HIG Research Roundtable
Interior Provocations: Interior Design on Edge Thursday, November 9 10:30am – 12:00pm Eastern Time Via Zoom This event is free and open to the public. Register to attend by emailing jkbuhler@purdue.edu This roundtable discussion sponsored by the Historic Interiors Group Research Committee will feature contributors to the forthcoming edited collection Interior Design on Edge (Routledge, 2024). This collection grew out of the annual Interior Provocations symposium held at Pratt Institute in 2022 and it showcases new scholarship that expands and contests traditional relationships between architecture, interiors and the people that use and design them, provoking readers to consider the interior differently, moving beyond its traditional,Read More →
Review: Educating the Interior Designer conference in Ghent, September 8, 2023
Review: Educating the Interior Designer conference in Ghent, September 8, 2023 by Benoît Vandevoort, Els De Vos , Fredie Floré, Sam Vanhee On September 8, 2023, the conference ‘Educating the interior designer’ took place in an unusually warm and sunny Ghent, Belgium. It gathered scholars interested in the history of educational practices specific to interior design, convinced of their valuable contribution in situating the professionalization of the design discipline throughout the twentieth century. Participants reflected on how educational institutes have influenced the emergence and evolution of professional interior design in their respective countries. To do so, they looked at the role played by individual andRead More →
HIG Members Share Their Research
During the first few weeks of September 2023, several international conferences will feature presentations by HIG members: the Design History Society’s Annual Conference on 7-9 September 2023, in Porto, Portugal (https://displayingdesign.esad.pt/) and Educating the Interior Designer on 8 September 2023, an international conference in Ghent, Belgium (https://www.educating-the-interior-designer.com/), and SAH Virtual component of the Society of Architectural Historian’s 76th International Conference, online during 20-22 September 2023 (https://www.sah.org/2023/program). Displaying Design: History, Criticism and Curatorial Discourses. DHS Annual Conference 2023 Educating the Interior Designer. 8 September 2023, Ghent, Belgium. SAH Virtual Conference, 20-22 SeptemberRead More →
CfP – Dressing the Interior in the Early Modern: Textiles in Various Domestic Settings
Dressing the Interior in the Early Modern: Textiles in Various Domestic Settings Dressing the Early Modern Network Conference 2023 Friday and Saturday 22-23 September 2023 Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Leiden, The Netherlands This conference aims to generate a discussion about the use of various textiles in the interiors in the early modern focusing on their function, durability, colour, texture and pattern and how they were made to fit a specific purpose and give meaning to every room. http://dressingtheearlymodern.com/Conferences.html Textiles, wall and furniture coverings played an important role in dressing interiors in the early modern period. From curtains to chairs, tablesRead More →
HIG Events at SAH Annual Meeting Montreal
April 12-15, 2023 Friday, April 14, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. : HIG Business Meeting/Announcement of Election for HIG Chair 2023-2025 Link to EVENT listing Friday, April 14, 3-5:10 p.m. : HIG-endorsed Session: Material Religion through the Sacred Interior, 3-5:10 pm Saturday, April 15: 2-6 p.m. HIG Bar Crawl Through Montreal! Pub Crawl Details: 1:40 pm, meet in the lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel Free Social Event, but buy your own drinks! Join the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) on a crawl through the historic, drinking holes of Montreal. This is a chance to socialize with fellow members. Newcomers are welcome to learn more about HIGRead More →
CfP – Delving Inside: A New Research Symposium on Interiors
The Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Group (HIG) and Chelsea College of Art (UAL) announce a collaborative program “Delving Inside: New Research Symposium on Interiors.” Graduate students, postdocs and recent graduates (2020-) from diverse disciplinary fields of study are invited to send proposals for brief 10-minute talks. Read More →
Online Conference | The Exhibition as Interior
Online Conference | The Exhibition as Interior Tue, 9 May 2023, 10:00 – 17:00 BST Hosted by The Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-conference-the-exhibition-as-interior-tickets-541124858017 Exhibitions have long been studied by scholars in the fields of art, design, and architectural history and cultural studies. They have, for example, been seen as representations of national or global identities; as communicators of a range of ideologies, from political fascism to Cold War socialism and corporate capitalism; and, most recently as tools for undertaking and sharing research. They have long been understood as having a didactic and/or a commercial function. Very often, however,Read More →