Portsmouth School of Architecture (ARCH)
Interior Design
Interior research at the University of Portsmouth is currently developing through staff interests and strengths. We have a multi-disciplinary team with backgrounds in interior design, product design, urban design, architecture, curatorial practice and fine art.
Projects include the ‘Sensory Experience of Space’, the ‘Interior Room: Urban Room’, ‘Sustainable Interiors’, and an exploration of the relationship between film and architecture. Staff are engaged in a number of current publications, such as: ‘The Retail Design’, ‘The Interior and the Material’ and ‘Drawing Urban Design’.
Research interests feed into the curriculum at all levels and offers students a number of ways to connect and engage with research practice, particularly at MA level. At Portsmouth we have a strong history of engaging with real clients and live projects that enables us to examine the relationship between theory and practice within interior space.
Interior design offers an exciting site for inter-disciplinary exchange creating new opportunities and perhaps hybrid disciplines.
Research streams
- Interior Space: Theory and Practice
- Interior Representation
- Spaces of Consumption
- Spaces of Experience
- Sustainable Interiors
Research outputs
Conference Papers
Mesher, L. (2009) The Market Space and Place (Paper no. 114) University of Brighton, UK: Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space Conference.
Mitchell, B. (2009, July). Sensory Space: Temporary Occupation. Unpublished paper, presented at Negotiations with Constructed Space Conference, Brighton University.
Farrelly, L., & Mitchell, B. (2008, August). The Interior Room, The Urban Room, retrieved November 28, 2009 from, www.interiorsforumscotland.com.
Baker, K., & Mitchell, B. (2008, May). The Sensory Experience of Space. Unpublished paper, Memory and Touch: An exploration of textural communication Conference, RIBA.
Exhibitions
Baker, K., Imre, S., & Mitchell, B. (2009,October).Scoring a Building, a performative drawing between an architect, dancer and visual artist, 10 days at the Laundry, Winchester.
Aldridge, K., Baker, K., Bould, T., & Mitchell, B. (2007, June).dys-lineation, a collaborative project with SignDance Collective and Jon Adams exploring issues of accessibility and the sensory experience of space in the design process, Portsmouth University.
Bould, T., Harper, C., & Mitchell, B. (2006, June). Drawing Spaces: Picturing Knowledge, exhibition at the Hartley Library, University of Southampton.
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