Briefing : interiors

Unit Code and Title

BA3a

Project 2 Interiors

Project Leader: Les Bicknell

Tutors: Les Bicknell, Jill Rodgers, Will Crisp

Key Dates: 25 09 17 - Project Briefing30 10 17 - Critique12 01 17 - Assessment hand in15/16 01 17 - Presentation

N° Weeks Study 6

whyWhy we have set you this project.

What we hope you will gain by undertaking this project?

The purpose of this short project is

to enable you to .........

• make work quickly• support your planning and time management• explore ideas • tell stories - what is your narrative? • develop communication skills

why

• It’s an opportunity to test out ideas within a brief. You can create a finished product, work collaboratively or try out a context you have not worked with before – you are to define your working practice.

Context - interior

• What is interior?• What can an interior be?• Was it always like this? Is it a good thing?

Brief

• You are asked to investigate the theme of interior using visual and text based strategies.

Brief

• You may want to respond to your own interior, look at historical homes, stately homes, Modernist homes, homelessness, social housing or homes in different countries or cultures.

Brief

• You may want to consider comfort or a sense of what an interior can offer.

• What could that be?

Brief

• Following your investigation you need to develop a range of designs that respond to your research. You should also define the context for the designs. The materials and processes that you use and the context for the work are entirely your choice.

Brief

• You will need to explain your decision making process in the presentation of your outcomes.

Project Outcomes• Design conclusions that respond to the theme

of Interiors.• Evidence of your conclusions in context.• Evidence of research and development

process.• Evidence of materials selection.• Evidence of visual research.• Evidence of reflective thinking.

Indicative Content

• Material development• Design development• Presentation skills• Colour development

Advice

• Remember that this project runs in parallel with project 1 - your research report project.

Advice

• You need to ensure that you manage your workload therefore effective planning from the outset is essential.

Advice

• Use the workshops to test ideas and processes. You may not reach fully resolved technical conclusions but what you do may inform further study.

Advice

• Keep a technical file that documents your materials research.

Advice

• You should also ensure that you document all of your contextual research. This will help you in responding to contemporary ideas relating to spaces, home interiors etc.

http://design-milk.com/

http://www.designboom.com/

http://www.dezeen.com/

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

http://retaildesignblog.net/tag/textile/

some possible starting points

What is interior – to you?

Lara Almarcegui

Spaces reduced to their constituent parts – is an interior more than this?

http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sophie-ernst-home

Sophie Ernst - What is the role of memory within

interiors?

Rachel Whiteread

how do we use spaces?

Do specific rooms – have specific functions?

Is there an ideal?

Hopkins homes

Who creates spaces?

http://www.muf.co.uk/

How does the outside inform the inside?

zaha hadid daniel libeskind

Who creates spaces?

zaha hadid daniel libeskind

Who creates spaces?

Do Ho Suh

solving social problems?

http://cockyeek.com/projects/blob/

Michael Rakowitz

What is the role of decoration?

what’s underfoot?

Rudolf Stingel

casino carpets conspiracy

http://gizmodo.com/5628834/the-ugly-carpets-of-vegas-are-hideously-clever-social-engineering-at-work

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1251231/Las-Vegas-carpets-designed-awake-gambling.html

http://rugbadger.com/blog/news/the-4-weird-theories-about-casino-carpets/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/7243726/Psychedelic-patterned-carpets-in-Las-Vegas-casinos-designed-to-keep-gamblers-awake.html

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-casino-carpets-so-ugly

https://www.wired.com/2010/09/ugly-vegas-carpets/

what's on the wall?

what does it mean?

Danh Vo

what's on the ceiling?

Ai wei wei

what do we sit on?

Jurgen Bey – Kokon series

new materials – old ways

rethinking – reusing

adding – subtracting

How do we light our spaces?

lighting

How do we store stuff?

when is the inside outside?

travellers

travellers

geographical

personal

social political

cultural

institutional

critical/theoretical

interiors

Expanding research –

consider your relationship to these concepts

- they could be starting points

Get into groups

Discuss initial ideas.

Answer any technical questions?

Choose 5-6 randomly to feedback/share to group