This research is contextualised by the postdigital mediation of the contemporary interior across a range of settings and encounters. Current practice-based investigations deploy tools of machinic visioning, such as photogrammetry, to propose strategies of counter-mapping to resist the regimes of surveillance capitalism the contemporary interior is subjected to.

Dave leads the Image|Imaging|Interior research cluster at The Glasgow School of Art which explores new crossdisplinary practices and frameworks of knowledge-making through which to interrogate the interior, its image, and its imaging. The contemporary interior, its design and fabrication, is a 3-dimensional space that is increasingly smeared across and embedded upon the 2-dimensional screen. In the digital image-based society, a range of technological platforms collapse space and reconfigure the interior as a mediated artefact circulated in a multitude of overlapping and colliding virtual and actual 2d/3d conditions. The Image|Imaging|Interior research cluster proposes timely and urgent investigations to explore how virtual and physical spaces, and their design and fabrication, directly engage and inform each other, to present arrangements at the interstice of 2d and 3d, image and actual.

Journal Articles

Un/Building Domesticity: Mapping the distributed home under platform technologies and virtual reality (forthcoming 2024) idea journal

Resisting the Real through Imagined Interiors and Social Media’s Spaces of Uncertainty (2023), idea journal, 20 (01). pp. 62-80. ISSN 2208-9217

The Aesthetics of Digital Intimacy: Resisting Airbnb’s Datafication of the Interior (2021), Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture Vol. 11 (2). ISSN 2041-9120

Conference Papers

Machines Imagining Interior Images: Investigating the significance of algorithmic ‘text-to-image’ processes for the practice and pedagogy of interior design (2023), Glasgow School of Art Learning & Teaching Conference

The Image, the Imaging and the Imagining of the Interior (2022), Representing Pasts / Visioning Futures, AMPS Virtual

Seeing as Un/Making – Photogrammetry as a techno-feminist practice of counter-mapping (2022), Counter-Image International Conference – Decolonizing Visuality, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Domestic Data: Towards an Aesthetics of Intimate Resistance (2021), 11th International New Materialist Conference, Kassel, Germany

Exhibitions

All Tomorrow’s Interiors (2023), Architecture Fringe 2023, Corridor Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art

Inhabiting Infrastructure (2021), Architecture Fringe 2021, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow