1st Edition

Research Methods for Interior Design Applying Interiority

Edited By Dana E. Vaux, David Wang Copyright 2021
    274 Pages 98 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    274 Pages 98 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction Dana E. Vaux and David Wang

    Chapter 1 Focus Groups

    Introduction

    Interiority at the Scale of Neighborhoods: Exploring the health experiences of three cultural groups Tasoulla Hadjiyanni

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 2 Design ethnography

    Introduction

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

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 3 Narrative inquiry

    Introduction

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

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 4 Applied historic preservation:

    Introduction

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

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 5 Oral histories

    Introduction

    Living and Moving, Thingly (Interior) History Bryan D. Orthel

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 6 Philosophical method

    Introduction

    Interior Design in the Common Sense David Wang

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 7 Logical argumentation

    Introduction

    Understanding Place Meaning through Ethos Intensive Objects Dana E. Vaux

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 8 Mixed methods

    Introduction

    Validating ‘feeling at home’: Developing a Psychological Construct Pattern to aid in the Design of Environments for the Homeless Jill Pable

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 9 Correlation

    Introduction

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

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 10 Scale Creation

    Introduction

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

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 11 Virtual simulation

    Introduction

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

    Discussion and Exercises

    Chapter 12 Creative scholarship

    Introduction

    Computational design: organic growth and research tactics. Interview with Andrew Kudless by David Wang and Dana E. Vaux

    Discussion and Exercises

    Index

    Biography

    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.