virtual interiorities offers a critical forum for presenting creative practices and scholarship of historical, theoretical, realized, and speculative work involving virtual reality, architecture, and design. More specifically, it promotes innovation in design theory, pedagogy, research, and practice. The symposium invites interdisciplinary research and collaborations that include, but are not limited to architecture, spatial design, interior architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design, adaptive reuse, preservation, computer science, media studies, and the performing arts.

Suggested Themes:

  • VR as an Architectural Medium
  • Virtual Simulations
  • Virtualizing Architectural Research Methods
  • VR and Sustainability
  • Histories of Virtuality in Design
  • Theorizing Virtual Space
  • Virtual Reality and Architectural Pedagogy
  • Virtual Ecologies
  • Urban Virtualities
  • Interdisciplinary Collaborations

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES

  • Paper Presentation: Papers must report on completed research or creative work and cannot be previously published. All papers will go through a double-blind peer review process. Accepted authors are expected to present their project at the symposium. Papers presented in the symposium will be published in the symposium proceedings. Authors of presented papers will be required to complete a copyright transfer form for the publication of their images in the symposium proceedings.
  • Pecha Kucha Sessions: Pecha Kucha sessions will include presentations of 20 images shown for 20 seconds each for a total of six minutes and forty seconds. Pecha Kucha presentations may report on completed or in-process research or creative work. All submissions will go through a double-blind peer review process. Accepted authors are expected to present their project at the symposium. The abstract and the accompanying images for Pecha Kucha sessions presented in the symposium will be published in the symposium proceedings. Authors of presented Pecha Kucha sessions will be required to complete a copyright transfer form for the publication of their images in the symposium proceedings.
  • Virtual Projects/Installations: Virtual Projects/Installations may take the form of various creative endeavors. All submissions will go through a double-blind peer review process. Accepted authors are expected to attend the symposium. Accepted virtual projects will be displayed on temporary VR stations adjacent to the symposium venue. Only presented Virtual Projects/Installations will be published in the symposium proceedings with a still image and accompanying abstract. Authors of Virtual Projects/Installations will be required to complete a copyright transfer form for the publication of their images in the symposium proceedings.