BA (Hons) Interior Design at Anglia Ruskin University

Develop your creative vision and learn how to work with clients to create exciting, intriguing and functional interior spaces. Learn how to work with homeowners, public bodies and businesses to create residential or commercial places that people enjoy using and want to return to again and again. You’ll find out how to use furniture, lighting, flooring, artwork and decoration, décor and colour palettes to tell stories that facilitate important social connections.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences  |  Department: Cambridge School of Art  |  Duration: 3 years; 4 years with placement  |  Study mode: full-time (placement year available)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

We’ll begin by exploring what it means to be human in a designed environment. We’ll also teach you how to test and communicate your ideas, starting with 2D and 3D hand drawing. Year 1: Human Space Relationships, Materials and Making, Stories of Space, Digital Space, Critical and Contextual Studies 1: Think, Play, Learn. Year 2: Space Adaptation, Design and Display, Critical and Contextual Studies 2: Creativity and Context in Dialogue, Ruskin Module; options include Printmaking Ideas and Processes, Spatial Practices, Archive: Creative Futures, Exhibitions in Context. Year 3: Space Investigation, Interior Design: Final Major Project; options include Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Creative Inquiry, Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Working in the Creative Industries.

Career pathways

I'm not representative of every person, every end user. So it's always about looking beyond yourself and understanding every person that's going to enter that space.

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