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PARSONS PRESENTS AFTERTASTE 3:
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It is not hard to imagine an apartment whose layout would depend no longer on the activities of the day, but on functional relationships between the rooms. …It takes a little more imagination, no doubt, to picture an apartment whose layout was based on the functioning of the senses. We can imagine well enough what a gustatorium might be, or an auditorium, but one might wonder what a visuorium might look like, or an olfactorium or a palporium. — Georges Perec
NEW YORK, March 12, 2009 – Parsons The New School for Design presents AFTERTASTE 3: New Agendas for the Interior on Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4, at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. This annual international symposium is dedicated to the critical review of the interior, and was developed in conjunction with a new MFA program in Interior Design that Parsons will launch this fall. The groundbreaking program will play a leadership role in addressing the challenges and opportunities of contemporary interior design in the 21st century, and integrate history, theory, design, material experimentation and sustainable practice.
While the writer Georges Perec famously imagined separate rooms for taste, hearing, sight, smell, and touch, AFTERTASTE 3 inversely attempts to address the primacy of visual perception by bringing the more peripheral and intertwined aspects of sensory experience into focus. The symposium will feature accomplished designers, architects, and artists whose work specifically addresses the complex and still relatively unexplored role of the senses in the imagining of interiors. The symposium includes four panels that explore the senses of sight, sound, smell and touch, as well as a wine tasting. Among the panelists and featured speakers are James Auger, Robert Israel, Kent Kleinman, Robert Kirkbride, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Charlie Morrow, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Victoria Anne Rospond, Mayer Rus, Emily Thompson, James Tichenor, Sissel Tolaas, Sabine von Fischer, Joshua Walton, and Alfred Zollinger.
AFTERTASTE 3 is presented by the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, the only integrated school of interior design, lighting design, product design and architecture in the country. In addition to the new MFA in Interior Design, the school encompasses a Master of Architecture, Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Product Design, and Associates Degree in Interior Design. Parsons established the first interior design program in the nation in 1906. For more information on the School of Constructed Environments, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/sce.
The School of Constructed Environments is one of five thematic schools that Parsons has created to better facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to design education. These also include The School of Art, Media and Technology (Fine Art, Photography, Illustration, Communication Design, and Design and Technology); The School of Fashion; The School of Design Strategies (Foundation, Integrated Design Curriculum, Design & Management, Environmental Studies, and proposed thematic graduate programs in Sustainability, Urban and Trans-disciplinary Design); and The School of Art and Design History and Theory. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/parsons.
AFTERTASTE 3 is free and open to the general public. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/aftertaste.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Please CLICK HERE for the symposium schedule and panelists bios.
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