Research Methods for Interior Design

Name: Research Methods for Interior Design
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367139490
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Research Methods for Interior Design explores the evolution of interior design from decorative aesthetics to a focus on health, safety, and well-being within interior environments. The book offers a comprehensive overview of both qualitative and quantitative research methods, illustrated through real-world case studies. Each chapter includes introductions, questions, exercises, and references, guiding readers to understand and apply research methodologies that explore the concept of interiority — the subjective experience of space within built environments.
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This book is ideal for interior design students, educators, and researchers seeking to broaden their understanding of research applications in the field. It supports those interested in evidence-based design practices emphasizing health, safety, and well-being within interiors.

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.

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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 evidence-based research for interior design education and practice.

Research Methods for Interior Design provides a broad range of qualitative and quantitative examples, each highlighted as a case of interior design research. Each chapter is supplemented with an in-depth introduction, additional questions, suggested exercises, and additional research references. The book’s subtitle, Applying Interiority, identifies one reason why the field of interior design is expanding, namely, all people wish to achieve a subjective sense of well-being within built environments, even when those environments are not defined by walls. The chapters of this book exemplify different ways to comprehend interiority through clearly defined research methodologies.

This book is a significant resource for interior design students, educators, and researchers in providing them with an expanded vision of what interior design research can encompass.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367139490

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 August 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 34 Line drawings, black and white; 64 Halftones, black and white; 98 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Dana E. Vaux
Edited by David Wang

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 720g

Pages: 274

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dana E. Vaux, PhD, is Associate Professor of Interior and Product Design at University of Nebraska Kearney. Her interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the connections between cultural-historical meanings and place.

David Wang, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Washington State University. He has published extensively on design research, most notably, with Linda Groat, Architectural Research Methods, 2nd edition, 2013.