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1 Programme Specification Awarding Body Professional, Statuty Regulaty Body (PSRB) Teaching Institution Final Award Length of Course UCAS Code Date of production/revision University of the Arts London (UAL) None Chelsea College of Arts BA Honours Interi and Spatial Design 3 years (full-time) W250 October 2017 Rev 2, 2017/18 Entry Course Introduction This course offers an academic context f you to develop skills in conceptualising and designing spatial situations in the public sphere. With a focus on human scale and material experimentation, your projects could include architectural interis, installations, sensy environments and furniture design, inside and out. The course prepares you f a variety of careers in the art and design industry. Graduates from the course have gone on into architecture and interi design practices, as well as specific interi fields like lighting and sound design, heritage and conservation, curation and gallery design, retail and theatre to urban planning and design journalism. Inter-Disciplinary Approach One of the unique features of this course is its strong inter-disciplinary approach to the subject, rooted in an art-school context of creativity, research and experimentation. Recent wk on the course interweaves ideas, occupation, material, media and phenomena in ways that engage our senses. We wk with existing buildings and spaces, looking at how they can receive new fms of habitation and how they can offer both pleasure and commodity f users. We aim to expand our understanding of design and the manipulation of the material wld, and to challenge our human engagement with it. Page 1 of 9

2 Expanded Practice The course provides a range of possibilities and approaches to the study of contempary interi and spatial design, promoting cutting-edge design wk that is conceptually rigous, technologically innovative, and highly resolved to a fine level of detail. This is undersced by an agile lecture series navigating histic context, contempary they and cultural studies with a view to your dissertation in your final year. In Year 2, Unit 5 offers an exciting opptunity to wk with students from Textile Design and Graphic Design and Communication, undertaking a period of study that compliments and enhances your main area of study. By expling your practice outside your established studio wk, this unit extends and develops your knowledge base and offers the chance to benefit from interaction with students from different disciplines. Spaces and Narrations Research Group The ethos of the course extends across all the undergraduate and postgraduate Interi Design courses at Chelsea and fms the basis of the collective activities of the Spaces and Narrations Research Group. Events may include open lectures, cross-course collabations and exhibitions featuring inter-disciplinary wk from both students and staff. In the past few years we have engaged with external practitioners, visiting professs and artists and charitable arts ganisations. These are opptunities to expand hizons and socially convene across the programme, encouraging a culture of future collabation and professional netwking. Studio Culture Vital conversations around design take place in the studio, lecture theatre, wkshop and beyond. Level 4 (Year 1) centres around a variety of long sht individual and group projects where students are required to demonstrate and communicate ideas inside the design process to completion. In Levels 4 and 5 (Years 2 and 3), the Design Research Studios are research-driven teaching and learning environments, consisting of clusters of staff and students wking closely on a focused agenda framed through annually reviewed design project briefs. Many prominent practitioners and researchers teach on our design studio system, feeding their research and practice activities back into the course. This way of wking maximises the potential f peer learning and offers opptunities f cross-level projects, and interstudio critiques and reviews. Projects are carefully designed to maintain professional relevancy, provide maximum opptunity f design explation and enhance your potential employability. Page 2 of 9

3 Poetic and Practical In der to develop your professional practice you will learn how to take individual responsibility of your wk, as well as wk in teams, potentially taking part in external competitions and carry out Live Projects in response to a real client brief mirring professional wking life. These vary year-on-year and take time to prepare to ensure all involved are aware of their responsibilities. During your design activities, you will be challenged to develop at various stages the poetic and practical aspects in your design process in studio. You will be asked to engage in the selection of materials, confirm fabrication techniques and illustrate your understanding of how ideas are realised from beginning to the end in your time on the course. Course Aims We aim to offer you: A supptive atmosphere that advances your knowledge and understanding of interi and spatial design concepts, techniques and debates. A variety of learning opptunities that foster the integration of they and practice through engagement with research methods and contempary practice-based research. A dynamic learning environment that enables you to develop your practice and your identity as a designer. Opptunities f you to engage with current and emerging professional practices through teaching, and project briefs. An open and culturally diverse environment that fosters experimentation, creativity and collabations. Opptunities f the development of transferable and professional skills relevant to employment and further study. Course Outcomes The outcomes that you will have demonstrated upon completion of the course, are to: Demonstrate a critical understanding of histical and contempary debates within interi and spatial design based on a coherent and detailed analysis of key aspects of practice and they. Carry out sustained, systematic critical and practical research, using relevant resources and appropriate methods of analysis, enquiry and experimentation. Page 3 of 9

4 Apply appropriate processes, skills and methods to realise your ideas and consolidate your critical position in a coherent body of wk. Manage your own learning and continuing development, through independent planning and ganisation, critical reflection and self-evaluation. Use communication and presentation skills appropriate to interi and spatial design in der to articulate complex ideas using specialist language. Demonstrate personal responsibility and decision making in der to respond to complex scenarios in a professional context further study. Learning and Teaching Methods The learning and teaching methods f this course may include: Briefings, lectures and seminars; group/individual critiques and tutials; group/practical inductions/wkshops/technical demonstrations; professional practice lectures and seminars; site and gallery visits; studio teaching by professional practitioners; visiting specialists. Scheduled Learning and Teaching Scheduled learning and teaching is the percentage of your time spent in timetabled learning and teaching. In each level (year) you are expected to study f 1200 hours over 30 weeks; below is the amount of time which is timetabled activity. The rest of your learning time will be self-directed, independent study. FHEQ Level 4 (Year 1) 22% FHEQ Level 5 (Year 2) 21% FHEQ Level 6 (Year 3) 15% Assessment Methods The relevant assessment methods f this course may include: Peer assessment; physical and digital ptfolios; presentations; self assessments; written wk (eg. assignments, essays, repts, dissertation); drawings/sketches; investigation/research documentation; scaled/architectural modelling; blog, equivalent; proposals. Page 4 of 9

