myblog | Valerie Mace | Activity https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/members/valeriemace/activity/ Activity feed for Valerie Mace. Sun, 03 May 2026 20:41:23 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.2.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 d6f52ed314e14cd900b4d19d1f6b59f6 Valerie Mace's profile was updated https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/559474/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:22:50 +0000 0 71649a2f81ebadde718bc5f9ce6342f6 Valerie Mace changed their profile picture https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/544068/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:09:06 +0000 0 e65c3045be77e61f614995e112e9e28e Valerie Mace changed their profile picture https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/543947/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:53:22 +0000 0 6e3acffa093c67b965709908169cd3a9 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=838 Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:18:53 +0000 Sensing and Emotions From 13th to 17th February 2023, students from the first year of the Master’s Degree in Interior and Spatial Design at Politecnico d […]

]]> 75ea371e8620625d530fa26fa58d40ba Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=809 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:04:31 +0000 Sensory Lab Sensory Lab was a participatory event in collaboration with students from the Design for Branded Spaces course at London of […]

]]> f99ed7c3901378e314c0a86091eeb326 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=783 Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:30:14 +0000 In October and November 2021, I designed and led two workshops that allowed me to put principles developed in my PhD research into practice and test their validity and transferability. The outcome of these […]

]]> 0 0ec56154f16acfff99c28acf10ff701c Valerie Mace commented on the post, Phenomenological mapping, on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/phenomenological-mapping/#comment-16297 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:31:44 +0000 Thank you for your feedback (and for pointing out the typo). Yes, here the term map is not used in its true geographical meaning but as a phenomenological representation of the connection between individual and environment.

]]> 5640e6e7dd83e2a1ce3d7e08de8e3ebc Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=775 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 08:31:49 +0000 Sensory exploration at Roca Barcelona This project invited a group of interior design students at ESDi School of Design (University Jamon Lull, Barcelona) to carry out a […]

]]> 9322c8c8f528a7b36ec8fc038357cc15 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=121 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:36:31 +0000 Designers video 1: Caoime bergin, Meghan Christiansen, Ruben Adao

Designers video 2: Jordan Moore, Meha Shah, Zongquan Du

Brand: Alexandra Palace

Project: installation design, public art, storytelling, […]

]]> 0 a0d6319108662dedb61f386210491dea Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=101 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:42:03 +0000 Designer: Ian Lau

Project: spatial design, immersive experience design, sensory design, storytelling

Entrance to the exhibition space

Room 1: tension

Reflecting on the rise of anxiety in younger […]

]]> 0 6bf8794bf9d14533f7bd0022b501e856 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=93 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:22:25 +0000 Brand: Tommy Hilfiger

Designer: Naumana Khan

Project: spatial design, retail design, sensory design, inclusive design

Interior elevation

In the UK alone it, is estimated that around 700,000 […]

]]> 0 90754c4b99361f30024af28d45f46dce Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=90 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:03:04 +0000 Designer: Sarabjit Singh

Category: exhibition design, design for sustainability, design for health and wellbeing

Exterior view of the exhibition environment

Exploded view of the exhibition […]

]]> 0 d4c93d297b1ab0998729b674fe305df5 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=87 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:51:57 +0000 Brand: Rui

Designer: Kimberly Duya

Category: fashion show design, ethics

Plan view

Perspective view

This fashion show for the brand Rui embodies pieces of her 2019-2021 collections. Inspired by h […]

]]> 0 5345146ac1925c176d1d106c06913b12 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=84 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:43:25 +0000 Brand: Sträva

Designer: Noel Garland

Category: spatial experience design, design for health and wellbeing

The isolation and frustrations of recent lockdowns triggered a rise in general anxiety disorders […]

]]> 0 707619537cb5a546b89317e05b5caa01 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=80 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:21:05 +0000 Designers: Dharika (Daz) Jethwa, Tomoyasu Ishizuka, Ma (Eva) Mingxi, Marim Arimova, Shuhai Wang

Category: immersive experience design, sensory design, ethics

An immersive experience designed as a […]

]]> 0 46e04bed504fec48a2c12d35e27451d9 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=671 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 04:47:35 +0000 ‘To live in an environment which has to be endured or ignored rather than enjoyed is to be diminished as a human being. The society which ignores this fact is at risk, for it is presuming too far upon human a […]

]]> 0 64ae1a795f143e2871e3caef44b0e656 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=669 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:32:05 +0000 On June 24 2020 I took part in the 24H Worldwide Design conversation organised by the Polimi Design Systems community of the Politecnico di Milano. The events was streamed live and 48 guests from across the world […]

]]> 0 1ed99143c42f4817b128729d81cca948 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=664 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:56:17 +0000 Phenomenological mapping In my research and PhD, I use phenomenological maps to represent my experience of environments. The map is a representation of the […]

]]> f3366021d00b441bdc867feacc930531 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=66 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:52:47 +0000 Brand: iBabylon.

