MDES INTERIOR DESIGN

Reid Building, 39 students

We are delighted to celebrate another year of fantastic work from Interior Design MDes students. They are actively engaging with the social and political aspects of everyday life using their spatial education as a navigational device. Their critical approaches emphasise the production of space with the use of physical and digital tools. Venturing beyond mainstream notions of the discipline, they imagine types of future human inhabitation and suggest how spaces might be. Their studies, together with their personal stories, have furnished them with the greatest opportunity to discuss, debate and  explore innovative approaches to the making of interiors, and thereby reframing our relationship with space.

These and other questions were floated between participants, their answers may be found embedded in the work you will discover here.

Catalogue

MDes Interior Design Catalogue

from Final Outcome

from Final Outcome

from Dunhuang Culture & The Myth of the Nine-Coloured Deer

from Dunhuang Culture & The Myth of the Nine-Coloured Deer

from Dunhuang Culture & The Myth of the Nine-Coloured Deer

I found that of all the elements that go into forming IDENTITY, this restaurant fulfilled every need when it came to hosting a Christmas event, and I think that's why people can develop such a strong collective memory of this place.

from Preliminary Research

from Design Process

The motivation for my project comes from some old photos of mine. These photos all depict a place - the first rice noodle restaurant my father opened in our hometown. It was just like any other noodle shop in the city at that time, nothing particularly special about it. However, one year, my parents went to the provincial capital city to learn experience and they found luxury hotels all decorate for Christmas. In our remote mountainous hometown, very few people knew what Christmas was. So, during the Christmas season, everyone gathered with curiosity at the restaurant to experience the festive atmosphere with friends and family. Year after year, it accompanied generations of people as they grew up. When mentioning the concept of Christmas, the first thing that comes to people's minds is not the birth of Jesus but going to this restaurant to have a meal. And this concept is known only to the locals. In other cities, people wouldn't associate Christmas with the same idea and definition. This event, this place, is like a symbol that brings the people of this street and this city together.

from Preliminary Research

from Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Authenticity of Digital Cultural Heritage

from Authenticity of Digital Cultural Heritage

from Authenticity of Digital Cultural Heritage

from Authenticity of Digital Cultural Heritage

from Authenticity of Digital Cultural Heritage

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

from Research project: Inhabit

from The Lion Chambers: at golden hour

from The Lion Chambers: at golden hour

from The Lion Chambers: at golden hour

from OAK speakeasy

from OAK speakeasy

from Gorbals Glitch

from Gorbals Glitch

from Gorbals Glitch

from Gorbals Glitch

from The Waiting Room

from Design Strategy

from Theorical research & Case study

from Final Outcome

from Final Outcome

from Theorical research & Case study

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from La Madeleine Flower Market

from La Madeleine Flower Market

from HOST___A marvellous self-service trailer bar

from HOST___A marvellous self-service trailer bar

from SLICE___An Iron Art Archival Space in 520 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

from Design Process

from Design Process

from The Rorschach Asylum

from Design Process

from Inspiration

Helping climate refugees living in the Bhola slum to reimagine and reconfigue their sense of freedom, identity and independence in their home island of Bhola.

from DESIGN CONCEPT

from DESIGN IDEA

from MATERIALITY

from DESIGN IDEA

from DESIGN CONCEPT

from Methodology

from The Aim

from Methodology

from Site Analysis & Music Making

from Methodology

from Final outcome

from Final outcome

from Design Development

from Final outcome

from Design Development

Poster

from Host

from Host

from The Influence of Interior Design: Wealth, Power, and Status

from Host

from Host

Elimination Experiment

from Make Room – Body | Furniture | Space

Extendable Balconies

from The Host – Community Garden

Mezzanine & Top Floor Plan

from Pause – A Wellness Centre

Abstraction Experiment

from Make Room – Body | Furniture | Space

How do you sit on a chair? How does the chair make a space? How does the space impact you?

from Make Room – Body | Furniture | Space

from Waiting for Godot at Tramway-Thesis Project

from Lady from the sea – Host Project

from Lady from the sea – Host Project

from Waiting for Godot at Tramway-Thesis Project

from Lady from the sea – Host Project

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Glasgow: Where Tradition meets Creativity – The Hub

from Stitching Sustainability

from Glasgow: Where Tradition meets Creativity – The Hub

from Stitching Sustainability

from Glasgow: Where Tradition meets Creativity – The Hub

The first means used by human to communicate are sounds and words alongside posture. Movement can be used as an inspiring way to perceive It was developed for the purpose of sensing into the systems we are embedded within to gain insight and wisdom, to close the feedback loop between reality and its invisible source of awareness and thought. This invisible source of thought and awareness can only be accessed and understood in the present moment.

from Design Process

from Design Process

from What is ‘Junkspace’ ?

from What is ‘Junkspace’ ?

from Design Process

from Electronics waste craft community

from Electronics waste craft community

from Electronics waste craft community

from Electronics waste craft community

from Electronics waste craft community

from THE PLAY WITHIN A PLAY

from THE PLAY WITHIN A PLAY

from THE PLAY WITHIN A PLAY

from THE PLAY WITHIN A PLAY

from THE PLAY WITHIN A PLAY

from Project background

from Space concept

from Space concept

from Stories / Relics / Memories / Death

from Project background

from Final project: Analysis regarding people’s reactions to complex information: 1919-1945

from Final project: Analysis regarding people’s reactions to complex information: 1919-1945

from Slice Project: Café refurbishment

from Final project: Analysis regarding people’s reactions to complex information: 1919-1945

from Final project: Analysis regarding people’s reactions to complex information: 1919-1945

from Host- A Connection Point

from Seams of transformation

from Seams of transformation

from Host- A Connection Point

from Host- A Connection Point

from REMINISCENCE OF REMNANTS

from DESIGN EXERCISE

from DESIGN PROPOSAL

from DESIGN PROPOSAL

from DESIGN PROPOSAL

from Semester 3: Con/Temporary, Flat-Packing Home for Rented Spaces

from Semester 1 – Maker & Menu

from Semester 2 – The Glasgow Archive of the Unremarkable Home

from Semester 3: Con/Temporary, Flat-Packing Home for Rented Spaces

from Semester 3: Con/Temporary, Flat-Packing Home for Rented Spaces

Stage 3

from “BABY FACTORY”

from “BABY FACTORY”

from “BABY FACTORY”

Stage 4 & Stage 5

from “BABY FACTORY”

from “BABY FACTORY”

from Methodology – Experimentation

from Design System – Blueprint

from Methodology – Experimentation

from Design System – Blueprint

from Design System – Site Programme

from Design Concept

from Spatial Development

from Outcome

from Context

from Design Concept

from Memoryscapes: Collective Transcription of Language and Space

from Memoryscapes: Collective Transcription of Language and Space

from Memoryscapes: Collective Transcription of Language and Space

from Memoryscapes: Collective Transcription of Language and Space

from Memoryscapes: Collective Transcription of Language and Space

from HOST – Underground Toilet

from HOST – Underground Toilet