Studio brief
Studio 2 will firstly explore the notion of Escapism by looking at the future of retail design, its response to both the new generation of immersive and physical spaces that allow the consumer to participate and generate meaningful and expressive spatial experiences. We are challenging the world of consumerism, can these aspirational and theatrical spaces respond to the community as much as the individual? Can they react to change? Can these spaces reach out to the public, initiating innovative exchanges of goods and spatial interaction but with a sense of responsibility?
Through a series of workshops working with retail design practices the studio will explore:
- Place Making: Investigating non space and how to revive, re- invent and invigorate space
- Colour impact: How it connects with message, meaning and memory
- Transient Space: Through a series of models how do we liberate space so that it can respond, perhaps travel and interact?
Following this, the studio will be asked to investigate the desires of those that have been displaced from their homes and community. What do they require from a temporary home? What is home? Could this home have a second purpose, share other space and take on a sense of hybridity?
Often those that have escaped or been displaced have to leave behind not just belongings but memories, pets, routines, friendships, jobs all of which build the notion of home and settlement. The state of temporary and transient is often understood as basic and meeting essential needs. But are we making the situation worse by compounding the level of adversity? Because of climate change and catastrophic accidents, disasters hit Londoners every year, surely it’s time to look at a significant response to this sensitive and enduring situation.
Project: [E]scape: Retail Innovation
Project 2: Nexus: The new transient hybrid home
Details
Course | Interior Design BA (Hons) Interior Design and Decoration BA (Hons) |
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Tutor | Kaye Newman Janette Harris Beata Szwast |
Where | Calcutta House, Studio 2, first floor CM1-13 |
When | Tuesday and Friday |