Research methods for interior design : applying interiority / edited by Dana E. Vaux & David Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wang, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior decoration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

"Interior design has shifted significantly in the past fifty years from a focus on home decoration within family and consumer sciences to a focus on the impact of health and safety within the interior environment. This shift has called for a deeper focus in design research. Research Methods for Interior Design provides a broad scope of research methods for interior design students from qualitative to quantitative emphases. Through four distinct sections, the authors not only lay out the theory of interiority-a subjective sense a person feels in his or her relation to a physical environment, which results in positive attachments of communal belonging-but also how designers can access interiority through a variety of research methodologies. Expanding beyond environments defined by physical walls, this book transcends the traditional discipline of interior design by foregrounding interiority as a theoretical conception. With case studies, exercises, study questions and recommended additional research projects and literature, this book hits the mark on the need for resources that inform and enrich the research process with a broader scope for interior design students, educators, and researchers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Focus Groups

Editors' Introduction

Interiority at the Scale of Neighborhoods: Exploring the Health Experiences of Three Cultural Groups Tasoulla Hadjiyanni

Discussion and Exercises

2 Design Ethnography

Understanding User Experience within Flexible Workplaces: An Ethnographic Approach Isil Oygur, Ozgur Gocer and Ebru Ergoz Karahan

3 Narrative Inquiry

Narratives of Healing: The Records of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in the Era of the Great Depression Erin Cunningham

4 Applied Historic Preservation

A Local Meeting Place: The Adaptive Reuse of the Huffman House Lisa Tucker

5 Oral History

Living and Moving, Thingly Interior History Bryan D. Orthel

6 Philosophical Method

Interior Design in the Common Sense David Wang

7 Logical Argumentation

Understanding Place Meaning through Ethos-Intensive Objects Dana E. Vaux

8 Mixed Methods

Validating "Feeling at Home": Developing a Psychological Constructs Pattern to Aid in the Design of Environments for the Homeless Jill Pable

9 Correlation

Correlating Interior Lighting with Teacher Productivity Levels in the Public Pre-K-12 Classroom Alana Pulay

10 Scale Creation

Measuring the "Thirdplaceness" of Social Media Michael R. Langlais and Dana E. Vaux.

Discussion and Exercises

11 Virtual Simulation

Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing in a Classroom Design Saleh Kalantari

12 Creative Scholarship

Computational Design: Organic Growth and Research Tactics Interview with Andrew Kudless by David Wang and Dana E. Vaux

Selected Bibliography

Credits

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-429-02932-2

0-429-63941-4

OCLC:

1191074745