How does the integration of color and ornament within an interior shape our understanding of culture as well as shifts in cultural norms? This course will encompass studies in material culture and the cultural purpose of unique or appropriated forms for the decorative across a series of critical frameworks. The course content challenges the notion of ornament as decorative tastemaking or ‘embellishment’ alone. Projects will demonstrate the study of patterns and motifs from various origins and applications to explore how color, ornament, material, and volume support each other in the composition of an interior. Furthermore, students will be encouraged to make connections between course assignments and their thesis topic preparations. This course is one of two courses comprising studies and creative works in color and the constructed environment.