PROGRAMME
OVERVIEW
The Glasgow School of Art
Bachelor of Arts with Honours in
Interior Design
Interior Design involves the creation of imaginative and stimulating environments in specific places — often within existing buildings. The revitalisation, reuse and re-imagining of the latter requires a sensitivity to the particular qualities of a site and host building, along with an understanding of the needs of the people who will populate it. In proposing fresh ways people might use a building, a skilled interior designer is able to creatively embrace the constraints of brief and context, engaging in a dialogue between existing architectural form, and contemporary approaches to the organisation, detailing, and decoration of a space.
Intelligent interior design is a key contributor to an improved quality of life, and it helps generate business success. It has an established professional structure which allows graduates the opportunity to gain invaluable experience at various levels of responsibility before choosing to set up in independent practice or take leading roles in established studios.
The majority of graduates work in the UK - a global centre for interior design - either for major companies including BKD, Brinkworth, Fitch, Foster and Partners, Graven, Gensler, Imagination, Landor Associates and Universal Design Studio, or independent, self-founded studios such as NOMAD. A significant percentage work overseas in Australia, China, France, Italy, Ireland, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain.
MODULE
SYNOPSIS
The Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Interior Design
Overview
Learning and teaching in the Department of Interior Design encourages self-motivation and sustained independent learning. GSA employs a variety of methods including lectures, seminars, talks, presentations and group discussions, individual or group tutorials, projects, practical workshops and critical reviews. In each year Interior Design and Communication Design students will collaborate at certain points in the academic year for briefings, reviews and feedback sessions.
Programme Structure
Year 1 (Level 3 Interior Design) - Term 1
• Interior Design Studio 3
This course aims to engage each student with deep learning in the context of the student’s developing specialist interest with Interior Design. Through an extended period of study across the academic year, the course will see students develop a subject specialist understanding of Interior Design. The course develops studio-based, online and collaborative skills in relation to subject specialism and relevant, wider design domains. The course will enhance student’s formal presentation skills, and each student will be invited to draw on knowledge and discussion developed through the two core courses of Level 3.
• Design Process in Practice
This core course aims to provide students with a detailed and advanced understanding of a range of design processes and methods which underpin the design specialisms of interior design and communication design, encompassing illustration, photography, graphics and drawing and visualisation more generally. The course will serve as keystone for concurrent study in the student’s chosen specialist pathway. A central aim of this course is to inform students of the design approaches salient in the respective specialisms of interior design and communication design.
• Cities, Identities, Global Culture
Using Glasgow and Singapore as central case studies, this course considers several urban contexts for the practice and study of design, and for the understanding of contemporary cultural currents in a global field. Urbanism, globality and transnational culture are key themes which inform today practice and study in a design domain, and this core course aims to further studentsʼ knowledge and critical understanding of the global urban environment for design. By contrast, students will be introduced to rural design issues and case studies, and comparative processes are discussed and deployed. The emphases will be on communication design (photography, graphics and illustration) and interior design, but case studies will address a full range of design process and practice issues from historical and contemporary perspectives. Overall, the course will enhance studentsʼ critical awareness of the deployment of design methods and design thinking to the creation and consolidation of identity, individual, national and international, with a focus on the urban realm.
Year 1 (Level 3 Interior Design) - Term 2
• Interior Design Studio 3
This course aims to engage each student with deep learning in the context of the student’s developing specialist interest with Interior Design. Through an extended period of study across the academic year, the course will see students develop a subject specialist understanding of Interior Design. The course develops studio-based, online and collaborative skills in relation to subject specialism and relevant, wider design domains. The course will enhance student’s formal presentation skills, and each student will be invited to draw on knowledge and discussion developed through the two core courses of Level 3.
• Design Process in Practice
This core course aims to provide students with a detailed and advanced understanding of a range of design processes and methods which underpin the design specialisms of interior design and communication design, encompassing illustration, photography, graphics and drawing and visualisation more generally. The course will serve as keystone for concurrent study in the student’s chosen specialist pathway. A central aim of this course is to inform students of the design approaches salient in the respective specialisms of interior design and communication design.
Year 1 (Level 3 Interior Design) - Term 3
• Interior Design Studio 3
This course aims to engage each student with deep learning in the context of the student’s developing specialist interest with Interior Design. Through an extended period of study across the academic year, the course will see students develop a subject specialist understanding of Interior Design. The course develops studio-based, online and collaborative skills in relation to subject specialism and relevant, wider design domains. The course will enhance student’s formal presentation skills, and each student will be invited to draw on knowledge and discussion developed through the two core courses of Level 3.
Year 2 (Level 4 Interior Design) - Term 1
• Interior Design Studio 4
The course is predominantly self-directed and will be governed by the student’s established specialist interest within the field of Interior Design. Students will work to their own brief on a significantly pitched ‘Personal Project’, guided by studio input, group crits, online learning activity and peer learning groups.
