Elocutions, Elaborations, Expositions of Interior Design Creative Scholarship

"Elocutions, Elaborations, Expositions of Interior Design Creative Scholarship" in Journal of Interior Design, March 2018.

“Elocutions, Elaborations and Expositions,” a special issue of the Journal of Interior Design (JID), calls out to all of its readers who are designers. I suspect that readership includes those who have been educated in interior design or one of its associated practices and now teach at a tertiary level, those who are currently studying, and those who are professional designers working in the industry. Let's remember that this readership extends worldwide and that interior design is far from singularly understood, defined, regulated, or practiced in all these varied places and institutions. One thing links this diverse pool of people, degrees, universities, agencies, and companies: design—an active, exploratory, speculative, innovative, and generative process.This issue emerges from an increasing (and sometime contentious) advocacy for practice-based research within the academy. In some regions of the world, this movement has asked that “applied” or “creative arts” subjects gain new qualification standards or that research assessment exercises linked to government funding and, in many cases, academic promotion, adjust the working definition of “research” to include creative practice.