{"id":5042,"date":"2024-05-10T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:49","slug":"rmit-professor-discusses-nuances-of-interior-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/rmit-professor-discusses-nuances-of-interior-design\/","title":{"rendered":"RMIT professor discusses nuances of interior design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Salama Al Mahri&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 A building\u2019s interior should be looked at as something to be designed, not something that already exists, Suzie Attiwill, professor of interior design at the RMIT University, told American University of Sharjah students April 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDesign is both a noun and a verb,\u201d Attiwill said during the session in the College of Architecture, Art and Design, which was rescheduled from April 17 due to heavy rains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture, titled \u201cUrban Interiorities &amp; Interior Designing,\u201d took place online with about 50 people attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussing the practice of interior design in urban settings, Attiwill said that it helps with creating functional environments that meet people\u2019s needs and enhances their experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Attiwill, an individual\u2019s environment doesn\u2019t necessarily need to be enclosed. Spaces are dynamic, she said, and the lines between outside and inside are dynamic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne could say, \u2018Well this room is an interior,\u2019\u201d she said at one point, \u201cbut I think if there is a spider web up in one of the corners then the spider there is thinking that we\u2019re all in its outside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Salama Al Mahri&nbsp; UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 A building\u2019s interior should be looked at as something to be designed, not something that already exists, Suzie Attiwill, professor of interior design at the RMIT University, told American University of Sharjah students April 18. \u201cDesign is both a noun and a verb,\u201d Attiwill said during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-5042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-caad"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}