ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to the critical debate surrounding interior installations by thinking through the spatial agency of computationally designed and digitally fabricated environments. It considers the potential for such technology-based designs to not only allow for new expressive formal orders, but to also empower people to consider socially, culturally, and economically activated space. Digital technology possesses an entirely different type of spatial agency as compared to that of the Modernist movement. Contemporary practice operates within Stan Allen's third phase of engagement with digital technology, in which designers are exploring its strategic and operative potential for spatial design. Digital fabrication is the way in which designers are able to produce customized design response to conventional interiors in an economically competitive way. The disciplines engaging spatial design – architecture, interior architecture, interior design, environmental design, exhibition design, interaction design, and industrial design – are based on stable knowledge. The aesthetic of interior architecture is inextricably linked to the tools used for design.
