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2023: Upkeep Presenters

Interior Provocations

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Keynote 

Sally Stone | Reader in Architecture and Adaptive Reuse | Manchester School of Architecture

Sally Stone’s work is concerned with the sustainable use and reuse of buildings and situations, and as such, she has been designing, drawing, formulating ideas, and writing about interiors and adaptive reuse for thirty years. Publications include: Inside Information: The Defining Concepts of Interior Design (2022), Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy (Routledge, 2021), UnDoing Buildings (Routledge, 2019), and ReReadings Volumes 1 + 2 (RIBA Publications, 2004, 2018). She is the Programme Leader for the MA Architecture and Adaptive Reuse programme, and the Director of the Continuity in Architecture Atelier at the Manchester School of Architecture, and a Visiting Professor at IUAV Venice.


 

Paper Presenters

Cameron Macdonell | Assistant Professor | School of Interior Design | Toronto Metropolitan University

Cameron Macdonell is a historian of art, architecture, and interior design, focusing on the construction of meaning through iconographical, phenomenological, and psychological approaches to interiority. His current book project traces the ghost as a metaphysical and metaphorical figure (of speech) haunting the autobiographical interiors of houses architects design for themselves.

Sam Bennett | Part-Time Assistant Professor | Parsons School of Design | The New School

Sam Bennett is a repair artist and ethnographer.  She co-runs Repair Shop, a research and learning studio investigating maintenance and craft. In 2022, she was a Maintainers Movement fellow, researching the aesthetic values of maintenance in the built environment. Simply put, she finds magic in the existing and the discarded.

Susan Hedges | Associate Professor | Art & Design | Auckland University of Technology

Susan Hedges is an Associate Professor in Spatial Design. Her research platform focuses on the narrative in architectural drawing and the ephemeral nature of the surface and its imaginings. Current research pursues the resurgence of surface and ornament in contemporary interior architecture and building practices. The work considers the tension between adornment, object, cladding, surface and pattern inherent in a surface/pattern condition.

Lauren Drapala | PhD Candidate | Bard Graduate Center

Lauren Drapala is currently a PhD candidate studying design history at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. Her dissertation research investigates the practice of artist-designed decorative immersive space and female patronage in the early twentieth century, through the close analysis of commissioned interiors in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Sculpture Studio in Old Westbury, NY. She has worked as an architectural conservator on restoration projects throughout the United States and holds a BA in Art History from Smith College and an M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her graduate work, Lauren has taught in the History of Art & Design department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Andrea Sosa-Fontaine | Assistant Professor | Interior Design Program | College of Architecture and Environmental Design | Kent State University

Andrea Sosa Fontaine is a maker and design educator. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Kent State University. Andrea teaches her students diverse and non-linear methods of design through interdisciplinary translations of interior space. Her research has focused on modifications to the practices of design to foster equity and respect for future memory in the built environment.

Evan Pavka | Assistant Professor | Interior Design | James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History | Wayne State University

Evan Pavka is a writer, editor and an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University. His writing has appeared in idea journal, Field, Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture, Pidgin, POOL, Inflection, DISC and Digital Fabrication in Interior Design, among many others. He studied design and architecture history & theory at Toronto Metropolitan University and McGill University.


 

Teaching Round Table

Ammar Kalo | Associate Professor of Architecture & Director of CAAD Labs | College of Architecture, Art and Design | American University of Sharjah

Ammar Kalo is a designer, researcher, and educator based in the UAE. He is an Associate Professor and the Director of Labs at the College of Architecture Art and Design, American University of Sharjah. His research and teaching focuses on robotic fabrication, furniture design, and design-build courses.

Keena Suh | Associate Professor Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute

Keena Suh is an Associate Professor in the Interior Design Department where she teaches design studios, electives, and construction courses at undergraduate and graduate levels while coordinating the department’s construction-related courses. Her pedagogical focus is in fostering transformative learning and teaching opportunities through community-based, cross-disciplinary, and collaborative learning.

Clay Odom | Associate Professor | School of Architecture | The University of Texas at Austin

Clay Odom is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas School of Architecture, a graduate of Texas Tech University College of Architecture and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, and a licensed Interior Designer. He has completed art, building and interior projects around the world. His design work has been exhibited in France, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia and The United States. He is principal of the research-oriented design practice, studioMODO based in Austin, Texas. This active design practice in combination with his current teaching and research position at The UTSoA are the platforms for design-based scholarship exploring objects (in the sense of Object Oriented Ontology to include human and nonhuman life, built and natural environments, and designed or naturally occurring things) and their relation as generators range of complex spatial, atmospheric, contextual, environmental and material effects generation in relation to objects and space.  This research seeks to synthesize spatial design processes, systems and theory with the development of computationally enabled design techniques, fabrication, and installation methods. 

