Design as a Verb

Posted on Wednesday, November 24th, 2021

Client	Various
Professor(s)	Pallavi Swaranjali,
Program	Bachelor of Interior Design
Students	Krystian Miersma \| Anaïs Fritzlan \| Mikaela Uggeldahl \| Brittany Roach \| Heather Greer \| Lindsay Kelly I Thomas Sullivan \| Kaitlyn Rogers Chloe Keens-Parker \| Gizelle Esfandiari \| Eilaf Abdelrasoul \| Kayla Di Staulo \| Serena McEvoy-Stevenson \| Mackenzie Hoover \| Rylie Duncan \| Dina Gawish \| Hanan Alqurashi Michaela Hardy \| Iris Diep \| Alexia Laflamme \| DEVANSHI GULATI \|ELIZABETH PETTINGILL \| EMILY COOK \| EVA KENYON \| MARLY JOHNSON \| SABRINA TAFUTO \| SARAH DAOUST \| SEREINE ELBALKHI SHAYLENE GIBBONS \| STEPHANIE DES MARAIS \| VY BUI

Project Description:

Thinking about space often starts by referring to photorealistic visual images(as objects/nouns). Design as a verb understands the power of spaces to move and affect us. The basic premise of this project is the proposition made by Sarah Robinson in her book, Architecture is a Verb which ….
“asks what a building does—that is, extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action.”

Interior Designers can help to make meaningful changes in creating spaces that bring positivity, happiness, and wellbeing. This project identifies verbs that have different qualities and effects and develops spaces around those verbs. This process of thinking of spaces as verbs, brings forth what spaces can be and should be so that we can live in a slightly better compassionate world, and understand the implications of our built work.
The proposals that students have developed consider how spaces can create magic, how spaces can be lost and found, how spaces craft, spaces of resolution, spaces of empathy, to name a few, that suggest spaces that can create a difference in our lives.

Short Description:

We sought to critically examine how Interior Design can impact the way we live. What spaces are needed today that have a meaningful impact on our lives? How can we think of spaces not as objects/nouns but as verbs that change how we live and act.

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