Kate has been running a degree unit for 7 years within the Interior Architecture course at Brighton University.  The ambition for the course has always been in furthering the understanding of Interiority through the occupation of spaces.

Within the unit the students are encouraged to develop designs that make explicit ways in which we unknowingly see and experience space by developing the ability to imagine spaces that intrigue and be shared with others.

In the first term the project is set as a device or intervention that investigates an existing spatial condition.  This has varied from site specific pinhole cameras to automated paper installations.  The ideas evolved from this project set up the students body of research taken into the major project. The students are given an existing building to graft a new programme into.  These programmes become their own invented brief for example, the design of an archive becomes one specifically for Memory Boxes, or a Space for Performance can become a climbing centre or specific dance performance.

Throughout the year the students explore means of representation for conceiving, designing and realising design propositions. Learning from photographic technologies, composite imaging, moving components and set design they devise their own hybrid representations at varying scales allowing for the mediation of spaces that occur across a picture plane.

The students’ final designs do not become prescriptive to explicit problem solving but offer a place full of surprise and intrigue.