The Exhibition

The exhibition brings together an ambitious range of work that reflects the breadth of experimentation across these three distinct 15-month programmes. Students have engaged with sites, systems, communities, technologies and materials through methods that span prototyping, installation, filmmaking, writing, performance, digital environments and collaborative action.

Collectively, the projects on display demonstrate how new forms of architectural and spatial practice are emerging from material investigation, performance-led design and critically situated enquiry.

Across the exhibition, we invite you to explore projects that test novel modes of making, question the dynamics of interaction and respond to the social, ecological and technological contexts shaping contemporary life. Whether working with timber assemblies, inflatable structures, robotics, XR, sound, archives, community narratives or the everyday infrastructures of the city, students have developed practices that expand the possibilities of architectural design and its role in the world.

What connects these diverse investigations is a commitment to working critically and creatively within real conditions – engaging with production cultures, ecological pressures, embodied experience and the politics of place.

The work presented in this year’s Fifteen exhibition reflects a generation of emerging practitioners who are redefining how architecture and spatial practice can be conceived, performed and situated.

Image: The Triumph of Art at the National Gallery featuring students on the Design for Performance & Interaction MArch

Programmes Exhibiting:

Design for Manufacture MArch
Programme Director: Professor Peter Scully

Design for Performance & Interaction MArch
Programme Directors: Dr Fiona Zisch, Jessica In and Dr Lidia Gasperoni

Situated Practice MA
Programme Directors: Prof Izaskun Chinchilla Moreno

Find out more about our range of programmes and how to apply to study with us on our website.