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The second edition of the BNU Interior and Spatial Design Lecture Series had a fantastic group of industry-guests who shared their projects and vision with our students. At the intersection of architecture, spatial practice and design critic, the BNU Interior and Spatial Design Lecture Series aims to explore where the discipline is going through talks, lectures and debates. We also explore how to push the boundaries of design. 

The lecture series kicked off with , Japanese architect based in London which with his lecture titled “Myths, Dreams and Fairy tales” unfolded the relationship between nature and man-made, and discussed how the making process based on myths, dreams and stories can shape places and communities.

The award-winning design critic and author  joined us during Creative Futures Week: she inspired the students with her lecture “Design Emergency: Building a Better Future”, highlighting design's potential as a social, political and ecological tool that can help to foster positive change.

We also welcomed , who was awarded the 2023 Pritzker Prize. As well as this we had the great pleasure of hosting , director at DCA. Matt started by explaining the practice’s ethos and way of working, to then showing a series of projects including Fayland House, a private residence in Buckinghamshire, and Inagawa Cemetery chapel and visitor centre in Hyogo, Japan. Students were blown away by his experience in leading teams through competitions and how his design sensibility gets translated into architectural projects.

We ended the 2023 programme welcoming , artist-architect and director of Mésarchitecture studio, based between Lisbon and Paris. His work explores the relationship between body and space through installations, sculptures, scenography, films, editorial projects, temporary architecture, and built-work — provoking the formal and conceptual demarcations between architecture, design, and art through a devout focus on the body as central architectural concern.