Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin! - Horace

My name is Agnieszka Swietlik. I have graduated from BSc Interior Architecture, a part of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Lodz – my home city in Poland. I studied a wide range of subjects from Building Construction, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning to Furniture Design, Elements of Stage & Production Design, Painting, Free Hand Drawing and Photography. I completed a semester of Architecture and Urban Planning at my Alma Mater University which allowed me to experiment with a rather larger scale. Through my background I have learned a great many design rules - about the human, the scale, how inside connects to the outside, proportions, needs, light, composition.

I started an MA Interior and Design Course at Chelsea College of Art and Design because it's a space where I can learn about and explore space in a very different way than I did before. I would like to experiment with boundaries and conventional definitions of what creates and determines the space. As an interior architect my main issue of interest is how we inhabit space and interact with existing architectural structures or situations - how we can adapt the space and change it for our purpose. For me it is not only about a built object, but of the space contained within that object and its context.

Through the course I would like to explore the space-object-human relationship. How does an interior space influences the human - object interaction? Would the same object placed in two completely different spaces be seen and received in the same way? The research should extend to all environments but the 'purest' example of the human – object interaction (for me) is that of art in an exhibition space. It follows then that this example naturally lends itself to the study. I wish to focus on interior design psychology, a field within environmental psychology and perception. The study should in direct way examine and show relationship between an environment and how that environment affects the behaviour of its inhabitants, with the aim of maximising the positive effects of the relationship.

That been said I am still not quite sure if this is where my research will lead me but I am very keen to find out.