DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/5N00-B731
Author ORCID Identifier
orcid.org/0000-0002-9518-7167
Defense Date
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Interior Design
First Advisor
Roberto L Ventura
Second Advisor
Camden Whitehead
Third Advisor
Sara D Reed
Fourth Advisor
Christiana Lafazani
Fifth Advisor
Emily Smith
Sixth Advisor
Jenifer Fell
Abstract
As interior designers, we strive to design everything for our clients, from complex environments to the joinery of a chair. We rarely consider inviting our clients or the users to join us in finishing the space.
Read-In workshop is not a school, but a kind of home, a home belonging to children, which provides the possibilities for children to play, to learn, to occupy, to personalize, and to share. An emotional space that will not limit the user, but keep inspiring them. It helps children notice, think, and grow.
Half of the interior space will be a fixed design, designed and fabricated during the first construction phase. The other Half will be designed as a flexible and changeable “framework” space, which allow the users to reorganize, repaint, and refinish, depending on their evolving educational needs and aesthetic tastes. Therefore, this “incomplete” workshop will share control with children. The contents of the framework will be continuously updated by the children who participate in the Read-In arts programs.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-12-2017
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Art Education Commons, Early Childhood Education Commons, Environmental Design Commons, Interior Architecture Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons