Syllabus academic year 2007/2008
SPACE AND INTERIORSAFO761

Higher education credits: 9. Grading scale: UG. Level: G2 (First level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in English on demand. Compulsory for: ID3. Course coordinator: Professor Lars-Henrik Ståhl, Lars-Henrik.Stahl@arkitektur.lth.se, Inst för arkitektur och byggd miljö. Prerequisites: 90 points completed on first two years of Industridesignprogrammet. Assessment: The individual student can either Pass or Fail. To achieve the former he or she must have submitted an essay that wins approval. In addition he or she shall have at least an eighty per cent attendance at seminars and lectures and have participated actively in these seminars.

Aim
The course aims to increase the student’s ability to reflect on different sorts of interior furnishings and the design of furniture. This is done by training him or her to work with models of different interior spaces and re-work and make ready an item of furniture he or she has designed or re-worked. He or she also reads, writes and discusses questions concerning theories of interior space and its furnishings, with the aim of giving him or her possession of a conceptual apparatus that lets him or her actively and critically take part in contemporary debate about giving form to interior spaces and the design of furniture. A further aim is to introduce different concepts about interior space, its furnishings and furniture.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents
The course includes a fundamental discussion of concepts and traditions that are central to the forming of interior space, its furnishings and furniture, which are reflected in practical work during the course. It also introduces concepts of interior space, its furnishings and furniture and their histories, mainly by reference to aspects affected by their designs and by practical exercises.

Literature
Articles are selected by reference to the items of furniture and interior spaces considered during the course.