Past, present and future communities: Between utopia and dystopia

Our students’ activity in the 2017 - 2018 academic year was spatio temporality, the existence between space and time. Here we reflect on this work with our second and third year students doing BA (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design at Chelsea College of Arts. Our curriculum brief was titled ‘Millbank Communities Past, Present and Future: Between Utopia and Dystopia’. It was predicated on spatiotemporality as a way into this neighbourhood, part of the London borough of Westminster. In keeping with our long-term interest in Millbank, our curriculum aimed to understand what it meant for Chelsea College of Arts as an institution and those who study, live and otherwise operate here to call this area home. A constituent college of the University of the Arts London Chelsea College sits on the banks of the River Thames beside Tate Britain and betweenthe Houses of Parliament and MI6.