Study at the Royal College of Art
London, United Kingdom
| Programme details | |
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| Degree: | Master of Arts (MA) |
| Discipline: |
Interior Design
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| Duration: | 1 year |
| ECTS points: | 180 |
| Study modes: | full-time |
| Delivery modes: | on-campus |
| University website: | Interior Design |
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Constructing and communicating spatial identities. We value and promote speculation, analysis, rigour and provocation through all aspects of interior design.
The MA Interior Design Programme engages you in exploring emergent ideas and issues concerning distinct aspects of the design of the interior. This incorporates research, practice and making work that explores the diversity of human occupation in numerous environments, extending from the room to the city. The programme encourages the view that the interior is an interface between its occupants and the built environment, and it supports the notion that the interior is an agent for social change.
The programme values speculation, analysis and rigour with regards to the thinking and making of all aspects of the design of interior environments. It challenges you to formulate their own rigorous and critically independent responses to these fundamental concerns. This is often undertaken via the reworking of existing structures, the creation of temporal installations and the formation of permanent interventions. All of these practices involve the construction and communication of particular spatial identities using space, objects and materials.
Please note all applications must be submitted by 12 noon on the given deadline.
The programme is delivered across three terms and includes a combination of programme, School and College-wide units.
Term 1
You'll take an initial Primer unit, which will engage you in the exploration and synthesis of the principles and methods of critical ideas in interior space. It introduces you to ideas and the processes that will enable participants to synthesise thinking and research in the design of interior spaces. The work in this unit will be based on a focused exploration that affords you the possibilities to challenge your thinking through research, design, exploration in order to generate new meanings for buildings, objects, spaces and the elements within them.
You will also participate in Media Studies. The unit aims to increase your critical engagement with media and space. Through this unit you will be supported to increase your cross-disciplinary communication and you will be challenged to expand your media practice beyond architecture’s reliance on media as purely representation.
Across Terms 1 and 2, you will participate in the College-wide unit AcrossRCA; see below for more details.
You'll also take an Elective unit.
Term 2
The Platforms unit engages you in the origination and development of your own project in relation to the thematic concerns of the programme platforms. Each platform in this unit is design to emphasise a particular way of thinking or aspect of the design of the interior.
Platform themes are the provocations or generators of ideas that you will utilise in the development of your own research and projects. It is anticipated that you will use the platforms interests to assist in the determination of your own practice interests and ultimately your professional identities.
In term 2 all School of Architecture students be offered a School-wide Elective unit.
Term 3
The purpose of the Independent Research Project (IRP) is to enable you to apply the intellectual, technical and professional skills that you have developed throughout the programme to a challenging self-set brief. The project you are undertaking is one that is normally informed and advanced from the work previously undertaken in the previous platform unit.
Still working within the thematic concerns of the platforms, you are expected to have agreed a research and project proposal, a brief, with your tutor that identifies the parameters of your project, including its aims, rationale, approaches and methodologies and possible resource implications.
The School of Architecture is currently based at our historic Kensington site.
The studios are the heart of day-to-day activity for the School. Studios are purpose-designed for inspiration and interaction between students of different design disciplines. Studio workspace is provided for each student. In addition, you have access to wood, metal, plastic and resin workshop facilities, as well as contemporary digital fabrication equipment and a suite of bookable project and making spaces.
To provide prospective students with opportunities to find out about the RCA experience and programmes we run a number of on-campus and online open days as well as events in various countries around the world. You can find out about upcoming events or watch replays of past open days on
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