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Year 1 | Rear Window (1 of 3)

Rear Window (1 of 3)

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Year 1

The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic forced students into existence within a single space of their home. Project 1, also entitled ‘Rear Window’, asked students to examine their own room; the objects within it, its thresholds and interfaces. The title of the project is inspired by the seminal 1954 film Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock. The film is entirely set within a room, with a view from the main character’s window into the courtyard and the neighboring rooms beyond the courtyard. The project examined what was near, the window frame as a ‘picture plane’, and the world beyond.


Cover image: Cosmin Ticuș.

Students

Year 1

Cosmin Ticuș, Y1, ‘Lightmap’

This is a reading of student's room through light and the surfaces it interacts with. The qualities of daylight are communicated as a pattern of cyanotypes, while at nighttime, external sources create a subtle, overlapping mosaic of light.

Chuhan (Paris) Feng, Y1, ‘Emotion Islands’

The project tries to bring inside and the outside together with light and emotions as the narrator. Here the duvet is a landscape evoking personal stories and memories.

Sophie Du Ry Van Beest Holle, Y1, ‘Inflatable Duvet’

The project tries to bring inside and the outside together with light and emotions as the narrator. Here the duvet is a landscape evoking personal stories and memories.

Fatim Kamara, Y1, ‘Unfolding Room’

A college that unfolds and reveals a room enthralled within natural projection, an active camera obscura. This piece merges the inside and outside.

Jack Bowers, Y1, ‘Routine Movements’

This project explores and transforms the shape of the student's bedroom based on levels of movement and interaction, formed by the routines developed within the confines of the room during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Luke Gifford, Y1, ‘Man-Made and Natural Form’

This project explores the relationship between man-made structures and how plants can interact and overgrow them.

Hannah Lingard, Y1, ‘Auto-Destruction’

The investigations show the automaton’s memory of movement upon release. The “self-build” destroys the image in a way that matches memory loss; representing physical destruction of Arcis-Sur-Aube by mechanised warfare in 1940.

Jonathan Zhu, Y1, ‘Artificial Rural Landscape’

This project explores the relationship between reality and extrapolated information, imagining the rural Hertfordshire home of animals kept in the Camden campus of the Royal Veterinary College.

Natalia Michalowska, Y1, ‘View Manipulator’

The project focuses on the idea of view framing, exploring how our sight travels through different thresholds and how it can be manipulated.

Yanyu (Cici) Zhou, Y1, ‘A Journey Through Plughole’

The works are the observation of the filtration process through the plughole in the kitchen. Only objects with certain sizes and viscosity have the 'tickets' to pass through the hole and start their journey in the London drainage system.

Julia Rzaca, Y1, ‘Invisibility Cloak’

Piece created in context of living in student halls during Covid-19 pandemic is a protection tool against unwanted contact with flatmates in communal areas. The user disappears under its layers of drawings and melts into the animation.

Magdalena Gauden, Y1, ‘Confinement’

A collage woven out of memories of objects the student sees or is involved with throughout a day of online teaching. The use of various media and different level of detail is connected to emotions and memories' sharpness.

Haodi (Hardy) Wang, Y1, ‘Glass Room’

The project is based on a room made of glass in the student’s home. It could be invisible during the day, due to the reflection of the sun, but be exposed at night.

Zuzanna Jastrzebska, Y1, ‘Liquid Ergonomics’

The project redefines the spatial form of a washbasin using the analysis of positive (occupied) and negative (unoccupied) space.

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23 July – 07 August 2021
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