Interiors

"Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture" brings together the best critical work on the analysis of all types of spaces. Interiors play a crucial role in the construction of identity and they represent power and control through the contestation or transgression of boundaries. Homes, offices, shopping malls, schools and hospitals, churches and restaurants are all embedded with meaning and evince particular, multi-sensory and psychological responses. This Journal will investigate the complexities of the interior environment's orchestration and composition and its impact on the inhabitant from a trans-disciplinary perspective. The interior is the Journal's central focus and contributions from interior design practitioners and theorists are welcome. It will embrace perspectives from a range of disciplines including, anthropology, architecture, art and design history, cultural studies and visual culture, and it will place no limits in terms of either geography or chronology. The Journal sets out to challenge divisions between theory and practice and aims provide an essential forum for all those with an interest in the design, history and meaning of interiors.