Interior Design BA (Hons)

This unit provides you with a dynamic exploration of the fundamentals of interior design through a range of projects, workshops, experiments and exercises. You’ll look at the range of technical, practical and environmental principles involved in spatial design and begin to develop an understanding of the impact space can have on the user’s experience. You’ll develop fundamental design skills in creative communication and drawing, exploring form and function through freehand and observational sketching, and 2D and 3D design visualisation techniques using digital media and model making. This unit also looks at how wider social issues – such as politics, sustainability, the economy, and technology – influence interior design throughout history and in the present.

40 credits

In this unit, you will explore and experiment with techniques, materials and media. This unit provides an overview of major themes needed to understand the context of interior design. Lectures and seminars examine case studies to understand the historical and cultural dimensions of spatial design and related disciplines that inform the built environment in general. You’ll continue to learn about 2D and 3D methods and techniques, including digital modelling and scale drawing in 3D CAD packages. You’ll study various building materials and their characteristics, looking at design issues related to structure and function. You’ll evolve your communication skills to support your design work while working individually or as part of a team in a collaborative and professional setting.

80 credits

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.

This unit will enable you to expand your specialist knowledge and skills and help you to identify areas for personal development. You will engage in industry-based briefs, developing and applying experimental approaches to factual and fictional ideas and stories. Technical workshops and seminars will develop your digital and analogue skills alongside sessions focused on illustrative thinking, materials, processes and development. You will develop an understanding of visual communication that will sharpen your research and evaluation skills, informed by design principles and cultural ideas. This unit will also explore contemporary issues such as sustainability and ethical practice in illustration and how visual language can raise awareness.

80 credits

This unit focuses on helping you understand your practice in a wider context through interdisciplinary working. You will be introduced to different ways collaborative working can help you focus and enhance your creative strengths. You’ll explore the principles of co-design and, as a group, conceive, develop and produce a response to a given brief. You will build your skillset using research and information from specialised design literature to inform and define an investigation and develop creative design solutions. You’ll also learn about the career opportunities within the design sector, which will help you identify your final year specialism and future career pathway.

40 credits

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.

This is the first and shorter of the two units that make up your final year of study. You’ll continue to explore materials and technologies for the construction and operation of building interiors with a particular focus on sustainability, environmental and performance issues. You’ll be expected to respond holistically to spatial design and its conceptual framework, generating complex responses to contemporary design problems. The detailed communication of your ideas will be developed through critical debate and analysis. You will address a question related to your area of interest and professional development through a research project. Your research will identify and discuss contemporary or emerging issues around wellbeing, social challenges, human needs and sustainability within interior design.

40 credits

This unit will allow you to deliver a final major design project, embracing the entire interior design process and demonstrating your approach to and engagement with contemporary interior design issues. You’ll develop your briefs and strategies and respond creatively through an integrated design proposal. Throughout this year, you will consolidate your knowledge and understanding and develop an independent creative voice to prepare you for entry into professional practice or engagement in further research. You’ll display your work as part of our degree show – GradFest – giving you the opportunity to showcase your work to our network of industry professionals and prospective employers.

80 credits

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

n important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.