How to teach Innovative Interior Designwith Creative Procedures

On teaching Interior Design we use the concrete knowledge of living. We all inhabit places from which we carry a series of sensations, spatial and dimensional relationships, strongly connected to our own body and culture. If it is already difficult for students to acknowledge such complexities, it is even harder if they have to design extreme living spaces such as a shelter, a space capsule or even a cabin of a ship or a boat. This paper regards to the use of the Exhibition and Experimental Design Workshop at the Design School of the Politecnico di Milano, as a place to facilitate Interior Design projects. In this Lab, students experiment on simulated real scale working models: the SFC (EBS) and ARCA (ARK), exercising on various design typologies.