The course is structured around the development of knowledge and skills across the different domains that inform interior design practice. These include:

The curriculum combines group and individual tutorials to support the development of knowledge and skill in the different domains, along with seminars, practical workshops, peer reviews and presentations.

As students progress, projects become larger and more complex, challenging them toward more and more integration of knowledge and skill across the domains.

During the course, students will have opportunities for industry mentoring and placements to further give context to the relationship between study and the realities of the industry.
In the final year, students are challenged to bring together all of their learning across the domains into a body of work related to a topic of their choice. Their design project will integrate technical and professional knowledge and be underpinned by theoretical and historical research; developed in their dissertation.

Throughout the course, students are supported by our teaching team,  visiting tutors, and industry representatives.

This course is one of the few in the UK to have adopted Revit software in the final year – fast becoming the industry standard of tomorrow.

Year 1 (Level 4)

In the first year of the BA, students develop their knowledge and skill across the different domains of the subject area. Early in the year, projects will focus on a single domain; allowing students to develop and understanding of the specific character and requirements. As the year progresses, projects will begin to integrate across the different domains, to help students begin to see how different areas of the subject area inform and support each other.

• Design I
• Contextual Studies I
• Technical Studies I
• Communication Practice I
• Professional Practice I

Year 2 (Level 5)

In the second year, projects become more diverse and of a larger scale. As students build up their technical and communication skills, they will work on projects that are more integrated and challenging; with greater emphasis on the relations between technical, professional and design.

• Design II
• Contextual Studies II
• Technical Studies II
• Communication Practice II
• Professional Practice II

Year 3 (Level 6)

Throughout the final year, students will be working on projects and assignments related to a topic of their choice. Their design project will call upon the tight integration of technical and professional knowledge in support of a design proposal that relates to histories and theories explored through their written dissertation (in Contextual Studies III).

• Design III
• Contextual Studies III
• Technical Studies III
• Professional Practice III

• Year 1 – 3-4 days per week
• Year 2 – 2-3 days per week
• Year 3 – 2-3 days per week

Additionally a minimum of 15 hours of study outside of directed study times.

Year 1 / Level 4
 

Year 2 / Level 5
 

Year 3 / Level 6