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Ten most popular Dezeen School Shows of 2021

We have now published over 170 school shows! As we approach the end of 2021, here are the ten most popular showcases of student work from throughout the year.


Dezeen School Shows provides universities with an affordable digital platform to put the work of their students in front of Dezeen’s huge global audience of over three million monthly readers.

Read on for a selection of the most popular school shows published in 2021, and contact us for details and pricing at schoolshows@dezeen.com if you would like to put on a Dezeen School Show.

December slots are still available, as well as dates throughout 2022.

Dezeen School Shows is complemented by our new resource Dezeen Courses, which launched in September. This new service presents details of undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses, as well as short courses and remote learning programmes.

Dezeen Courses provides an essential resource for anyone wanting to study architecture, interior design or any design-related discipline.

Read on for a selection of the most popular school shows we published in 2021:

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute
Interior Design BFA and MFA

From a building that could purify contaminated floodwater to analysing how to improve users’ airport experiences (above), these projects by interior design students at Pratt Institute explore how interiors affect our environment and behaviour.

The digital exhibition displays a selection of ten projects by students on both the school’s undergraduate and postgraduate interior design courses.

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University for the Creative Arts illustration school show

University for the Creative Arts
BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation and BA (Hons) Illustration

An animation exploring a student’s fear of the unknown after graduating and a project which examines the human destruction of coral reefs (above) is included in this school show by students at the University for the Creative Arts.

The ten projects were selected from the studios of the undergraduate BA illustration and combined BA illustration and animation courses.

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Lucerne School of Art and Design, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Bachelor VS Jewellery

Jewellery designed to enhance people’s connection with dogs, glasses that improve with age and a jewellery prototype that resists facial recognition technology (above) are among projects by students at the Lucerne School of Art and Design that feature in this school show.

This trio of projects are presented alongside five further school shows from Lucerne University containing projects by students from its product, textiles and lighting design courses.

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Hongik University, Korea
BA Industrial Design

Hongik University, Korea presented ten projects by students enrolled on the institution’s BA Industrial Design course.

The digital exhibition features a fashion store (above) designed to reference a garden and a series of cocktail-making objects intended to enhance the work of bartenders (top image).

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Graduate Thesis Projects

School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s school show presented ten graduate thesis projects by architecture students.

This school show presented a variety of projects, including one using hand-drawing techniques to explore “contemporary ruins” and another that examines how “house museums” serve as an opportunity to think about the way architecture communicates (above).

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Monash Architecture, Monash University
Bachelor of Architectural Design, Master of Architecture

A project that addresses the lack of public space in Beirut (above) and an urban care home designed to enhance dementia patients’ quality of life are included in this showcase by students of Monash University.

The ten projects were created by undergraduate and postgraduate students of the university’s architecture faculty.

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Ravensbourne University London
BA (Hons) Architecture, BA (Hons) Interior Design Environment Architectures and BA (Hons) Urban Landscape Architecture

Ravensbourne University London displays nine student projects in its showcase, including one which explores rituals around death through the use of mycelium and a pandemic-necessitated digital repair centre (above).

The ten highlighted projects were drawn up by undergraduate students from across the studios of architecture, interior and urban landscape design.

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Sydney Design School
Diploma of Interior Design and Advanced Diploma of Interior Design

A hotel interior informed by drag culture and a hospitality space that has a zero food waste philosophy (above) are among projects presented by Sydney Design School in its showcase.

The show features ten projects by students enrolled on the school’s interior design diploma courses.

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Lamp prototype on a surface in a bedroom/study space

L’ecole de design Nantes Atlantique
MDes Care Design, MDes City Design, MDes Food Design, MDes Digital Design, MDes Media Design, MDes Design and Innovation Management in apprenticeship, MDes Transcultural Design – China studio, MDes Transcultural Design – Brazil studio, MDes Transcultural Design – India studio, MDes Design and Entrepreneurship – Le Studio Montréal

A lamp that helps individuals with bipolar disorder understand their behavioural changes (above) and a drone programme tackling beaches affected by algae are among projects by students from a wide range of courses at L’ecole de design Nantes Atlantique.

