ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Interior Design & Textiles students have developed an innovative and multi-functional wearable dwelling in direct response to the Syrian refugee crisis, The brief was set by their tutors, Dr Harriet Harriss & Graeme Brooker. The garment is designed to adapt from a jacket with large storage pockets into a sleeping bag and also a tent. Student design team: Anne Sophie Geay (France) Gabriella Geagea (Lebanon) Cassie Buckhart (USA) Eve Hoffmann (Switzerland) Anna Duthie (Scotland) Hailey Darling (Canada) Zara Ashby (England) Ruben Van den Bossche & Giulia Silovy (Belgium).

The MA Interior Design Programme engages its participants in exploring emergent ideas and issues concerning distinct aspects of the design of the interior. This incorporates research, practice and making work that explores the diversity of human occupation in numerous environments, extending from the room to the city. The programme encourages the view that the interior is an interface between its occupants and the built environment and it supports the notion that the interior is an agent for social change. The programme values speculation, analysis, rigor and provocation with regards to the thinking and making of all aspects of the design of the interior. It challenges its participants to formulate their own rigorous critically independent responses to these fundamental concerns. This is often undertaken via the reworking of existing structures, the creation of temporal installations and the formation of permanent interventions, all involving the construction and communication of particular spatial identities using space, objects and materials.