Call for Papers / Call for Posters
17-04-2010 - The premises laid down by IFW2010 is that in our globalised world it  is possible to construct a single unified narrative - though one with  different facets - or to describe/specify a complex constellation of   Interiors by means of the words that characterise them.
IFW2010 is looking for the "key words" for Interiors. What are they?  How many are there? What are they about? What stories, people,  projects, architectural spaces and shapes do they conjure up? Are they  declarations of intent? Or cultural manifestos? Are they words from   the past that have survived into the present, or words of the present   in which the future is germinating?
Words tell stories, specify things; words also open onto other worlds  and different ways of thinking. We want to understand, discuss, and  compare notes, without having to classify: for words generate ideas,  not ideas words. Not only that: as they are passed around, words   spread ideas, stimulate other ideas to germinate, constantly   reinventing themselves because they are never definitive, but free and   open to change. Words also represent things, and things can be a  means  of making new stories, new ideas. As words transform themselves  over  time in any given society, country or economy we should look for  the "key words" for Interiors: let us freeze-frame certain ideas,  clarify  them, assert them - but always remembering they belong in an  open  panorama of thought.

The Call is open to scholars, academics, lecturers, Ph.D. students and   professionals.

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

5-6 October 2010 Conference
27 September - 8 October 2010 Exhibition

PROMOTORE/CONVENER
Ph.D. Board in Interior Architecture and Exhibit Design - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Deadlines
Papers 15 FEB 2010
Posters 15 MAY 2010

For further information:
Cristina Colombo >  IFW210@polimi.it
www.interiorsforumworld.net