ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book centers on experience and memory as foundations to generate spatial proposals for the adaptation of interiors, architecture, and the urban realm. It examines experimental online formats as alternatives to traditional place-bound approaches to urban planning education. The book offers a presentation of design studio thinking under the rubric ‘Sites of Alternate Origin’ by Ball State assistant professors Sean Burns and Matthew Wilson. It examines a series of architectural design projects that encourage students to envision, design, and fabricate their own ‘site’ based on hermeneutic approaches to various theoretical and philosophical texts. The book focuses on sensorial analysis of exterior environments and how this data can inform the interior design decision-making process.
