Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture Life from the Inside /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smith, Dianne (Editor), Lommerse, Marina (Editor), Metcalfe, Priya (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sustainable development.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Sciences.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Sustainable Development.; Interior Architecture.

This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on three pivotal themes — community...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Tim Costello
• 1. An introduction to social sustainability and interior architecture, by Dianne Smith, Sarah Beeck, Marina Lommerse, Priya Metcalfe.- Part I. Community Engagement and Interior Architecture
• 2. Working together: interior architecture creating with the community, by Marina Lommers
• 3. More than bricks and mortar: lessons in design and world citizenship, by Kelley Beaverford.- Part II. Social Justice and Interior Architecture
• 4. Interiors can address Social Justice: fact or fiction? By Dianne Smith
• 5. The importance of interior design professionals' engagement in policy development to effect change for underprivileged individuals, by Jill Pable and Lisa Waxman .- 6. Interior design by expediency, by Rodney Harber and Angela Buckland.- 7. Inside the remote-area Aboriginal house, by Paul Memmott.- 8. Too ‘nice’ to be socially responsible: reflections of a Danish interior practitioner, by Marianne Frandsen
• Part III. Cultural Heritage and Interior Architecture
• 9. Cultural Heritage practice through socially sustainable adaptive re-use of industrial buildings: a Western Australian narrative, by Priya Metcalfe.- 10. Ambiguity and permeability in historic Modern interiors: a challenge for Cultural Heritage and social sustainability, by Penny Sparke .