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Spatial Imagination in Design

This cluster focused on the role of spatial imagination as a creative driver in architecture and spatial design processes. It brought together an international group of 16 people from architecture, spatial design, the visual arts, spatial theory, psychoanalysis and engineering for three workshops to produce four outcomes. In particular, the group investigated the scope of the spatial imagination in the processes of writing, modelling and drawing to consider a number of research questions:

  • How can we identify new theories and methods of spatial imagination in design processes?     
  • In what ways is the spatial imagination a design tool?
  • What is the role of the spatial imagination as a mechanism of critical interpretation and evaluation of the designed environment?
  • How does the spatial imagination construct the user’s experience of design in the built environment?
Principal Investigator
Dr Jane Rendell
The Bartlett School of Architecture
University College London
T: 0207 679 4836
E: j.rendell@ucl.ac.uk
W: www.spatialimagination.org

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