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About the Cluster

Spatiality is a concept which impinges on many design disciplines and many facets of design activity. For example: understanding architecture, using space in art, exploring information spatially, visualising design space. The cluster aims to examine spatial concepts as an organising principle for design research and, in particular, to:

Promote novel interactions and partnerships among design researchers, and enable existing research questions to be seen from new viewpoints through the use of spatial concepts as an organizing principle for design research.
Introduce new spatial ideas into design (from areas including artificial intelligence, applied linguistics and fine art), and to develop a cross-disciplinary community of designers and experts in aspects of spatiality from other disciplines.
Map out the topography of spatiality in design: drawing in people and groups related to spatiality research and proposing new research challenges for design in the 21st Century (see also Cluster Purpose).