Student work that critically engages with the theme of the annual Interior Educators conference, demonstrating a strong conceptual and spatial response to current disciplinary discourse.
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This award aligns student work with the evolving intellectual agenda of Interior Educators, responding directly to conference themes (Imagining Interiors 2025-2026), positioning students as contributors to contemporary discourse through spatial and experiential exploration and debate. This keeps the awards dynamic and forward-looking.
Responding to the 2025 ‘Imagining Interiors’ conference at Edinburgh College of Art, submissions in this category should respond to:
Imagining Interiors’ is a deliberately ambiguous title, that can refer both to the process of making things up, creating, dreaming and describing; and also, more literally, to the activity of making images. In The Emergence of the Interior (2008) the interior historian Charles Rice writes of the ‘doubleness’ of the designed interior – both as a space to be occupied, and an image to be contemplated. Seventeen years on, in a world saturated by images imagined by machines, what might that doubleness actually mean? What opportunities might it present to design, build, and occupy – imagine – interiors?
