The QWERTY keyboard, designed by Christopher Sholes in 1878, is peculiarly designed with the "A" key positioned on far left of the keyboard. The QWERTY project is designed with the "A" key positioned on the far left of the lobby, along the corridor, around the corner, through two sets of double doors, down the stairs, through another set of double doors, in the corridor on the right.

The QWERTY project is an investigation into digital communication. In it's original form it was a joint project with Steven Lewis and was installed for seven weeks in Oxford Brookes University. The project now exists in a digital form.

The QWERTY project consists of a computer connected to a monitor which is placed on a plinth. The computer has the usual 101 keys connected to it, although these keys are not arranged on a keyboard. The keys are connected to the computer by 700 meters of wire. The keys are distributed about the building, attached to the walls and ceilings.

In Phase 1, the physical installation, the QWERTY project existed as a simple communications device. The impracticallities of QWERTY's usefulnessare inherant in it's design. Any meaningful communication was either accidental, or took the participants several minutes to write. The people using the building were encoraged to use qwerty as an informal message board, and slowly messages built up.

QWERTY is now in it's second phase. The 174 images of the installation have been digitised and placed in a Java engine. The instalation can be navagated by using the eight direction buttons. Once the disired key has been located users can click on it to build a message to send to the message board.