Call for Papers

Interior Spaces in Other Places
An IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association)
Symposium
3-5 February 2010
Hosted and convened by the Interior Design program, School of Design,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

The focus of this symposium is to question whether interior design is
changing relative to local conditions, and the effect globalization has
on the performance of regional, particularly Southern hemisphere
identities. The intention being to understand how theory and practice is
transposed to 'distant lands', and how ideas shift from one place to
another. To this extent the symposium invites papers on the export,
translation and adoption of theories and practices of interior design to
differing climates, cultures, and landscapes.
This process sometimes referred to as a shift from 'the centre to the
margins' seeks new perspectives on the adoption of European and US
design ideas abroad, as well as their return to their place of origin.
Papers are invited from a range of perspectives including the export of
ideas/attitudes to interior spaces, history of interior spaces abroad,
and the adoption of ideas/processes to new conditions.
Paralleling this trafficking of ideas are broader observations about
interior space that emerge through specificity of place. These include
new and emerging directions and differences in our understanding of
interiority, both real and virtual, and an ever-changing relationship to
city, suburb and country. Keeping within the symposium theme the
intention is to examine other places, particularly on the margins of the
discipline's domain.
Semantic slippage aside, there are a range of approaches that engage
outside events and practices enabling a transdisciplinary practice that
draws from other philosophical and theoretical frameworks. Moreover as
the field expands and new territories are opened up, the virtual worlds
of computer gaming, animations, and interactive environments, both rely
on and produce new forms of expression. This raises questions about the
extent such spaces adopt or translate existing theory and practice, that
is the transposition from one area to another and their return to the
discipline.

Guidelines for submission of Abstracts
Submitted in Microsoft Word document (max 300 words). Please provide the
abstract on the first page and on the second page include your name,
institutional affiliation, contact details and a brief biographical
statement of 100 words or less.

Deadlines
Abstract: 30 March 2009
Submit Abstracts to ideasymposiumqut.edu.au
Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts: 1 May 2009
Submission of Full papers: 30 September 2009
Return of Referees Report: 11 November 2009
Final date for submission of revised papers: 21 December 2009
Proceedings: To be published as CD Rom, and papers uploaded to IDEA
website http://www.idea-edu.com/.

A selection of papers will be considered for further development in a
future IDEA Journal.
Exhibitions: Proposals for exhibitions are welcomed. Please provide an
abstract, as above.