Interior Design MA

This course is designed to develop an advanced knowledge of the principles, applications and practices of professional interior architecture and design. The course encourages you to come up with original, creative responses to challenging interior design and spatial design problems.

• If you are looking to deepen your knowledge and experience of interior architecture and design, this course will seek to increase your strengths to allow you to reach a more advanced level of study.
• You will have the option to apply for a ‘professional experience’ opportunity², designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects. See the ‘Modules’ section for more information.
• We encourage you to develop your design capabilities within a global context, exploring the human relationship with, and taking into account the scale of, a range of spatial environments, manufacturing processes and the desire for uniqueness.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• undertake research and evaluative reflection in order to synthesise and articulate an advanced knowledge of the theoretical and thematic concerns within your chosen area of interior design practice
• deploy skills, techniques and technologies with originality and imagination in relation to interior design for continued practice at an advanced level
• realise complex and ambitious artefacts/projects for identified and diverse audiences and contexts
• contribute to the shaping of a global contemporary discourse by engaging with innovative, experimental, hybrid and creative approaches to interior design practice
• demonstrate advanced personal skills, judgement and critical awareness enabling problem-solving and innovation applicable to a wide range of creative, professional, social and collaborative contexts
• engage interior design insights and experience to creatively manage interior design activity and effective stakeholder/professional engagement.

The practical nature of the course has been designed specifically for the development of professional careers within the Interior Design field. This creative, enquiring and critical approach to the spatial design taught through a studio-centric approach, enables our graduates to confidently navigate the employment world of interior design.

Through working to a set of projects and learning outcomes you should gain a range of graduate attributes highly sought after by future employers, including team working, working independently, critical thinking, report writing, project management, ideas generation, presentation and finance.

During your studies, you will have opportunities² to connect with companies, clients and professional designers, showcasing your work and collaborating on projects, which have previously included Coventry Transport Museum, The Bugatti Trust, BMW and the Coventry Watch Museum Project.