Program Overview

Interior Design BA Honours

Course Overview

Learn how to design successful, commercially focussed interiors from industry professionals while using state-of-the-art facilities on a course rated 100% for student satisfaction.

Why Choose Interior Design BA at Middlesex?

Obsessed by interior design? We are too. Together we'll develop your creative and practical skills to turn your imaginative ideas into the foundations for a rewarding career. You'll learn how to think and work like a designer alongside fellow creatives.

What You Will Gain

The BA Interior Design course will prepare you for a creative career in contemporary design, focusing on commercial, real-world projects that include the opportunity to explore retail, hotel, workplace, leisure, social and culture spaces, exhibition, installation, refurbishment and adaptive re-use.

What You Will Learn

The course encourages an interdisciplinary exploration of design, with students researching into contemporary interior design trends as well as cultural and historical contexts, considering the role of interiors for commercial clients as well as within communities, and considering a designs support of a brands identity and their target customer, and how they may adapt to future needs and changing expectations.

Course Structure

Year 1

• Design Thinking and Communication (30 credits): This module is an introduction to the fundamentals of design thinking and communication that enables you to prompt design ideation.
• Studio: Spatial Design (30 credits): This studio-based module is an introduction to the spatial principles of the interior through a series of design tasks that enables you to understand the design process.
• Studio: Exploring people and place (30 credits): This studio-based module is an exploration of the cultures and contexts of the interior that allows you to focus on forms of inhabitation and placemaking.
• Studio: Designing for people and place (30 credits): This studio-based module focuses on designing for people and place, with an emphasis on the impact of spatial interventions on human inhabitation.

Year 2

• Interior Design Studio: Explore Commercial Interiors (30 credits): Introducing the principles and strategies of commercial interior design, you will identify and apply research methods and practices to interpret its contexts and challenges.
• Interior Design Studio: Design Commercial Interiors (30 credits): Introducing you to the art of designing for commercial clients, the module focuses on the design and communication of commercial interiors.
• Interior Design: Context & Construction (30 credits): Develops an understanding of the critical role of in-depth research into the cultural, historical, political, and socio-economic contexts that underpin the practice of Interior Design, alongside the investigation of materials, construction technologies, and processes that are integral to shaping interior spaces and enriching the experience of interior environments.

Year 3/4

• Interior Design Studio: Experiential Interiors (30 credit): Enables you to test and apply newly acquired spatial competencies to address real-world design challenges.
• Interior Design: Research for Design (30 credits): Introduces you to advanced research methods and practices that synthesise their knowledge, understanding and critical exploration of Interior Design as a diverse field of practice.
• Interior Design Studio: Branded Environments (30 credits): Enables you to undertake and articulate a critically engaged design process from inception, through design development, to design resolution and presentation.
• Interior Design Studio: Explore Sustainable Futures (30 credits): Allows you to focus on designing a project of substantial scale and complexity, identifying a client, conducting extensive market research, analysing a site and developing a negotiated brief to propose strategies for articulating potential design solutions.
• Interior Design Studio: Design Sustainable Futures (30 credits): Focuses on a practice-led design project of substantial scale and complexity. Integrating all aspects of their learning experience into a single output, students repurpose a multi-storey existing building to ensure its sustainable future.

Teaching and Learning

• You'll learn to benefit from support through one-to-one discussions, where you will be able to gain the insight of professional designers to help you develop your own 'voice'.
• The clearly structured and timetabled modules allow you to balance your on- campus time and your independent study where you can progress your ideas in a way that best suits your lifestyle.
• You will be taught through a combination of supervised studio time, tutorials, interactive sessions and practical workshops.

Careers

• The course focuses predominantly on core specialist and transferable skills necessary for a successful career in Interior Design.
• These skills are applicable in various professional settings, including design practice, independent consultancy, and diverse industry-relate sectors.

Entry Requirements

• Qualifications: UCAS tariff Points (112 UCAS points)
• A-level: BBC-BBB
• BTEC: DMM-DDM
• Access requirements: Overall pass: must include 45 credits at level 3, of which all 45 must be at Merit or higher
• Combinations: A combination of A-Level, BTEC and other accepted qualifications that total 112 UCAS Tariff points

Fees and Funding

• UK students: £9,535* (Full-time), £79 per taught credit (Part-time)
• International students: £16,600 (Full-time), £138 per taught credit (Part-time)
• Additional costs: Your personal art materials and equipment, printing at larger than A3 sizes, or on non-standard paper in the Reprographics area and binding, additional, specialist materials for the 3D and advanced digital workshops for individual output, optional field trips and visits which are normally subsidised by the programme (generally and approximately up to 50% of the cost)