AFTERTASTE : The annual international symposium dedicated to the critical exploration of new agenda for Interior Design.

http://www2.parsons.edu/sce/PLAID/aftertaste/aftertaste.php

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AFTERTASTE 4

April 2 & 3, 2010, Parsons The New School for Design, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium

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AFTERTASTE 3

April 3 & 4, 2009, Parsons The New School for Design, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium

It is not hard to imagine an apartment whose layout would depend no longer on the activities of the day, but on functional relationships between the rooms… It takes a little more imagination, no doubt, to picture an apartment whose layout was based on the functioning of the senses. We can imagine well enough what a gustatorium might be, or an auditorium, but one might wonder what a visuorium might look like, or an olfactorium or a palporium.

Georges Perec, “The Apartment”, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces [1974]
London: Penguin Books 1997, 31.

AFTERTASTE 3, the annual international symposium dedicated to the critical review of Interior Design, provoked a discussion about the richness of the senses and their role in the comprehension of space and inhabitation. Experimental in character, this conference aims to consider projects and ideas that stem from investigations into the workings of the senses.

Writer Georges Perec famously urged us to imagine separate rooms for taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch, yet one might also inversely challenge the primacy of visual perception by bringing the more peripheral and intertwined aspects of sensory experience into focus.

AFTERTASTE 3  featured accomplished designers, architects, and artists whose work specifically addresses the complex and still relatively unexplored role of sentient perception in the imagining of interiors

• James Auger
• Robert Israel
• Kent Kleinman
• Robert Kirkbride
• Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
• Charlie Morrow
• Jorge Otero-Pailos
• Victoria Anne Rospond
• Mayer Rus
• Emily Thompson
• James Tichenor
• Sissal Tolaas
• Sabine von Fischer
• Joshua Walton
• Alfred Zollinger

AFTERTASTE 2

April 4 & 5, 2008, Parsons The New School for Design, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium

One century ago Frank Alvah Parsons founded the first Interior Design program in the United States at Parsons School for Design in New York. For over ten decades, and in response to myriad cultural and professional forces, the study of the interior has developed into a hybrid of environmental psychology, fashion design, product design, architecture, material science, and cultivated taste. Now, at a time of unusually rapid technological and cultural evolution, it is time for a critical assessment of the field.

AfterTaste 2 is the second annual international symposium dedicated to the critical review of interior design and to identifying pressing contemporary issues and practices that will challenge practitioners in the near future. It is intended as an expansive meditation on the concept of the interior environment and its constituent elements.

AfterTaste 2 will comprise three series of thematically linked lectures followed by panel discussions.

The Intellectual History of Taste
The theory of “taste” as category of aesthetic judgment and its evolution as a distinguishing characteristic of the interior designer.

Representing the Interior
Modeled interiors, the representation of milieu, and the “alienated” interior.

The Narrative Life of Things
The particular proximity of interior design to the body and its potential to redefine social and spatial practices.

• Jay Bernstein
• James Casebere
• Kent Kleinman
• Julie Lasky
• Emmanuelle Linard
• Tim Marshall
• Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
• The Quay Brothers
• Courtney Smith
• Penny Sparke
• Ioanna Theocharopoulou
• Anthony Vidler
• Lois Weinthal
• Allan Wexler
• Mark Wigley
• Alfred Zollinger

AFTERTASTE 1

March 30 & 31, 2007, Parsons The New School for Design, SCE: The Glass Corner

AFTER TASTE is a series of lectures and roundtable conversations dedicated to the critical review of interior design and to identifying pressing contemporary issues that will challenge practitioners in the near future. It is intended as an expansive meditation on the concept of the interior environment and its constituent elements.

AFTER TASTE will consist of lectures and four topical roundtable sessions. A keynote lecture will be offered by Petra Blaisse of Inside Outside (Amsterdam) who will be joined by distinguished invited guests including Constance Adams (Houston, interior designer for NASA’s spacelab and related projects); Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University, theorist of domestic spaces); Julieanna Preston (New Zealand, editor of Intimus , arguably the only Interior Design theory reader); Andrew Blauvelt (Design Director and Curator for the Walker Art Center); and others who will make presentations and constitute the membership for each of four roundtable discussion sessions. The four topic areas are:

The Dweller’s Trace: theorizing the study of the interior

More Room: alternative sites, users, and technologies

Class Room: pedagogical models reconsidered

Outside In: progressive practices at the edge of the field

AFTER TASTE is organized by the Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting at Parsons The New School for Design and made possible with the support of the Office of the Dean, Parson The New School for Design, and Victoria Hagan and Jamie Drake.