MDes Interior Design School of Design
Brooke Kirsch-Pinfold
Coming from a background in ceramics, I chose to pursue a Master’s in Interior Design at the Glasgow School of Art to explore design on a larger scale. During my time here, I developed a clearer understanding of my identity as a designer and discovered the specific areas of interior design that engage me. My third project, in particular, allowed me to explore my interest in designing music venues, an area that aligns closely with my personal interests. This project also gave me the freedom to dig deeper into my interests in interactive design and experiment with playful uses of material and form.
Projects
Traces of: The Arches
This project outlines the importance of music spaces within the city of Glasgow, the importance of play for the people of Glasgow, and how the material of wool can be used to incite play within a music venue setting. I will be using key case studies such as Horst Festival, Jeffrey Shaw and the early movements of dance music and dance music venues in Europe and the US. I will look at scholars Sarah Lowndes, John Leo Gillan, and Brian Sutton Smith, and the philosophy of play, how textures and movements can affect emotions, and the reasons why music venues in the UK are depleting. The result of this project is an interior installation within the music and arts venue The Arches in Glasgow, which was forcibly shut down in 2015.
