I typed these words on google:
What is Interior Design
The second result turned out to be this:
As on 5th September 2018, this is the definition (and understanding) according to the very renowned NYSID.
Interior design is all about how we experience spaces. It’s a powerful, essential part of our daily lives and affects how we live, work, play, and even heal. Comfortable homes, functional workplaces, beautiful public spaces—that’s interior design at work.
Right after the word heal, they place the phrase Comfortable homes.
There's a huge variety hiding behind that single concept heal. Barring exceptional circumstances, I have serious doubts if comfortable as we understand, imagine and practice currently as part of interior design plays that role in healing. Beautiful public places can surely heal. But then one would have to dig out the huge variety hiding behind that concept 'beautiful' and also behind the concept 'public places'.
That screenshot-image of the definition awkwardly jutting out (on my laptop screen it does) of the blog-frame may not be beautiful, and yet may play a role in healing the reader's understanding of interior design some day.
Academies and schools and institutions take time to revise the definitions. Sometimes, definitions, and their limits to convey the things that matter, and the time taken to revise the definitions do a lot of damage. But definitions are not the end-points of understanding. Just the start.
What is Interior Design
The second result turned out to be this:
As on 5th September 2018, this is the definition (and understanding) according to the very renowned NYSID.
Interior design is all about how we experience spaces. It’s a powerful, essential part of our daily lives and affects how we live, work, play, and even heal. Comfortable homes, functional workplaces, beautiful public spaces—that’s interior design at work.
Right after the word heal, they place the phrase Comfortable homes.
There's a huge variety hiding behind that single concept heal. Barring exceptional circumstances, I have serious doubts if comfortable as we understand, imagine and practice currently as part of interior design plays that role in healing. Beautiful public places can surely heal. But then one would have to dig out the huge variety hiding behind that concept 'beautiful' and also behind the concept 'public places'.
That screenshot-image of the definition awkwardly jutting out (on my laptop screen it does) of the blog-frame may not be beautiful, and yet may play a role in healing the reader's understanding of interior design some day.
Academies and schools and institutions take time to revise the definitions. Sometimes, definitions, and their limits to convey the things that matter, and the time taken to revise the definitions do a lot of damage. But definitions are not the end-points of understanding. Just the start.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/02/making-the-garden
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