Historically, notions of interiority have been subject to use across a wide variety of disciplines, including sociology, psychiatry, and architecture. Despite systematic efforts to dissect the latter into more distinct divisions of labour, practitioners and researchers continue to speculate on the variegated role of the interior in the architectural field, and the extent of its influence on a swathe of other related discourses.
In this spirit, as IAD at NTU continues to evolve from its modest origin, the inaugural Interior Speculations research symposium provides an accessible environment for the free exchange of ideas and scholarly works that aim to explore the tensions between practice and research in debates on the evolution of the contemporary interior.