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Janus Perspective: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Author(s) -
Portillo Margaret,
Poldma Tiiu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of interior design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1939-1668
pISSN - 1071-7641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-1668.2010.01042.x
Subject(s) - exhibition , scholarship , perspective (graphical) , theme (computing) , janus , value (mathematics) , modernity , engineering , sociology , aesthetics , architectural engineering , engineering ethics , visual arts , political science , art , computer science , law , world wide web , machine learning , programming language
Looking forward, we argue that the need for research and scholarship in interior design has never been greater, given the difficult economic pressures being felt around the world and facing those in academia, practice, and industry. Research allows us to define with great precision why design adds such indelible value to the world in which we live by enhancing knowledge about the design of interiors including workplace and learning environments, public places and leisure spaces, as well as in those for healing. Turbulent times often make way for innovation. We see this theme emerging in the recent exhibition, Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity, at the Museum of Modern Art, which is instructive from a historic perspective (Bergdoll & Dickerman, 2009).