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Architecture and Interior Design Research Group

A+I Thinks: A critical spatial practice

Architecture and Interior Design are hybrid disciplines, always in precarious balance between “thing” and “thought”, between the body of the discipline and the constructed bodies of each instantiations – a building, a room, a city, a territory. A discipline that incorporates change is not only embracing new techniques, engaging with the present and anticipating futures; it is also constantly reconfiguring itself as a self-critique performed through its own making.

The Architecture and Interior Design Research and Knowledge Exchange group considers the role of research in creative spatial practices in the city, in society, and on the planet as a performative understanding of our world as it changes and responsibility. Ultimately it is the space for the constant questioning of the discipline itself – a locus of specific self- criticality. The different themes of A+I Research Group share the aspiration and responsibility to rethink spatial design beyond definition and enclosure, and as a nodal player and activator of tensions and relations, an unsettling ground for the discussion and the re-framing of spatial and creative practices at large, in architecture and interior design, and across the creative disciplines of Norwich University of the Arts.

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