extra’s ordinary interiors

Tipene, L; Preston, J

extra’s ordinary interiors

Tipene, L

Preston, J

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Citation:: IDEA Journal, 2021, 18, (1), pp. 7-12
Issue Date:: 2021

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dc.contributor.author	Tipene, L https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0928-3839
dc.contributor.author	Preston, J
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-22T01:50:22Z
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dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	IDEA Journal, 2021, 18, (1), pp. 7-12
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dc.description.abstract	The histories of interior design, interior architecture and spatial design practice are richly punctuated by beautiful, monumental, radical experiments and spectacular examples. These form what many might call a canon of good practice; exemplars if you will. Interiors also have a unique relationship with the ordinary — they are affective without being noticed. These interiors are typically taken for granted, enmeshed in the everyday, forming under the influence of unseen spatial and material dynamics, unheroic, unpretentious, and often not found in design discourse. This idea journal issue, (Extra) Ordinary Interiors: Practising Critical Reflection, explores this ordinariness to reveal that these spaces bear out something more, something special, something extraordinary in their own modest, subtle, familiar, habitual, and understated qualities of inhabitation. For, in these quiet merits, the extra-ordinary capacity for our complex interrelationships with interior spaces resides. When conceiving the agendas for this issue, we discussed memories of first reading Robin Evans’s essay on the emergence of the corridor in 17th century English manor homes.01 So familiar was this compositional element to interior space that we wondered why anyone would write about something so ordinary? Of course, we’d overlooked the consideration that the corridor emerged from social reasoning and beliefs, and was designed to influence behaviour. The criticality of Evans’s examination revealed a problem-space for the study of interiors, full of endless questions on the extraordinarily capacity of the unfixed and informal interrelations between interior material practices and our perceptions. It is in this spirit of finding the extra-ordinary through critical reflection on the ordinary that the twelve research articles and visual essays of this issue are presented. Each contributes complex ideas and subtle reflections on moments of interstitiality between our inhabiting bodies, interior materialities, virtual/social/urban spheres, dead artists and artworks, and memories of friends long-gone.
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dc.subject	1201 Architecture, 1203 Design Practice and Management
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The histories of interior design, interior architecture and spatial design practice are richly punctuated by beautiful, monumental, radical experiments and spectacular examples. These form what many might call a canon of good practice; exemplars if you will. Interiors also have a unique relationship with the ordinary — they are affective without being noticed. These interiors are typically taken for granted, enmeshed in the everyday, forming under the influence of unseen spatial and material dynamics, unheroic, unpretentious, and often not found in design discourse. This idea journal issue, (Extra) Ordinary Interiors: Practising Critical Reflection, explores this ordinariness to reveal that these spaces bear out something more, something special, something extraordinary in their own modest, subtle, familiar, habitual, and understated qualities of inhabitation. For, in these quiet merits, the extra-ordinary capacity for our complex interrelationships with interior spaces resides. When conceiving the agendas for this issue, we discussed memories of first reading Robin Evans’s essay on the emergence of the corridor in 17th century English manor homes.01 So familiar was this compositional element to interior space that we wondered why anyone would write about something so ordinary? Of course, we’d overlooked the consideration that the corridor emerged from social reasoning and beliefs, and was designed to influence behaviour. The criticality of Evans’s examination revealed a problem-space for the study of interiors, full of endless questions on the extraordinarily capacity of the unfixed and informal interrelations between interior material practices and our perceptions. It is in this spirit of finding the extra-ordinary through critical reflection on the ordinary that the twelve research articles and visual essays of this issue are presented. Each contributes complex ideas and subtle reflections on moments of interstitiality between our inhabiting bodies, interior materialities, virtual/social/urban spheres, dead artists and artworks, and memories of friends long-gone.

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