Interior Design BA(Hons) Degree

Course outline

Stage 1

• Space & User
• Design Foundation
• Place & Practice
• Design Connections

Stage 2

• Design Identity
• Professional Identity
• Experimentation & Production
• Critical Theory & Practice

Stage 3

• Personal Exploratory Research Project
• Dissertation Project
• Comprehensive Design Project

Tell me more about the BA(Hons) Interior Design course

 BA(Hons) Interior Design award information form (113.38 KB)

At Falmouth you'll be given the inspiration and encouragement to find your own personal approach to interior design - learning about the construction and detailing of space and how to communicate your designs to professional standards through traditional and digital presentation techniques.

Working on live projects throughout, you'll design for a range of commercial users including hospitality, retail, public, marine and leisure. You'll learn how professional interior design interacts with other disciplines as part of a project's design team and develop valuable project management skills.

By choosing to study for a degree in Interior Design at Falmouth you will:

• Benefit from being taught by staff who are experienced architects, landscape architects and interior designers.
• Develop many practical and creative skills, as well as having lectures and seminars in social, historical and theoretical design that will equip you with a full understanding of how interior design has developed over recent decades.
• Be based in our acclaimed Design Centre, which is home to an array of world-class facilities, allowing you to experiment creatively with a range of materials and processes.
• Be taught through a series of lectures, demonstrations, field trips, professional experience and focus groups, seminars and tutorials.

How is the course taught?

The course is delivered through a series of study blocks. Project work is supported by lectures, demonstrations, field trips, professional experience and focus groups, seminars and tutorials. You'll develop peer and self-evaluation skills, which will be used in critical, conceptual, productive and professional capacities.

The course operates on a basis of continuous assessment with no formal examinations. Assessment is via a combination of visual, verbal and written assignments and a dissertation and exhibition in your final year of study.

Assessment

• Project work, essays and seminar presentations
• Dissertation and exhibition in final year 

Facilities

Our impressive Design Centre and Learning Resource Centres include:

• The latest tools for designing, prototyping and making
• Purpose-built studios and specialist workshops
• An industry-standard CNC milling machine
• Rapid prototyping equipment for high precision work
• Laser cutters and CNC Router
• Precision casting equipment
• 100,000 books and 17,000 TV and film titles

Projects

Recent projects that BA(Hons) Interior Design students have worked on include designing luxury yacht interiors for Pendennis Shipyard and creating innovative concepts for the Eden Project's ice skating rink.

University College Falmouth worked closely with the Design Council on Design of the Times (DOTT) Cornwall; a programme where professional designers worked with stakeholders and communities to tackle social, economic and environmental issues from the bottom up.

Our students and graduates got the chance to work alongside senior design professionals on DOTT projects as part of internships and work placements.

Links

• DOTT Cornwall
• www.edenproject.com
• www.pendennis.com

Professorial lecture series

Falmouth's Professorial lecture series aims to produce an engaging and challenging public programme that stimulates the intellectual curiosity of our staff, students and alumni, our research collaborators, our industry partners, our local communities and other supporters. Recent lectures relevant to students in the School of Design include Edward Barber, founding partner of BarberOsgerby.

Edward Barber

Process - craft meets technology

Founding partner of BarberOsgerby, Edward and his partner, Jay Osgerby, were recently named Royal Designers for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts and their work is in permanent collections at the Design Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Since forming their company in 1996, Barber and Osgerby have collaborated on designing products and furniture as BarberOsgerby and architectural projects for clients such as Stella McCartney as Universal Design Studio.

A video of Edward Barber's lecture can be viewed online here

Answers and advice about the course

For further information about BA(Hons) Interior Design at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 255763.

Our student mentors are now on Facebook. To chat to a mentor about the course, living in Cornwall, or what to expect at Falmouth, check out the Interior Design group. You need to join the group before you can post. Our student mentors have already done the first year of the course... so ask them anything you like!

Interior Design Facebook group

If you're not Facebook you can still speak to a student mentor. Email your name and the course you're starting to: studentmentorenquiries@falmouth.ac.uk and we will be in touch with you.

Open Design: UCF for design tutors

At our first Open Design event in February 2010, Heads of Department and Pathway Leaders from Foundation level courses around the UK spent the day with design staff and students at University College Falmouth, learning more about our facilities and courses.

Click here for more information and to register for the next Open Design event

Career opportunities

We anticipate that our interior design degree graduates will go on to work as part of design teams, as freelance designers or establish their own studios. However, to work in the interior design industry you have to be flexible. The broad range of skills we will teach you will enable you to adapt to the fluid and volatile world of interior design. That means many of our graduates will go on to work in:

• In-house design
• Freelance design
• Design management
• Branding and communications
• Design writing
• Postgraduate study

Entry requirements

A minimum of 220 UCAS points, equivalent Level 3 qualifications or relevant experience. You may be required to submit some work to help us decide who to interview.

Successful applicants are generally those with the strongest portfolios, demonstrating experimentation, technical ability and understanding of the art and design process.

Please see our How to Apply page for more information.

For further information about BA(Hons) Interior Design at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 255763.

Interview and selection process

All applicants invited to interview on the strength of their UCAS form. Applicants will be interviewed in small groups with their portfolios and sketchbooks by a panel which will normally consist of 2 Academic members of staff and 1 student. If you are invited to interview you will be given more detailed information about the interview before the event so you are fully prepared. There will be an opportunity to tour the campus and studios and to talk to current students about their experiences. There will be an opportunity for a question and answer session with the programme leader or another member of the academic team; parents and friends are warmly welcomed to this part of the session. You should expect to be here for around 3 hours.

You will need to come prepared with a portfolio of work, sketchbooks, a copy of an essay of several pages in length (which you will leave behind). Portfolio and sketchbooks should demonstrate the ability to investigate and develop a range of ideas. Drawing and visual investigation are particularly important. Your use of a variety of media and investigation of production methods and skills - not necessarily specific to the award you have applied for - is also encouraged. We do not recommend bringing large/bulky 3 dimensional pieces - we would prefer to see photographs of this kind of work if you have it, though small scale work is welcome.

Interviews will be held on 18 and 20 January, 22, 24 and 29 February, 2, 7, and 9 March 2012 only. Morning sessions will begin at 9.30am and afternoon sessions at 1.30pm.

Location: Tremough Campus

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