The seventh annual Interior Provocations symposium, “(un)making,” to be held at Pratt Institute on March 23, 2024, will explore making and unmaking not as opposites nor as simple binaries, but as co-present aspects of cultural production.
(Un)making may be tangible, an attention to the material as a process, whether linear, circular or otherwise.
(Un)making may be intangible, an interrogation of presence, place and time in physical and/or virtual environments.
(Un)making may surface methods and approaches for understanding and constituting interiors, both past and present.
(Un)making may propose alternative processes or logics by which interiors are formed or reformed.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Behnaz Farahi | Assistant Professor | Design | California State University, Long Beach
SCHEDULE
10:00 am | Symposium Introduction
10:30 am | Paper Session I
Finished voids: from quarries to plaster impressions Lois Weinthal | Professor, Graduate Program Director | School of Interior Design | Toronto Metropolitan University
The Secret Place: Placemaking as Liberatory Practice in Enslaved Communities Nolonda Jones | Assistant Professor | School of Interior Design | Louisiana State University
11:30 am | Break
11:45 am | Paper Session II
(un)Making the Chicago-Style Art Gallery Barbara Jaffee | Associate Professor Emerita | Art History, School of Art and Design | Northern Illinois University
You Had To Be There – Interiors Worth Knowing And Forgetting Andrea Sosa Fontaine | Assistant Professor | Interior Design Program | College of Architecture and Environmental Design | Kent State University
MOVE >> (un/re)making of place in Syrian Refugee Camps Rana Kamal Abudayyeh | Associate Professor | College of Architecture and Design | School of Interior Architecture | University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1:15 pm | Lunch Break
2:30 pm | Paper Session III
The New American Historic House; The (Un)Making Of Historic Space To Center Black Life Jessica Caldwell | Visiting Assistant Professor | Interior Design | Pratt Institute Annie Coggan | Associate Professor | Interior Design | Pratt Institute
Wearing Away: Abraded Spaces, Maintenance, and the Abject Interior William T. Willoughby | Associate Professor | Interior Design & Architecture | College of Architecture & Environmental Design | Kent State University Ronn Daniel | Associate Professor | Interior Design | College of Architecture & Environmental Design | Kent State University
(Un)making in Repair Markus Berger | Professor | Interior Architecture | Rhode Island School of Design
4:00 pm | Poster Session/Break
4:30 pm | Keynote
“Critical Making: Toward Emotive Environments” Behnaz Farahi | Assistant Professor | Design | California State University, Long Beach
5:30 pm | Reception
6:00 pm | Symposium Concludes
Symposium Organizers: Anca I. Lasc Erica Morawski Deborah Schneiderman Keena Suh Karin Tehve Karyn Zieve
