Interior Design – BA (Hons)

Why study this course?

Discover how interior design responds to and reflects our ever-changing society. Based in London, you’ll work with industry leaders to gain hands-on skills and experience through a range of live commercial and community projects – from retail, workspace and hospitality projects to education and healthcare. Covering every aspect of interior design, you’ll gain all the skills you need to succeed in your career.

More about this course

Interior designing is an exhilarating practice responding to the rapid pace of the interiors industry. It involves an exciting range of projects embracing commercial, social and temporary projects such as workspaces, luxury, hotels, retail, museums, exhibitions, and health and educational spaces. This Interior Design BA will introduce you to the latest research as well as industry professionals who will bring their knowledge and experience to the course.

Your first year  – through an active and holistic learning and teaching programme – is designed to develop your thinking, key skills and understanding of the industry and related practice, allowing you to produce a portfolio and discover your career aspirations through explorative approaches. You’ll explore sketching, drawing, sketch-modelling and the production of scaled accurate models through workshop practice and orthographic techniques, with digital software also used to strengthen your ideas and skills. This will guide you into your second year where we ask you to choose a studio in which to cultivate your design philosophy, sector specialisms and professional skills. The course also offers an opportunity to work within the industry and gain real life work experience with an interior design company, which is assessed as part of your degree. You will then build on this in the third year and advance your individuality and expertise through both studio specialisms and a mentoring scheme leading you towards successful employment.

Accreditation of Prior Learning

Any university-level qualifications or relevant experience you gain prior to starting university could count towards your course.

Modular structure

The modules listed below are for the academic year 2022/23 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.

Year 1 modules include:

Critical & Contextual Studies 1 (Interiors) (core, 30 credits)

Design Principles for Interiors (core, 30 credits)

Interior Materials and Technologies (core, 30 credits)

Spatial Design Development (core, 30 credits)

Year 2 modules include:

Critical & Contextual Studies 2 (Interiors) (core, 30 credits)

Design Details (core, 30 credits)

Human Scale (core, 30 credits)

Interior Technologies and Production (core, 30 credits)

Year 3 modules include:

Critical & Contextual Studies 3: Dissertation (Interiors) (core, 30 credits)

Integrated Design Practice (core, 30 credits)

Major Project Realisation: Interior Design (core, 30 credits)

Project Design and Development for Interiors (core, 30 credits)

Where this course can take you

This course will prepare you to work with confidence as a specialist in a design or architectural practice. On entering the workplace you will find your role requires a range of skills and experience beyond the purely creative. The collaborative nature of the projects you’ll complete whilst studying are ideal for preparing you for interacting with other professionals and performing construction industry processes. 

Recent graduates have been employed by design companies including GenslerBDPTurner BatesBlack SheepFitchAI ArchitectsWoods BagotFoster and PartnersSeen Displays, AreenMy Beautiful City, and Avante Garde.

There are also graduates who have chosen to work for set designers, interior design magazines and in museum and gallery curation.

Others have chosen to continue onto postgraduate study. Graduates of this course are well-suited to pursuing further studies in interior design, sustainable design, architecture and environmental design and strategic brand management at postgraduate level. There are a variety of suitable courses, such as:

  • Interior Design MA
  • Environmental, Sustainable and Regenerative Design MA
  • Architectural History, Research and Writing MA
  • Public Art and Performance MA

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-If you prefer to spend less time in class - no problem, courses only take place twice a week

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