KATIE GAGLE
Interior Design Kent State University Selected Work

Interior Design creates stories.
Through clear spatial strategies, a deep understanding of users, and exploring affect and ideas through collage, a storytelling narrative is translated into physical space. I am determined to navigate and resolve design challenges while also creating atmospheres that encourage empathy and tell the stories of users. Design is not cookie-cutter. Design is for people.
Akron, Ohio Fall 2022
Professor: Ronn Daniel
Partner: Sarah Price
The Center for Applied Drama and Autism (CADA), is a performance and theater program for autistic children. Their mission is to “inspire the growth and empowerment of diverse individuals on the autism spectrum and those with cognitive and physical disabilities through theatre-based programming.” As carefully calibrated sensory experiences are critical for both hypo- and hyper-sensitive students, the space will not be limited to specific sensory spaces, but will have opportunities throughout the entire scope. Ripples and curves will echo throughout the space, creating a motif that exemplifies way-finding, program zones, and elements of respite. A simple plan creates a clear wave that cuts through the entire space, gently guiding students and staff like flowing water.
Sensory space echoing out across the entire scope.
THE KIOSK IS ABLE TO BE COMPACTED INTO ONE MOVEABLE PIECE + TRANSPORTED BY BIKE OR VEHICLE
SEVERAL PIECES MAKE UP THIS KIOSK TO ALLOW FOR SEVERAL CONFIGURATIONS + FLEXIBILITY
In order to gain an understanding of figure-ground relationships, photos of architectural structures and interiors were collected. The figure-ground images were extruded, manipulated, added to, and subtracted to create an organic object composed of twenty-four layers to show spatial relationships.
Collinwood, Ohio Spring 2021
Professor: Jen Roebuck
Partner: Megan Kinsey
Selected for exhibition in CAED X-Gallery
Waterloo Arts hosts an artist studio and workshop space in Cleveland, Ohio. It explores new forms of community interaction and reconsiders the future of neighborhood retail through the bartering of goods and ideas. A space is envisioned for display and the exchange of goods. Dialogue becomes rich through changeable components and participating in the observation of the arts.
This is achieved by a set of rules: plane and line is restricted to vertical, horizontal, and 45 degree angles. Line is a single size to allow for consistency of engagement. Circular elements combined with a 45 degree angle create a diversion to new areas and ideas.
Healthcare Cleveland, Ohio Fall 2021
Professor:
Partners:
Abigail Knopf Isabella Hartung, Hailley TurnerThe concept of The Sanctuary is intended to be the hub for a support system that is focused on the wellbeing of patients and staff through safety, health, and comfort. TheSanctuaryis able to provide areas for patients without being constrained to traditional methods of care. TheSanctuary is organized with Rivers and Roads. Roads describes a more linear path for patients to speak with their health providers privately. Rivers are fluid, allowing for engagement opportunities in a group through therapy or group collaboration. Additional wayfinding is marked by zones of Sanctuary, Growth, and Destinations, each focusing on either safety, health, or comfort. This allows patients to take-back control over the methods of their healing.
Boise, Idaho Fall 2021
Professor:
Abigail KnopfSelected for exhibition in CAED X-Gallery
Due to COVID-19, we have begun to develop a variety of solutions for both remote and in-person work methods, diversifying atmospheres in the workplace. To understand the new workplace environment, storytelling around several critical employees will be introduced who both work from home and come into the office on a quarterly basis to identify work-life balance. For LEGO, the challenge becomes enabling an environment to generate ideas and relationships with the work community no matter the location of staff. To overcome this dispersal, a space will be created to go “back to the basics” and simplify how office spaces function. To drive the design, play, cultivating boldness, and gathering will be used through collaboration opportunities, intentional spaces for idea sharing, and adding playfulness through color, line, and bold shapes.
Collaboration fosters play and boldness in the workplace
Employees communicate and share ideas in new ways while accomodating work-life balance
Independent work utilizing work from home
Navigating different work styles due to COVID-19.
This transformation project plays with layering and stacking. Beginning with figure ground images, and using line and shape to transform the image over several slides, layering and stacking is utilized to create a three-dimensional object.
A collection of my collages, both digital and analog, as well as photographs I’ve taken, that explore space, texture, color, and light in the environment around me. These process pieces are an essential part of my creative work and assist in the development of concept and strategy. They help me to tell atmospheric spatial stories.