Interior: a State of Becoming

2012 IDEA symposium and exhibition.

Perth, Western Australia.

Hosted and convened by the Interior Architecture program, School of the Built Environment, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES / DATES
Call for abstracts 400 words: 28 August 2011
Close of abstracts: 1 October 2011

IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association):
http://www.idea-edu.com

CALL FOR PAPERS and CREATIVE WORKS for EXHIBITION:
Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to submit design research papers, critical project works and / or creative works that engage with interior design/interior architecture theory and practice for the 2012 IDEA Symposium & Exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming.

PROVOCATION
Interior: a State of Becoming explores, extends and challenges the world of the interior as a state of constant and dynamic 'becoming' rather than 'being'.

The focus of the 2012 Symposium, the interior in flux, draws attention to the following questions:
Entropy followed by death and renewal is the natural cycle. How do we reconsider the interior and the occupant becoming 'old'? Where is the value in constantly 'becoming' new? How do facebook, the virtual window of the computer, the mobile phone, and their precedents, the book, the magazine, the camera, the 'big' screen and the television drive our expectations, visions and experiences of actual, physical interiors?
What is adaptive re-use (as distinct from the practice of 'conservation')? What and how do we recycle? How do we re-vision the history of interiors in the light of 'becoming'? What are the potential roles and responsibilities for Interior Designers / Architects in addressing becoming homeless and 'being' disadvantaged?