Research Methods for Interior Design Applying Interiority

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367139499 | 275 pages | True PDF | 14.61 MB
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 Designprovides 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-beingwithinbuilt 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.