New Beginnings For Spatial Design
A new group of Spatial Design first year students have been developing their creative skills in the induction studio sessions, here we see them presenting random/abstract images, chosen by themselves to their peers.
New Campus Centre welcomes Spatial Design
The University of Bedfordshire’s New Campus Centre in Luton, is home to the BA(Hons) Interior Design and BA(Hons) Interior Architecture Degree Show 2011 until 16th June 2011. The Final Major Projects on display are developments of the Interior/Architectural design project ‘Spatial Dichotomies‘. Students were asked to design for two contrasting user groups, accommodated within one [...]
You are invited to the 2011 Degree Show
You are invited to the 2011 University of Bedfordshire Art and Design Show. Luton Campus, Park Square, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3JU. Private View: Wednesday 8th June 6 till 10pm. Including the Fashion Show and Dance Display starting at 9PM in the adjacent UK Centre for Carnival Arts. The Art & Design students and staff [...]
Spatial Design Paradigm
Spatial Design first year students are currently working on a the ‘Paradigm’ project, which explores the architectural philosophies, principles and contexts of a number of iconic houses from around the world. The houses include The Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, Tugendhat House by Mies van der Rohe, Eames House by Charles and Ray Eames, Schminke [...]
Spatial Design – to Modernity and Beyond….
Spatial Design second years recently went on a field trip to London, visiting both The Royal Festival Hall and The National Theatre, this was organized to support the ‘Making Performance’ design project, which requires the students to design a ‘set’ for live performance. With specially organized tours round both buildings, the tours included back of [...]
Spatial Design Snapshot
Spatial Design Students across all three year groups are constantly producing amazing – creative – expressive – challenging – surprising – beautiful – inspiring pieces of work, here is a random selection of some of that work for you! This page is regularly updated, so do please come back for another look! Tutor: Dawn Hesketh-Joslin
Branding Environments
Third Year Spatial Design Students begin their academic year with a project aimed to get them ready for their Final Major Project. This ‘taster’ project is ‘Retail Branded Environments’. The students are given a real life site to visit, survey, analyse and draw-up. The resulting site drawings produced by the students, are then used as [...]
Ideas For Student Living
Spatial Design second years have recently completed a design project where they were asked to research, develop and design student accommodation. The design requires accommodation for two separate dwellings, to include a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, study space, entertaining space and storage. The accommodation had to fit within a constrained space of 4x4x4 metres, with access [...]
SPATIALmovie SPATIALmodel SPATIALvisual
Second Year Spatial Design Students have just completed a project where they are challenged to take a journey of exploration. The project firstly requires the students to work in groups, to view and form an analysis of the narrative and visual content of an ‘iconic movie’ such as ‘Delicattessen, Romeo + Juliet or The Third Man. [...]
A Retail Safari!
Year One Spatial Design students kicked off a project on retail design, by being taken on a ‘retail safari’ in Central London. Starting at Waterstones flagship Store in Piccadilly, with a tour by the store manager, the students were given an insight into the history of the building and its grade II listed interior, they [...]
Kiosk in the Mall
First year spatial design students have recently finished their ‘Kiosk in the Mall’ project. The students were asked to research and map the users of The Mall in Luton, using the evidence gained, they then developed and designed a retail kiosk for a specific user group, set within a constrained space of 4x4x4 metres. This is [...]
Design Your Future
The Art & Design department are again at the “Design Your Future” UCAS fayre in the ExCel Centre in London. Why not drop by and say hello, we would love to chat to you about all the courses we have to offer.
Creative Start For New Spatial Design Students
All of the Spatial Design tutors would like to give a very warm welcome to the new students, who have just joined the BA(Hons) Interior Design and BA(Hons) Interior Architecture courses. With the induction week under their belts, the students have began work on the Introduction to Art + Design programme, this has started with [...]
Spatial Design Students Tackle Model Making
Spatial Design students tackle model making. During the first year as a Spatial Designer, lots of emphasis is put on learning the basic skills of an Interior Designer or Interior Architect. In a series of workshops the students are taught how to read scale drawings, draw plans, sections and elevations, and make architectural design models [...]
From Here To Modernity…
…Spatial Design visits The Southbank. As part of the research process for the second year “Making Performance” project, the tutors and students had a number of visits to theatre’s and theatrical performance. One trip was to The Southbank, London, where we were lucky enough to have guided tours around The Royal Festival Hall and The [...]
Spatial Design Degree Show 2010
Students on BA(Hons) Interior Design and BA(Hons) Interior Architecture finished their studies at The University of Bedfordshire, with a showcase of their final year work, including work from ‘Retail Brands’ and ‘Final Major’ projects. “ a huge well done to all of the students for a really good show”, and the best of luck for [...]
Spatial Design Gets Magnified
Spatial Design Gets Magnified…Experiential Learning “Experiential Learning” is a project that allows second year Spatial Design students to explore the two and three dimensional visual world, through a creative journey. The project starts with group work, students have to watch an iconic movie, over and over, they have to establish three ‘brand values’ – these [...]
Spatial Design Explores The Netherlands
Spatial Design Explores the Netherlands The 2009/10 field trip for Spatial Design students was to The Netherlands. The trip which was attended by first, second and third year students and covered buildings, museums and galleries in Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Hilversum, and Rotterdam. The aim of the tour was to allow Spatial Design students to [...]
Images from the Opening
We had a great opening on Thursday, here are a few images from the evening, more to come! Images: Ben Hodson
Degree Show 2010
Welcome to ‘We Create Together’ the Art and Design Degree show, 2010 at the University of Bedfordshire, which also coincides with the launch of this website. With this showcase we celebrate the creative work of this year’s cohort of honours graduates. Encouraging the creative potential of our students is our prime aim over the three [...]
Making Performance
“Making Performance” is a collaborative project between Spatial Design students from the Luton Campus and ‘Contemporary Theatre Practice’ students from the Bedford Polhill Campus. The idea behind the project was for the students to have the opportunity to work and develop creative thinking together – across differing disciplines – allowing for a broader creative experience. [...]
