SAHARA Highlights: East Coast Public Interior Spaces
by Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D., SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group, Research Committee member | Jan 11, 2023
While we have been going through an unprecedented time due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have re-noticed the vital role and function of interiors in our lives and their sustainability. In particular, the creation and improvement of public interior spaces as meeting and multi-use places for our learning, research, and teaching experiences have gained more importance among essential parameters of public health. In light of this, it seems to be the time to raise a critical awareness of public interior space as a way to heal people while (re)sharing their experiences together. With our dramatic pandemic experience and an emphasis on its “public” dimension, these photographs aim to invite all to re-think about extensive definition(s) and our understanding of interior design as a discipline, professional and multidisciplinary practice, as well as scholarly endeavor on its his/herstories.
" This Highlights feature was curated by a guest editor who represents the Historic Interiors Group, one of the SAH Affiliate Groups. Any member of the SAH can propose to guest edit a Highlights, and we especially encourage the members of the affiliate groups to take the opportunity. If interested in guest editing Highlights, contact the SAHARA Co-Editors: Jackie Spafford and Mark Hinchman".
(SAHARA is a digital image archive developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with Artstor and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.).
Please see for more: https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2023/01/11/sahara-highlights-east-coast-public-interior-spaces, last accessed on 1.12.2023.
I am also thankful to the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) to share the news on my published 11 public interior photographs by SAHARA via their SAH News e-bulletin.