• Sustainable Design Practice
This core course is an intensive block of study which supports students to situate their developing specialist practice and study within wider debates and discourses on sustainability and ethics. The course aims to advance studentsʼ professional skills in respect of their ability to engage with and critique the dominant topics of concern related to sustainability and ethics. There will be a variety of contributors to this course, from design practices and other agencies and organisations related to design industries and services. The course will serve to underpin the ongoing specialist pathway study which will run concurrently.
This course centres round a lecture and workshop based delivery and addresses the economics and organisational cultures of design practices. The course aims to equip students with a knowledge of key issues in global economics, financial systems and the commercial aspects of contemporary design practices, with international case studies. In tandem with Specialist Studio 4 study, this course will be an important point of reference in the contextualisation of the studentʼs developing design methods and contexts.
• Economies and Cultures of Design Professions
This course centres round a lecture and workshop based delivery and addresses the economics and organisational cultures of design practices. The course aims to equip students with a knowledge of key issues in global economics, financial systems and the commercial aspects of contemporary design practices, with international case studies. In tandem with Specialist Studio 4 study, this course will be an important point of reference in the contextualisation of the studentʼs developing design methods and contexts.
Year 2 (Level 4 Interior Design) - Term 2
• Interior Design Studio 4
The course is predominantly self-directed and will be governed by the student’s established specialist interest within the field of Interior Design. Students will work to their own brief on a significantly pitched ‘Personal Project’, guided by studio input, group crits, online learning activity and peer learning groups.
• Economies and Cultures of Design Professions
This course centres round a lecture and workshop based delivery and addresses the economics and organisational cultures of design practices. The course aims to equip students with a knowledge of key issues in global economics, financial systems and the commercial aspects of contemporary design practices, with international case studies. In tandem with Specialist Studio 4 study, this course will be an important point of reference in the contextualisation of the studentʼs developing design methods and contexts.
Year 2 (Level 4 Interior Design) - Term 3
• Interior Design Studio 4
The course is predominantly self-directed and will be governed by the student’s established specialist interest within the field of Interior Design. Students will work to their own brief on a significantly pitched ‘Personal Project’, guided by studio input, group crits, online learning activity and peer learning groups.
ELIGIBILITY
The Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Interior Design
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Polytechnic Diploma
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Nanyang Polytechnic
- Industrial Design
- Space & Interior Design
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Singapore Polytechnic
- Architecture
- Landscape Architecture
- Interior Design
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Temasek Polytechnic
- Interior Architecture & Design
- Environment Design
- Retail & Hospitality Design
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GSA is interested in interdisciplinary practices and cross-fertilisation, and welcomes applications from all diploma-qualified students with an interest in contemporary design issues and studies. Applicants from other diplomas not listed will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
TUITION
FEES
The Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Interior Design
AY2013/14 - Fee structure for normal candidature period of study (based on 3 semesters per year)
| |
SC |
SPR |
IS / Non-subsidised Fees |
| Sem 1 |
S$3,300 |
S$6,600 |
S$9,700 |
| Sem 2 |
S$3,300 |
S$6,600 |
S$9,700 |
| Sem 3 |
S$3,300 |
S$6,600 |
S$9,700 |
| Sem 4 |
S$3,300 |
S$6,600 |
S$9,700 |
| Sem 5 |
S$3,300 |
S$6,600 |
S$9,700 |
| Sem 6 |
S$3,300 |
S$6,600 |
S$9,700 |
Legend
SC: Singapore Citizens
SPR: Singapore Permanent Residents
IS: International Students
The above table is not applicable for non-relevant diploma holders/A-Level/other qualifications (equivalent to A-Level).
For students admitted to SIT in AY2013/14, the annual tuition fee is fixed at the AY2013/14 rate for the duration of their degree programme.
Here's a list of relevant polytechnic diplomas for the respective degree programmes.
Find out more »
AY2012/13 – Fee structure for normal candidature period of study (based on 3 semesters per year)
| |
SC |
SPR |
IS / Non-subsidised Fees |
| Sem 1 |
S$3,250 |
S$6,500 |
S$8,720 |
| Sem 2 |
S$3,250 |
S$6,500 |
S$8,720 |
| Sem 3 |
S$3,250 |
S$6,500 |
S$8,720 |
| Sem 4 |
S$3,250 |
S$6,500 |
S$8,720 |
| Sem 5 |
S$3,250 |
S$6,500 |
S$8,720 |
| Sem 6 |
S$3,250 |
S$6,500 |
S$8,720 |
Legend
SC: Singapore Citizens
SPR: Singapore Permanent Residents
IS: International Students
The above table is not applicable for non-relevant diploma holders/A-Level/other qualifications (equivalent to A-Level).
For students admitted to SIT in AY2012/13, the annual tuition fee is fixed at the AY2012/13 rate for the duration of their degree programme.
Here's a list of relevant polytechnic diplomas for the respective degree programmes.
Find out more »
LOCATION
The Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Interior Design
Location:
Temasek Polytechnic
21 Tampines Avenue 1
Singapore 529757
