Course summary
Overview If you're passionate about interiors and the built environment, and you want to explore making with analogue and digital methods, this Master’s is for you. This course focuses on the interior and developing an understanding of the built environment through sensory and affective engagement. You’ll study in an interdisciplinary environment with our other architecture courses as you learn to understand your strengths and disciplinary skills in the wider design environment. You'll be encouraged to engage with interior spaces through creative practice, experimentation, material engagement, and tangible and intangible matters, and learn to use advanced technologies and tools such as 3D printers and augmented and virtual reality in our Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Reality (CCIXR), the UK’s first integrated facility to support innovation in virtual, augmented and extended realities. On this course you'll explore the everyday lives of communities and their role in the environment, culture, economy, the political, and the aesthetic. You'll discover practices of care, and consider carefulness and communication as you engage with climate change by looking at city scale infrastructures among other things. You'll explore everyday detail and the relationship between our lived experience and the structures that impact how we live. You'll also explore strategies for reusing of buildings and work with local communities in socially engaged projects. During the degree you’ll choose and develop your MA thesis by using a personal research project and building a personal manifesto. You’ll explore your individual design practice and career trajectory in a self-reflective manifesto, which you’ll develop using an online blog and by working with peers. The course will support you to engage with analogue methods of working that focus on the body, human and non-human, at the centre of your practice, and will also encourage digital working methods. You’ll learn to view your work in different social and cultural contexts and have opportunities to work with others, including communities, and explore your responsibilities relating to climate change and action, ready to graduate with all the tools you need for a career in interior architecture and interior design and associated creative industries. Eligibility This course accepts UK, EU, and international students. Course highlights
- Build your professional network by meeting practising designers and architects, industry-experienced lecturers, and your peers
- Work on live projects in the community of Portsmouth
- Benefit from the School of Architecture’s strong links with regional and national architectural and design practices
- Work at places such as Wymering Manor to engage with adaptive reuse strategies and community engagement
- Hear from industry experts including lecturers and guest speakers
- Exhibit at shows including our interim show, end of year show and the Interior Educators Exhibition
- Have the opportunity to go on visits to European cities, like Venice, or to join in with school visits taking place within the School of Architecture
Modules
Core modules
- Creative Theories: Thinking and Making (30 credits)
- Interior Practices: Design Project (30 credits)
- Research Methods (30 credits)
- Thesis (60 credits)
- Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences (30 credits)
Assessment method
You'll be assessed through:
- studio review
- research projects
- design projects
- evidencing of the design process
Entry requirements
A minimum of a second-class honours degree in Interior Design, Architecture or a related subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications. An online portfolio submission may be required as part of the selection process.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6.5 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0. |
| PTE Academic | 65 | An overall score of 65 with a minimum of 62 in each skill. |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 91 | 91 with a minimum of 20 in Reading, 19 in Listening, 21 in Speaking and 20 in Writing. |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169. | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169. | |
| Trinity ISE | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components. |
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £9400 | Year 1 |
| England | £9400 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9400 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9400 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9400 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9400 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9400 | Year 1 |
| International | £17200 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship.
Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP