Year 3 Studio W208
code: C23895
This year you must pass every unit in order to graduate in 2026. If you fail any units you will have the opportunity to resubmit, but you will not graduate in 2026.
Contextual and Theoretical Studies 3: 10,000 words (40 credits)
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Minor Studio Project (20 credits)
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Major Project (60 credits)
Learning Outcomes
Enquiry –
Knowledge –
Process –
Communication –
Realisation –
Minor Project Briefing
Please note, there will be a cap of 22 students per project option.
At 10am on Monday 6th October, you will be sent an email in which you can choose your option.
Live Brief Top Choice
Museum Dreaming: The Brief
Exhibition Road is home to many of London’s largest museums and galleries and in this brief, you will be asked to create a new engagement resource for families for a museum/gallery of your choice within this area.
Museums and galleries have a long and rich history of commissioning artists/designers to create ‘engagement resources’ for families who visit their spaces. Typically, the ‘resources’ are printed booklets that give prompts and ideas for things to do whilst visiting the museum/gallery. But sometimes the resources can be more experimental in form: specially designed gadgets, audiotracks or even costumes.
This brief welcomes you to create a resource that functions as an ‘aid’ and helps family groups engage creatively with the museum’s/gallery’s collections and create one of the following options:
Option 1: Printed Resource (Option 1)
Option 2: Experimental Resource
This could be an activity, game, narrative etc. but the design must factor in that the resource would need to be accessible to large numbers of people, so it would need to be easily reproducible or extremely robust.
Deliverables
Option 1: Printed Resource • Double sided print
• Max size: A3
• 300dpi
• 10 copies
Option 2: Experimental Resource
• To be defined with support of your tutor
As part of your formative assessment, there will be an Open Studio on Wednesday 12th November 2025 in which you will showcase this work to the client.
(V&A museum map of information in style of trifold/zine)
Live Brief Second Choice:
Living / Live-in Archive The Brief
The ‘Living / Live-in Archive is a year long project led by
Zoë Tynan-Campbell that invites students and graduates to completely reimagine the Atterbury flat. A two bedroom flat at Chelsea College of Arts which is used to host esteemed guests. Currently a blank canvas, everything in the space will be designed and made by students and graduates of UAL. Creating a rich space that is as much an archive and library of wild and wonderful objects as it is a functional living space.
This brief welcomes you to be a part of this enterprise. You must consider the space / location in which your work would be displayed (a particular room / ceiling / cupboard) and select one of the following options to work within:
Option 1: Surface Design
Wallpaper, Soft furnishings, Tiles, Murals, etc (Option 3)
Option 2: Object Design
Furniture, Kitchenware, Ceramics, Books, Wall Art, etc (Option 2)
Option 3: Spatial Intervention
Performance, Installation, Projection, Event, etc
Although there is no strict theme, you may wish to use the following key words as inital inspiration: HOME / HABITAT / LEGACY / LEARNINGS.
Deliverables
Inspired by the format of Design Festivals your deliverable will be a physical display, showcasing the outcome/s of your chosen option.
It is important that these are real physcial 3D outcomes and not mock-ups of your designs.
As part of your formative assessment, there will be an Open Studio on Wednesday 12th November 2025 in which you will showcase this work to the client.
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Work for this week:
- Your chosen client brief.Why did you choose this?
- Initial research & enquiryPlease bring a selection of physical and digital resources.
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