After Taste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design is an edited volume comprising texts, interviews & portfolios that collectively document new theories & emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. The material is informed by, but not limited to, the annual After Taste symposia hosted by Parsons The New School of Design. The book`s central argument is that the field of interior design is inadequately served by its historical reliance on taste-making & taste-makers, &, more recently from a set of theoretical concerns derived from architecture; the volume seeks to set an expanded frame by advancing new voices & perspectives in both the theory & practice of interior design, considered as an independent discipline. In 2007, the Department of Architecture, Interior Design & Lighting at Parsons The New School for Design inaugurated an annual international symposium series dedicated to the critical study of the interior. Titled After Taste, these yearly symposia offer expansive views of interior studies, highlight emerging areas of research, identify allied practices, make public its under-explored territory, & attract future designers & scholars to the field. Now in its fourth year, After Taste has proven to be one of the very few venues internationally for critically exploring interior design. The field of interior design is asymmetrically served by the current literature in the field. Too frequently, the current writing & making in interiors emphasize the ineffable, the biographical, & the social elite, & promote a curiously unsubstantiated notion of connoisseurship as the principal basis for design. Other attempts to construct an intellectual agenda for the study of the interior draw heavily from architectural theory, ignoring the discipline`s own specific & autonomous history. After Taste, the book, is intended to adjust this imbalance by introducing interior design material that is theoretically & historically situated, technically grounded, demographically inclusive, & aesthetically adventurous.