The course shares with Interior Architecture a fascination with how people, activities and places interrelate. It gives you many opportunities to study a range of real-life interior spaces as well as developing your own design solutions that work in creative, practical and functional ways.
You gain skills and expertise in space planning, ergonomics, design composition, colour theory, building technology, environmental control and design for sustainability. You also learn to use the latest digital design technologies such as computer-aided design; digital image creation and manipulation; and video production and editing.
Why choose this course?
- Develop a creative and critical understanding of building structure and fabric while exploring the design of interior environments in urban, suburban and rural contexts
- Study the refurbishment of existing buildings; television, film and exhibition design; and virtual environments
- Learn from an experienced academic team, applying the latest innovations to contemporary design problems
- Gain confidence through the course to work independently on a final-year project
- Work in bespoke studio spaces, surrounded by creatives, in the University’s repurposed Art & Design centre, Alexon House - formerly home to a leading fashion label
- Take the course over four years and include a fee-free year’s placement in industry (see below), gaining experience and making contacts for the future
Unit Information - What will I learn?
Units
- Context And Ideas (ART057-1) Compulsory
- Introducing Studio Practice (ART063-1) Compulsory
- Spatial Design: Exploring Materials And Methods (ART061-1) Compulsory
- Thinking Through Making (ART064-1) Compulsory
- Collaborative Enterprise (ART052-2) Compulsory
- Context And Meaning (ART053-2) Compulsory
- Developing Professional Practice (ART051-2) Compulsory
- Spatial Design: Developing Materials And Methods (ART056-2) Compulsory
- Creative Futures (ART029-3) Compulsory
- Critical And Creative Contexts (ART030-3) Compulsory
- Final Major Project: Interior Design (ART027-3) Compulsory
How will I be assessed?
A range of appropriate assessments will enable you to grow in confidence and demonstrate your acquisition of knowledge and skills. The formative and summative assessment methods used across the course include: - Coursework to include examples of Interior Design Process. Working through: discover / define / develop and deliver, in a phased route of working, this will be presented as finished work, and also through a sketchbook, sketch-models and final outcomes; visual communication, 3-D work or installation, research portfolios, notebooks, research assignments, essays, contextual writing. - Assessments based on individual and group presentations. - Portfolio reviews as a key means of assessing, and as an important method for collating work for a professional portfolio. This instils in students the right attitudes towards professional work, whereby you can use your portfolio to promote yourself in professional contexts. - Essays and reports feature in developing students writing skills. They help you to express ideas in a variety of ways and styles, and also help to develop academic writing skills that are of particular benefit in producing the final year contextual rationale for your major project. - An online social media presence through a blog/personal website. - A midpoint Formal Formative Assessment to review all work in progress. Key Skills relevant to Interior Design and creative enterprise are embedded in the teaching and learning of the course and will be taken into account in all assessments. The assessments will develop incrementally across the course and allow you to gain skills, confidence and knowledge, receive feedback and develop as a practitioner, thus allowing you to implement this knowledge and feedback into subsequent assessments. At the end of the course, completion of the assessments will demonstrate your ability to analyse current design practice in relation to Interior Design practices - and communicate this, in both written and visual formats, as well as demonstrate a range of transferable skills relevant to your professional employability.
