The Artists Studios project started in January 2007. Students were asked to investigate the potential of a large two storey warehouse - part of the Trumans Brewery complex in Brick Lane, London - a centre for contemporary artistic activities. Artists studios could be defined widely; and had to be inserted into part of the building so as to overlap productively with existing (temporary) uses. Students had therefore to develop their own programme and to construct a convincing and creative narrative.
This project built on a first term focused on fabric, and on how textiles could themselves be transformed, and could transform space into a 'public' interior. This allowed investigations of the spaces in-between the most intimate layer of clothing through to the architectural level of the container; that is, the spaces where interior architecture happens.
Students now have a sketch scheme for their studios. The work from now on must concentrate on how each 'narrative of inhabitation' can be informed, enriched, communciated and taken into large scale material detail, through the knowledge and involvement of Inside Out artists.
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What these artists can offer students is first, a creative approach to dealing with the barriers that the built environment creates; second, insights into a different kind of ways of engaging with space; third, examples of artistic interpretations of material space; and fourth, ideas about how to imagine, design and communicate relationships between human bodies, things and places.
For me, this raises questions of method and of translation (from idea to realisation). What sorts of tasks can students do to improve the quality of their design at a detailed level? What sorts of modelling, drawing, making, will both aid development and presentation?
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