Firms Amplify the Visibility of HIV/AIDS-Impacted Communities at Dining by Design 2019 - Interior Design

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Yesterday marked the final day of Dining by Design 2019. For DIFFA—the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS—Dining by Design is the most visible fundraiser of the year, drawing thousands from its co-location with the AD Design Show. Accomplished interior designers join forces with industry-leading brands to create stunning dining vignettes that host five days of benefits, fundraisers, and visits by the general public. Several of this year's participating designers used their installations to de-stigmatize and increase the visibility of communities most impacted by HIV/AIDS.For Adam Rolston and Drew Stuart, partners at INC Architecture & Design, this meant acknowledging the the LGBTQIA+ community through an abstract expressionist interpretation of the Pride flag's rainbow.Dining by Design Installation by INC Architecture & Design. Photography by Alan Berry."Our work is always about this more immersive and perhaps cerebral take on space and visual identity," explained Stuart, who is the field director at INC. "Within that cerebral conceit, what kind of environment do we then posit to people? There's this dialogue we’ve been having around this idea of exuberance and, honestly, inclusiveness and gayness. You know, why can’t it be celebrated by everyone?""Picking up on the tropes of abstract expressionism, one of the things that art critics talk about is the way that the artist put his or her emotions and physical body into the painting," added Rolston, INC's managing and creative director. "You could see the action of the artist in the painting. So that exuberance and joy was one of the things that we wanted to capture too."For Rolston, participating in Dining by Design with DIFFA hits close to home. "As a gay guy that came out in the midst of the AIDS crisis, [I] was part of Act Up from its very beginning. Act Up was sort of the progenitor of all of these organizations like DIFFA and GMHC," he said. "Because of the roots of DIFFA, that three-dimensional painting that is based on the rainbow flag felt super appropriate."Read More: Windows by Design Spreads Awareness for HIV/AIDSDining by Design installation by IA Interior Architects. Photography by Alan Berry.The installation of IA Interior Architects also put the LGBTQIA+ community at the forefront of visibility. The vignette—while vibrantly colorful—evokes solemnity. Half of the 11'x11' booth symbolizes retrospect through a composite of public health awareness posters from the height of the AIDS crisis. "We knew that we wanted to connect back to the mission of DIFFA. We realized that it’s been 35 years since the founding of DIFFA, and also the identification of the AIDS retrovirus," said Steven South, who is a senior designer at the New York office of IA Interior Architects and worked on the firm's installation.

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