5 Reference Points The following reference points were used in designing the course: The University of the Arts London Credit and Course Structures Framewk. The University of the Arts London Learning and Teaching policies. CCW (Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon) policies and initiatives. The UK Quality Code f Higher Education Subject Benchmark Statements The framewk f higher education qualifications in England, Wales and Nthern Ireland Education-Qualifications-08.pdf. The UK Quality Assurance Agency s relevant HE framewk, subject benchmarks, and academic infrastructure ( Programme Summary Programme structures, features, units, credit and award requirements: All BA courses within the undergraduate framewk at Chelsea, comprise three levels (years) and are made up of the following types of unit: Induction, Practice Units, They Units, an Elective Unit and a Dissertation Unit. Units are credit weighted in multiples of 10 and 1 credit is equivalent to 10 notional learning hours. The balance of how learning time is divided between taught time, access to supervised facilities (including wkshops and IT) and independent study will differ accding to the particular focus of the unit and its level. Units are given the same level as the year in which they fall. In der to be awarded a Bachel of Arts Honours, students must accumulate 360 credits in total. Each student will study the following: FHEQ Level 4 (Year 1) (120 credits): Unit 1: Introduction to Interi & Spatial Design (20 credits) Unit 2: Design Explation () Unit 3: Design Intelligence () Unit 4: Histy and They 1 (Introduction) (20 credits) Page 5 of 9

6 FHEQ Level 5 (Year 2 (120 credits): Unit 5: Expanded Practice (20 credits) Unit 6: Spatial Constructs () Unit 7: Spatial Instruction () Unit 8: Histy and They 2 (Cultural Contexts) (20 credits) FHEQ Level 6 (Year 3 (120 credits): Unit 9: Maj Design Project (80 credits) Unit 10: Histy and They 3 (Consolidation) () Distinctive features of the course: The Interi and Spatial Design course exples the making of space and objects within an architectural context. It addresses architectural concerns at the human scale: how we experience our architectural environment. Interi and Spatial Design encompasses the design of individual and sequences of spaces, and the design of objects that inhabit and articulate space. Designs are tested at a detail level, and students are encouraged to exple both the experiential qualities of materials used and their constructional logic. The course is concerned with developing social programmes whereby spaces are offered to the users in a way that can enhance and infm the activities that they contain. Design practice wks in dialogue with the they programme to develop critical perspectives on established and alternative languages of spatial design. The course will enable you to: Develop creativity in territy that crosses a number of diverse disciplines (architecture, interis, furniture, installation). Achieve successful employment in an increasingly multi-disciplinary professional context. Additional Course Costs Please note that additional costs may be incurred on this course, f such things as printing and photocopying, some materials, optional trips within the UK and overseas and final degree shows. Page 6 of 9

7 Recruitment and Admissions Selection Criteria 1 A concise ptfolio indicating a critical engagement with design ideas and an ability to select and ganise wk. 2 An aptitude f thinking spatially. 3 Wk that demonstrates a personal agenda. 4 Evidence that the applicant can communicate an enthusiasm f the subject context. Ptfolio advice Evidence of an ability to develop and exple ideas, particularly of a spatial nature. A ptfolio mainly made up of drawings, photography, models and sketches, but may include wk made in other media if you feel it s appropriate to show how you ve expled ideas. A concise ptfolio indicating a critical engagement with design ideas and an ability to select and ganise wk. Entry Requirements We select students based on the quality of their applications, looking primarily at their ptfolio of wk and personal statements. The standard minimum entry requirements f this course are: A Level - 2 A levels grade C above. Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Level 3 4). Pass, Pass, Pass at BTEC Extended Diploma. Pass at UAL Extended Diploma. Access to Higher Education Diploma. Equivalent EU non-eu qualifications. F example - International Baccalaureate Diploma pass achieved at 28 points above. And 3 GCSE passes grade C above. Page 7 of 9

8 We will also consider other evidence of pri learning and experience via Accreditation of Pri (Experiential) Learning - AP(E)L and/ alternative qualifications assessed as offering the same level as the above requirements. If English is not your first language All classes are taught in English. If English is not your first language you must provide evidence at enrolment of the following: IELTS level 6.0 above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking (please check our English Language requirements). Page 8 of 9

9 Course Diagram Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 LEVEL 4 (YEAR 1) Unit 1: Introduction to Interi & Spatial Design 20 credits Unit 2: Design Explation Unit 4: Histy and They 1 (Introduction) 20 credits Summative Assessment Fmative Assessment Unit 3: Design Intelligence continued Summative Assessment Exit point Cert HE Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 LEVEL 5 (YEAR 2) Unit 5: Expanded Practice 20 credits Unit 6: Spatial Constructs Unit 8: Histy and They 2 (Cultural Contexts) 20 credits Summative Assessment Fmative Assessment Unit 7: Spatial Instruction continued Summative Assessment Exit point Dip HE Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 LEVEL 6 (YEAR 3) Unit 9: Maj Design Project 80 credits Unit 10:Histy and They 3 (Consolidation) Fmative Assessment continued continued Summative Assessment Page 9 of 9