The interior architecture and furniture design profession can vary widely and involve many different types of projects, often falling in the borderland between fine art, design and architecture. As a subject, it has historically included knowledge of a scale closely related to the body, function, light, colour, sound and material. This knowledge is expressed in ideas about space and form in our daily lives, in the built environments we need and the places we identify with.

In a time of transition, the programme explores new perspectives and the subject’s areas of knowledge are constantly expanding as our students take interest in new issues. The profession is, now more than ever, in need of change, and this year’s degree projects clearly show how the interior architects and furniture designers of the future are part of this evolution.

This year’s students invite us to reflect on:
the vocabulary of the space

space as an ongoing phenomenon
bodies in the built environment
aesthetic heritage in the language of design
the new floor plan of the home
the decay of shape and form
framing of urban spaces as nature
the beauty of darkness
the limitations of design tools
cohabitation between species
security as design language
furniture as alive
the design language of regionalism
the possibilities of the passage
the staircase as space
environments that strengthen

We welcome you to reflect with our students on how our future spaces will be designed, how environments are used and how places come into being.

Sergio Montero Bravo
Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture & Furniture Design