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MFA ID Roundtables bring together MFA Interior Design Thesis students with ID writers, theorists, and critical thinkers. As we rethink the norms of how we practice Interior Design and rethink our built environment through the lens of equity, inclusion, and social responsibility, students set the questions and discussion framed around critical ID texts in relation to their own thesis research. Topics are formed around emerging student driven thesis themes. The format includes an introduction to the outside scholar, and the graduate student research, followed by a Q&A.
This Roundtable with Professor Graeme Brooker will focus on Professor Brooker’s extensive work on the histories, theories and processes of the interior, specifically his recent publications The Story of the Interior (Thames + Hudson 2025), a thematic retelling of histories of the subject without relying on the standard accounts of architecture and their associated chronologies and The superREUSE Manifesto (Routledge 2025).
The Story of the Interior, organized into three sections—The Room, The Private Interior and The Public Interior—presents a fascinating new analysis of how the interior has been conceived and thought of from antiquity to the present day. By calling attention to the most basic elements of inside space—walls, doors, windows, furniture, ambience to name a few—this engaging exploration delves into how private and public interiors actively shape the way we live, work, learn, and play.
The superREUSE Manifesto identifies insights into cities, buildings, interiors, and objects constructed through working with extant material. Super is an elevated pitch for a 21st century that is characterized by responses to the challenges of the climate emergency and social justices. The superREUSE Manifesto coalesces ideas in the designed and built environment that react and work with these challenges. It is an uncompromising collection of ideas and propositions designed to stimulate its reader to rethink their position in relation to how we must transform everything into its superREUSE.
Introductions by MFA ID Co-Director Arianna Deane.
Graeme Brooker is full professor of Interior Design and head of Interiors at the Royal College of Art London.
He has published numerous books on many aspects of the interior including the recent publications Reuse Pedagogies (Routledge 2024), 50-words for Reuse (Canalside Press 2022), and the highly acclaimed Rereading’s (RIBA 2005, Volume 2 -2018).
He has led interior programmes in Cardiff, Manchester, Brighton, and Middlesex and has been a visiting professor in Antwerp, Berlin, Istanbul, and Milan.
He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Interiors: Design: Architecture: Culture (Bloomsbury), INNER, and IDEA. He was the founder of the charity Interior Educators (IE) and is a trustee of United In Design (UID).
His latest books are The Story of the Interior (Thames + Hudson 2025), a thematic retelling of histories of the subject without relying on the standard accounts of architecture and their associated chronologies and The superREUSE Manifesto (Routledge 2025).
Arianna Deane is the Director of the Master of Fine Arts Interior Design Program and Assistant Professor of Interior Design in the School of Constructed Environments. She has been an educator in interior design and architecture at several leading schools of art and design over the past decade.
In addition, she is the co-founder of an award winning multidisciplinary design studio, A+A+A. Working at all scales, the studio creates thoughtfully-designed buildings, interiors, exhibitions and experiences that make space for people—emotionally, culturally, and physically.
A+A+A’s process prioritizes building a radically inclusive way of working with a deep understanding of architectural design, urban interiors and the complexities of navigating civic processes, community engagement and cross-industry collaboration. The studio’s work has been recognized by the Center for Architecture New York City and in publications including Architects Newspaper, AN Interior, Domus, PIN-UP, Cultured, and Dwell, among others.
Arianna has been invited to lecture and host workshops across the country on socially engaged design practices. She approaches her design work and pedagogy with methodologies that center collaboration, inclusive processes, and joy. She began teaching at Parsons in 2022.
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