The Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference, Kingston University, London Thursday 13 and Friday 14 May 2010

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Please find details of the conference programme below.  Further conference details and abstracts can be found on the Modern Interiors Research Centre website (see link above).

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.  

DAY ONE

0845     Registration and Refreshments

0930     Emma Ferry. Writing Home: the colonial memories of Lady Barker,
1870-1904
0950     Barbara Penner and Charles Rice. The many lives of The Red House
1010     Richard Hayes. At home, 16 Tite Street
1030     David Parker. Dickenss Drawing Room: a case study
1050     Questions and discussion

1110     Tea/Coffee

1150     Keynote Address

1245     Lunch

1410     Inga Fraser. Body, Room, Photograph: negotiating identity in the self-
portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell
1430     Harriet Riches. Negotiating Interiority: narratives of displacement and
belonging in the autoportraits of Lydia Maria Julien
1450     Gene Bawden. Illusion and Delusion: validating the artificial interior
1510     Questions and discussion

1530     Tea/Coffee

1610     Colin Holden. ‘Expanding House’ Stirling and Gowan (1957) and ‘Put-
Away House’ The Smithsons (1993-2000)
1630     Inga Bryden. While the hands are busy the mind is free to roam:
designs on the kitchen
1650     Celina Lemos and Giovana De Miranda Monteiro. Home Lifestyle in
Belo Horizonte, Mg, Brazil: comparing past and present social-spatial practices and interiors
1710     Questions and close

1800     Reception at Dorich House Museum

Day Two

0845     Registration and refreshments

0930     Shax Riegler. Mario Praz: writing the artifactual autobiography
0950     Ed Hollis. The House of Life and the Memory Palace
1010     Tom Tredway. Inside Out: Elsa Schiaparelli, interiors, and
autobiography
1030     Cristina Fiordimela. Resonance of domestic interiors, fragments of a
story, from memory to becoming.
1050     Questions and discussion

1110     Tea/Coffee

1150     Keynote Address

1245     Lunch

1410     Cristobal Amunategui. Jean Genet, or the interiors of the outlaw in
the 1930s Europe.
1430     Elias Constantopoulos. Interior living as a spatial equivalent of
Balzac’s “Unknown Masterpiece”
1450     Stephanie Dadour and Jennifer Dadour. Appropriations of domestic
spaces, Beirut 2009
1510     Questions and Discussion

1530     Tea/Coffee

1610     Aline Coelho Sanches Corato. Art, Architecture and Life: the interior
of Casa de Vidro, designed by Lina Bo Bardi.
1630     Robert Gassner. Dwelling as Assembling Temporal Continuities: the
Heiberg House in Vanløse
1650     Aino Niskanen. Views into the homes of Finnish architects
1710     Questions and close


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