Through encouraging and promoting experiential learning, the MA Interior Architecture and Design course embraces the truth that designing is a creative adventure.

This twelve-month programme will enable you to form an understanding and appreciation of theoretical, practical and professional issues that are informing the evolution of contemporary interior architecture and design professional practice.  

WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS COURSE?

On the MA Interior Architecture and Design programme you will explore the distinctive qualities associated with the interiors of inhabited architecture. 

By looking at the cultural, practical and atmospheric aspects of interiors created by architects, artists and designers, as an innovator you will be able to strategically develop creative interfaces and determine how users will perceive and behave in the spaces that your are conceiving. 

Making speculative work is an important aspect of the programme. As individuals you will establish your professional identity as autonomous creative practitioners by blending philosophy, artistry and practicality in order to compose an interior design scenario that is future-focused and personally and culturally meaningful. By exploring innovative practices embedded within your own design process, this reflective practice will act as a stimuli for you to challenge existing assumptions about interior design and push the international platform for the profession forwards into new and versatile directions.

A key aspect of the course is that it will encourage a spirit of 'internationalisation', which will contribute to the establishment of a culturally rich, vibrant and diverse learning studio environment. Fostering the ambition of ‘life long learning’, you will create a dynamic continual development plan. This will allow you to draw on the expertise and global networks associated with the institution, reflecting the full spectrum of opportunities that can help you to enrich and nurture your career. Previous postgraduate students on the programme have been employed at leading international architectural practices as architects, interior designers, or as design lecturers in further and higher education institutions, with the pathway to postgraduate Doctoral PhD study also opened up as a result.

Enhancing your employability skills

The MA Interior Architecture and Design programme aims to foster postgraduates with a set of attributes, which prepare them for their future careers and see that they are:

• Professional and work-ready
• A creative problem solver
• Enterprising 
• Have a global outlook 

Links to industry

As a postgraduate student at Birmingham School of Architecture and Design you will be encouraged to prepare for employment by engaging with a range of supportive activities and events including:

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions that focus on employability skills and action planning
• Focused architecture sector lectures
• Alumni /employment and interview surgeries hosted by 'Superstudio'
• Interaction with the careers service advisors and careers events hosted at the University
• Friends of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design – An extensive network and broad spectrum of connections and industry partners that create opportunities for our students. These are introduced via your staff team, signposted on Moodle or published on noticeboards around the School and on social media platforms
• Design competitions
• Design bursaries and scholarships
• Creative exhibitions
• Collaborative Practice - Live and collaborative projects
• Volunteer organisations connected to the School
• Architecture and design conservation projects
• Industry events and awards ceremonies
• Work experience, internships and employment opportunities