Ph.D. Thesis Defence: Dwellscape: The Contemporary Dwelling Interior as a Domestic Landscape

Nicholas Thomas Lee defends his dissertation Dwellscape: The Contemporary Dwelling Interior as a Domestic Landscape.             

The Ph.D. dissertation engages in an architectural discourse on the spatial organisation of the contemporary dwelling interior. Through a reconceptualisation of the contemporary dwelling interior as a ‘domestic landscape’ the notion of ‘Dwellscape’ is proposed as a productive spatial organisation strategy. A ‘Dwellscape’ is defined as a continuous ‘domestic landscape’ composed of a relational field-configuration of distinct architectural elements, which define ‘places’ that accommodate specific activities, as well as delineating ambiguous interstitial ‘places’ that can support inhabitant appropriation in a multitude of ways.

Agenda
13:00 Welcome and presentation of chairperson, assessment committee, supervisors and author by Kirsten Marie Raahauge

13:05 Nicholas Thomas Lee presents his dissertation Dwellscape: The Contemporary Dwelling Interior as a Domestic Landscape.

13:50 Short break

According to the ’Ministerial Order on the PhD Course of Study and the PhD Degree’ the chairperson may invite the audience to contribute with short statements. Such intentions should be addressed to the chairperson during the break. 

14:00 Penny Sparke, Professor, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK

14:30 Jonathan Foote, Associate Professor, Arkitektskolen Aarhus

15:00 Peter Bertram, Associate Professor, Institute of Architecture and Culture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, KADK (chair of the assessment committee)

15:30 Comments from the auditorium.

The assessment committee evaluates and makes the concluding remarks.

 Closure of session.

Assessment committee
Penny Sparke, Professor of Design History, Ph.D., Director, Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London, UK

 Jonathan Foote, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark

Peter Bertram, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Institute of Architecture and Culture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, KADK, Denmark (chair of the assessment committee)

Supervisors
Kirsten Marie Raahauge, Professor MSO, Institute of Architecture and Design, KADK, Denmark

Peter Thule Kristensen, Professor, Institute of Architecture and Design, KADK, Denmark

Chairperson of the defence
Kirsten Marie Raahauge, Professor MSO, Institute of Architecture and Design, KADK, Denmark

The thesis is the result of a Ph.D.-fellowship financed by KADK and has been undertaken within the Institute of Architecture and Design (IBD), KADK.

The thesis is available to look through for interested persons at the Library of Architecture, Design and Performing Arts, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 50, 1434 Copenhagen K.