Sheryl Kasak is the founder of Interim Design, an architectural, interior design and research practice.   The work is grounded on the notion that we are all living in an interim state, one which is constantly evolving and reacting to our surrounding environment and our actions within it.  Practical and theoretical investigations are based upon the communication of contextual information through developing and everyday technologies and how these affect our perception of space and inform the design of our built environment.

An Adjunct Professor, CCE in the Department of Interior Design at Pratt Institute, Sheryl currently teaches Core Design Studio at the graduate level. 

Sheryl has been collecting visual and written data and documenting the outdoor dining constructs [AKA sheds] built in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic throughout New York City with her ongoing project DiningThresholds.com

Sheryl has presented her research and academic pedagogy at National and International conferences, most recently “Dining Thresholds”, at the 2023 Livable Cities New York, Amps at City Tech; 2021 “Spatial Design in a Constantly Changing World”, Sreda Moscow, Obuchenia Online University  and “Within an Environment of Perceived Atmospheric Distance”,  by Amps, Online Education, Teaching in a Time of Change; 2019, “Spatial Design and the iPhone”, Architectural Conference, Film Symposium, Texas A&M University, College of Architecture of Performance, Moving Image/Film Presentation and Technology and Knowledge and Society, 2019 Annual Conference, The Social Impact of AI: Policies and New Governance Models for Social Change, CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain. She has been published most recently in the 2019 Architecture and Film Symposium Proceedings and RIDE [risk dare experiment] :ON by Pratt Institute, 2017, and several times in Abstract. Sheryl has been awarded a CIDA Innovation in Interior Design Merit Award. 

Kasak holds a BFA and BARCH from The Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and joyfully collaborates with her former classmates and students on a regular basis - design work is a collaboration!