Personal profile
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Research interests
Dr Ersi Ioannidou is Senior Lecturer in Interior Design and PGR Student Director for The Design School at Kingston University. A member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre, her research investigates the modern meaning of the minimum dwelling. In particular, she examines how this notion has been shaped by two interconnected developments: the emergence of the domestic interior as a personal project and the rise of the machine as a design paradigm. Her current work—reflecting a longstanding fascination with space travel—explores real and fictional space interiors, the utopian domestic architectures of the 1960s and 1970s, and interior environments in science-fiction film.
PhD Supervision
I welcome text-based and practice-based PhD research projects in the fields of Architecture and Interior Design.
Education/Academic qualification
SFHEA
Award Date: 22 Dec 2025
FHEA
Award Date: 1 Aug 2016
Doctorate, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Award Date: 31 Jan 2007
March, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Award Date: 29 Sept 2000
Diploma in Architecture, National Technical University of Athens
Award Date: 31 Jul 1997
External positions
External Examiner, BA Interior Design, Bath Spa University, UK
2024 → 2027
External Examiner, BA Interior Architecture & Design, Leeds Beckett University, UK
2021 → 2025
External Examiner, MA Interior Design, Westminster University, UK
2017 → 2022
External Examiner, BA Interior Design, Technical University of Dublin, Ireland
2015 → 2019
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Exhibition as interior, interior as exhibition: spaces of display within and beyond the museum and gallery
Sparke, P. (Editor), Scholze, J. (Editor), Kirkham, P. (Editor), Ioannidou, E. (Editor), Fisher, F. (Editor) & Lara-Betancourt, P. (Editor), Oct 2025, UK: Bloomsbury. 216 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The Time House: between cybernetics and phenomenology
Ioannidou, E., 31 Jan 2024, In: Achitecture_MPS. 27, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Interiors in the era of Covid-19: interior design between the public and private realms
Scholze, J. (Editor), Kirkham, P. (Editor), Sparke, P. (Editor), Knott, S. (Editor) & Ioannidou, E. (Editor), 23 Feb 2023, London, U.K.: Bloomsbury. 312 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The Time House
Ioannidou, E., 2 Dec 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Cosmic heterotopias
Ioannidou, E., 2 Sept 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Activities
- 2 Peer-reviewer
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Interiors : Design/Architecture/Culture (Journal)
Ioannidou, E. (Reviewer)
2020 → …Activity: Publishers › Peer-reviewer
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Journal of Design History (Journal)
Ioannidou, E. (Reviewer)
2020 → …Activity: Publishers › Peer-reviewer