Designers: Raisha Hussain, Decarla Phillip-Riley, Noel Garland, Kiara Callender.

Category: Speculative design, technology

Exploring the future through design. In the wake of the […]

]]> 0 a70779761460e9e7ba4681052de5ff7e Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=64 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:45:09 +0000 Brand: Stanley Kubrick archive

Designers: Raisha Hussain, Decarla Phillip-Riley, Noel Garland, Kiara Callender.

Category: Immersive experience design, storytelling

Students collaborated with the […]

]]> 0 248b80a9a241f3d87c5d3aa295a3cbfd Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=61 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:41:21 +0000 Brand: IKEA

Designer: Qiongzi (Judith) Zhu

Category: Spatial design, interactive experience design, design for sustainability

Watch the film of the project

An experimental space to enable […]

]]> 0 e824ef435a1d5ad62d1a657ea074e256 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=59 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:38:25 +0000 Brand: 180 The Strand

Designer: Jennifer Nibbs

Category: Immersive experience design, design for health and wellbeing

An immersive multisensory experience exploring consciousness and meditative […]

]]> 0 158970c6f5cefb9b133ade052c9a5c16 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=57 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:35:11 +0000 Designer: Seowon (June) Park

Category: spatial design, sensory design, design for health and wellbeing

The project addresses issues of agoraphobia (anxiety disorder) in high-load urban environments with […]

]]> 0 731ba361c605f1393c57699d00df6c0d Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=55 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:27:01 +0000 Brand: Pour les Femmes

Designer: Toma Miseviciute

Category: Fashion show design, design for sustainability

Main room and hanging birds installation

The show is located in a disused underground […]

]]> 0 e3c4775e9f2f19b26e095bc0a1658c9c Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=53 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:23:55 +0000 Designer: Yiping (Elaine) Zhang

Category: Public space design, design for social innovation

Inspired by traditional Chinese Lane culture, the project transform a busy urban environment in Shanghai into […]

]]> 0 916ab31b3f9ddd976c10d34ec63f8ba4 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=51 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:20:33 +0000 Brand: The Unseen

Designers: Raisha Hussain, Kimberly Duya, Katarina Gomnaes, James Marfell

Category: Brand activation design, installation design, emerging technology

A three-dimensional projection […]

]]> 0 684d99072a2e9d1ae282e08416c3eab0 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=49 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:14:04 +0000 Brand: Alexandra Palace

Designers: Tomoyasu Ishizuka, Esther Philips, Jarred Williams, Celine Maneeroj

Category: Installation design, storytelling, emerging technology

Video of the installation […]

]]> 0 84091fa51b005d84a1bc8fa50b9ce379 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=45 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:54:43 +0000 Brand: London Design Festival

Category: exhibition design

Brand: MUZA

Category: Installation design, design for sustainability, storytelling

Visual by Qiongzi Zhu

From left to right: Jessica […]

]]> 0 ac2048bc409448bef5f3ed0915c6f3a3 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=43 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:36:11 +0000 Brand: Wellcome Collection

Designer: Jennifer Nibbs

Context: Spatial design, immersive experience design, sensory design, design for health and wellbeing

Mind what you eat is an immersive […]

]]> 0 ac5b51337b8e058a524ac6c93d0a36fe Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=40 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:26:55 +0000 Brand: Catapult

Designer: Yiping (Elaine) Zhang

Context: Spatial design, immersive experience design, emerging technology

This retail experience space, located in Selfridges London, is designed to […]

]]> 0 3327a4e30acd1c3db819f41dfd2a1467 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces https://projects.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=38 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:24:48 +0000 Brand: Crunchy Critters

Designer: Qiongzi (Judith) Zhu

Context: Spatial design, Immersive experience design, sensory design, storytelling

This retail experience space, located in Selfridges London, […]

]]> 0 c9dacc52c68be03df72c7ad46730e139 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=464 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:26:50 +0000 This case study is presented as a phenomenological account of first-person embodied experiences of Peter Zumthor’s 2011 Serpentine Pavilion in London. This account was first written in 2011 as a direct e […]

]]> 0 b8d4b9c3b8e8bc018dea023805dcbe98 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=461 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:56:13 +0000 AMPS conference building, Florida State University

On 16 and 17 January 2020 I presented my PhD research at the AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) research group conference at Florida State University […]

]]> 0 4a73d4465b41c28d287ec0d81fded909 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=458 Sat, 07 Dec 2019 18:00:03 +0000 I recently wrote an article for RocaGallery an online magazine on architecture and design.

