Wider learning – how to add knowledge and success to your studies
image credit: H.Saarinen 2012
Whether you are a first
year/level 4 student, or a continuing student (or anyone interested in design!), it is necessary to keep creative and add to your skill base - sketches, photos, small test projects that you set yourself – materials research,
measuring space, photography, collage, line drawing, model making – this can be experimental,
sketch development etc.
You will
also benefit from reading about design, architecture, spaces and related design
topics on a regular basis. You might watch a documentary on design or visit an exhibition and then
write a short review of it. This will make you think about issues and how you
relate to them and widen your general knowledge and understanding. Keep a blog - add your work, ideas, thoughts and news - share with others.
Many great exhibitions and public lecture series take place in the main museums and cultural institutions in London. The university also holds regular Design Talks.
Design Museum
Barbican
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art
Whitechapel Gallery
Iniva Institute of International Visual Arts
Geffrye Museum
V&A Victoria and Albert Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum
British Museum
Many great exhibitions and public lecture series take place in the main museums and cultural institutions in London. The university also holds regular Design Talks.
Design Museum
Barbican
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art
Whitechapel Gallery
Iniva Institute of International Visual Arts
Geffrye Museum
V&A Victoria and Albert Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum
British Museum
Keep up to
date of current trends and what is shown in galleries and exhibition spaces in
London, locally and beyond, as a lot will be relevant. The more you see and think about
design, the better. Look also at materials – anything from timber, stone, glass, concrete…
sustainable materials and smart technologies. Interactivity in design – all
very exciting things to start learning about.
A list of
magazines for inspiration:
(Many of
these are also available online / phone apps)
http://www.ribajournal.com/
You can search the UH LRC (Learning Resources Centre) content in Voyager (link on Studynet).
You can search the UH LRC (Learning Resources Centre) content in Voyager (link on Studynet).
Visit RIBA in London – book shop/library/exhibition space
British Library
You need to register for specialist libraries, so check info before you go - join your local library too!
British Library
You need to register for specialist libraries, so check info before you go - join your local library too!
Suggested
reading (basic list - more to be added):
Interior Architecture Now, Jennifer Hudson
Basics Interior Architecture 01: Form and Structure by Graeme
Brooker and Sally Stone
The Fundamentals of Interior Design by Simon Dodsworth
Drawing for Interior Design, Drew Blunkett
Interior Design Drawing, by Alan Hughes
Links to
project blogs / student project archive (more links via the profile page on all blogs):
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