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Exhibition design: reflections

The collection of essays and chapters in this handbook builds upon interior design’s multiplicity and the evolving nature of the discipline. Because the field is rapidly expanding to include emerging paradigms, interior design is increasingly becoming more inclusive of tangent disciplines outside of architecture and decoration. Its scope is being broadened as it permeates into architecture, decoration, technology, environment, demographics and new forms of media, as seen in this collection of essays.

The handbook consists of a series of newly commissioned essays that address past, current and future practices within the interior. Essay contributions are by an international array of scholars to provide a global forum for a comprehensive range of texts, critical reflections and unique insights. This aims to contextualize current debates regarding the environmental and spatial arts of interior design, interior architecture and interior decoration, and explores their overlapping discourses with spatially related disciplines. This endeavours to make clear ideas already prominent in the field of interiors, to clarify the interdisciplinary aspects of interior design research, theory and practice and to represent current thinking from around the world.

Dernie’s chapter develops the idea of narrative space into themes relating to experience design and memory design. Furthermore, it explores the idea of performative space with respect to the city. It draws on original field-work done in Milan and a set of original photographic images by the author. Part of the argument presented here was explored in an invited lecture “After Space”, given at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy, September 2010.

This text is a development of previously published research, including Exhibition Design, (London, Laurence King, 2006,.224pp. ISBN 1856694305) that was translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and also published in the USA, selling over 11,500 copies. It reflects considerable experience as an exhibition designer.