Interior Design

Course description

BA (Hons) Interior Design nurtures a dynamic, inclusive and supportive learning environment that centres on project-based learning to prepare students for future pathways in interior design practice, associated creative fields of set design, film and television, or postgraduate study. Interior Design graduates are professional and assured creative practitioners who embody ethical practice with authority to equip graduates to enter design practice, set up businesses, or continue their educational journeys.

The programme embeds an ethical ethos engaging with social and environmental issues regarding design's responsibility towards the planet, people, and place. Students explore the practice of interior design as a means for change within a studio community that extends personal and critical skills to enable self-directed learning and working with others. Each project develops creative propositions for user, space and function in a process-led exploration of interior design practice.

The curriculum encourages curiosity, experimentation and risk-taking. Through the studio projects, students explore the breadth of the discipline that examines a range of typologies, contexts and spatial challenges. We value analogue and emerging digital approaches to analysing and challenging the boundaries of interior design to generate new insights and propositions. Students learn skills to convey their ideas, including research, iterative design processes, model making, orthographic drawing, visualisation, and storytelling. Students explore analogue and digital tools that transverse 2D, 3D and 4D. The programme balances conceptual design and idea generation alongside conventional practical methods. Students develop an individual position in a creative learning space that provides freedom to explore concepts, processes and practices to support their creative aspirations.

Within the programme, Studio courses provide a series of incremental project-based experiences with opportunities to reflect upon learning as it develops and towards building a critical practice. Design History and Theory courses explore critical and contextual perspectives of the discipline and broader design discourse. Co-Lab and Design Domain's shared courses foster expanded perspectives by connecting broader domains of learning and knowledge. Opportunities for student international exchanges, collaborative learning, external partnership projects, competitions, and careers and enterprise experiences help support how students develop graduate skills and attributes.

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