13th-14th November 2025
Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
The Edinburgh College of Art’s Interior Design department is delighted to host the 2025 Interior Educators Conference – Imagining Interiors
‘Imagining Interiors’ is a deliberately ambiguous title, that can refer both to the process of making things up, creating, dreaming, describing and so on; and also, more literally, to the activity of making images.
In The Emergence of the Interior (2008) the interior historian Charles Rice writes of the ‘doubleness’ of the designed interior – both as a space to be occupied, and an image to be contemplated. Seventeen years on, in a world saturated by images imagined by machines, what might that doubleness actually mean? What opportunities might it present to people who design, build, and occupy – imagine – interiors?
This conference invites contributions that re-imagine interiors – that is, what interiors might be, as practice or product. These re-imaginings will be of interest to the designers, historians and theorists of interiors and to those who study its representation (imagination) in film, fiction, journalism or other media.
We invite contributions in the form of papers that might be spoken and written, and images that can be imagined and exhibited.
The Conference Organising Committee
Ed Hollis
Dave Loder
Gina Olsson
Andy Siddall
Rachel Simmonds
Gillian Treacy