A student is spending a week living outside and taking a vow of silence in the culmination of a month-long project at Kingston University.

Quadject, a month of experiments, exhibitions and live art was organised by lecturers in the fine art and art history departments at the university to invigorate an under-used space at the Knights Park campus.

Dickon Stone, a 20-year-old art student, who last year set his hair on fire outside the Bentall Centre in a protest against carbon emissions, has organised a week-long performance installation, entitled Muteny, to close the event.

Lecturer Jordan McKenzie said: "Firstly we wanted to activate this disused space and bring different disciplines within the university together and working collaboratively.

"We wanted to give students the chance to experiment outside their targeted studies and get people interested in the space again by holding stimulating and entertaining events."

Other events held during Quadject included placing 50 white placards in the quad for people to write on in an "open, uncensored " space, inviting three geese to make the quad their home and performance artist Aaron Williamson walking backwards around the space for three days.

Mr Stone aims to confront ideas of poverty, survival and charity by only eating donated food, refraining from touching money and building a shelter from found materials where he will live in the quad until February 29.

In a statement before taking his vow of silence, Mr Stone said: "I hope to challenge people to consider how unnecessary and out of control the extravagances of our consumer culture are, and perhaps seek to minimalise their lifestyles in a realistic way that could lead to a more sustainable existence on our planet of extremely limited resources."