Elizabeth Dow, Kevin Green, Chee-Kit Lai, Freddy Tuppen Year 1 Jinyu (Sandy) Chen, Dormy Chen, Rickie Cheuk, Chloe Gould, Sandhya Gulsin, Yashika Kerai, Shuen (Kelly) Lau, Frank Lee, Natalie Newsome, Anna Vorsel
Year 3 Caitlin Abbot, Amanda Campbell, Katharine Feltwell, Lubna Ibrahim, Laura Skeggs, Laura Skudder, Alex Vine, Angus Whitehead Thanks to our consultants and critics: Nadira Amrani, Emma Bailey, Chris Burman, Clio Collar, Alex Cotterill, James Green, Stephen Henderson, Bill Hodgson, Lucy Leonard, Alan McQuillan, Brent Pilkey, Regner Ramos, Jane Rendell Luke Scott, Ned Scott, Colette Sheddick, Eva Sopeoglou, Nina Vollenbröker and Alessandro Zambelli
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Year 2 Rosita Bannert, Florence Chester, Vendela Gambill, Candice George, Morenike Onajide, Akil Skafe-Smith, Emilie Skaff, Madeleine Valcour, Robyn Vey, Thomas Visscher, Velvet Young
Project X: Design and Creative Practice aims to help students build a creative and reflective practice of their own. It enables them to undertake 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 about 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. This year our Year 1 Project X students have designed their own manifesto. Each of the principles of the manifesto has been defined from the students’ experience of the city. The students have dealt with issues surrounding collaboration, making, the contextual framework of the history of manifestos, and the public nature of such an undertaking. In response to the recent decamp of The Bartlett School of Architecture, Year 2 Project X students were given the task to explore three key words for Term 1 – ‘relocate’, ‘reclaim’ and/or ‘remediate’. The students chose this as a starting point to create spatial interventions that explored the sense of space and place both physically and emotionally. Through the interventions students slowly defined their individual creative spatial language, which was further expanded throughout the year. Year 3 Project X students started the year each making a three-minute journey-based film, exploring cut-up and editing techniques as a means to challenge expectations concerning space and time, fact and fiction. They went on to create a ‘hide’, exploring themes of social, physical, cultural and ephemeral concepts of concealment. The final projects developed from these earlier studies has proved to be both diverse and individual, drawing upon each student’s interests and concerns and utilising the skills and knowledge gained from other modules taken from across UCL. Professor Jane Rendell led a writing workshop for our students, helping each of them develop an individual and intelligent approach to creative writing, enabling them to let this voice inform and work in tandem with their design work. Across all three years of the module, the resulting projects are speculative and diverse, as is the use of differing media, ranging from animation, coding, casting, couture, street furniture design, playground design, joinery, film projection, musical composition, street photography, community consultation, film documentary, curating and material testing, to name just a few. We all travelled to Madrid for a field trip in term 1, including visits to design cooperatives, art centres and galleries, the trip was hugely educational and a lot of fun too!
BSc Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies
Project X: Design and Creative Practice 1, 2 and 3