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Interior Futures Research Hub

About us

Our aim is to create and nurture an international research network across 3 global universities expanding knowledge bases situated in and around interior design. Sharing and learning from Research Knowledge Exchange (RKE) networks that already exist within each partner university to better support our research staff and students.

The Interior Futures Research Hub exists within Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Arts. The hub will expand knowledge through 3 key areas of practice based research:

  • Practicing climate emergencies
  • Expanding communities of interior practices
  • Sensing spaces.
Several people from different backgrounds and ethnicities are around a table. On the table, there is a map and one person plotting a pin on the map
Festival of community organising mapping workshop.

Current research projects

  • The image shows a splayed left hand touching a bronze plate upon which are lines of single black letters that are recessed into the plate. The letters are from a Snellen eye test chart and reduce in size with the larger letters being at the top and the smaller at the bottom.
    Once I Saw It All, Dr Aaron McPeake (2022) | Photograph: Ken Wilder

    Beyond the Visual: Blindness and Expanded Sculpture

    A 3-year ground-breaking research collaboration with Henry Moore Institute and Shape Arts, which aims to enhance blind people’s experience of contemporary art.

Research events

  • A performer lies prone on the floor, back arched and arms raised in an angular fashion, toes extended. The performer is surrounded by multiple ‘skeletal’ bells, cast in bell bronze, hung at different heights and ritually rung during the performance. The figure lies within a former prison atrium, with multiple openings leading to cells, and an open tread staircase connecting to a mezzanine level, with bright light entering from tall windows to the rear.
    Benjamin Hancock's performance within Fayen d'Evie's installation of Aaron McPeake's Resonant Cuts (2019), Castlemaine Gaol | Photo: Pippa Samaya.

    Sensing Space Differently  

    The symposium asks: what is gained when we start to think of sensing space through a diversity of bodies with different sensory acuities?

Research stories

  • A person is standing in front of an overhead projector, manipulating colored transparent sheets. They are wearing a multicolored outfit and have a pink transparent sheet covering their face. The setup suggests they are creating a visual display or presentation, possibly for an art performance or educational purpose. The background features white drapes, contributing to a focused and minimalist setting.
    Image courtesy of The Place

    UAL at London Design Festival 2024

    Academics and students from across the University of the Arts London take part in London Design Festival 2024.

People

Partners

Interior Futures Research Hub Members

Camberwell College of Arts

  • Gabriele Brambilla
  • Reem Chariff
  • Lucy Eccles
  • Amritt Flora
  • Kieran Mahon
  • Pete Maloney
  • Colin Priest
  • Sophie Ungerer
  • Kenneth Wilder
  • Sophie Yetton
  • Korina Zaromytidou

Chelsea College of Arts

  • Vanessa Vanden Berghe
  • Sam Butterfield
  • Scott Gowans
  • Crystal Ho
  • Emma Hunter
  • Rachel Jenkins
  • Daniela La Cava
  • Jesse O'Neil
  • Fernando Rihl
  • Tomris Tangaz
  • Matthew Turner
  • Rob Vinall
  • Tendayi Vine
  • Natalia Zwardon

Contact

For any research enquiries, please contact us:

Camberwell College of Arts

Contact

Telephone

+44 (0)20 7514 6302

Address

Camberwell College of Arts
45 - 65 Peckham Road
London
SE5 8UF