The ten showcased proposals were drawn up by undergraduates and postgraduates from across the school’s architecture, furniture and interior design courses.

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Parsons school of design

The New School’s Parsons School of Design
Architectural Design (BFA), Architecture (MArch), Industrial Design (MFA), Interior Design (AAS), Interior Design (BFA), Interior Design (MFA), Lighting Design (MFA), Product Design (BFA)

The nine featured projects in this showcase by The New School’s Parsons School of Design were completed by both undergraduate and postgraduate students across the studios of architecture and design.

They include a project exploring how architecture is integral to healing trauma and another investigating how bioluminescence could change our relationship to interiors (above).

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Haines high school art students debut skate park mural project

Haines artwork teacher Giselle Miller snap a image of art students (Photograph by Corinne Smith/KHNS)

There was a palpable pleasure in the air, as learners, family members, academics and good friends gathered on a great tumble evening to look at Haines’ art students’ skate park mural job. There was food, tunes and catching up, as it was also 1 of the 1st neighborhood gatherings given that a latest COVID surge last thirty day period.

“It’s so wonderful. I’m so pleased individuals are coming out right here to come look at our items,” stated senior Trygve Bakky,  on the lookout out more than the significant included skate park, as skaters sail by and younger young children participate in on the ramps.

“We’ve been functioning on it because late August, early September. It was a whole class we all took, kind of describing the procedure of how do you distribute artwork by way of graffiti, and how we do that lawfully? You know, compose a proposal to the borough, variety of describe what we were being carrying out,” Bakky stated.

Artist Jeremy Settem paints all through the community showcase function. (Photograph by Corinne Smith/KHNS)

The course, led by art trainer Giselle Miller, and assisted by local artist Jeremy Setem, concerned producing proposals with styles and budgets submitted to the borough. They analyzed the record of graffiti and street artwork, portray and spray-portray techniques, and executing their suggestions.

Now, the partitions and ramps are graced with unique colorful paintings in different designs and sections.

“I worked on the universe painting around there, that was a great deal of exciting,” Bakky explained, pointing across to a large ramp.

Beside the planets in orbit, there is a big formline killer whale. It is a person of many artworks that ended up there earlier and have been integrated, like a multi-coloured deal with painted by a Haines youth, Mario Benassi Jr., who died tragically in a river incident in California several many years back. There’s a new mural of Benassi beside it now, singing and enjoying guitar.

Artwork at the skate park (Photo by Corinne Smith/KHNS)

Freshman Hayden Jimenez said just before, the skate park was type of forgotten. There was trash and a great deal of penis drawings. It was possibly even daunting to some. Now, he mentioned, it is a ton more exciting.

“Better vitality in basic of the skatepark,” Jimenez claimed. “Yeah, there’s some quite awesome and talented artists and artwork items.”

On a person wall is a striking lady in profile, wearing a mask, shedding just one dim blue tear.

“I seriously like pop art, so that was the inspiration for that,” claimed senior Aubrey Cook dinner, the artist. She reflected on what it was like to screen her function in a community room.

“I assume it was so neat, I have never finished any style of piece like this. Primarily this large, I have never ever done a piece this huge,” Cook claimed. “If you experienced come in listed here right before, it was just a bunch of graffiti everywhere, with like inappropriate factors, but now it’s like a genuinely attractive place. And we all learned that it is a dwelling, respiration house, which implies ultimately it’s likely to get coated up by other peoples’ artwork, but we’re definitely grateful that we experienced this prospect to paint.”

Aubrey Cook dinner with her artwork piece. (Picture by Corinne Smith/KHNS)

And it was a rough lesson. In the course of the program venture, some items ended up partly vandalized and had to be repainted. Art trainer Giselle Miller said there were apologies and the course addressed the scenario with each other.

“That’s portion of road art. That’s aspect of graffiti, is that it modifications and evolves,” Miller said. “I consider that educating pupils that impermanence is also truly crucial. I have carried out a few massive items and they are not around anymore, so documenting is also really important and component of the course of action.”

Miller mentioned she’s amazingly proud of their personal and artistic growth.

The group can see the students’ artwork now at the Haines skate park.