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Interiors Forum Scotland 2008 | Event Type: | Conferences & Expos | | | | Company: | IFS | | Dates: | Aug 21 2008 - Aug 22 2008 | | Location: | Edinburgh, Scotland | | Address: | Edinburgh College of Art,
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Scotland, | | | | Industry: | DES | | Posted By: | UP world | | Reply: | Send Message | | | | Description: | Following its successful conference, exhibition and publication 'Thinking Inside the Box' held at Glasgow's Lighthouse in March 2007, the IFS Interiors Forum Scotland invites the international interior design and interior architecture community to register interest in participating in the 2nd IFS International Conference, 'Interior Tools Interior Tactics', to be held in Edinburgh, 21-22,August 2008.
Conference Aims
'Interior Tools Interior Tactics' aims to bring together an international interior community of advocates, academics, researchers, practitioners, design organisations and design policy makers who wish to shape the future tools and develop progressive tactics for interiors practice, education and research. Keynote addresses from leaders in the field of interior practice, interior research and interior education will stimulate debate. The format for the event aims to challenge conventional conference delivery and the organisers are especially keen to receive proposals around the conference theme which engage audiences and provoke debate. The Interiors Forum Scotland welcomes initial enquiries and seeks formal registrations of interest from the diverse field of interior inquiry: from those involved in interior design; interior architecture; interior decoration; interior history; interior teaching and other interior environmental contexts. Initial enquiries and registrations of interest should be emailed to Cathy Brown, Research Co-ordinator at the School of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at c.e.y.brown@dundee.ac.uk'
Interior Tools Interior Tactics' will offer delegates opportunities to network, establish collaborative research relationships, participate in exploratory theatres of thinking, particpate in workshops and interactive presentation sessions, and to reflect, explore, debate and share the innovative tools and diverse tactics deployed across interiors academe, practice and research. It will provide a forum for educators, industrial practitioners, researchers and graduate students to discuss current issues affecting the nature and direction of interior design practice, education, policy and research.
Objectives
We are striving to initiate annual conferences, workshops, symposia and publications which place Interior Design/Interior Architecture at the heart of critical debate / act as an advocate for all aspects of Scottish Interior Design/Interior Architecture undergarduate and postgraduate degree programmes / liaise with, advise, and share good practice with UK and international Interior organisations, academic research groups and innovative practitioners / influence educational policy makers and collaborate with colleagues at secondary and further educational levels in Art & Design / support diversity and promote the distinctiveness of the Scottish higher education sector internationally / disseminate and publish the results of annual research conferences / enrich the learning experience of undergraduate and postgraduate students by linking research appropriately into teaching / foster a spirit of collaboration and sharing of good practice across national and international frameworks / make a significant Scottish contribution to the emerging international body of Interior Design/Interior Architecture theory and discourse / represent the IFS and the Scottish sector at international conferences
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