Elizabeth Dow, Kevin Green, Chee-Kit Lai, Freddy Tuppen Year 1 Florence Chester, Yufan Jin, Edoardo Lomi, Madeleine Valcour, Robyn Vey Thomas Visscher, Velvet Young Year 2 Caitlin Abbott, Laura Scudder, Saskia Selwood, Alex Vine, Angus Whitehead
Thanks to our consultants and critics: Abi Abdolwahabi, Katy Beinart, Ina Baumeister. Polly Gould, Kevin Green, Jan Kattein, Rebecca Lane, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Catrina Stewart, Mark Sustr
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Year 3 Nadira Amrani, Amanda Campbell, Stephen Henderson, Fong Yi (Emmanuelle) Khoo Casper Horton-Kitchlew, Ysabel Kaye, Laura Skeggs, India Smith
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 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. 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. For our Year 1 Project X students we ran three short projects: ‘Home’, ‘The Endless Loop’ and ‘A Cabinet of Curiosities’. The projects allowed the students to work at different scales, both in groups and individually, and with a wide variety of media. For our Year 2 and 3 Project X students the year started with Project 1 ‘Occupation Occupation’ and we asked the students to occupy a confined space within The Bartlett, appropriating the language and sensibilities of a specific occupation e.g. filmmaker, illusionist. This was followed by the project ‘Border’ in which students identified an existing border condition and then proposed, designed and constructed an intervention within the border. In Term 1 we travelled to Berlin for a field trip, which inspired and influenced each student’s individual projects and research paths. In Terms 1 and 2 we were very pleased to have Professor Jane Rendell lead two writing workshops. Jane asked the students to develop and reconsider their design work through writing, drawing upon the themes of her own ‘site-writing’ work. We also ran a bookbinding workshop that allowed students to consider how the presentation and subsequent binding of their work could inform and be informed by their individual design projects. Each student has followed a research path that initially stemmed from projects 1 and 2, but soon developed into a unique and personal direction. The resulting projects are speculative and diverse, as is the use of differing media, ranging from animation, electronics, pop-up books, scale model-making, set design, scriptwriting, joinery, film projection, casting, community consultation, documentary film, curating and material testing, to name just a few.
BSc Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies
Project X: Design and Creative Practice 1, 2 and 3