Dr Ersi Ioannidou
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of 3D Design
- School of Design
Senior Lecturer / PGR Student Director
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am a design educator and researcher.
Currently, I am senior lecturer in interior design and postgraduate student director for the design School. Previously I have taught architecture and interior design in my native Greece and the UK, including at the Technical University of Crete, Athens National Technical University, Central Saint Martins, University for the Creative Arts and University of Brighton.
I hold a Diploma in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens and a MArch and a PhD by design from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
I pursue my research through an interaction of design and text and at the same time investigate how this interaction produces new forms of developing and presenting research in design. My research deals with the machine as design paradigm in 20th-century domestic architecture. My research interests include: the meaning of the house and home in modern urban environments; the definition of the minimum in mass-produced housing; and the idea of function. My recent work, reflecting my fascination with space travel, explores real and fictional space interiors; utopian domestic architecture of the 1960s and 1970s; and interiors in science fiction film.
I welcome text-based and practice-based PhD research projects in the fields of Architecture and Interior Design.
Qualifications
- PhD by Design, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
- MArch, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
- Diploma in Architecture, National Technical University of Athens
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Domains
Courses taught
My research is primarily concerned with the modern meaning of the minimum dwelling in urban environments.
This meaning has been largely shaped by two interconnected developments.
First, the definition of the modern urban house as the space of the private par excellence and the subsequent creation of the home as a personal project.
Second, the advance of the machine as a means of production and as a design paradigm which led to the metaphorical and actual mechanisation and miniaturisation of the house.
My stand is optimistic and luddite in character. Opposing the belief that the experience of the home is impossible in modern urban environment, my research examines how the current economic, cultural, technological and social conditions redefine the meaning of the home and the role of the house – once again. My research particularly focuses on the minimum means that help the individual create a sense of at home in transit – what I call the minimum home.
Publications
The Time House: between cybernetics and phenomenology
Ioannidou, Ersi, 2024, Achitecture_MPS (27), 1, Published
Home no.7 (a sample of)
Ioannidou, Ersi, 2021, Interiors : Design/Architecture/Culture (11), 1pp 1-16, Published
Book Review of: 'Thinking home : interdisciplinary dialogues' by Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric (eds.)
Ioannidou, Ersi, 2020, Home Cultures : The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space (16), 2pp 157-161, Published
The house of multiple dimensions: design referencing as creative practice
Ioannidou, Ersi, 2015, Drawing On : Journal of Architectural Research by Design (1)pp 61-75, Published
Exhibition as interior, interior as exhibition: spaces of display within and beyond the museum and gallery
(2025). UK: [Published]
Interiors in the era of Covid-19: interior design between the public and private realms
(2023). London, U.K.: [Published]
Cosmic heterotopia: banality and disjunction in the interiors of 'Passengers'
Ioannidou, Ersi (2021). In: Kirkham, Pat, Lichtman, Sarah A., (eds.), London: [Published]
Structuralism and metabolism
Ioannidou, Ersi (2011). In: Valena, Tomas, (eds.), Stuttgart, Germany:pp 222-227 [Published]
Humanist machines: Daniel Libeskind‘s "Three Lessons in Architecture"
Ioannidou, Ersi (2010). In: Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen, Lomholt, Jane, Temple, Nicholas, Tobe, Renee, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.:pp 81-90 [Published]
The minimum home
Ioannidou, Ersi (2009). [Published]
The one-room mansion, Tokyo
Ioannidou, Ersi (2007). In: Al-Qawasmi, Jamal, Mahmoud, Abdesselem, Djerbi, Ali, (eds.)[Published]
The Time House
Ioannidou, E.(2022). [Published]
Cosmic heterotopias
Ioannidou, Ersi(2022). [Published]
”just-enough otherness”: the use of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s work in Inception and Passengers
Ioannidou, Ersi(2019). [Published]
Interstellar arks
Ioannidou, Ersi(2018). [Published]
Daniel Libeskind's three lessons in architecture: an allegory on the tools of the (post-) modern architect
Ioannidou, Ersi(2017). [Published]
The Time House
Ioannidou, Ersi(2016). [Published]
Metabolism: the last modernist utopia
Ioannidou, Ersi(2016). [Published]
House of Multiple Dimensions
Ioannidou, Ersi(2015). [Published]
Metabolism: the last modernist utopia
Ioannidou, Ersi(2015). [Published]
House of Multiple Dimensions
Ioannidou, Ersi(2013). [Published]
Structuralism and metabolism
Ioannidou, Ersi(2009). [Published]
The minimum home
Ioannidou, Ersi(2009). [Published]
The one-room mansion, Tokyo
Ioannidou, Ersi(2007). [Published]
The (Existez-) minimum dwelling
Ioannidou, Ersi (2007), PhD thesis [Accepted/In press]