Course Details

1. Recognize the role of research within art and design and produce a thesis that has the potential of being listed within the professional sphere.
2. Employ appropriate techniques and materials and operate in those situations demonstrating a mixture of visual notation to client presentation standard and professional quality analyse and acquire skills in spatial design through given elementary spaces and experiment with new forms suitable for commercial spaces.
3. Examine into the area of investigation, problems that will defend as well as support the role of the interior designer in the selection of design solutions.
4. Create final design solutions and professional concepts with written thesis which will be based on questioning and testing the area of research, and furthermore translate visually the subject trough visual architectural drawings, details, renderings and models.
5. Value interior design innovation and variety, which can cross boundaries in both inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary guises through creating concepts, designing visuals and writing research.

Senior project: the final project towards the completion of the course, which can be regarded as the thesis. It is a course where students act as individual designers in an investigation of a course of their own choice.

Research and analysis: The course can be of any nature/idea/concept. The ultimate scope is to conduct an extensive research into the course (utilizing all conventional or not media) and prepare an extended essay from the research findings and analysis.

Self-negotiated project: The student negotiates a personal Programme of Study and develops a Senior Project. The negotiated programme is devised in conjunction with the Course Supervisor and the Personal Tutor. The course requires the student to initialize a written brief and produce final design solutions and a written thesis of 5.000 words. The relationship between the thesis and the design solution is closely aligned or tenuously linked. The emphasis is on innovation and variety where topics can cross boundaries in both inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary guises.

No specific textbook required

• Various Architectural and Design Magazines and Web Sites
• Human Dimension and Interior Space, J. Panero + M. Zelnik, Whitney Library, 1992
• Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches, J. Cresswell, Sage Publications, 2002
• Inspiring Designers, P. Rodgers, Black Dog Publishing, 2004
• Furnish. Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century, Die Gestalten, 2007
• From Brief to Build, J. Hudson, Laurence King, 2010

The course is mainly based on individual research and practical work. Student centred practical work, personal research, realization and manipulation in project work. The use of personal tutor/advisor is compulsory as well as an important and integral part of the teaching methodology.