“In his book The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity, Charles Rice draws on the […]

]]> 0 05774029e8d66b7624e6aafb2dac0cbd Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=434 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:32:36 +0000 New book chapter in Interior Futures

Mace, Valerie (2019) Transient Domesticity in the Urban Interior. In: Interior Futures. Crucible Press, Yountville, CA, pp. 144-163. ISBN 97 […]

]]> 0 5153c118179a09234a2583ed684da656 Valerie Mace's profile was updated https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/292263/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 06:23:27 +0000 0 81d30cf846cbc3f0ce515a4932f5d21a Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=414 Sat, 16 Jun 2018 15:35:09 +0000 Symbols used for the cocumentation process in the workshop

Facilitated by Valerie Mace – Friday 25th May 2018.Participants: Students from the MA Narrative Environment course at Central St Martins.

In this […]

]]> 0 ab7f5906ef31ced2d94f8550b76ed1a9 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=389 Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:54:31 +0000 On 16th June I participated in a seminar on multisensory design organised by CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group & CIB W098 Commission on Intelligent & Responsive Buildings.

The seminar took place at the […]

]]> 0 9541a560e0b75f1aa0970816be280606 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=372 Mon, 14 May 2018 12:59:07 +0000 The value of exploring the wider context of your research.
In 2017, I took part in Arts in the Alps, a week long doctoral research school organised by the Maison de la création at the Université Grenoble A […]

]]> 0 7e6d4abe2ddd31393585b7431c845652 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=348 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:54:19 +0000 London Design Festival at London College of Communication
A Sensory Walk workshop in Elephant Park facilitated by:
Valerie Mace and Lucy Thornett
Tuesday 19th September 2017 1pm to 4pm LCC

Watch a short film of […]

]]> 0 6454f9659a6299650d73b8d4407a1c1b Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=335 Sat, 27 May 2017 15:24:37 +0000 Open Senses review The London Open Senses Festival ran from 19-21 May 2017. The first of its kind, first of many I hope, the festival included an rich mix […]

]]> 872823e20b21225c81aa10374ce714b2 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=324 Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:06:06 +0000 I presented this article on 25th November 2016 during a Doctoral Symposium at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. The paper is in English and the presentation in French except for […]

]]> 0 12be96aa439c7fedcdbf2bf061039779 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=309 Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:54:23 +0000 Residual Ambiances Residual Ambiances – An Illustration of Urban Heritage as a Sentient Experience at: Ambiances, tomorrow, 3rd International Congress on […]

]]> d23bec828951dfb0c75c18b9f2b8b1e6 Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=303 Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:19:04 +0000 I participated in Ambiances, tomorrow, the 3rd International Congress on Ambiances organised in Volos, Greece: 21 – 24 September 2016 by the International Ambiances Network.

Above: Poster of the Con […]

]]> 0 3120b7c7e45e8466086d17d4121f161b Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=300 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:06:59 +0000 The Transfigured Phenomena of Domesticity in the Urban Interior A paper I wrote as an account of a phenomenological experience. It is published in the 2015 Urban + Interior edition of the IDEA j […]

]]> 0c33614f13d5b535e884f316f817fb1b Valerie Mace commented on the post, Spaces of Memory, on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/spaces-of-memory/#comment-759 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:01:31 +0000 The Urban + Interior 2015 edition of IDEA journal may be of interest. Available for download at: http://idea-edu.com/journal/2015-idea-journal/

]]> ff59fed56731748ee1dd474562c6eb1f Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing https://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=289 Sat, 27 Aug 2016 14:22:27 +0000 On Wednesday, I attended a lunch event where each dish was prepared to provide a unique multi sensory experience. Of course, the taste of the food was very important but it was enhanced by varied combinations of […]

]]> 0 06bc031cf39df6bb10cc51d9908fa43e Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=281 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:26:47 +0000 This workshop, also at the 2016 Design Research Society conference, was in part organised by Kate McLean, PhD candidate at the RCA (there were 3 activities, each organised by a different person). Kate’s fantastic […]

]]> 0 fbb1bfe0f68ed9e1ebaab54af22bdf24 Valerie Mace changed their profile picture https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/243547/ Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:30:53 +0000 0 5e04720fe4604bee6c1107bc9973e38a Valerie Mace wrote a new post on the site Sensing http://spatialexperience.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=271 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:09:43 +0000   In June I attended the Design Research Society Conference in Brighton. Four fantastic days of workshops and talks on design research (of course). Two workshops were especially interesting for me because highly r […]

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