MA Interior Design

Dr Anastasia Karandinou Programme Leader

Design of any scale responds to – and in parallel leads – cultural, political and social change. Our everyday living changes rapidly. Changing demographics and the emergence of new technologies shift the way in which we inhabit, use and share spaces. What is the role of design in the rapidly changing contemporary world? What is home in a future of densely populated city centres? What is the shop of the future – when e-commerce is changing the role and the experience of the high street? What is the office of the future when patterns and media of collaboration change? What is the library of the future? What is the school of the future – in times of an overload of information, and of numerous online resources and social networks? How can design activate what is important about physical proximity and interaction? How does contemporary design responds to the above issues? How can the historic context and typologies be studied and reactivated in new ways?

Through our new MA programme in Interior Design we address the above questions in a rigorous, experimental and creative manner. We challenge the limits of the role of the designer and we explore how design pertains to different aspects of our everyday living. Political and cultural debates are re-articulated and expressed through a hands-on poetic and creative making approach.

Hackney Pirates Live project – Interactive Theatre Stage set design: The UEL MA programme in Interior Design collaborated with the Hackney Pirates on this community-engaging live project. Our MA students designed and built a realscale interactive stage-set; an imaginative immersive environment, which hosted the events organised by the Hackney Pirates in March 2019. The design project of the stage set, as well as the video art, was done by our MA Interior Design students, led by the programme leader, Dr Anastasia Karandinou. The sound design was done by Lalvin, UEL Sound Design student. The project was supported by UEL Civic Engagement team.

Museum of London moving to Smithfield Market – Reinventing the Threshold between the museum and the city:

Museums and cultural organisations are increasingly concerned with the issue of social inclusion. How is a museum of the 21st century addressing the broader public and not only a small specific part of the society? The vision of contemporary museums is to make sure that all citizens feel welcome, and that the museum exhibits, curation and relevant events and facilities are relevant to their everyday living. How does a museum become a vital part of the city life? In this context, the students redesigned the derelict Engine Building, situated next to the entrance of the new Museum of London (currently relocating to the Smithfield Market). The students redesigned the programme and form of the building; and this project was a medium for reinventing the threshold between the museum and the community.

For further information please visit: www.uel.ac.uk/ postgraduate/courses/ma-interior-design or find us on Instagram at #UEL_MAinteriordesign.

Students:

Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Birce Gural, Felicia Ivanciuc, Parisa Oreizi, Yuvraj Singh Panwar, Ishita Pathak, Sophie Savvidou, Lasata Shrestha, Esra Tekagac, Garima Thakkar, Sahar Youssef, Fatima Zahra Had

Special thanks to our guest tutors and external

critics: Dr Kat Martindale, Dr Keith Winter, Carl Callaghan, Melissa Bennett (Museum of London), Reem Sharif, Graham Thompson, Jude Williams (Hackney Pirates CEO), Lily Eastwood (Hackney Pirates), Dr Francesca Zanatta (UEL, Department of Early Childhood & Education), Gail May (UEL, Director of Civic Engagement; Civic Engagement/Volunteering/Noon Centre), Aisha Labefo-Audu (UEL, Civic Engagement/Volunteering/Noon Centre), Alfonso Senatore, Anna Minton. Also special thanks to the following colleagues for their support with the Hackney Pirates live project: Anthony Mensah, Aaron Piper, from The Hackney Pirates, Joanne Molyneux, Natalie Freeman, from the UEL Civic Engagement team, Clare Qualmann, Liselle Terret, Gordon Kerr, Lavinia Mihoc, UEL.

Additionally, special thanks David Spence (Director of Transformation), Alex Werner (the lead curator for the new museum), and Finbarr Whooley (Director of Content), from the Museum of London for their valuable time and conversations on initiating this collaborative project.

MA_ID1: Interactive stage set design for the HAckney Pirates performances. Group work. Photo by Esra Tekagac

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MA_ID 2, 3, 4: Interactive stage set design for the Hackney Pirates performances. Group work. All MA students received a Platinum award for their Civic engagement and volunteering, in a ceremony held in Stratford in March 2019. More than 200 children from local schools attended the interactive performances led by the Hackney Pirates, and explored the immersive interactive installation - stage-set - designed by our students.

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MA_ID 5: Group work; Birce Gural, Lasata Shrestha MA_ID 6, 7: Lasata Shrestha MA_ID 8, 9, 10: Birce Gural MA_ID 11: Lasata Shrestha MA_ID 12: Birce Gural.

The engine building has been re-interpreted as a threshold between the museum and the city. Both students have redesigend it as a small performance centre; Birce for music and Lasata for spoken word. Both proposals aim to create an informal interactive hub for the local community. In both cases, activities ‘spil out’ and inform the character of the neighbourhood.

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MA_ID 13, 14: Birce Gural, Fatima Zahra Hadj, Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha, Parisa Oreizi, Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh Panwar. ‘Displayz’ creative exercise for analysing and understanding the place. Students re-enacted, performed with their bodies ideas drawn from the site. Hiding/ revealing; opening/ closing; opening up the ‘blind’ previously derelict building. MA_ID 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20: Sahar Youssef. The Engine building redesigned as a small community film house for documentaries, films, short films, produced by indiipendent producers or in collaboration with the Museum of London and local artists/ communities.

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MA_ID 21, 22, 23, 24: Esra Tekagac MA_ID 25: Sophie Savvidou, Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Esra Tekagac MA_ID 26: Birce Gural, Fatima Zahra Hadj, Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha, Parisa Oreizi, Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh Panwar MA_ID 27, 28: Esra Tekagac.

The Engine building redesigned as a gallery with transformable interior. The folding ‘ribbon’ becomes a display element, seating, circulation, and links the various areas of the gallery.

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MA_ID 29, 30: Sophie Savvidou MA_ID 31: Parisa Oreizi MA_ID 32: Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous MA_ID 33: Birce Gural, Fatima Zahra Hadj, Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha, Parisa Oreizi, Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh Panwar MA_ID 34: Birce Gural MA_ID 35: Sophie Savvidou MA_ID 36: Parisa Oreizi

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MA_ID 37, 38: Yuvraj Sing Panwar MA_ID 39: Yuvraj Sing Panwar, Ishita Pathak, Parisa Oreizi MA_ID 40: Ishita Pathak MA_ID 41, 42: Garima Thakkar MA_ID 43, 44, 45, 46: Ishita Pathak MA_ID 47: Felicia Ivanciuc

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MA_ID 48: Parisa Oreizi MA_ID 49: Sophie Savvidou, Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Esra Tekagac MA_ID 50: Birce Gural, Fatima Zahra Hadj, Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha, Parisa Oreizi, Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh Panwar MA_ID 51: Esra Tekagac MA_ID 52, 53: Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous MA_ID 54: Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak MA_ID 55: Students after the rehersals with the Hackney Pirates MA_ID 56, 57: Students received their Civic Engagement and Volunteering Platinum award MA_ID 58, 59: designing andmaking one to one details; group project by Birce Gural and Esra Tekagac; sketches and drawings by Esra Tekagac MA_ID 60, 61: Students in the wood and metal workshops

Concept: Old Vs New, Metal & Brick:

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