MDes Interior Design

Reid Building, 17 students

We are delighted to celebrate another year of fantastic work from Interior Design MDes students. They are actively engaging with the social and political aspects of everyday life using their spatial education as a navigational device. Their critical approaches emphasise the production of space with the use of physical and digital tools. Venturing beyond mainstream notions of the discipline, they imagine types of future human inhabitation and suggest how spaces might be. Their studies, together with their personal stories, have furnished them with the greatest opportunity to discuss, debate and  explore innovative approaches to the making of interiors, and thereby reframing our relationship with space.

These and other questions were floated between participants, their answers may be found embedded in the work you will discover here.

This project challenges the traditional human-centred spatial sovereignty structure and attempts to construct a plant-led spatial ecosystem that prioritises non-human perception.

from Semester 2

from Semester 2

from Semester 2

from Semester 2

from Rooms of recogniton

from Rooms of recogniton

from Rooms of recogniton

from Rooms of recogniton

from Rooms of recogniton

from INTERPENETRATION

from V-Café

from INTERPENETRATION

from INTERPENETRATION

from The Unseen Space Between

The Living Threshold

from The Living Threshold

from The Living Threshold

from The Living Threshold

from The Living Archive

This project aims to explore how ghostly memories are perceived, activated and translated in contemporary urban spaces in the form of "traces". The design concept is based on personal emotional trauma experiences and the resulting phenomenon of "repressed but not vanished" memories. This article draws on Derrida's "hauntology", which means that some things that should have appeared but never truly arrived still influence us. It also incorporates Benjamin's critique of "lack of experience" and Bachelard's "poetics of space", attempting to evoke the viewer's behavioral inertia, bodily memory and psychological imbalance through spatial intervention, constructing a dynamic tension of "repression and manifestation". The research emphasizes that "traces" are not the remnants of objects, but the displaced sensations of emotions, relationships and actions, and proposes that space can serve as a trigger surface for emotions. Through the designed space, it comforts those who have suffered memory traumas due to suppressed emotions, and gradually builds the ability to face negative emotions.

from Ghost Anchors: Safe Islands of Repressed Memories.

from Ghost Anchors: Safe Islands of Repressed Memories.

from Ghost Anchors: Safe Islands of Repressed Memories.

from Ghost Anchors: Safe Islands of Repressed Memories.

from Ghost Anchors: Safe Islands of Repressed Memories.

from Replay: Pause. Rewind. Play. | A Nostalgic Reverie for Childhood

from I Was Here: Interiors As Archives of Time

from I Was Here: Interiors As Archives of Time

from Replay: Pause. Rewind. Play. | A Nostalgic Reverie for Childhood

from Replay: Pause. Rewind. Play. | A Nostalgic Reverie for Childhood

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from The Third Embrace

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from 404 not found

from 404 not found

from Reminiscence Theatre

from Reminiscence Theatre

from Reminiscence Theatre

from Reminiscence Theatre

from Reminiscence Theatre

from Means and Make

from Aperture

from Aperture

from Aperture

from Hearth

from Four Seasons

from Who are you?

from Restoring The Unseen

from Who are you?

from Who are you?

from Extinction?

from Spilled Brews

from Making Do

from Making Do

from Making Do

from Traces of: The Arches

from Traces of: The Arches

from Traces of: The Arches

from Traces of: The Arches

from Traces of: The Arches

from Bridging the Gap: From Consumption to Custodianship. An Ethical Approach to Domestic Appliances and Sustainable Living

from Bridging the Gap: From Consumption to Custodianship. An Ethical Approach to Domestic Appliances and Sustainable Living

from Bridging the Gap: From Consumption to Custodianship. An Ethical Approach to Domestic Appliances and Sustainable Living

from Bridging the Gap: From Consumption to Custodianship. An Ethical Approach to Domestic Appliances and Sustainable Living

from Bayt Al-Ghorba

from Wasted Wonders

from The Fired Plate

from Wasted Wonders

from Bayt Al-Ghorba