presentation given to year 3 TD students at NUA 2020

1. space

2. Context - interior
• What is interior?
• What can an interior be?
• Was it always like this? Is it a good thing?

3. Context - interior
• You may want to consider comfort or a sense
of what an interior can offer.
• What could that be?

4. Context - interior
• Following your investigation you would need
to develop a range of designs that respond to
your research. You could also define the
context for the designs. The materials and
processes that you use and the context for the
work are entirely your choice.

5. Context - interior
• You will need to explain your decision making
process in the presentation of your outcomes.

6. Indicative Content
• Material development
• Design development
• Presentation skills
• Colour development

7. Advice
• You need to ensure that you manage your
workload therefore effective planning from
the outset is essential.

8. Advice
• Use the workshops to test ideas and
processes. You may not reach fully resolved
technical conclusions but what you do may
inform further study.

9. Advice
• Keep a technical file that documents your
materials research.

10. Advice
• You should also ensure that you document all
of your contextual research. This will help you
in responding to contemporary ideas relating
to spaces, home interiors etc.

11. http://design-milk.com/
http://www.designboom.com/
http://www.dezeen.com/
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/
http://retaildesignblog.net/tag/textile/
some possible starting points

12. What is space – to you?

13. Lara Almarcegui
Spaces reduced to their constituent
parts – is an interior more than this?

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVoYDVIu1A
Sophie Ernst -
What is the role of memory within
interiors?

15. Rachel Whiteread

16. how do we use spaces?

17. Do specific rooms – have specific
functions?

18. Is there an ideal?

19. Hopkins homes
Who creates spaces?

20. http://www.muf.co.uk/

22. How does the outside inform the inside?

23. zaha hadid daniel libeskind
Who creates spaces?

24. zaha hadid daniel libeskind
Who creates spaces?

26. Do Ho Suh

28. solving social problems?

29. http://cockyeek.com/projects/blob/

30. Michael Rakowitz

31. What is the role of decoration?

33. what’s underfoot?

34. casino carpets conspiracy
http://gizmodo.com/5628834/the-ugly-carpets-of-vegas-are-hideously-clever-social-engineering-at-work
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1251231/Las-Vegas-carpets-designed-awake-gambling.html
http://rugbadger.com/blog/news/the-4-weird-theories-about-casino-carpets/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/7243726/Psychedelic-patterned-carpets-in-Las-Vegas-casinos-designed-to-keep-
gamblers-awake.html
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-casino-carpets-so-ugly
https://www.wired.com/2010/09/ugly-vegas-carpets/

35. Rudolf Stingel

36. what's on the wall?

37. what does it mean?

38. Danh Vo

39. what's on the ceiling?

40. Ai wei wei
what do we sit on?

42. Jurgen Bey – Kokon series
new materials – old ways
rethinking – reusing
adding – subtracting

43. How do we light our spaces?

44. lighting

45. How do we store stuff?

46. when is the inside outside?

47. travellers

48. travellers

49. geographical
personal
social
political
cultural
institutional
critical/theoretical
interiors
Expanding research –
consider your relationship to these concepts
- they could be starting points

50. some research starting points
https://www.oceedesign.com/
Heimtext
https://heimtextil.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en.html
https://www.homesandgardens.com/
https://www.interiordesign.net/articles/14697-25-innovative-ideas-shaping-the-
future-of-design/
https://www.goodhomesmagazine.com/living-room/415-the-best-interior-
design-events-2019