News - Design for Living Exhibition
University College Falmouth press release
University College Falmouth celebrates a selection of projects from level 3 BA(Hons) 3D Design for Sustainability, BA(Hons) Garden Design and BA(Hons) Spatial Design with their Exhibition at The Poly, Church Street in Falmouth from Wednesday 2 December to Saturday 5 December.
The exhibition will showcase a variety of self-driven exploratory work undertaken during an eight-week period 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 exhibition reveals the students evolving design identities.
The BA(Hons) Spatial Design is a course that crosses the boundaries of design for interior and exterior spaces. Student projects 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 including projects that explore the occupation and inhabitation of space within commercial environments to the navigation of play space within schools, 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. The designs illustrate 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 places user centred design and sustainability at the forefront of student work. The final designs aim to be engaging and represent a great deal of underlying research. Students have also undertaken hours of user centred research in the community using video, photography, focus groups and interviews.
The exhibition at The Poly in Falmouth's Church Street is open to the public from 10am to 4.00pm, Wednesday 2 December to Saturday 5 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.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created 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 Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.
The College 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 Council.