Foundation Degree Spatial Design at Plymouth College of Art

Serena Scrine

Now a full time educationalist, Serena’s background is in community projects with landscape design. For example, she worked with residents of local flats to discuss possible landscaping improvements. The residents’ overall process in developing improvements was filmed by the BBC as a documentary called ’The Estate We’re In’.

Serena is also coordinator for the College of a national project run each year called the Young Design Programme. This involves student designers in the second year working as a team with a client team made up of school children locally. The two teams aim to work together, finding problems in the school environment for which the designers can propose solutions.
 
Serena has a residency in a gallery in a small seaside town in Brittany this year, making work that responds to ‘sense of place’, a kind of poetic site analysis. She is interested in the characteristic and idiosyncratic features of a place, and how to communicate this visually. Other research this year is educational and allied to course developments.

 

Gemma Phippen

Gemma works as an interior designer with mainly commercial hospitality briefs with clubs, restaurants, cafes and hotels. She comes in regularly from her office ‘Gemma and Martin Payne’. She is interested in layouts that improve access and use of the space, and in a coherent theme that ties the place together.

Robert Bedner

Robert designs ‘buildings that feel like a place’ and has worked in Europe and North America in architecture, and in multidisciplinary teams composed of artists designers and architects. He comes in regularly from his office ‘Research and design’. Hi particular interest is in how the inside and outside relate to each other in architecture, and how subtle adjustments in refurbishment or original design can increase our delight in the building and our connection to the natural world.


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