 

Posters Presenters

Ammar Kalo | Associate Professor of Architecture & Director of CAAD Labs | College of Architecture, Art and Design | American University of Sharjah

Liudmila Aliabieva | Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Research in Arts & Design | Higher School of Economics Research University Moscow

Felicia Dean | Assistant Professor | School of Interior Architecture | College of Architecture & Design | University of Tennessee

Lamiae El Mourabit | Visiting Assistant Professor | Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute

William Mangold | Assistant Professor, Director, Interior Architecture & Design Graduate Program | Department of Architecture, Design & Urbanism | Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Harriet McKay | Senior Lecturer And Programme Co-Ordinator | The School Of Art, Architecture And Design | London Metropolitan University

Brendan Moran | Visiting Associate Professor | Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute

Clay Odom | Associate Professor | School of Architecture | The University of Texas at Austin

Cathrine Veikos | Professor Interior Design | Architecture Division | California College of the Arts

Keena Suh | Associate Professor Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute

Organizers

CCA Team:

Amy Campos | Chair/Associate Professor Interior Design | CCA

Amy Campos is Chair and Associate Professor in Interior Design at California College of the Arts. Her work focuses on durability and design with special interest in the impermanent, migratory potentials of the interior. The work spans a variety of scales, platforms and formats, from inhabited architectural spaces to object and furniture design to writing. Recent publications include Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge, 2018) and the chapters in Interior Futures (Crucible Press, 2019) and in Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2018).

 

Negar Kalantar | Associate Professor Interior Design | CCA

Dr. Negar Kalantar is an associate professor of interior design and Co-Director of Digital Craft Lab at CCA.  Her research delves into materials exploration, robotic and additive manufacturing technologies, and the role of design in global issues and built environments. Her work has featured in media outlets such as the Guardian, BBC, and science-focused magazines.

 

Katherine Lambert | Professor Interior Design | CCA

Katherine Lambert, AIA, IIDA, is a founding principal of MAP, Metropolitan Architectural Practice, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. MAP has realized numerous award-winning architectural projects throughout the USA based on a long-standing commitment to progressive architectural aesthetics, sustainable construction, and research in new technologies, materiality and digital methodologies.  Her projects have been widely published in architectural journals and periodicals such as Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, DWELL, ID, Metropolis, and Interior Design.  Current research and collaborations encompass both a book and film project on the legacy of mid-century LA architect Gregory Ain.  An architectural exhibition in 2016 at the Venice Architectural Biennial entitled This Future Has a Past became the inaugural Anyspace pop-up exhibition at the AIA in NYC the following year. 

 

William Littmann | Senior Adjunct Architecture | CCA

William Littmann is a Senior Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts. He received his Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in journalism from Columbia University. He served as editor of Design Book Review from 1999 to 2001. His essay on resettlement camps for incarcerated Japanese Americans will appear next year in the Society of Architectural Historians. 

 

Pratt Team:

Deborah Schneiderman | Professor Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute

Deborah Schneiderman’s scholarship and praxis (desc architecture/design/research) explore the emerging fabricated interior environment and its materiality. Schneiderman’s publications include the books Inside Prefab: The Ready-Made Interior, The Prefab Bathroom, Textile, Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space, Interiors Beyond Architecture, Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors, and Appropriated Interiors. She has exhibited work and lectured internationally.

 

Keena Suh | Associate Professor Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute

Keena Suh is an Associate Professor in the Interior Design Department where she teaches design studios, electives, and construction courses at undergraduate and graduate levels while coordinating the department’s construction-related courses. Her pedagogical focus is in fostering transformative learning and teaching opportunities through community-based, cross-disciplinary, and collaborative learning.

 

Karyn Zieve | Adjunct Assistant Professor History of Art and Design | School of Liberal Arts ans Sciences | Pratt Institute

 

Karin Tehve | Associate Professor Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute

Karin Tehve is Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she coordinates the undergraduate thesis curriculum in Interior Design. Her own research and writing concentrates on taste, media and identity, and their intersection with the public realm. Her forthcoming book, Taste, Media and Interior Design, will be published by Routledge in 2023.

 

 

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