scholarly journals Sustainable practice in retail design:

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Chiara Rubessi
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Preliminary Discussion ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Sustainable Practice

This paper analyses a case study of retail design, Libreria Coop Ambasciatori, a project of interior design created in Bologna (Italy) in 2008 by Retail Design Studio (Venice). The purpose of the paper is to examine a project of retail exhibition design, its components, and the design choices as an example of sustainability and social responsibility in what is called ‘design practice’. In particular, this paper points out the relevance of the choice of the materials as conceptual practice for design; indeed, the considered case study aims to contribute to a preliminary discussion about relevant issues for the exploitation of the conceptual materiality of design, in both defining sustainable spaces and new directions in exhibition and interior design.

The Reinvention of an Unremarkable Building through Adaptive Reuse

2014 ◽  
pp. 410-423
Author(s):  
Deborah Schneiderman ◽  
Anne L. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
The Real ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Certification Standards ◽  
Sustainable Practice

This chapter addresses the integration of sustainable practice into the interior design studio through the investigation of a grant-sponsored adaptive reuse project. A fourth-year Interior Design studio project afforded the opportunity for exchanged conceptual ideas between students and a sponsoring industry client. The project provided students the opportunity to adapt and reuse a formerly unremarkable bank building, converting it into an innovative office space that meets LEED Silver certification standards. As participants in a sponsored project, the students were provided a unique opportunity to work with, and to be funded by, the client. Evaluations and completed projects indicate that students in the studio learned sustainable values and strategies through this integrated studio approach. The real-world project provided the students experiential knowledge through the implementation of innovative client-centered design and enforced the significance of adaptive reuse as a critical Interior Design practice.

scholarly journals Envisioning the atmospheric effect through (im)materiality

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Nilay Ünsal Gülmez ◽  
Dürnev Atılgan Yagan ◽  
Murat Şahin ◽  
Efsun Ekenyazıcı Güney ◽  
Hande Tulum
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
First Year ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Atmospheric Effect ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Light Color ◽  
Design Experiments

In an attempt to bridge the gap between architectural/interior design practice and education, ‘atmosphere’ as a prolific contemporary architectural debate in practice and theory is covered by the experiment of ‘Staging Poe’ carried out as a first year Design Studio through the study of Edgar Allen Poe’s selected poems. Poe’s 1846 text of ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, unfolding his analytical method of writing and emphasis on “effect” in poetry, provides a ground for experimenting with facets of materiality and structuring the studio. Aiming to cultivate intuitive design experiments of students into informed processes in hybridizing conceptual/textual and material/sensual aspects, studio is structured in two phases. In the first phase, “materialization”, idiosyncratic interpretations of students from words to materials with a focus on tectonic experiments and haptic experiences are sought in between materializing and dematerializing processes. In the second phase, the “atmospheric”, emphasis on dematerialization of the perception of materials through tools, such as light, color and sound is exercised to transform the object into a performance stage. Outcomes of the studio on aspects pertaining to material and materialities in creation of the immaterial that is the atmosphere is followed and evaluated through responses of students’ weekly reports.

Next time, with empathy: revisiting the studio pedagogy for transitional housing for refugees

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallavi Swaranjali ◽  
Tina Patel ◽  
Kurt Espersen-Peters
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Transitional Housing ◽  
Abductive Reasoning ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Studio Pedagogy

