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The Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design is a three-year modular course. The Postgraduate Diploma is the taught element (Part I) of Inchbald’s Master of Arts Degree in Architectural Interior Design. In order to achieve an MA with us, you must achieve the Postgraduate Diploma and then successfully complete Part II, the dissertation.

The Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design is validated and awarded by the federal University of Wales.

As a student enrolled on the Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design course, you will participate in a thorough and professional programme that enables successful graduates to take their place in the professional arena. As with the in-house Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design programme, the online course is intensive and explores the practical and philosophical nature of the subject, encouraging you to build on existing skills and acquire new ones. Our personal responses to the built environment that we occupy are at the heart of our relationship and understanding of interior space. You will explore these issues in the practical interior design projects, and thus learn how to interpret a brief, develop and analyse a concept, create a design solution and present the result both visually and verbally.

By employing the Survey-Analysis-Design method you will develop an assured approach to interior design allowing for an individual design response as your confidence and design opinions grow. You will investigate the theories and ideas that underpin many of our general assumptions about space and interiors, thus developing your critical faculties and enabling self and peer evaluation. Through seminars, forums and discussion groups you will present and discuss ideas and project work within your study group and to the wider faculty.

Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design – course contents

The practical elements of the interior design profession are at the heart of the Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design course and underpin the curriculum. Survey, design method and analysis, construction, detailing, decoration, planning, ergonomics and graphics/drawing are all covered to a professional level. The Architectural Interior Design course is structured around ten modules, each of which leads to a related interior design project. Each module provides relevant information augmented by tasks and research projects that focus on issues that will arise within the relevant project. The projects increase in complexity as your skills develop through the course.

Research Methodology runs through the modules. You will submit written work and research to standard postgraduate academic levels, and discuss possible subjects for Part II, the Masters dissertation. Built around a series of seminars and workshops, Research Methodology powers and supports the ideas that will influence your design solutions in your projects and prepare you for Part II. You will keep a Personal Development Plan in which you can discuss and theorise on those aspects of project work and interior design in general that take your imagination. This individual development is an essential part of any Inchbald course.

Studying online for the Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design

By enrolling on the Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design, you will:

• study part-time, following an achievable but dynamic and intensive programme structure. The Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design is designed around approximately 12 hours of formal learning per week. However, you should expect to spend more time than this on assignments, seminar work and projects.
• study in your own home or base, where you are encouraged to set up a small interior design studio.
• have full access to a bespoke course website for online study or to download and print course materials for offline study.
• join a group of fellow students who are studying the same programme, so you can benefit from sharing, conferring and presenting your own ideas to fellow students using the online discussion forums.
• receive a high level of individualised tutorial support. The course includes frequent assignments, which you complete and submit to your tutor for constructive comments and advice that is tailored to your development needs. In addition, you receive informal support from tutors online.
• practise and develop your interior design and decoration skills by carrying a series of practical design projects – with the support and guidance of your tutors – for assessment.
• at key points during the Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design, attend short in-house study schools with your fellow students, first for induction at the start of the course and then for intensive skills development.

The MA in Architectural Interior Design

On successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design (Part I of the MA) you may proceed to Part II – which is a thesis or dissertation – to achieve the MA Degree

Entry requirements for the Online Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Interior Design

Entry requirements are as follows: first degree, generally at a first or upper second level which could be in a non-design subject; or with relevant experience, to be assessed by Accreditation of Prior and Experiential Learning (APEL). This allows people of all backgrounds, ages and circumstances to receive formal recognition for skills and knowledge they already possess.

We will invite all shortlisted applicants for interview and to submit a portfolio of work. We can make alternative arrangements for international students based overseas.

Portfolio requirements

These are the ways you can submit your portfolio prior to interview so we can consider your application.

• Send us a link to your website. You can email us the link if you have your work already uploaded to a website.
• Email us with your portfolio attached. You can email us with your portfolio attachment in the following formats – pdf, jpeg, Word or PowerPoint (no CAD files). You will need to keep the file size below 10mb. As a school we use both PC and Apple Mac.
• Send us a disk by post. Send us a CD of your portfolio . Please note CDs cannot be returned.

What to include in your portfolio

Carefully select and edit your images to produce an exciting, creative and representative document, which informs us about your skills, interests and ambitions.

This could include:

• a selection of your student work
• a selection of your professional work
• a brief, illustrated explanation of any research you have undertaken
• examples of other creative work (e.g. images from your sketchbooks).

Note: Images can be of work in progress not just finished work.

Remember:

• Maximum 15 – 20 images
• Keep file sizes small – 72dpi is sufficient for most images (this is normal screen resolution)
• 10mb is the maximum total file size
• Format must be compatible with Microsoft systems so we can open it (remember we do not accept CAD files including AutoCAD and Vector Works).

For further information please contact the Course Administrator.