DSGN07086 2019 Interior Architecture Studio IV: Collaboration and Community

Collaborate in identifying a local need and developing a design brief in response to an interior design problem, in cognizance of local social, cultural and ecological issues.

Manage the design research process and apply artistic and design principles in the context of broader cultural and social perspectives.

Collaborate and negotiate design ideas and production methods professionally, within a multidisciplinary group including users/stakeholders, consultants and contractors.

Demonstrate an awareness of specification and costs relevant to design proposal.

Integrate legislation, codes of practice, and health and safety within a design solution.

Provide creative and innovative design leadership during part of the research, design and/or production of a functional and aesthetic interior.

Synthesise physical, contextual, social, cultural and aesthetic meaning in the conception and generation of interior spaces in response to an agreed brief.

Communicate design ideas through visual, verbal and written methods, utilising appropriate media and graphic techniques.

Integrate systems of form, elements, furniture, surfaces, materials, colour and light in the design of spaces.

Collaborate purposefully and respectfully within a team, managing between the different roles, responsibilities and interests in the design and production process.

The module is delivered using a combination of lectures, group tutorials, individual tutorials and design reviews. Through discussion, critical evaluation and reflection and further design exploration, the student (or student group) develop(s) their design. An experiential and student‑centred approach promotes personal, reflective and active engagement with learning,  fostering confidence and competence in the communication of ideas. Clearly defined learning outcomes are constructively aligned with assessment criteria.

Design projects are broken down into a series of tasks that are assessed formatively (with verbal or written feedback to students) through group and individual presentations/reviews at the end of each task; and graded summatively the end of each project or semester  through portfolio submission and/or formal review.

Repeat assessment will be dependent on failed components.  This will be confirmed at formal exam boards.

In this module, students engage in a more than one design project. Functional typologies such as health care; community focused or educational designs respond to the programme vision point: - ‘designing for human needs”. Students engage in voluntary collaboration with a local charitable, community or environmental organisation and/or work with live clients to identify a need, before designing and producing a simple interior artefact or interior improvement.

This process involves:

• Identifying an organisational and social/ environmental need/problem;
• Research and analysis of need/problem (and related ethical, legal, technical and contextual issues, opportunities and limitations);
• Collaborative Development of a simple brief (in response to all of the above);
• Collaborative development of a plan of action (in response to all of the above);
• Collaborative development of a design response, in cognizance of technical, legislative and cost constraints;
• Design realisation as collaborative production/product/interior improvement;
• Reflective presentation;
• Students are to work in collaboration with members of the organisation identified at all stages of the project, and where possible in collaboration/communication with arts or designers from other fields.

The module is supported by lectures and discussions relevant to concurrent design challenges and stages and processes.