ABSTRACT
The technological and social changes represent potential for advancement and fundamental disruptions to our traditional way of living and functioning in social, economic, and spatial realms. Interior architecture is a spatial therapy for critically understanding and connecting the past, present, and future through design actions responding to profound changes. This chapter examines contemporary opportunities for interior architecture to illustrate the critical potential of this emerging discipline. It demonstrates how interior architecture is among the most relevant design tools of today – where history, theory, and design unite to address the most imperative issues in an era of disruptive change. As the inevitable inverse of industrialization, deindustrialization provides extensive opportunities for interior architecture and its allied design disciplines to respond to the increasing availability of post-industrial space. As spatially oriented disciplines, both landscape architecture and interior architecture demonstrate the potential of engaging postindustrial environments to enable a nuanced approach that embraces existent tradition and progressive innovation.
