International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, v. 5: Adaptive Interventions
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, Jan 15, 201511:59 PMEDT
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Current socio-economic trends point less to the inevitability of new construction and increasingly toward the adaptation of existing spaces and obsolete infrastructures. As our most populous urban environments become more dense, and subsequent base building opportunities increasingly rare, architects and designers are embracing the inherent value of adaptive reuse and interior interventions. Shifting territories and scales, architects and designers have begun to develop a greater awareness of approaches focused specifically on next-use opportunities which have grown increasingly more demanding and complex.
In the near future, interior architecture and spatial design will migrate toward the center of contemporary architectural practice. Operating within the realm of existing conditions, interior adaptations provide an alternative perspective for spatial interventions resulting from the overlap of dynamic processes and multiple temporalities. This contingency enhances the imperative for designers to view their craft through stewardship–fostering connectivity among the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of interior architectural practice. Like a form of urban acupuncture, small and incisive actions facilitate broader resilient strategies potentialized in established buildings and urban forms. To address this new adaptive practice, the field of Interior Architecture must advocate for spatial expertise bridging territories and scales as its primary distinction.
The fifth volume of ii journal, Adaptive Interventions, seeks historical, theoretical, speculative, and built work acknowledging existing spaces and obsolete infrastructures as the territory for contemporary architectural design. Interventions in existing spaces offer a natural home for experimentation in sustainability, social advocacy, materials research, preservation, new technologies, and artistic expression. How have design practice and education adapted to these new opportunities and responded to emerging challenges and needs?
This issue of the International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design speculates upon the hybridized agencies, methodologies, and pedagogies in design education, scholarship, research, and practice focused on innovative, adaptive interventions. ii invites trans-disciplinary research and collaborations that include, but are not limited to architecture, interiors, landscape, industrial design, fashion, media studies, social sciences, and the performing arts.
Gregory Marinic + Ziad Qureshi, editors
SCHEDULE
15 January 2015 _ paper submission deadline
15 February 2015 _ paper selections announced
15 March 2015 _ final edits due
Summer 2015 _ journal printed
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ABOUT ii
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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