Call for Work: Material Vocabularies
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International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design
volume 4: 'Material Vocabularies'
Gregory Marinic + Ziad Qureshi _ editors
Contemporary architects and designers manipulate materials into increasingly complex spatial conditions–engaging their inherent behaviors, performative capacities, cultural identities, and modular constraints as generative opportunities. Central to this emerging dialogue, a tendency to resist formal biases acknowledges the agency of materials in the conceptual design process. Smooth, rough, porous, or impermeable, materials expand the parameters of what we understand as surface in the production of interior architecture, spatial installations, furniture, fashion, and media.
Agency is a notion that cuts across a wide range of territory in the humanities, social sciences, technology, art, and design, however it is invariably considered discretely within disciplines. In particular regard to interiority, agency has been characterized as an inherently humanistic response which incorporates social and contextual responses into theoretical discourse. In recent years, a rising awareness of ecological and material agencies has carved out an interstitial space between the formal and human expectations of spatial design. Expanding our conventional assumptions in regard to materiality, a relational approach focused on sensoriality and performativity, imparts transfomative ramifications for interior architecture, spatial design, and our broader material culture.
Reflecting upon the convergence of social, ecological, and material forces, the fourth issue of ii, Material Vocabularies, seeks provocative work that speculates upon the future of materiality in spatial design. For this issue, we seek a broad range of investigations, leveraging the expanded potential for materials in the conceptualization and production of interiors, spatial design, and light-mobile-architectures.
Material Vocabularies seeks historical, theoretical, speculative, and built work promoting an awareness of materials as primary shapers and makers of space. This issue endeavors to reveal hybridized agencies, methodologies, and pedagogies in design education, scholarship, research, and practice revealing a global paradigm shift in the role of materials in the design process. ii invites trans-disciplinary research and collaborations that include, but are not limited to, architecture, interiors, industrial design, fashion, furniture, film, performance, sociology, cultural studies, and the arts.
schedule
1 October 2014 _ paper submission deadline
1 November 2014 _ paper selections announced
1 December 2014 _ final edits due
Winter 2015 _ journal printed
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ii is the International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design.
In a global, complex, and networked society, interior architecture and its praxis are experiencing unprecedented change. Theoretical investigations, design-research, and alternative explorations blend previously discrete disciplines within an emerging blurred territory. The International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design investigates this new territory by requesting scholarship, design research, and projects that ask bold questions and propose innovative responses. Founded and stewarded by the Interior Architecture program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, and published by the University of Houston Atrium Press, ii seeks to re-frame the debate and shape the contemporary dialogue of interior architecture and spatial design.
ii is an annual, double blind peer‐reviewed scholarly journal that serves as a leading source of stewardship and critical thinking within advanced spatially-based research, design, teaching, emerging technologies, and digital fabrication.
ii publishes peer-reviewed essays, visual compositions, and observations that merge research-based rigor with an avant-garde journalistic edge. We define these focus areas broadly, while engaging disciplines including ecology, technology, media, sociology, anthropology, geography, and the arts.
ii solicits the work of educators, practitioners, and doctoral candidates in all disciplines that investigate interior built environments, spatial design, installation art, and light-mobile-architectures. We seek provocative and original writing that critically examines contemporary practices within, but not limted to, interior architecture, furniture design, designed objects, and digital fabrication, as well as diverse narratives that explore the history, theory, and development of spatially-relevant disciplines.
ii seeks to balance blue sky optimism with the complexities of daily life, revealing the impact of people, place, production, and advanced technology on interior architecture and spatial design. We seek smooth and provocative writing that is equally accessible to both a sophisticated public audience and our professional and academic peers.
ii combines the scholarly depth of a book with the flexibility, frequency, and visual quality of a journal. Each issue investigates a focused aspect of interior architectural theory, history, design, and production.
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