The MA Interior and Spatial Design course at Buckinghamshire New University is an online course that empowers designers to tackle the challenges of designing sustainably.

School: Buckinghamshire New University
Course: MA Interior and Spatial Design
Location: online
Course dates: September 2024 to July 2025
Application deadline: 30 August 2024

This online postgraduate course focuses on adaptive reuse, tackling some of today's most pressing issues such as sustainability and the use of land.

The MA offers you the opportunity to rethink the existing building stock and redefine new purposes and ways of using the urban fabric.

You will analyse various case studies and look at the project's impact on the environment and will develop an understanding of technical processes such as construction, material sourcing and adaptive reuse to make a creative proposal for their project.

During your time on the course, you'll establish a clear aesthetic, theoretical and technological approach to adaptive reuse that properly equips you to engage in design practice.

Through various modules your lecturers will provide you with current insight into the subject area, helping you refine your new skills, methods and knowledge to become critically engaged with your chosen subject area.

During your time on the course, you'll establish a clear aesthetic, theoretical and technological approach to adaptive reuse that properly equips you to engage in design practice.

You'll conduct independent research investigations on a selected topic of interest and take responsibility for managing time, plus develop knowledge and connections within the field of interior and spatial design.

You will be expected to produce projects that are based on your own research evidence and developed and explained visually and via referenced text.

At the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to produce a focused research dissertation, throughout this you will receive one-on-one support with an allocated supervisor.

At the heart of the course is the focus on student interest and priorities; we advocate and teach independent researching skills so that you can apply this learning in your own context and in line with your own, or your organisation's goals.

As an online learning course, you can benefit from reduced costs and work flexibility, balancing your personal and professional commitments with your studies.

Applications to this course have now closed.

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