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Design Discourse: Graeme Brooker

February 10, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61 Saint James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Author and educator, Graeme Brooker, reframes our interior worlds from his recently published The Story of the Interior, How We Have Shaped.

Most of us will spend the majority of our lives indoors.

Author and educator, Graeme Brooker, will speak about our interior worlds based on his recently published The Story of the Interior, How We Have Shaped Rooms and How They Shape Us. Described as a “a fascinating tour of global interiors, tracing the genesis and evolution of these spaces and how they help us understand human presence and behavior,” this talk will certainly amuse and provoke.

Graeme Brooker is a 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, a thematic retelling of histories of the subject without relying on the standard accounts of architecture and their associated chronologies (Thames + Hudson 2025) and The superREUSE Manifesto (Routledge 2025).

Design Discourse is a School of Design series of talks that speak to the impact of design.

This event is open to the public.