Malta, Dubai or Spain? At first glance, the laborious and audacious project-proposals by the architecture and urban design students currently on show at the University of Malta reveal all and nothing - leaving on-lookers to ponder the context in which they were conjured up.

Although University lectures have barely started, and students are still piecing their timetables together, campus is already buzzing with activity, thanks to Freshers' Week.

This is the time for students' organisations to shine: all of which trying to lure and "sell" their product and mission to potential members. Yet some of the organisations stand out more than others. This is quite the case with Saces: the Society of Architecture and Civil Engineering Students. To tie in with Freshers' Week, they have organised an exhibition with the design projects, models and photographic/digital works of some 50 students from first year leading up to the fifth year students.

Set up in the Faculty for the Built Environment, the students' works are suspended from the ceiling, attached to the walls or even displayed on "plinths" as though they were sculptures.

Saces PR, Emma Warrington, Emma Warrington, said: "The purpose of the exhibition was ultimately to give a taster to incoming students, an idea of what lies in store in for them in their course..."