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Intervención de Espacios

English translation: Public design

19:41 Feb 9, 2015
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Education / Pedagogy / art
Spanish term or phrase: Intervención de Espacios
One of the programs offered at a fashion and design school in Colombia.

Interiorismo e Intervención de Espacios

A quick Google Images of 'Intervención de Espacios' gives many examples, but I'm having a mental block in coming up with the appropriate term in English. I thought of 'street art' or 'art installations' but wonder if there might be a more accurate term.
Laura Molinari
Canada
Local time: 12:21
English translation:Public design
Explanation:
If you Google the images for "Intervención de espacios" and "Public design", they correspond.
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Norman Terrell
United States
Local time: 09:21
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4 +2Public design
Norman Terrell
4 +1(Interior Design and) Spatial Organization
Charles Davis


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Public design


Explanation:
If you Google the images for "Intervención de espacios" and "Public design", they correspond.

Norman Terrell
United States
Local time: 09:21
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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agree  philgoddard: http://www.lci.edu.co/programas/programa_interiorismo.aspx
2 hrs
agree  Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
5 days
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(Interior Design and) Spatial Organization


Explanation:
It's not about street art at all, nor is it about public art or design, unless it's intervención de espacios públicos. Courses with this name are really about interior design, and the "espacios" referred to are interior spaces.

The very course description Phil has quoted in support of "public design" says this:
"¿Eres un apasionado por el diseño de espacios interiores y los detalles arquitectónicos?"
http://www.lci.edu.co/programas/programa_interiorismo.aspx

Interior design can be applied to any kind of interior; the course description goes on to mention "nuestros hogares, áreas de trabajo, restaurantes, espacios comerciales, entre otros". But the spaces can be either private or public; intervención de espacios is not public design; it's design of interior spaces.

Here's another description of a course with this title:

"Carrera en Interiorismo e Intervención de Espacios
En el ejercicio del Diseño Interior, cuyo protagonismo se incrementa cada vez más en nuestra sociedad, nuestros egresados proponen al cliente conceptos y soluciones idóneas para transformar un espacio. Todo esto se da a partir del placer y complejidad de proyectar, crear, experimentar, exponer, presupuestar y construir un interior concebido desde la sensaciones de las formas, la iluminación, el mobiliario, las texturas y el color, que forman un conjunto en perfecto equilibrio y que logra la imagen que quiere proyectar su cliente."
http://www.educaedu-colombia.com/carrera-en-diseno-de-interi...

I think this course can be called "interior design and spatial organization". The two terms quite commonly go together in English:

"203 Interior Design Studio III 4 (1-9) Course Prerequisite: I D 201. Interior design problem-solving grounded in theories of spatial organization."
http://www.catalog.wsu.edu/General/Academics/Courses/I_D

"Academic Learning Compact: Interior Design
The four-year bachelor of design degree in Interior Design requires you to demonstrate and understand the creative design process and associated skills as they relate to problem solving and spatial organization."
https://catalog.ufl.edu/ugrad/current/design/alc/interior-de...

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Note added at 3 hrs (2015-02-09 23:09:34 GMT)
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By the way, the second source I cited above, which is a more detailed description of the course at LCI Bogotá, includes "Organización bidimensional" in Cuatrimestre IV and "Organización tridimensional" in Cuatrimestre V.

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 18:21
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 676

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: IMHO this sounds more akin to the original, which I think is desirable here.
9 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil. That's my feeling too. Cheers ;-)
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