Interior Design Blog

The works by the Chelsea College students, part of University of the Arts London, are the result of a British Land competition to create an original temporary artwork for the site. The winning works were selected for the way they integrate artworks and architecture at the Euston Road site with the public and local community.

Called Set in Stone, Emma Hunter's paving slabs are inscribed with poems composed by teenagers from Samual-Lithgow Youth Club in West Euston. She was keen for the work to involve the surrounding community and bring something from local young people into what is largely a corporate space, allowing them to feel an increased sense of ownership. Set into the very ground beneath which visitors walk, the poems quietly provide a private escape into the imaginations of the passer-by without disturbing the existing architecture.

Ami Kanki's film Regent's Place Museum investigates how the public engage with the artworks already on site. Despite the outside setting, passers-by tend to treat the artworks as if they were in a museum; looking for clues as to how much participation is allowed. The film shows Kanki playfully testing the rules surrounding interaction with the artworks, placing knitted hats on Antony Gormley's figurative sculptures and consequently turning the site's security guards into characters in the film itself.