: Interior Design: a critical introduction by Clive Edwards
• Publication Review: Inventario: Tutto è progetto ⁄ Everything is a project by Beppi Finessi/Corraini

Interior Ecologies: exposing the evolutionary interior

Gini Lee: Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Editorial: The IDEA JOURNAL 2010 Interior Ecologies provocation arises from an interest in exposing how a critical ecological approach to interiors can enable expanded locale for research and experiment in private and public realms. Commonly held concepts regarding the vulnerability of the ongoing sustainability and stability of designed habitats in the face of global political, societal and economic change frequently promote technological regimes and societal education as factors aiding recovery over developing more conservative and lateral responses influenced by novel design strategies. Projects such as Paul Virilio's and Diller, Scofidio + Renfro's Native Land Stop Eject, at Fondation Cartier, Paris in 2008, graphically bring into focus the predicted global mobility of communities and cultures due to climatic and other environmental dynamics, and such issues are increasingly being explored by emerging urban design and architectural research and practice. The provocation Interior Ecologies: exposing the evolutionary interior seeks to elicit parallel interior-focused research and discourse influenced by speculations into environmental and social change to uncover emerging explorations into contemporary interior spatial, material and performative practices.