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Design & Creative Practice is a 15-, 30- and 45-credit module taught across Years 1, 2 and 3 of Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies BSc. It is taken by Bartlett students and affiliate students, and may also be chosen as an elective by UCL students from other departments.
In Year 2 students explored the outer limits of architectural design, reaching beyond the human and the built. They considered creative practice as listening, walking and cleaning; photosynthesising, repurposing and curating. They wrote new legislation for material re-use at The Bartlett, wove temporary studios onto their bodies and conducted public orchestras with hand-crafted instruments. Embracing the power of the collective and the strength of shared knowledge, students compiled common resources in the form of group encyclopaedias and field guides. Their work exists in conversations, workshops and walks as much as in the installations that they construct. Year 2 projects were displayed at two co-curated exhibitions, the first at The Bartlett School of Architecture and the second at Camley Street Nature Reserve.