research education projects
BIOGRAPHY_Karin Tehve teaches at Pratt Institute, where she coordinates the theory curriculum in Interior Design. Her own research and writing concentrates on taste, media (now including AI) and identity, and their intersection with the public realm. She was awarded tenure in 2024.Karin founded her practice KT3Dllc in 2001 pursuing projects in architecture, interiors, and site‐specific... Continue Reading →
from the website:Symposium: Friday, November 6, 2026 (Pratt campus) | initial submissions due: Monday, June 15, 2026 @ 5PM EDTKeynote: Jenny Sabin This year’s symposium will consist of lecture presentations, roundtables by participants, and an exhibition (to be physically present on the Pratt campus). We encourage design practitioners, historians, and theorists in and beyond academia... Continue Reading →
My current book project, working title Materials-Thinking, examines how cultural assumptions about building materials are constructed, transmitted, and naturalized within Western design discourse. Specifically, the book traces the legacy of truth-to-materials as a modern design principle. The project draws on the work of Antoine Picon, Bruno Latour, and Adrian Forty (among others) to construct a... Continue Reading →
Honored to work with Ladi’Sasha Jones and Amy Campos on this project, led by the indefatigable & fabulous Liz Teston. Liz's work on how perception is an integral characteristic of interior public spaces (whether or not those would be recognized as interior conditions) has been ground-breaking, and has influenced my own thinking profoundly. This book... Continue Reading →
Delighted to (finally) publish some of the foundational research that informs my work with New York City's POPS (privately-owned public spaces) & INT POPS (interior POPS). Thank you to editor Gregory Marinic for pulling together such a wealth of information and scholarship on this critical topic.from the publisher's website:The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader expands our... Continue Reading →
event description, from website:Every year, Pratt’s Research Yard opens its doors to visitors for its largest event: the Research Open House.In 2025, the Research Open House attracted hundreds of visitors, and featured over 50 Pratt-affiliated research projects. Visitors to the Research Open House come from across sectors and institutions, and the event offers Pratt researchers... Continue Reading →
Delighted to work with my Interior Provocations comrades once again: Erica Morawski, Deborah Schneiderman, Keena Suh & Karyn Zieve.For this volume, I had the pleasure of editing the work of Gretchen Von Koenig, Alex Goldberg, Liz Teston, Amy Campos & the team of Sam Vanhee, Fredie Floré and Els De Vos. from the publisher's website:Interior... Continue Reading →
The integration of artificial intelligence in design education presents both opportunities and challenges for preparing students for an evolving professional landscape. In the Fall 2024 semester, our section of INT401 (undergraduate senior options studio) explored AI's potential through a semester-long investigation of New York City's Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS). Twenty-two (22) case studies emerged... Continue Reading →
I gave a talk and participated in a panel discussion (with professors Britta Bielak, Ronn Daniel & Andrea Sosa Fontaine) at the John Elliot Center for Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State- a great opportunity to make the case for taste as a kind of conditioning, a set of perceptual habits: integrated into every design... Continue Reading →
So happy to present my book on my home turf. from the website:Pratt Interior Design Professor Karin Tehve will present case-studies from her book, Taste, Media and Interior Design, published by Routledge in 2023.Based on class that she has taught in the Interior Design Department since 2009, this book explores the relationship between means of... Continue Reading →