Interior Lives

Interior Lives

Date: 13 May 2010 - 14 May 2010

The Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference, Kingston University, London

This conference will consider the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer architectural and design historians; the methodological issues that arise from the use of ethno/auto/biographical sources to explore the history of the interior as a site in which everyday life is experienced and performed; and the ways in which contemporary architects and interior designers draw on personal and collective histories in their practice. 

Online booking and further details can be found at: 

http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fada/research/mir/mir.php

Papers will include:

Emma Ferry, ‘Writing Home: the colonial memories of Lady Barker, 1870-1904’
Barbara Penner and Charles Rice, ‘The many lives of The Red House’
Richard Hayes, ‘At home, 16 Tite Street’
David Parker, ‘Dickens's Drawing Room: a case study’
Inga Fraser, ‘Body, Room, Photograph: negotiating identity in the self-portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell’
Harriet Riches, ‘Negotiating Interiority: narratives of displacement and belonging in the autoportraits of Lydia Maria Julien’
Gene Bawden, ‘Illusion and Delusion: validating the artificial interior’
Colin Holden, ‘Expanding House’ Stirling and Gowan (1957) and ‘Put-Away House’ The Smithsons (1993-2000)’

Inga Bryden, ‘While the hands are busy the mind is free to roam: designs on the kitchen’
Celina Lemos and Giovana De Miranda Monteiro, ‘Home Lifestyle in Belo Horizonte, Mg, Brazil: comparing past and present social-spatial practices and interiors’
Shax Riegler, ‘Mario Praz: writing the artifactual autobiography’
Ed Hollis, ‘The House of Life and the Memory Palace’
Tom Tredway, ‘Inside Out: Elsa Schiaparelli, interiors, and autobiography’
Cristina Fiordimela, ‘Resonance of domestic interiors, fragments of a story, from memory to becoming’
Cristobal Amunategui, ‘Jean Genet, or the interiors of the outlaw in the 1930s Europe’
Elias Constantopoulos, ‘Interior living as a spatial equivalent of Balzac’s ‘Unknown Masterpiece’’
Stephanie Dadour and Jennifer Dadour, ‘Appropriations of domestic spaces, Beirut 2009’
Aline Coelho Sanches Corato. ‘Art, Architecture and Life: the interior of Casa de Vidro, designed by Lina Bo Bardi’
Robert Gassner, ‘Dwelling as Assembling Temporal Continuities: the Heiberg House in Vanløse’
Aino Niskanen, ‘Views into the homes of Finnish architects’ 

Contact details:

The Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University:  mirc@kingston.ac.uk