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Review: Educating the Interior Designer conference in Ghent, September 8, 2023
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Abstract
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| On September 8, 2023, the conference ‘Educating the interior designer’ took place in an unusually warm and sunny Ghent, Belgium. It gathered scholars interested in the history of educational practices specific to interior design, convinced of their valuable contribution in situating the professionalization of the design discipline throughout the twentieth century. Participants reflected on how educational institutes have influenced the emergence and evolution of professional interior design in their respective countries. To do so, they looked at the role played by individual and eminent teachers, the evolution and organization of specialized programs within local educational policy, and the formalization and dissemination of specialized knowledge and skill, both within and beyond the classroom. The conference was organized in the framework of a four-year research project that espouses the educational history of interior design as a seminal research lens to understand its shifting and elusive professional identity. This project is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, is supervised by Els De Vos (University of Antwerp) and Fredie Floré (KU Leuven), and employs two PhD students, Sam Vanhee and Benoît Vandevoort, collectively constituting the organizational committee. |
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English
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sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org
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2023
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(2023.10.08)
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E-only publicatie
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