- CollegeCamberwell College of Arts
- CourseMA Interior And Spatial Design
- Graduation year2025
Birth touches all of us—we all come from it.
It is a fundamental, profound, and spatial human experience, yet it remains shrouded in misinformation, silence, invisibility, and over-medicalisation. Rooted in personal experience and collective memory, this project is an invitation to normalise birth.
Through storytelling, ceramics, hand-drawings, printmaking, and book design, it amplifies this deeply human event and encourages spatial encounters where stories are shared, questions asked, perceptions reshaped, and empowerment fostered.
It opens space—both literally and metaphorically—for dialogue, reflection, and reconnection with our origin, our story. It encourages spatial encounters—from the personal and intimate to the collective and educational—where stories are shared, questions asked, perceptions reshaped, and empowerment nurtured. The work challenges taboos and invites new narratives that reimagine, reframe and transform the spatial experience of giving birth.
Final work
Speaking Birth
Narrating a birth story is, indirectly, narrating a spatial experience:
Where did it happen? Was it day or night? Who was she with? Was there music playing? Did a window stay open? Was the light bright or soft? Fluorescent or morning sun? Did she cry, or did she stay quiet? Did she laugh? Did she ask for a mirror? Did she want to look away? Was she hungry? Did she eat? What? Did she feel warm, or cover herself in a blanket? Did she move freely? Walk around the house? Lie still? Did she wear a hospital gown? Was she totally naked? Did she rock on a ball? Was there silence between contractions? Did she notice how the curtain moved? How the room smelled? Did she light a candle? Did she pray? Sing? Look at the moon? Did she push lying down, kneeling, standing, or somewhere in between?
What happened after? Did she sleep? Eat? Cry through the night?
This project acknowledges childbirth as a spatial experience: from the womb—our first interior—to parturition—which, more than a physiological act, is an event, a ceremony, a threshold, a passage between worlds, a cultural phenomenon where every element of space carries emotional, social, and sensory weight. Light, sound, temperature, smell, objects, materials, and human presence all contribute to shaping the atmosphere of birth. Through this lens, childbirth emerges not only as a biological process but as a spatial dialogue between body and environment.
Research and process
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