Year 1 Isabelle Arusilor, Hannah Averbeck, Marius Balan, Esme Chong, Isabel Dorn, Roxanne Gonzales, Nyima Murry, Eva Tisnikar, Yasmine Zein El Abdeen, Camilla Romano Year 2 Lucy Brown, Jasmine Ceccarelli-Drewry, Sharon Chang, Li'Er Chen, James Curtis, Luofei Dong, Lillie Hall, Julia Millang, Oliver Mitchell, Vikrim Nagra, Tanzim Naser, Ryuhei Oishi, Ged Ribas Goody, Grace Simmonds, Andreea Vihristencu, Jonathan Whitfield, Yolanda Ye, Yurou Zhang Year 3 Jade Chao, Sandy Chen, Rickie Cheuk, Iona Farrar-Bell, Chloe Gould, Sandhya Gulsin, Yufan Jin, Yashika Kerai, Kelly Lau, Eloise Maland, Natalie Newsome, Imogen Newton, Anna Livia Vorsel, Rattan Sehra, Velvet Young Thank you to: Sarah Aulombard, Alfonso Borragán, Jos Boys, Dr Eva Branscome, Rob Crosse, Robin Farmer, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Holly Fisher, Daisy Froud, Jessica In, Tobias Jones, Thomas Kendall, Ifigenia Liangi, Rebecca Loewen, Anders Luhr, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Alan McQuillan, Emily Norman, Theo Games Petrohilos, Peg Rawes, Hannah Regel, Harriet Richardson, Luke Scott, Ned Scott, Tania Sengupta, David Shanks, James Shaw, Zofia Trafas White, Nina Shen Poblete, Sayan Skandarajah, Gabriel Warshafsky, Richard Wentworth, Tom Wilkinson
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The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
Project X: Design and Creative Practice aims to help students build a creative and reflective practice of their own, undertaking a mode of working that particularly interests them and an independent practice-based project in which they can research and pursue a subject of their preference. Students are asked to think of architecture in interdisciplinary ways, explore alternative approaches to design and situate their work within a broader cultural context. The work is developed in conjunction with a short written piece. A series of key questions confront students at different stages of the year concerning the nature of their practice, the contribution of their work to the broader field of architecture, the originality of their project, and the selection of appropriate media for the ideas pursued. Based on the assumption that there is no such thing as a ‘finished’ piece of work, Year 1’s Project X brief was titled ‘Exercises in Appropriation’. Students explored iteration and repetition as productive and reflective design methods. The initial project, the ‘Oulipo Marathon’, took Raymond Queneau’s novel ‘Exercises in Style’ as a precedent, handing every student out a series of words or phrases related to the broad topic of the year paired with different methods of working. Through these quick and intuitive works, each student developed an individual interest that led to further explorations throughout the course. They developed documentary films, games, magazines, 1:1 devices, haptic collections, audio installations, immersive experimental set-ups or speculative objects. Year 2 Project X students worked on three different projects this year. The first was a three-month interactive group projects to create site-specific installations for the UCL Bloomsbury campus. The group endeavour, entitled ‘Replacing Realities’, explored the re-reading of the architecture of college buildings to provide a series of new immersive interventions. The second, entitled ‘Reinterpreting Agency’ was a personal project, with students developing their own unique creative spatial practice, drawing inspiration from Project 1. Project 3, entitled ‘Curating New Worlds’, was a collective effort to set up the conceptual framework for the end-of-year exhibition to showcase the diversity of work across the programme. The Year 3 Project X brief was ‘The Happiness Project’. Initiated by three short projects to encourage engagement with a wider public outside The Bartlett, the projects investigated how notions of happiness in contemporary society are affected by automation, increased leisure time and experience-based consumerism. These developed into individual projects examining a broad range of themes. As final year students, about to embark on their own individual creative practice journeys, students were encouraged to develop strategies for collaborative practice, peer review, public engagement and exhibition presentation. Additionally, the students inspired and co-curated a programme of workshops, inviting practitioners into The Bartlett from a wide range of disciplines, from publishing to film-making to curating.
BSc Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies
Project X: Design and Creative Practice 1, 2 & 3