19 Atmospheres
The Foundation year began with self-portraiture. Students were invited to examine, create and photographically represent themselves within an ethereal, ambient personal space. The resulting portraits were exhibited in the AA Bar.

Dissecting the City – Public Space
Five groups made journeys into separate parts of London. They used photography, drawing and model-making to measure and document the physical, metaphysical, social and cultural qualities that identified the unique characteristics of each area.

Interiority and Intimacy – Domestic Space
Students made journeys within their own intimate environments to discover layers of the public and private, time, rhythm, space, geometry, materiality, sound and light – the qualities that give us comfort and succour – and the ways these relate directly to our bodies.

Between the Intimate and Public
Previous investigations were used to develop paintings exploring the interstitial zone between intimate space (the interior) and public space (the exterior). The paintings were made over a period of time and constructed of multiple layers to develop a quality of representational complexity.

Hooke Park – Hands on – One to One
Using techniques of weaving with wicker and willow the students built 1:1 objects in the Workshop and installations in the landscape to examine the interaction of object, body and landscape.

The ‘Elements’
Five basic elements – fire, air, water, earth and void – were explored through film as a way of initiating an investigation of materials as prime constituents of atmosphere.

Mutability – Object and Material – Translation and Transformation
Students selected objects to measure, dissect and draw and then began a steady transformation of these objects by translating them into into other materials – paper, plaster, silicone, sugar, salt, noodles ….

Body Interface/Prototype
The final projects explore the contextual relationships between the body and the environment. The material and formal discoveries from the previous projects were combined and applied to a new set of criteria relating to investigations of the body. The final interface/prototype became the 1:1 means to record, create and interact with atmospheres. Short films describe the narrative surrounding each proposal.

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