This course explores the links between interior design and architecture, challenging you to question how interiors are inhabited and experienced. It asks you to think about how spaces are manipulated, how buildings are understood and reinvented and helps you to uncover a provocative world of interiors, architecture and culture. We encourage you to investigate ideas and develop design skills, including model-making and workshop-based fabrications, drawing and representation, using photography, film, video, IT and CAD. You will have extensive contact with practicing architects and designers and will work on a wide range of design projects.
Course structure
Full-time students take eight modules per year (four design studies modules and four subject studies modules). After level 1 design studies modules are taught in studios of about 20 students. Integrated projects, consultancy and workshops bind these two areas together.
Level 1 prepares you for higher education-level study, introducing key topics and helping you to gain an overview of your subject.
Modules include:
Introduction to History and Theory
Introduction to Interior Architecture and Design
Materials and Construction
Structures, Environment and Sustainability
Design, Context and Process
Design, Spatial Investigations
Level 2 increasingly addresses issues related to employability and professional practice.
Modules include:
Modern Architecture and Modernity
IAD Technology Precedent
Introduction to Management, Practice and Law
Interior Environments
Design Exploration
Design Proposition
Level 3 further develops skills in problem identification and analysis through a project or equivalent.
Modules include:
History Dissertation
Design Research &Proposition
Integrated Design Audit Comprehensive Design Project
Placement
You can take a work placement at level 3 in an architecture or design studio, in film and TV, in a theatre or museum, a workshop, or a design research organisation.
GCSE English at grade C or above (or equivalent) In addition, applicants with standard UK qualifications should have 240 points from two or more A-levels. We recommend that you have completed an Art and Design Foundation, BTEC or Access course. We admit a wide range of students with academic or professional experience, including equivalent overseas qualifications or related work experience. We look for potential in spatial design, creative imagination and visual or constructive aptitude, together with ability and motivation to complete the course. We normally require you to attend an interview and present an art and design portfolio. For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
A Progression Agreement is a formal arrangement between two or more
education providers. It spells out what a learner needs to do to be
considered for a place on a named programme of study. Progression Agreements
may vary in the conditions they specify but they all aim to give guaranteed
pathways into higher education.
Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk