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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.
The third and final year of the programme is driven by an interest in interdisciplinary practice that looks beyond the institution to promote public facing, socially engaged projects. Students experiment with strategies for creative practice that are sustainable within a wide cultural context, while collectively exploring a theme relating to architecture and the built environment. Term 1 is based around a series of short projects carried out in pairs or small groups. Students build upon the outcomes of these initial projects, developing their own briefs in response to a specific strand of research initiated in the first term. This year we explored the theme of ‘Improvisation’, considering it as a design methodology for resolving problems as well as a mode of group interaction. The students then embarked on an expedition of their own design, in which improvisation would be an inevitable and necessary response.