DSGN07103 2019 Interior Architecture Studio IV: Work Placement

Collaborate or witness the  identification and development of a design brief in response to an interior design problem, that relates to 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 participation during part of the research, design and/or production of a functional and aesthetic interior.

Synthesise physical, contextual, social, cultural and aesthetic information realting to 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 student engages reflectively in work-based learning. The student produces a reflective digital portfolio of work, and keeps a work log that is signed regularly by a member of the studio team. This 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.

The student's work portfolio and work log are broken down into a series of criteria, that the student addresses reflectively.

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

In this module, students engage in an interior focused work  placement within an interior Architecture, Interior Design or Architecture practice or equivalent design studio project. Students engage in  collaboration within the team environment of a design practice.  They work on, or reflect upon, projects that  work with live or simulated clients to identify a need, and they use their skills as Interior Architects to design  interior artefacts and/or interior improvements.

The student engages reflectively in work-based learning. The student produces a reflective digital portfolio of work, and keeps a work log that is signed regularly by a member of the studio team.

This process involves the following:

• Identifying and approaching a practice for work
• Research and analysis of design problems (and related ethical, legal, technical and contextual issues, opportunities and limitations);
• Collaborative participation in design responses to simple briefs;
• Collaborative development of a plan of action and time management (in response to all of the above);
• Collaborative development of a design response, in cognisance 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.