Course description
Foundation Interior Design
This course aims to stimulate your enthusiasm for designing spaces and provide a foundation level course which may lead on to the Open College of the Arts Interior Design degree course.
Interior design as a profession is only just over 110 years old. In that time, what began as “decorating” has evolved into today’s highly specialised landscape.
Thoughtful interior design can not only make a space function better and look amazing, it can impact mood and wellbeing. People respond to their environment and this can be directed by manipulation of design fundamentals.
The course has been designed to offer you an insight into the creative processes, critical thinking and practical skills needed to conduct a personal investigation into the navigation, conceptualisation and occupation of space.
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Course Outcomes
Through the course, you will:
- Explore different ways to understand the built environment.
- See interior spaces in new ways.
- Begin to shape ideas as inspiration for future work.
Training Course Content
You will start to develop creative confidence of your individual design identity through independent thought, growth of personal ideologies, self analysis, evaluation and critical reflection to enhance and enrich your work.
You will develop methods of your choice to communicate your thoughts. Exercises will employ mostly analogue media to articulate ideas, but you should experiment with digital 2D and 3D media if you can.
On completion of the course, OCA will help you judge whether you have gained sufficient skills and enough confidence to go on to further study at HE level with OCA, or elsewhere, and be able to decide on the nature and direction of your studies or practice.
Course delivery details
Your Foundation course requires around 400 learning hours and can be undertaken flexibly, part-time, or full-time, depending on how quickly you want to learn. You have a maximum of two years to complete these learning hours, but if you spread your learning over too long a timeframe it’s easy to lose momentum. With this in mind, you might want to aim to complete this course within 12 months (working approximately 8 hours per week), 8 months (at 14 hours per week) or at a full time rate of 4 months (at 28 hours per week).
Expenses
- Fees for UK students: £900 per course
- Fees for students outside of the UK: £1,050 per course