Kitchen Design pt

Kitchens are a multi-million pound global industry. To maximise your share of that industry you need a highly skilled and knowledgeable workforce able to understand client needs, design trends and technological developments.

This three-year course is designed to enhance the skills and career prospects of those already engaged in the industry in a range of positions. It is delivered as a distance learning, work-related foundation degree. Three intensive residential skills workshops are included each year at our beautiful Missenden Abbey Conference Centre in the heart of the Chiltern Hills.

Industry experts will share how they approach projects, develop imaginative designs and understand demands and constraints in kitchen design. You will be prepared to undertake further learning supported by tutors at a distance, using our online learning environment to maintain contact and submit short pieces of project work and gain comments and advice to improve it.

On successful completion of the programme, you will be able to recognise the conceptual and theoretical issues that underpin the practices of kitchen design. You will be able to identify the emerging developments and trends within the kitchen industry and the way in which these have developed. You will also understand the ethical and sustainability issues affecting the design and production of kitchens.

This course will also help you design and develop kitchens from concept to outcome for a range of consumers and market levels, produce a variety of 2D and 3D visual images and designs in both virtual and physical formats for professional and commercial audience. You will also be able to plan and manage kitchen projects to a professional standard and in adherence to industry and planning standards.

Students should normally have five GCSEs including English at grade C or above and an appropriate Level three qualification such as A' Levels, National Diploma, Access course, City & Guilds or equivalent.