An Interior Affair: A State of Becoming

摘要

Since its inception in 1996, the organization of Australia and New Zealand's interior design/interior architecture educators, known as IDEA, has established a reputation for sponsoring and producing high-quality academic events and publications. Thematic symposia and their associated proceedings, exhibitions, and gatherings have encouraged traditional scholars and persons engaged in creative, project-based practices to engage theories and issues that are relevant to the evolution of interior design as a discipline. The most recent symposium - entitled Interior: A State of Becoming, held in Perth, Australia in September 2012 - sustained this effort. This review will present a critical response to the works included in the symposium's exhibition as well as a consideration of the potential role of the exhibition as an increasingly important mode of exploring and presenting original design-related research.