PurposeShowing empathy can be, at best, a tricky prospect; teaching empathy is downright daunting. The authors taught an interior design studio project that designed hypothetical transitional housing for refugees coming to Canada. As the project evolved, it became imperative that students needed to address tangible issues experienced by the refugee client, namely trauma, rootlessness and marginalization and authentically empathize with their client. Hence, instructors needed to accurately structure and facilitate this engagement. The purpose of this paper is to present a summary of the evolution of this studio project as a case study, the revision of the project's pedagogical goals and establishing a new set of design parameters that engage the “self” and the “other” through alternate modes of thinking and reasoning.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is centered on a reflective case study of the studio project and the student's work. The results of the reflection are contextualized within pedagogical framework that emphasize alternate forms of teaching and learning that promotes authentic empathetic engagement.FindingsThe summary of these reflections arises from organically questioning the nature of traditional design studio pedagogy. It proposes divergent approaches, such as “abductive reasoning”, posing the project as a “wicked problem” to encourages lateral explorations and connections.Originality/valueThis paper questions the value of prescriptive design process and guides student learning by providing an experimental toolkit that encourages alternative exploration, research and thinking.

Improving Student Commitment to Healthcare-Related Design Practice by Improving the Studio Learning Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Lindsay Tan ◽  
Miyoung Hong ◽  
Taneshia West Albert
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Pass Rates ◽  
Healthcare Design ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Related Design

Objective: This case study explores the influence of the healthcare design studio experience on students’ short-term professional goals as measured through rates of healthcare-related certification and internship/employment. Background: The value and relevance of interior design is evident in the healthcare design sector. However, interior design students may not perceive this value if it is not communicated through their design education. Students’ experience in the design studio plays a crucial role in determining career choices, and students may be more committed to career goals when there is clear connection between major coursework and professional practice. Method: The authors compared healthcare-related certification and internship/employment levels between two student cohorts in a capstone undergraduate interior design healthcare design studio course. The first cohort was led by the existing curriculum. The second cohort was led by the revised curriculum that specifically aimed at encouraging students to commit to healthcare-related design practice. Results: When measured at 3 months from graduation, the second cohort, led by the revised curriculum, saw a 30% increase in Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification exam pass rates and a 40% increase in healthcare-related internship/employment. Conclusion: The challenge of interior design education is to instill in emerging professionals not only professional competence but also those professional attitudes that will make them better prepared to design spaces that improve quality of life, particularly in healthcare environments. The results exceeded the project goals, and so this could be considered a promising practice for courses focused on healthcare design education.

scholarly journals Lacunae in the Forest: A Phenomenological Approach in the Interior Design Studio

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-171
Author(s):  
Veli Safak Uysal ◽  
Ipek Kay
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Lake Ecosystem ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Design Program ◽  
Work Samples

This brief case study presents the general framework, process, and results of a vertical design studio unit, titled Phenomenologies, at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Interior Design Program, supported by student work samples. Centralizing the tensions between interiority and the natural environment, the studio explores the role that nature plays in interior design. The process begins with an experiential inquiry on windows; later to be expanded and complexified by other spatial elements such as doors, stairs, ramps, and bridges. In the end, the students develop proposals for a research, learning, and recreation center that aims at problematizing and restoring our relationship to nature in the context of a lake ecosystem.

scholarly journals Fostering social responsibility for interior design practice

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Jill Franz
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Institute ◽  
Professional Organisation ◽  
Member Organisation ◽  
Interior Designers

Tertiary interior design courses incorporating the equivalent of four years education aim to provide students with the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and values needed to practice as a professional interior designers. In doing this, the various universities recognise the parameters and elements of professionalism formalised by the International Federation of Interior Designers and Interior Architects (IFI) and correspondingly endorsed by the Design institute of Australia (DIA), a member organisation of IFI and professional organisation for design professionals in Australia.   

scholarly journals Adapting to the Living Space in the First Interior Design Studio

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Pinar Sezginalp ◽  
◽  
Selin Ust ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
First Time

The case study will examine online and face-to-face learning experiences of the two different groups of students who have never been enrolled in an interior design studio, where they see their classmates and encounter an “interior architecture” project as a problem for the first time. As the “living spaces” were the main problematic of this design studio, the interaction, the time management in design development, means of representation, inputs and outputs of the studio, perception of space and scale were the main parameters that differed and varied within separate learning environments, and will be read through the feedback of the students.

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