Ownership
Can a shared prayer room feel like yours without becoming anyone's?
Psychological ownership in Imperial's multi-faith spaces. A modular, reversible room that lets each person set it up for prayer, then reset it for the next.
Pull it round for a private corner, fold it away after.
Modular pieces that reconfigure between sessions.
Laid out for use, then reset to a shared baseline.
- Brief
- How might we enable all Imperial students to authentically own their faith identity on campus?
- Role
- Research, behavioural framing, and the logic connecting user insight to the final concept.
- Outcome
- A modular, reversible prayer room with adaptive light, built on ownership that is temporary by design.
I feel like I'm intruding, even when the room is empty.
- 01
Observe
Shared in principle, occupied in practice.
- 02
Ask
Interviews, observation and secondary research.
- 03
Make sense
Confidence grew with repeated use. Newcomers read the room as already claimed.
- 04
Set up, reset
Temporary control, familiarity and low-friction rituals of use.
- 05
Light
Adaptive light marks whose session it is, then lets go.
I've left my spare prayer mat there because I know it's safe.