Program Overview

Interiors (Architecture and Design) MA

Course Overview

This MA encourages creative investigation, experimentation, and innovation in order to extend your knowledge and skills in the creation of new environments.

Why Study Interiors (Architecture and Design) MA at Middlesex University?

The potential and limits of the ‘interior’ is explored across a range of contemporary contexts, through field research and interpretation, studio and online workshops, media practices, critical analysis, and design. On the course, you will develop your individual practice and approach to the design of interior spaces and places, and will be encouraged to explore the notion of interiority from the intimate scale of objects and furniture to the urban context of the city, investigating its specific essence and how its quality and atmosphere affects human perception and emotion.

Course Highlights

• Gain valuable and transferable skills the creative industry is looking for to work as interior designer, interior architect, interior decorator, exhibition designer, space planner
• Virtual or real access to London's design world with valuable industry links to a range of industry specialists and businesses
• Access to networking opportunities, world-leading research, and expertise

What Will You Study on the Interiors (Architecture and Design) MA?

This course is divided into five modules taken over three terms (if studied full-time). Each module is designed to be flexible, allowing you to bring your own interests to the assignments while extending the boundaries of your current creative practice through research, design development, and creative exploration via a formal design proposal.

Modules

• Explore: Scale and Place (30 credits): This module will challenge you to define and advance aspirations and set personal and professional goals. It is an explorative opportunity to evolve your individual design interests and a personal ethos following previous study or practice.
• Encounter: Contexts and Debate (30 credits): You will examine key critical and disciplinary debates in contemporary creative and cultural practice and theory relative to Interiors, Architecture, and Design at an advanced level.
• Develop: Personal Practice (30 credits): You will develop individual design thinking through advanced innovative techniques that capture the design process as both methodology and an instrument of critical examination.
• Advance: Thinking and Writing (30 credits): You will examine a diverse range of advanced approaches to research in Interiors, Architecture, and Design.
• Realise: Independent Research and Design (60 credits): This final module will enable you to summarise previous discoveries made via exploration and development and present a rigorously investigated and detailed concluding proposal.

Teaching and Learning

• How We'll Teach You: Throughout the course, you’ll build your knowledge, skills, and understanding through a series of research and design projects. These projects ask you to apply what you’ve learned—alongside your creativity and originality—to real design briefs.
• Academic Support: You have a strong support network available to you to make sure you develop all the necessary academic skills you need to do well on your course.

Careers

• How Can the Interiors (Architecture and Design) MA Support Your Career?: This course will prepare you for a diverse range of careers foremost within the interior design, architecture, and wider design industry, but also within other creative and cultural industries.

Entry Requirements

• Qualifications: We normally require a 2:2 degree or above, or equivalent qualification, in Interior Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design, or Design, although other subjects may be valid.
• Portfolio: Entry onto this course requires a review of your portfolio.

Fees and Funding

• UK Students: Full-time students: £10,700, Part-time students: £70 per credit
• International Students: Full-time students: £17,100, Part-time students: £114 per credit
• Additional Costs: The following course-related costs are included in the fees: all printing and copying required for your study, self-service laptops available for loan for a maximum of 24 hours, audio-visual equipment available for loan.
• Financial Support: We offer lots of support to help you with fees and living costs. Check out our guide to student life on a budget and find out more about postgraduate funding.