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Laura Ford's Thesis_some notes

 "In spatial design, the treatment of surface is part of the experience of a design on a grander scale, like walls, ceilings and floors that give us enclosures and places to perform different rituals.2" Laura Ford, Surface built : making the New Zealand home : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Design in Spatial Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://muir.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/1523 on Thursday September 1, 2011.
2    Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone.“From Organisation to Decoration.” In Thinking inside the Box: A Reader in Interior Design for the 21st Century, edited by Scotland Interiors Forum, 125-32. London: Middlesex University Press, 2007., 126.

Quote from Laura Fords Thesis Foreword P. 2. The use of the word 'ritual' - have a look at footnote "From Organisation to Decoration". Requested "Thinking Inside the Box".

P. 3, nice way of addressing shift in focus.