The Three Degrees Exhibition
University College Falmouth press release
The exhibition will showcase a variety of exploratory work that engages with topical and challenging issues from the spaces and places within Cornwall's rich and varied towns and landscape to products and objects with sustainability at their heart.
The BA(Hons) Spatial Design course crosses the boundaries of design for interior and exterior spaces where students focus on a variety of urban public spaces that explore ideas about regeneration through to detailed functional objects and places. They investigate the subjective and emotional attachment that we have to place and these are expressed in the range of work on show from exploring the occupation of space within café/gallery environments to the navigation of space using colour, the insertion of new habitation pods within existing buildings and challenging existing practices concerned with user interaction and control of public space.
Whilst the spatial design students have been looking at the space of urban areas the BA(Hons) Garden Design students have been researching and experimenting with new ways of creating landscape and garden spaces which work outside current conventions in this field. This is the first time garden design students' work is showcasing in this annual exhibition and illustrates a wide diversity of approaches to the subject and includes examples of private and public spaces at a range of differing scales and contexts.
BA(Hons) 3D Design for Sustainability students have extensively researched user-friendly design and sustainability over an eight week period and have developed design concepts by working with Cornish organisations such as Barncrest Ltd, Shelter Box, Cape Cornwall School, Apollo 11 and the maritime industries. By engaging with these partner organisations students have developed products that are fit for purpose and are co designed with people who know what their needs are. A number of students have worked independently carrying research in the community using video, photography, focus groups and interviews. They will be showing rapid prototyped products, furniture, experiments in interaction design and the unexpected!
The exhibition at The Poly in Falmouth's Church Street is open to the public from 10am to 4.00pm, Wednesday 3 December to Saturday6 December. Admission is free.
For further information about BA(Hons)Spatial Design at University College Falmouth visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/spatialdesign, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214371.
For further information about BA(Hons)Garden Design at University College Falmouth visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/gardendesign, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214382.
For further information about BA(Hons)3D Design at University College Falmouth visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/3ddesign, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214364.
In April 2008, University College Falmouth merged with Dartington College of Arts to create a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing.
The merger will pave the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall in 2012, creating a Higher Education institution unique to the South West.
University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.