international journal of interior architecture + spatial design: Corporeal Complexities (Volume 2) (ii journal)

ii is the International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design. In a global, complex, and networked society, interior architecture and its praxis are experiencing unprecedented change. Theoretical investigations, design research, and alternative explorations blend previously discrete disciplines within an emerging blurred territory. The International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design investigates this new territory by requesting scholarship, design research, and projects that ask bold questions and propose innovative responses. Founded and stewarded by the Interior Architecture program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, and published by the University of Houston Atrium Press, ii seeks to re-frame the debate and shape the contemporary dialogue of interior architecture and spatial design. Corporeal Complexities, ii journal’s volume II, features articles and projects that explore the contingent relationships between body and space. The work examines the relationship of the human form in the design process, as a generator, as an observer, and as an active performer as it relates to interior architecture and spatial design. The field of spatial design presumes that a designer operates at the scale of the human body. Whether resulting in the design of furniture, fashion, a residence, event, or urban park, this emergent field of practice privileges the performance of the body and its relationship to space. Spatial design is impacted by scale in relation to the performance of a body, but liberated from the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Corporeal Complexities gathers exemplary projects that engage design complexities of the human body. This second issue explores new materials and technologies associated with contemporary design practices and features work that proposes unique ideas of space, materiality, and tectonics relative to human scale. This includes but is not limited to work in fashion, furniture, industrial design, architecture, performance, film, event design, the social sciences, and the arts. Volume 2 Authors: Jonathon Anderson, Michael Leighton Beaman, Francis Bitoni, Paula Carr, Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas, Matt Fajkus, William Feuerman, Wendy Fok, Aroussiak Gabrielian, Tatjana Gorbachewskaja, Alison B. Hirsch, IK Studio, Meg Jackson, Jason Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Matthew Jones, Jacopo Leveratto, Jason Logan, Lian Loke, Casey Mahon, Gregory Marinic, Audrey McKee, Jon Morris, Keith Peiffer, Dagmar Reinhardt, Kirsty Volz, Lois Weinthal, Jaime Bartolome Yllera