I started studies for a Spatial Design degree at AUT this year. The Spatial Design degree is only offered in two universities in New Zealand and is at the same time a broad field and a specialist field. It’s tricky to define what Spatial Design is. The following text is from the AUT website (http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/art-design/qualifications/undergraduate-courses/bachelor-of-design-spatial-design):
Spatial Design begins with interiority. Not just the inside of a house, a shop, or an office, but the experience of being enclosed or enveloped in environments of many kinds. Such spaces can be defined by four walls, but equally they might radiate outwards with few physical boundaries and change with time. They might be defined by proximity: how far you can reach or travel; intimacy and the desire for closeness; immersion and the sense of being fully engaged or even out of your depth; drama and suspense; touch, warmth, pressure, the feel of the breeze or the shock of pain; or connection, whether through genealogies, social networks, or remote technologies. Spatial designers recognise that we experience our world from within.
In Semester one I covered three subjects; Core Studio, Elective Project and Into to Spatial Computing. Core Studio was the primary subject with 3 class sessions per week and a minimum of 20 hours independent project work per week. Elective Project had one lecture and one Tutorial session a week. Spatial Computing consisted of a 3hour laboratory session per week.
In the next blogs I’ll share with you some of the projects that I completed in these subjects.
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