Teaching and assessment for Interior & Environmental Design BDes (Hons)

Teaching
As a student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, you will be part of a vibrant studio culture with a personal studio space and access to workshops, digital fabrication and CAD facilities. You’ll be supported by an Interiors team providing individual and group tutorials that help you gain confidence in generating and resolving sophisticated interior ideas.
You will study:
- adaptive reuse, space-planning and spatial theories
- model making and place-based prototyping (physical and digital)
- CAD and digital manufacturing processes
- construction principles, materials, structures, and assembly
- basic coding and programming linked to interior contexts
- presentation, drawing and research skills
- critical and contextual studies
Assessment
At each Level, we assess modules and studio projects through:
- interiors projects
- digital, creative, and spatial thinking
- regular reviews
- contextual writing to support your ideas
Interior & Environmental Design
Modules
Level 1
- DJ11001 - Foundation Studies 1 (Ways of Drawing)
- DJ11002 - Foundation Studies 2 (Thinking through Making)
- DJ11003 - Foundation Studies 3 (Connecting Colour and Symbol)
- DJ12001 - Foundation Studies 4 (Future Discipline)
- DJ12002 - Foundation Studies 5 (Beyond the Studio)
Level 2
Core modules
These modules are an essential part of your course.
- DJ21007 - Change by Design
- DJ21015 - Interiors & Interactions
- DJ22006 - The 21st Century Designer
- DJ22015 - Design for Social Environments
Level 3
Core modules
These modules are an essential part of your course.
Optional modules
You need to choose one or more of these modules as part of your course.
- DJ31001 - Art, Science and Visual Thinking
- DJ31004 - The Contemporary Portrait
- DJ31005 - Print and Printability
- DJ31009 - The Undiscovered Landscape
- DJ31014 - Creative Values, Issues and Ethics
- DJ31015 - Principles of Visual Effects
- DJ31017 - Comic Art & Graphic Novels
- DJ31019 - Critical Making: Materials & Fabrication
- DJ31039 - Thinking Photography
- DJ31040 - Squirrel. Badger, Hog, Fable
- DJ31043 - Communication in Moving Image
- DJ31045 - Design for Living: The Domestic Object
- DJ32004 - Research & Creative Practice Part 1
- DJ32005 - Design Enterprise 1
- DJ32015 - Communication Futures - Part 1
Level 4
Core modules
These modules are an essential part of your course.
Optional modules
You need to choose one or more of these modules as part of your course.
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