research education projects
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Taste: Media & Interior Design examines the evolution of what taste is, how it works and what it does. This book examines the recursive relationship between taste and media. This ongoing process changes the relationship between designers and the public, and our understanding of the relationship of individuals to their social contexts. This book aims... Continue Reading →
via ZOOM 03.23.22Interior Provocations Committee: Deborah Schneiderman, Keena Suh, Anca Lasc, Karyn Zieve, Erica Morawski, Karin TehveEvent Organizers: Deborah Schneiderman & Karin TehveModerator: Karin Tehve To celebrate the release of Appropriate(d) Interiors, we organized an online event, a virtual book talk. We were joined by the editors and the authors. Participants were physically in the... Continue Reading →
@ Pratt Institute & via ZOOM 04.09.22Organizers: Deborah Schneiderman, Keena Suh, Anca Lasc, Karyn Zieve, Erica Morawski, Karin TehveKeynote: Jorge Otero-Pailos/ Moderators: David Foley, Deborah Schneiderman and Erica Morawski Every year, current events affect the directions of research and culture, but the influence of recent events cannot be overstated. Who cannot say that the past... Continue Reading →
via ZOOM on 03.02.22 / IDEC National ConferenceCo-authors/ presenters: Irina Schneid, Karin Tehve, William Watson & Edwin ZawadzkiFeatured image: Basilica San Vitale (Ravenna, Italy) + Analytique (Yasmeen Abdal, FA19)Description: An analysis of pedagogic frameworks informing Materials, Methods, and Meaning (a required junior theory class) Proposal text:Design theory classes offer an opportunity for students to contextualize... Continue Reading →
[image appropriated from publisher's website] Pleased to announce the publication of the second collection of work presented at Interior Provocations, a series of symposia founded by Pratt Institute Faculty in the History of Art and Design and Interior Design Departments. Delighted to again work with my esteemed co-editors Professors Deborah Schneiderman and Anca Lasc, as well as... Continue Reading →