BA (Honours) Interior Design

Course description
What you study
This creative course introduces you to all aspects of interior design. You develop a range of practical and intellectual skills that will allow you to take risks and develop an inventive and creative problem-solving approach to your work.
Working in our studios you take part in small group tutorials, developing your creative and technical skills. Your lectures and seminars focus on contemporary issues affecting design today, helping you understand your work in a wider historical and social context, developing your approach to design.
Key areas include • environment and sustainability • international culture and context • new technologies and communication • trend, marketing and market awareness • contemporary and historical design • contextual studies • computer-aided design (CAD) • model making • design skills • creative design projects • drawing and visual communication • building/construction and material technologies • digital image manipulation • interactive interiors • 3D printing
Practical experience
The course gives you many opportunities to gain exposure, experience and skills on creative design projects, field trips and exhibitions.
You build your understanding of the design industry by working with clients and industry professionals on live projects. Previous students have designed and created a show apartment at Park Hill for Urban Splash, an innovation room at Manchester Airport, play spaces at Sheffield Children's Hospital and a new co-working space for an enterprise business in Sheffield.
These projects give you valuable experience of what it’s like to work as an interior designer addressing the needs of commercial clients. They help you develop your understanding of the business context of design work, preparing you for your professional career.
You also have the opportunity to gain exposure by entering national and international design competitions such as the RSA Student...