Evocations

Andrew Milligan; Louise Ritchie

Abstract

When we consider evocations, we think of a sensory trace, a reminiscence, a redolence, and even a wistfulness. We find evocations in life experiences, our homes, in music and in our possessions. As children, the objects of our domestic spaces are full of wonder and imagination. A patterned wallpaper tells a different story each night, an appliance might have a frightening sound or an unintended arrangement of its components that resemble an angry face. Equally, young babies are often soothed by the sound of the washing machine or vacuum cleaner, thought to be similar to the whooshing, white noises experienced inside the womb. This reveals how fundamentally complex our responses are to seemingly ordinary things, one which the designer can seldom predict. This exploration considers how an expanded interiors practice might explore that which cannot be easily anticipated. It questions how this expansion might provide ways of developing unusual or innovative relationships with objects and spaces, directly through making and material invention. Sherry Turkle’s 2011 anthology Evocative Objects; Things We Think With assembles interdisciplinary thinkers that provide an alternative reading of objects whilst viewing them from broader cultural perspectives. Those perspectives offer us insights on the power of objects to convey experience, sometimes challenging or painful, but they compel us to think and revisit significant moments. These moments are often beyond tangible interpretations, possessing an aura of meaning that transcends language and temporality.

REFERENCES

Turkle, S. (Ed.). (2011). Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, MIT Press.

Watson, L. (1992). The Nature of Things: A Secret Life of Inanimate Objects, Destiny Books

Original language	English
Publication status	Submitted - 10 Jun 2024
Event	Interior Educators (IE) Practice Conference 2024: Practice, Practice, Practice - University of Northumbria, Newcastle, United Kingdom Duration: 21 Nov 2024 → 22 Nov 2024 https://www.ie-practice-2024.co.uk

Conference

Conference	Interior Educators (IE) Practice Conference 2024
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Newcastle
Period	21/11/24 → 22/11/24
Other	Northumbria University’s Interior Architecture Programme is delighted to host the 2024 Interior Educators International IE Practice 2024 Conference / workshop. This upcoming conference & workshop will be the first Interior Educators has held since the Covid-19 pandemic, coinciding with 10 years of Northumbria University BA(Hons) Interior Architecture Alumni and occurs at a critical moment as we define the next 10 years of our pedagogic and practice-based landscapes on the interior and the adaptation of existing space. IE Practice 2024 will bring academics, research practitioners, creatives, industry leaders and design practitioners together to discuss current and future issues critical to interior architecture, interior design, and adaptive reuse in academia and in practice. Adaptive reuse is the topic of our times for the built environment, as an unwavering response to the climate crisis through a reuse first principle and as a continued response to the maintenance of the collective memory of place and space. It is redefining current practice and shaping future creative practices in our field. It defines our current design pedagogies in academia and underpins the next chapter in the education of our future design practitioners as cultural, climate and resource literate designers. The conference will explore contemporaneous topics on innovative practice, on practising innovation, on definitions of creative practice, and on the practice of creatives. It will cover such topics through an implicit sustainability lens and focus on research, theoretic and practice-based ideas of collaboration and the heterogeneous role of academia in practice.
Internet address	https://www.ie-practice-2024.co.uk

Keywords

evocation
object
interior

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Arts and Humanities

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