Spatial Design

Master’s Programme / Architecture + Design Architecture, Design and Interiors

Opposite page: Student exhibition ‘Space Oddity’ in Copenhagen Cathedral, 2020.

Spatial Design investigates the relationship between architecture, design and people, with the interior as a point of departure. The programme perceives the interior as a complex and catalytic phenomenon that materialises important political, anthropological, environmental and artistic issues — and conceives of architecture from the inside-out in order to understand how habitation shapes surfaces, volumes and facades.

Both architecture and design students at Spatial Design learn to work artistically with architecture in a way that includes the interior as a pivotal context. The programme examines the relationship between architecture, design and people from three perspectives: the historical, the anthropological and the tectonic/material. Anthropology helps us reflect on our own positions as architects and designers in relation to users and sharpens our ideas about the role of architecture and design in society. History is important not only because our profession increasingly involves transforming existing contexts, but also because it challenges our assumptions. Cladding and dressing of spaces is just as important as the structural framework, hence the attention to materials, colours and tectonics; in other words, the art of joining. The three perspectives will be introduced through workshops, seminars and tutoring.

Spatial Design collaborates with academic, public and private partners to foster a rich study environment. The ambition is to educate highly skilled, reflective architects and designers who are able to work with complex and situated interiors as a pivotal part of an architecture project, historical and anthropological perspectives within a design process, as well as tectonic details, materials, colours and surfaces as an integrated part of a design process.

Programme Spatial Design Head of Programme Peter Thule Kristensen Education Architecture / Design Degree Master (MA in Architecture / MA in Design) Duration 2 years Location Copenhagen Language English

Opposite page: Master’s project by Belinda Kjærsgaard Lund and Sussie Stenholt Madsen.

“Spatial Design brings together students from diverse disciplines and cultural backgrounds. This creates a unique environment in which we are encouraged to learn by sharing. What particularly attracts me is the generous and varied provision of workshops which offer students the opportunity to manifest their ideas in a physical way and gain a richer understanding of materiality through making.”

Student / Spatial Design