Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for an agriculture factory for the year 2050, built using manure plaster and thatch, is among the projects from UWE Bristol.
Also featured is an accessible art kit for people with sensory processing issues, and a mixed-use proposal including a shopping centre and workspaces.
Institution: UWE Bristol
School: College of Arts, Technology and Environment
Course: BA(Hons) Architecture and Planning, BA(Hons) Graphic Design, BA(Hons) Interior Design, BA(Hons) Product Design, BSc(Hons) Architecture, BSc(Hons) Product Design Technology and MArch Architecture
Tutors: Allison Dutoit, Colum Leith, Ed Harty, Elahe Karimnia, Jo Hare, Karl Hutchison, Louis Rice, Matthew Hynam, Michael Lewis, Phil Bommer, Piers Taylor, Richard Mawle, Sophie Ward, Yahya Lavaf Pour and Zaky Fouad
School statement:
“We’re thrilled to share this year’s work from our graduating students across the College of Arts, Technology and Environment. An annual highlight for the university and city of Bristol, we invite you to discover a new generation of talent.
“Showcase combines exhibitions at Bower Ashton, Arnolfini, Spike Island and Frenchay Campus, accompanied by an extensive digital showcase. Celebrate the exceptional work of more than 1,200 graduates from more than 30 courses.
“Exhibits will include a selection of undergraduate and postgraduate work from animation, architecture, art, creative technologies, design, engineering, fashion, filmmaking, media, performance, photography, product design and writing.”
Artune by Amelia Brown
“My project addresses the inaccessibility of many creative tools, which often require skill, precision, or complex control, creating barriers for those who struggle with confidence, sensory processing or motor skills.
“Artune aims to provide a safe, judgement-free way for people to express themselves, especially those who may not feel they have a strong voice.
“Inspired by personal experience of art supporting mental wellbeing, I designed an interactive art kit where painting generates sound in real time.
“This transforms emotion into both visual and auditory expression, offering a multisensory creative outlet that supports regulation and self-expression without requiring prior ability or verbal communication.”
Student: Amelia Brown
Course: BA(Hons) Product Design
Tutors: Jo Hare and Richard Mawle
Respiration Station by Greta Marciukonyte
“This project pairs a metro station with a hotel through a shared focus on air movement and quality.
“The station is ventilated by windcatcher-inspired pillars that draw cool air down from the roof into the underground platforms and expel stale air from the building.
“The hotel works differently, with sealed windows and a separate system that supplies filtered air at floor level, allowing it to rise naturally through the rooms.
“The design is inspired by alveoli, creating cellular spaces organised along a diagonal split.
“Roof planting captures pollutants before air is released back into the city, while heat from the station is reused to warm the hotel, linking the two systems.”
Student: Greta Marciukonyte
Course: BA(Hons) Interior Design
Tutor: Ed Harty
The Collective Domestic by Gwilym Humphreys
“What if we lived in a world where the home did less, and the city did more?
“The project, located in Camden, reimagines housing as a micro-city where domestic life extends beyond the front door.
“The Collective Domestic questions what separates sufficiency from luxury, arguing that many qualities seen as luxuries are basic needs unevenly distributed.
“Using the principle of private sufficiency and public luxury, dwellings are reduced to essentials such as sleep, hygiene and retreat, while shared infrastructure supports cooking, work, care and leisure.
“Through conditional proximity, access to nearby shared spaces reduces private duplication and encourages collective abundance.”
Student: Gwilym Humphreys
Course: MArch Architecture
Tutors: Matthew Hynam, Allison Dutoit and Karl Hutchison
Silenzio by Hamish Armstrong
“As global populations increasingly gravitate toward high-density urban living, ‘acoustic pollution’ from domestic appliances has become a significant design challenge.
“Silenzio is a bean-to-cup coffee machine specifically engineered for compact, open-plan homes.
“This project focuses on a proprietary silent pump and a redesigned milk-frothing system that eliminates the disruptive noise levels typical of high-end coffee brewers.
“In addition to its quiet operation, the machine features a fully modular architecture, allowing for customised aesthetic configurations and simplified maintenance.
“Its ultra-slim design ensures that high-performance coffee remains accessible without compromising valuable kitchen space.”
Student: Hamish Armstrong
Course: BSc(Hons) Product Design Technology
Tutor: Phil Bommer
The Line Mirage by Juliette Davis
“The Line Mirage is a 12-page risograph zine documenting Saudi Arabia’s Neom megacity collapse, from 170 kilometre utopian vision to a stalled 2.4 kilometre desert trench.
