May 31, 2016 Teston’s Paper Selected as Best at National Conference
A paper written by , assistant professor, Interior Design, received the Best Paper Award at the .聽 The paper underwent two blind reviews before being selected as the best, and it is the only award given at the conference that recognizes the paper of a faculty member/professional.
The 2016 EDRA conference, held in May, provided a platform for design professionals, academics, researchers and students in architecture, interior design, urban planning, social ecology and more to discuss and learn about transitions in the design industries brought about by economies, society and research.
Following this theme, Teston鈥檚 paper, Place and Space:聽 Repositioning Collectivity and Interiority, reviews the 鈥渞ole of politics in interior architecture through the work of Marc Aug茅 and Guy Debord,鈥 asserting that the 鈥渋nterior is comprised of both spatial and political experiences鈥 and is rooted in the human experience.聽 Teston鈥檚 research examines experiential drivers in contemporary interiors and how designers can learn from research methods of cultural geographers.聽 It investigates the role of political theories from allied fields in building community, political agency and social consciousness in interior architecture.
A version of Teston鈥檚 paper will appear in Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2016), edited by Gregory Marinic.