Textile Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space

摘要

The world population spends 90 per cent of its collective time indoors!' (p. 146) So claims Brain F. Davies in his essay that appears halfway through the book Textile Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space, edited by Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton, but the criticality of contemporary interior space as a field of study begins on page one. For the twenty-two contributors to this scholarly publication, the word interior takes on new meaning, which they explore from very different perspectives. What unites each of the seventeen commissioned essays is how, according to the editors, interior goes beyond 'what it is not: the outside world, the public realms, the structural and hard...' (p. 1) by exploring how new technologies and different types of professional practices ultimately affect it.