East x West
Curated by Professor Deborah Schneiderman, Pratt Institute, and Professor Margaux Schindler, California College of the Arts (CCA)
Pratt and CCA Interior Design Students engaged in spatial exploration through the intersection of soft and hard materiality to generate systems for the development of an interactive and flexible interior environment.
Students in the “Prefabricated Interior Options Lab” at Pratt, under the direction of Professor Deborah Schneiderman individually and collectively designed and fabricated a set of 30” x 72” interactive panels that come together to form an interior within an interior. The spatial environment formed by the panels encourages interaction and provides refuge. The designed panels, fabricated from a base material of recycled PET felt, generate an interior environment that embraces design, making, and human participation.
Students:
Katy O’Connor
Venna Huang
Fang-Ting Lee
Tong Zhao
Yilin Zhao
Priyashi Mehta
Ruotong Bai
Yangxi Ye
Aaron Hall
Xavier Baez
Inspired by the work and teachings of Anni and Josef Albers, students in the “Materiality & Space 3” course taught by Professor Margaux Schindler in Interior Design at the California College of the Arts transformed 2D pliable surface models into a series of 3D modular woven projections through a set of material experiments, form and performance operations for air, light, sound, and color. Soft and hard modular frame assemblies reconfigure and deconstruct to create interactive, flexible and adaptive interior environments.
Students:
Sandra Lufan Yang
Shirley Xueqi Yu
Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku
Jerry Jiayue Huang
Claudia Nunez
Abraham Ortega
Abigael King'oo
Farah Kaymouz