Interior Design publications

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RMIT Interior Design publications bring the concerns developed and discussed within the program into a public arena, where issues can be examined and debated, extended and critiqued.

The nature of publications produced by the program is in constant evolution, staff and students working as editorial and production teams are continually seeking to chart new territories of thinking and establish new grounds for practice.

Through our publications we seek to reflect upon the practice of Interior Design and its potentials, recording works completed and speculating on possible directions.

School publications are distributed by Modern Journal in Australia and New Zealand, and are distributed internationally by Idea Books and can be ordered through all good art and design bookstores.

The Sensuous Intellect

Editor: Ross McLeod

Sensuous Intellect

Recent exciting work in spatial design interweaves ideas, materials, media and phenomena in ways that engage our senses both imaginatively and viscerally. The publication explores this contemporary fascination with the ‘sensuous intellect' through contributions by philosophers, theorists, academics and art and design practitioners.

The book chronicles the events of the week long Sensoria festival of design education held in Melbourne in July 2004. The Sensoria festival explored the themes of phenomena, media, material and techne through a series of lectures, exhibitions, performances, events and discussions, which took place both in RMIT University and throughout the network of galleries, bars and design practices that characterize the city of Melbourne.

Contributors include Phillipe Rahm, Marco Casagrande, Lawrence Harvey, Janet Laurence, Janos Korban, Andrea Mina and Michael Trudgeon.

INTERsection

Editors: Ross McLeod and Suzie Attiwill

Image Intersection

INTERsection presents the diverse yet interconnected topics of postgraduate research conducted by Interior Design at RMIT over the last decade. Through a series of commissioned articles and project descriptions the publication provides an insight into the cross-disciplinary and multivalent nature of the work that has been produced and the environment of enquiry that has promoted it.

INTERsection is a timely document for those interested in the boundaries of spatial discourse and the potentials that lie within the expansion of the philosophies and methodologies that distinguish the practice of Interior Design.

Interior Cities

Editor: Ross McLeod

Interior Cities

INTERIOR CITIES chronicles the theoretical concerns and design practices of the community of architects, designers, artists, teachers and students involved in the Interior Design program within the School of Architecture and Design at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

With over 120 contributors, 460 images and 256 pages, INTERIOR CITIES laid the foundations of a mature attitude to the profession of Interior Architecture and Design by providing a scholarly analysis of the skills, perceptions, concerns and context of emerging Interior Design practice.

The Interior Magazine

Editor: John Andrews

The Interior Magazine

The Interior magazine was established in 1991 as an active discourse between staff, students, practitioners, visitors and friends involved in the Interior Design course at RMIT. The Interior’s base within a university provides the scope necessary for a potency and clarity of vision founded on professional and academic knowledge. Each issue charts a specific theme around which ideas on contemporary design, art, environment and anthropology are explored.