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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon KÖNIGK, Raymund Born: Architect BInt 2002: Claim Use Adapt: Cohousing Community in the Old Poynton's Building, Church Street (Pretoria); MInt 2009: Interior Design as Architecture's 'Other' (Pretoria); PhD 2015 (Pretoria) Title of PhD thesis; An imaginal interpretation of interior design's methods of cultural production: towards a strategy for constructing meaning. Supervisor Prof KA BAKKER, Co-supervisor Prof RC FISHER. In his thesis the promovendus identified, isolated, described and interpreted methods of making meaning. The original contributions of the thesis was summarised in the imaginal interiors hypothesis: "Interior design produces culture through synthesis, proximity, associations, timeliness and technification". The primary research methods were constructivist grounded theory and phenomenography. Qualitative, interpretivist tools were developed and used in the content analysis through interpretation. The analysis followed a process of coding and analytic integration to construct theory. The analysis is based on a non-probability, judgmental sample of representations of interior artefacts which was compiled to cover the substantive area with a degree of representivity and generality. The corpus contains photographic documentation and meta-data for 72 interior artefacts. The thesis makes theoretical contributions by describing the role of meaning in interior design, how that meaning is made and how this influences cultural production in general. The practical contributions manifest in facilitating the production of new interior artefacts. The thesis strategically expanded the interior design process to include imaginal aspects and contains a call for the incorporation of knowledge-based, empirical research practice in the interior design process. The thesis presents a design strategy to augment but not replace, well-developed design intuition. This strategy is a novel contribution to interior design's production processes.