Heading back in to the studio this week will be different to previous years. The tutors want to refigure the studios to allow for more opportunities for students to work at different scales and to have the space to be more ambitious. The warren of individual cubicles will be opened up into spaces of different sizes and students will no longer own their space for the year but use a space appropriate to their work. Decent storage space for work and materials will be included in the plan, along with a small area to meet and engage with each other, requested by the students. This will all probably take a while to be put in place and it will be interesting to see how sharing communal space works in practice.
In the next few months I would like to revisit some of the questions I had on entering the course four years ago. I want to evaluate ‘breakthrough pieces’ and bring threads together as I approach the end of this stage, and the opening up of the next one.
The changes to the physical studio space seem somehow timely for me.
