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 Design System – Site Programme

from Design System – Site Programme

from Methodology – Experimentation

from Design System – Site Programme

from Design System – Site Programme

from Glasgow: Where Tradition meets Creativity – The Hub

from Glasgow: Where Tradition meets Creativity – The Hub

from Glasgow: Where Tradition meets Creativity – The Hub

from Stitching Sustainability

from Glasgow: Where Tradition meets Creativity – The Hub

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 Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Xinran Zhao

from Periodic Outcome

from Methodology

from The Aim

from The Aim

from Site Analysis & Music Making

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 Slice Project: Café refurbishment

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

from Host Project: Temporary free restaurant run by the Parliament

from Host Project: Temporary free restaurant run by the Parliament

from Slice Project: Café refurbishment

from Design Process

from Design Process

from Design Process

from Rorschach World

Rorschach Asylum: A safe place for schizophrenic artists to embrace their disorder

from The Rorschach Asylum

from The Lion Chambers: at golden hour

from OAK speakeasy

from OAK speakeasy

from The Lion Chambers: at golden hour

from The Lion Chambers: at golden hour

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 Models

from Design Process

from Design Process

from Design Process

from What is ‘Junkspace’ ?

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Persian Dreamscapes

from Host- A Connection Point

from Host- A Connection Point

from Seams of transformation

from Seams of transformation

from Host- A Connection Point

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

from Cultural Crossroads Oasis

Poster

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

from Host

from Host

from Host

from Host

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 CONCEPT

from DESIGN IDEA

from MATERIALITY

from DESIGN CONCEPT

from DESIGN PROPOSAL

from EXPLORING THE RUINED HERITAGE

from EXPLORING THE RUINED HERITAGE

from DESIGN PROPOSAL

from DESIGN PROPOSAL

from Outcome

from Design Concept

from Design Concept

from Outcome

from Context

from Gorbals Glitch

from Gorbals Glitch

from Gorbals Glitch

from Intimate Immensities

from Gorbals Glitch

from Semester 2 – The Glasgow Archive of the Unremarkable Home

Rendered Technical Drawings

from Semester 1 – Maker & Menu

Watercolour and digitally enhanced visual depicting the interior of the space

from Semester 1 – Maker & Menu

from Semester 1 – Maker & Menu

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

from Design Development

from Final outcome

from Final outcome

from Design Development

from Final outcome

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

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 Design Process

from La Madeleine Flower Market

from La Madeleine Flower Market

from La Madeleine Flower Market

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

from La Madeleine Flower Market

from Final Outcome

from Final Outcome

from Physical Model

from Final Outcome

from Final Outcome

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

from Edible Interiors

The Plant Library

from The Host – Community Garden

Yoga Rooms

from Pause – A Wellness Centre

Interaction Experiment

from Make Room – Body | Furniture | Space

The Bath

from Pause – A Wellness Centre

Basement & Ground Floor Plan

from Pause – A Wellness Centre

from HOST – Underground Toilet

from HOST – Underground Toilet

from Research project: Inhabit

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from The Quiet Project

from Collection of relics

from Stories / Relics / Memories / Death

from Project background

from Space concept

from Project background

from Site analysis

from Design Strategy

It's evident that people are progressively drifting away from the natural rhythms. As humanity continues to exploit the environment without restraint, certain natural calamities have become unavoidable. Despite some efforts to promote environmental awareness, the voice conveying such consciousness remains faint. The truth is, the majority of people turn a blind eye to environmental conservation and resource preservation. On one hand, they perceive their individual efforts as too feeble to achieve significant outcomes. On the other hand, they consider the depletion of planetary resources a distant issue, given that their lifespans are destined not to extend into that period. To prevent such a scenario, I believe it's essential to elevate public awareness regarding environmental issues, as well as the pressing need for responsible lifestyles and consumption habits. In response to this challenge, I have undertaken theoretical research on the matter.

from Reborn

from Theorical research & Case study

from Theorical research & Case study

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from ISLAND ECHO

from Waiting for Godot at Tramway-Thesis Project

from Lady from the sea – Host Project

from Creative Publishing in the Arts

from Waiting for Godot at Tramway-Thesis Project

from Waiting for Godot at Tramway-Thesis Project

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

Stage 3

from “BABY FACTORY”

from “BABY FACTORY”

from “BABY FACTORY”

from “BABY FACTORY”

from “BABY FACTORY”