“Combining layered halftone photography, satellite imagery, archival research and collaged flyer graphics, the publication exposes the gap between grand renderings and on-ground reality.
“Through overlapping typography, bilingual text and maximalist design, the work critiques mega-project ambition at odds with implementation and human cost.
“Designed by Juliette Davis jdarchive.com and printed on recycled stock, 2026.”
Student: Juliette Davis
Course: BA(Hons) Graphic Design
Tutor: Colum Leith
Land-escape: Breaking Free from Social Confinement by Kirsten Augustus
“Set within St Philip’s Marsh, Bristol, the project engages with industrial history and shifting social hierarchies.
“It traces a quiet dialogue between topography and social class, questioning the alignment of elevation with wealth, power and privilege.
“The scheme constructs a layered, man-made landscape through superposition; a geology of time. Here, landscape is not fixed but unfolding, a medium of change, uncertainty and resistance.
“Artificial ecologies permeate its strata, blurring the boundary between natural and unnatural nature.
“Negative landscape generates two architectural land-forms: galleries, debate chambers and studios, platforms for exchange where traces of history frame new narratives for urban transformation.”
Student: Kirsten Augustus
Course: BSc(Hons) Architecture
Tutors: Yahya Lavaf Pour and Zaky Fouad
The Route to an Ideal Life by Lorelei von Leyden
“Two Hanover LED bus display boards programmed to present stages of life, critiquing the societally constructed and often perceived ‘correct’ route of life.
“One displays the ‘ideal’ life, next stop: marriage, children, wealth, retirement – while the contrasting board presents the ‘unideal’ life, featuring divorce, debt and breakdown, which was developed from verbal reactions by people viewing and critiquing how unrealistic the idealised version is.
“Both sequences feature ‘death’ as a stop, emphasising the futility.
“The ‘ideal’ display concludes with ‘the end’, suggesting the closure of the perfect life. By contrast, the ‘unideal’ version ends with a question mark, opening up space for interpretation and encouraging a personal understanding of what life could mean.”
Student: Lorelei von Leyden
Course: BA(Hons) Graphic Design
Tutor: Colum Leith
Fishponds Market by Max Barker
“This poster proposes a mixed-use scheme organised around the retained Fishponds wax-factory chimneys.
“Inspired by Battersea Power Station, it aims to revive the local shopping and community quarter with markets, flexible workspaces, workshops and a multi-purpose hall.
“A brick facade preserves the site’s industrial character while fitting the suburban setting.
“Ground-floor routes stitch the three units together and draw people to a cafe and lounge beside the chimneys, which also separate market stalls.
“Technically, the chimneys are integrated into ventilation for Unit 2 and expressed through the roof and exposed trusses supporting services and shading as a strong civic landmark.”
Student: Max Barker
Course: BA(Hons) Architecture and Planning
Tutors: Elahe Karimnia, Louis Rice and Sophie Ward
Rig F by Ines Vonthron
“Acting as the scabs for the traces humans have left through climate change, Rig F sits in the shell of an abandoned factory.
“It is a reimagined framework for a visible and industrial act of ecological care. In the degraded and flooded context of St. Philip’s marsh in 2090, the rig is constructed from salvaged steel and seaweed that is grown and processed on site.
“At its core, it is an oxygen factory, producing 02 through algae and cryogenic distillation, revitalising marine ‘dead zones’.
“Rig F dismisses rigid structured hierarchies as a modular evolving piece of humanitarian infrastructure.”
Student: Ines Vonthron
Course: BSc(Hons) Architecture
Tutors: Yahya Lavaf Pour and Zaky Fouad
The Bȳre by Danni Payne
“Set in 2050, The Bȳre is Melksham’s visceral response to a food security crisis signalled in the present day.
“The project represents a new, honest approach to industry and agriculture. Shaggy thatch, exposed timbers and manure plaster connect this vision to its built form.
“Here, the hum of the factory floor returns to the high street, rising toward the soil research labs and exhibition galleries above.
“The project repositions us within the network of humans and more-than-humans, prioritising animal welfare and respect.
“The Bȳre sustains Melksham amidst global trade collapse, securing local survival through self-sufficiency.”
Student: Danni Payne
Course: MArch Architecture
Tutors: Matthew Hynam, Piers Taylor and Michael Lewis
Partnership content
This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and UWE Bristol. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.