“Concentric Adaptations”

Amy Campos is a tenured Associate Professor at California College of the Arts, currently Chair of the Interior Design program. Her work focuses on durability and design with special interest in the impermanent, migratory potentials of the interior. The work spans a variety of scales, platforms and formats, from inhabited architectural spaces to object and furniture design, as well as, writing. Recent publications include Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge, 2018) and the chapters “Survivalism, interiorization and exclusivity” in Interior Futures (Crucible Press, 2019) and “Territory and Inhabitation” in Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2018). Campos has taught design for over 20 years in Interior Design, Architecture, Urban Design, Visual and Critical Studies and 3D foundational studies at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She was the recipient of the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) Teacher of the Year award in 2013 and the American Society of Interior Design’s (ASID) Design Luminary Award in 2014. She has previously served on the Board of Directors for the Interior Design Educator’s Council (IDEC). She received her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.