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Interior space by Karin Artmann designed for under the Millennium bridge in London

Interior Design MA (PGCert PGDip)

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Intro

Our Interior Design MA degree is a future-facing course that deals with current issues and themes, taking an interdisciplinary approach that values creativity, curiosity and methodical rigour to build on the traditional abilities of the interior designer.

We foster creative interchange and collaborations between designers, fine artists, architects and design thinkers, developing your practical and intellectual skills. Through projects that examine fundamental concerns of the field such as identity, atmosphere and narrative, diversity, inclusion, belonging and sustainability, this degree will challenge you to form well-crafted, studied responses to contemporary interior design briefs.

You’ll explore the subject through lectures, workshops and seminars delivered by staff who are active in research and consultancy, tutors who are practising designers, and visiting specialists, critics and consultants who will share their knowledge and experience.

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Key facts

Location Brighton: Moulsecoomb

Full-time 12 months
Part-time Typically 24 months

Please review the entry requirements carefully and if you have any questions do get in touch with us.

Art and design courses at Brighton are ranked joint 8th in the UK and in the top 100 globally by the QS World University Rankings® 2023

Entry criteria

Entry requirements

Degree and experience
A good degree (2.2 or above) in a design-related subject. In exceptional circumstances, ie where an applicant has several years experience working in a design industry, those with non-design degrees will be considered. Applicants need to show evidence of a portfolio and most will be invited for interview.

English language requirements
IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International requirements and visas

International requirements by country
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Australia
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Malawi
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We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

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Applying for a student visa

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Portfolio advice

Admission to this course involves reviewing your portfolio. After you apply, we will ask you to share a link to an online portfolio of your work. This enables us to see your potential and understand your approach and motivations. 

We will ask you to log on to to share your portfolio link. We will not be able to progress your application to Brighton until you share your portfolio.

  • Find out about the specific requirements for your course.

Creating your portfolio
We’ve put together advice and guidance to help you create and share your portfolio and we run regular online portfolio advice sessions where you can get help from our expert team.

Design work by Celine Battolla

Course content

Why study with us?


  • Dual emphasis on creative and critical enquiry in the broad context of design, visual arts, fashion and textiles, design thinking and the humanities.
  • The opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary social design projects.
  • Interdisciplinary workshops that encourage you to think across a range of design fields including art, fashion, architecture and urban design.
  • A creative approach that will support you in developing your own practice in the field.
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A selection of work by Interior Design MA students for their Design Museum project

Course structure

The Situate module provides an opportunity for you to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and identify ambitions for future study. This module is a great opportunity for you to think about the direction you are taking, whether you are returning to education or are continuing your studies. Lecture courses in Design Strategies and Research Practices run in parallel.

You’ll consolidate and extend the themes, questions and approaches established in the preliminary projects through the Design Lab module. Alongside this you can choose from option modules in Sustainable Design Future(s) or Critical Readings. A proposal for the final project will also be developed and submitted. You’ll also work on the self-direct design project through the Masterwork project.

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. When you have applied to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through .

 

Brighton Youth Center _BIID drawing competition winner

British Institute of Design Drawing (Digital) competition winner – Md Abu Al Shoud

Syllabus

The programme begins by giving you the opportunity to position what you do within the wider discourse and practice of design. Working from the outside in, you will be supported in situating what you want to do in terms of contemporary issues and global challenges. At the same time you will investigate the interior from the inside out, as you begin to methodologically engage with space on a sensory and affective level to interrogate the physiological, psychological and emotional experience of being in a place.

You’ll examine how colour, form, finish and furnishings affect us and how to use such elements to create new ways of living and being that respond to the large-scale challenges of contemporary life. Through a series of interlinked modules you’ll develop a set of concerns, issues, themes, questions and techniques that make up your practice, which you will fully explore in the final Masterwork module.

Modules

Core modules

  • Design: Masterwork

    This module takes the form of a self-directed design research project which requires you to employ the experiences, methods, skills and mastery gained throughout your studies so far. The research-led design process will enable you to create new directions for your design specialisation, challenge existing expertise and develop insights relevant to your professional ambitions. A key feature of this module is to prepare you for professional life after graduation.

  • Design Research Practices

    In this module you will learn to understand research in a way that’s specific to design. It starts from the idea that research, including scientific research, is a specific form of design activity and that design can influence research and vice versa. You will rearticulate the design expertise you’re already developing and apply this to research. You will also learn how to combine design research and practice in your own way.

  • Situate

    This module introduces established and emerging principles, theories and themes in design. It will help you to situate your work within modern design trends and global issues and discover and develop what motivates you in your field. Themes covered may include sustainability discourses, power and politics, decolonising design, equity and equality, systemic complexity and creating change through design.

  • Design Strategies

    Through small-scale experimental interior design projects, this module provides an opportunity to review your position, evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and identify ambitions for future study. It challenges you to determine the extent of your knowledge, skills and abilities and pinpoint your study priorities for the year. Projects will place a priority on decision-making, enquiry and supported self-directed study.

  • Design Lab

    In this module, you will develop your approaches to design within your specialisation through experimental practices. The module provides a reflective and productive environment within which you can develop, realise and critique new and innovative design concepts, theoretical positions and practice-based research methods. This will support you in confidently and critically developing individually defined and research-informed design practices.

Options*

  • Sustainable Design: Future(s)

    In this module you will develop your project in a structured way, identifying the factors central to your ideas and seeing where these connect with other elements. You will learn how to identify key points for change and use communication and interaction to bring abstract ideas to life. Specific content will change year on year, but themes covered may include complex systems thinking and t