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Fay Freeman

Course Leader, BA(Hons) Interior Design

Fay Freeman is the new Course Leader for BA(Hons) Interior Design having joined the University in 2015. She has worked professionally in the design industry for over 20 years, having worked internationally in Hong Kong, Sydney and London on a range of projects covering retail, residential and commercial projects.

During her time in Sydney throughout the Olympic period, she worked for Saunders Creative on concept retail stores throughout Australia, including Jurlique and Block dance stores. Returning to London in 2003 she then spend a couple of years in art direction and interior styling, working alongside Sania Pell for the likes of Elle Decoration, Monsoon, Marks and Spencer's etc. Richard Hywel-Evans then approached her to develop an interiors sector in his London studio, where she worked on some amazing projects including an underwater spa in the Maldives and an innovative glass penthouse in Nottinghill.

She is passionate about working with industry and giving students the opportunity to collaborate on real, forward thinking schemes that can be realised. In 2018 she initiated an industry led project with the award winning Campaign Design enabling students to look at the future of retail. Run as a competition the winning team worked with their sponsors Corian and fabricators to build an experiential pop-up which exhibited at the London Design Festival.

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  • Qualifications
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    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    YearQualificationAwarding body
    1993
    BA Hons Landscape Architecture
    Manchester Metropolitan University
    1995
    Diploma Interior Design
    The London Design School
    2017
    PGCHE Creative Education
    Falmouth University

    Honours and awards

    YearDescription
    2018

    Staff Excellence Award for best collaborative project

    Membership of external committees

    • Fellow of HEA

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    Particular interests would be the future of the retail industry, linking with Industry and creating projects where students can learn from 'Doing it for Real'.
    I've attended Wired conferences on the future of retail and am in contact with forecasters such as Felix Scarlett from GDR which helps with keeping the students globally aware of the emerging trends and design language.

    Research topics

    • Industry Collaboration as well as Interdisciplinary and the Future of Retail

    Research Outputs

    Events

    YearDescription
    2018

    CAT Session

    2018

    Pop-up displayed at the London Design Festival

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • 1st
    • 2nd and 3rd Year Interior Design. Foundation skills through to Specification and materiality

    Courses taught

    • BA(Hons) Interior Design

    CPD delivered

    2018 CAT session on Interdisciplinary for June 14,15th

    Professional engagement

    Professional/scholarly development

    Course: 
    Wired Conference Future of Retail
    Year of completion: 
    2017

    Downloads

    • cv_aug_19.pdf

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