2023: Upkeep Presenters
Interior Provocations
Keynote
Remember - Reveal - Construct: A Developed Methodology for Adaptive Reuse
Sally Stone | Reader in Architecture and Adaptive Reuse | Manchester School of Architecture
Paper Presentations
Ghosts in the Machine: Upkeep Soils the Soap Bubbles of Archigram
Cameron Macdonell | Assistant Professor | School of Interior Design | Toronto Metropolitan University
Dust Bunnies
Sam Bennett | Part-Time Assistant Professor | Parsons School of Design | The New School
In-between Surfaces: The Brittle, Fragile, Falling and Failing
Susan Hedges | Deputy Head of School | Art & Design | Auckland University of Technology
Remaking Residency: The Domestic Legacy of Early Modern American Art Practice
Lauren Drapala | PhD Candidate | Bard Graduate Center
The Seamlessness of Space: When the Interior Designer Meets the Cobbler
Andrea Sosa-Fontaine | Assistant Professor | Interior Design Program | College of Architecture and Environmental Design | Kent State University
Infested Interiors
Evan Pavka | Assistant Professor | Interior Design | James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History | Wayne State University
Teaching Round Table
An Educational Studio Space for Creative Work and Instruction
Ammar Kalo | Associate Professor of Architecture & Director of CAAD Labs | College of Architecture, Art and Design | American University of Sharjah
Creative Repair
Keena Suh | Associate Professor Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute
Living Systems: Interior Systems for Cities
Clay Odom | Associate Professor | School of Architecture | The University of Texas at Austin
Posters Presentations
An Educational Studio Space for Creative Work and Instruction
Ammar Kalo | Associate Professor of Architecture & Director of CAAD Labs | College of Architecture, Art and Design | American University of Sharjah
We Can Mend It: Repair Practices in Times of Crisis (Case of Mendit Research Lab)
Liudmila Aliabieva | Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Research in Arts & Design | Higher School of Economics Research University Moscow
Architecture | Design | Art | Craft | Other: The Spatial Othering of the Mixed Methodologies of a Bi-Racial Creative Scholar
Felicia Dean | Assistant Professor | School of Interior Architecture | College of Architecture & Design | University of Tennessee
The Biography of the Car: Our Extended Habitation and The Development of Sounds as a Defined Exterior/ Interior Barrier
Lamiae El Mourabit | Visiting Assistant Professor | Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute
The Visibility of Care and Repair
William Mangold | Assistant Professor, Director, Interior Architecture & Design Graduate Program | Department of Architecture, Design & Urbanism | Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
From Belmonte to Ponte. Praxis in interior design and pedagogy in the maintenance of community spaces in Calabria and Johannesburg, 2012 – 2023 and beyond
Harriet McKay | Senior Lecturer And Programme Co-Ordinator | The School Of Art, Architecture And Design | London Metropolitan University
Both Upkeep and Evolution: Extending Interior Design’s Life
Brendan Moran | Visiting Associate Professor | Interior Design | School of Design | Pratt Institute
Living Systems: Interior Systems for Cities
Clay Odom | Associate Professor | School of Architecture | The University of Texas at Austin
Maintenance and the Aesthetic Authenticity of the Modern Interior
Cathrine Veikos | Professor Interior Design | Architecture Division | California College of the Arts
Admission is free | RSVP is requied

