INTtalk: Using Theater to Teach Interior Design with Sarah K. Lippmann

This event will be live in ST311 and on Zoom.

Theater morphs from art form into methodology; its philosophies become spatial templates within interiors. This talk introduces theater as an analytical spine for specificity, engaging with interior design as an opportunity, as a tool for atmospheric development, and as a construct for interior interventions where theater itself expands how we experience space.

Sarah K. Lippmann is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Interior Design Department since 2017. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Interior Architecture at Drexel University, where she has been teaching since 2018.

Interpreting emotions into physical space is where Sarah’s former career as a theater professional, her creative practice, and teaching converge. Her work considers how humans inhabit internal psychological and external physical space simultaneously. Visual representation, a consistent focus of her work, is integral to conveying design intent and directly tied to emotional response. Her creative practice uses tools from theatrical text analysis as a means of storytelling through specificity using the medium of digital collage. Currently, she is examining the domestic sphere in fictional work by female authors, where emotional interiority and psychological conditions are translated into spatial experiences.

Sarah worked as a theater professional for over two decades before pivoting to interiors. She holds an MS in Interior Design from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. After working in a number of boutique residential firms in NYC, she opened her own practice while also working in scenic design. As an educator, she brings a cross-disciplinary methodology to her teaching, research and creative practice.

If you have questions, please reach out to slippman@pratt.edu

This event is open to the public and will be recorded.