Spatial Design

In the Master’s programme in Spatial Design, the interior is in focus, but we also ask the question ‘What is an interior?’ to broaden the perspectives of what an interior is and can be, both indoors and outdoors. Students with different educational backgrounds enrol in the programme – from interior architecture, architecture and various design fields. They meet in their different areas of expertise, which prepares them for a professional life where such collaborations will be part of their professional roles. It is important to be able to collaborate and openly exchange experiences and knowledge, something that, in the long run, will develop all our subject areas within space and design.

Several of this year’s degree projects within the Master’s programme in Spatial Design revolve around the home and our everyday lives. The students explore by making design, through spaces, furniture and objects, and materiality is shaped and made known. The degree projects also include fiction – how can we live together collectively in the future, and what would a dementia care home be like in 2080? The different stages of life are explored, such as a care space for final farewells that is materialised and becomes part of the grieving process. In one degree project, rooms for social services are thoughtfully designed to facilitate difficult conversations. One student explores how furniture affects how we interact together in public spaces, and in another degree project, our seeing is examined, where the perspective and visual experiences are in focus.

The students take us to urban spaces, which are open but also closed, in future spatial scenarios, but also into the past, taking us to what has been demolished, but which still lives on in our consciousness. We move through time – the past, present and future – where interiors are created, questioned and lived in.

Kristina Fridh
Professor in Interior Architecture

Teres Selberg
Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design