BA(Hons) Interior Design

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LEVEL 1

Design Studio 1A
This module lays the foundation for the training and education of the interior designer. A series of projects give you the opportunity to explore and express abstract notions of space and focuses primarily on developing your understanding of the design process and seeks to emphasise the importance of conceptualisation, idea generation and experimentation, and how it should be informed by adequate research and analysis, and communicated through competent visualisation techniques and technical documentation.

Professional Studies 1
This module imparts fundamental technical skills, knowledge and understanding for you to begin functioning and communicating as interior design professionals.

Cultural and Contextual Studies 1
This module introduces a spectrum of design history and theory. It provides an understanding of design terminology, principles and movements with some emphasis on specific designers, architects and their influence on the movements and historical trajectories of both Eastern and Western cultures.

Design Studio 1B
Responding to design briefs that challenge conventional expectations of spatial programmes and use, you will carefully consider planning and ergonomic issues and display a more sophisticated grasp of 2D and 3D space manipulation with basic ergonomic, functional and aesthetic considerations.

LEVEL 2

Design Studio 2A
You will study projects involving a diversity of spatial and functional typologies within a singular shell including a range of residential, commercial, and hospitality spatial types. You will explore the design and detailing of these diverse spaces while maintaining an overall unity of concept.

Professional Studies 2
This module builds on the foundation of skills and knowledge covered in Professional Studies 1 and provides you with more progressive 2D and 3D visualisation techniques that are key to the communication of sophisticated design schemes as well as emerging, specialised professional and technical knowledge on building technology. The professional skills and knowledge attained in this module should be applied and honed in the ongoing projects within Design Studio, employing the appropriate type of medium and representation to communicate design proposals competently and professionally.

Cultural and Contextual Studies 2
This module provides a contemporary spectrum of design theories and issues and their specific cultural and social identities. It provides an understanding of issues and concepts related to architecture, interior and industrial design in the social and cultural contexts of the East and the West, and from critical understanding of both, it seeks to facilitate design thinking and strategies informed by the interaction of these diverse influences.

Design Studio 2B
You will work on a project that requires a higher level of design thinking in the design of their environments and interior spaces. You will explore a partly self-driven programme brief that calls for detailed research, analysis and critical understanding of user research and site contexts. You will be challenged to not only integrate and balance functional and aesthetic aspects, but also the social interpretations and representations of the designed environments.

LEVEL 3

Design Studio 3A
You will be involved in a project that requires a higher level of social sensitivity in the design of their environments and interior spaces. This module encourages you to reconsider the utopian role of the designer when faced with practical concerns in design construction, and to continue challenging conventional design thought while employing critical thinking to spatial programmes, design processes and interior environments.

Research Methods
This module allows you to develop an independent research topic from a self-selected aspect of your specialist area. This research will be used to inform the Extended Essay produced at the end of the academic year, which provides a contextual framework to support the final major studio project.

Design Studio 3B Final Major Project
The Design Studio Final Major Project brings together all the skills and professional knowledge you have acquired to focus on an area of personal and particular interest. Your study will be self-directed and conducted in relation to the theoretical framework of the Extended Essay and industry standard practice to produce innovative and conceptual design solutions that are developed and presented as progressive yet realistic outcomes.

Extended Essay
The Extended Essay will allow you to develop your Statement of Intent from Semester 1 into an original piece of writing that will provide a theoretical contextual framework that supports your Final Major Project. You will be supported individually in the development of your Extended Essays by an appointed supervisor as well as through peer feedback throughout the semester.