AFTERTASTE: Immaterial Environments
Overview | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007Kellen Auditorium, Sheila Johnson Design Center, 66 fifth ave NYC
April 1 & 2, 2011
Shaping man’s surroundings entails a lot more than spatial, structural, mechanical, and other technical considerations – certainly a lot more than pontificating about matters of style. Our organic well-being is dependent on a wholesome, salubrious environment. Therefore exacting attention has to be paid to our intricate sensory world. This is primary if our surroundings are to stimulate our abundant perceptual, intellectual, and spiritual capacities, while at the same time accommodating our physiological nature and functional needs in a durable fashion.
Richard Neutra (1892-1970), “Cross-section of a Credo” (1969)
AFTERTASTE: Immaterial Environment will investigate aspects of interior space that are seemingly intangible yet highly perceived. As architect Richard Neutra suggested many decades ago, technical and aesthetic considerations are not enough to cover the full effect interiors have upon our mental and physical health and well-being. What are some of these immaterial qualities? How can we work with physiological and psychological cues and a more sophisticated understanding of climatic factors in the interior?
For Aftertaste, designers, physicians, scientists, scholars, and artists will come together to explore these questions. The symposium will begin with an exhibition and panel discussion called Radical Shifts, documenting the transition from an ‘Interior Design’ to an ‘Environmental Design’ program at Parsons dating from the mid-60s, a predecessor to our current Program in Interiors. This will be followed by a series of talks and discussions that interrogate the concept of immaterial environments in relation to current design practice.
participants include:
Robert Irwin – Keynote
Lisa Heschong
Philipe Rahm
Natalija Subotincic
Alexander Wunsch
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