Interior Design

Major study: Interior Design Credits: 240 | Start date: September 2013 | Duration: 4 | Language: Spanish
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The Undergraduate Degree in Interior Design (240 ECTS) prepares professionals who are capable of planning internal spaces, from a private house, a commercial space, a stand for a fair or an exhibition space, as well as furniture or special pieces thanks to their basic knowledge on product design.

Students learn to observe trends and how styles evolve in social and cultural contexts, and also to comprehend and interpret the specific exigencies and expectations of each client, while encouraging creativity and expressive freedom, and respecting the demands from a future user and the technical problems that may be involved. These abilities arise thanks to acquiring a great sensitivity towards projects and an interdisciplinary culture.

Professional outcomes: Interior architecture, decorator, interior designer, ephemeral spaces designer, etc.

Description

The Undergraduate Degree in Interior Design (240 ECTS) offers an educational path that teaches students to plan internal spaces, which respond to the physical and functional features of spaces surrounding an individual. To do so, there’s a study of analysis on functional and ergonomic needs, and emotional needs: to feel protected and safe though the space.

At the same time, communicational aspects take relevance, both in spatial and motion graphics, bearing in mind the mobility of the final user in the designed space. This activity blends creative contribution with research on new trends, usage of new materials and technological applications, always respecting the environment.
The first year of this degree is focused on acquiring basic concepts of design, culture and project methods. Students learn to dare to create and communicate.
The second year is focused on developing one’s own creativity individually, and starting to study specialization-related tools such as: construction drafting, installations, space, volume and lighting, Autocad, Rhino and 3D Max, construction management and costs, and communication using Illustrator and Photoshop and oral communication.
The third year means the beginning of collaborations with companies and new, more technical and complex projects, with prototypes and real costs. Work is developed in transversal teams composed by students of Product, Interior and Transportation design. In addition, new materials will be studied such as sustainable or technological materials, nanomaterials, etc.
During the fourth year students take a compulsory intership in a company and each one chooses a professional profile. Creative management acquires a great relevance through project management and rethinking, modifying and refining projects to respond properly to users’ and market’s needs. Lastly, the degree final project is developed in collaboration with real companies, where prototypes are produced. In successful cases, those prototypes will evolve and manufacture to be launched into the market.

Courses of Design in Barcelona

Official Undergraduate Degree

Interior Design Duration: 4 years Language: ESP Start date: 19-09-2013 Credits: 240	ESP	ENG
Product Design Duration: 4 years Language: ENG Start date: 19-09-2013 Credits: 240	ESP	ENG
Diseño de Producto Duration: 4 anni Language: ESP Start date: 19-09-2013 Credits: 240
Product Design Duration: 4 anni Language: ESP Start date: 19-09-2013 Credits: 240	ESP	ENG
Transportation Design Duration: 4 anni Language: ENG,ESP Start date: 19-09-2013 Credits: 240	ESP	ENG
Interior Design Duration: 4 years Language: ENG Start date: 19-09-2013 Credits: 240	ESP	ENG

Continuing study programs

Contemporary Interior Design Duration: 5 months- 2 nights per week Language: ESP Start date: 27-01-2014 Credits: 15*	ESP	ENG
Food Event Design Duration: 5 months- 2 nights per week Language: ESP Start date: 27-01-2014 Credits: 15*	ESP	ENG
Spatial Design for Childhood Environments Duration: 6 months- 2 nights per week Language: ESP Start date: 27-01-2014 Credits: 15*	ESP	ENG
Production Techniques for Designers - Weekend Duration: 2 months- weekend Language: ESP Start date: 31-01-2014 Credits: 15*	ESP	ENG
Lighting Design Duration: 5 months- 2 nights per week Language: ESP Start date: 27-01-2014 Credits: 15*	ESP	ENG
Exhibit Design and Production Duration: 5 months- 2 nights per week Language: ESP Start date: 27-01-2014 Credits: 15*	ESP	ENG

Master

Interior Design Duration: 9 months- 4 nights per week Language: ESP Start date: 04-11-2013 Credits: 60*	ESP	ENG
Interior Design for Commercial Spaces Duration: 7 months- 5 nights per week Language: ENG Start date: 27-01-2014 Credits: 60*	ESP	ENG
Sustainable Product Design - Innovation and Management Duration: 9 months- 4 nights per week Language: ESP Start date: 04-11-2013 Credits: 60*	ESP	ENG
Design Management Duration: 1 year- full time Language: ENG Start date: 27-01-2014 Credits: 90*	ESP	ENG

Semester and One Year Programs

Global Design Duration: 1 year Language: ENG,ESP Start date: 15-10-2013 Credits:

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Summer

Barcelona architectural sketch book Duration: 2 weeks in the morning Language: ENG Start date: 15-07-2013 Credits: 10*	ESP	ENG
Global Design Duration: 4 weeks in the morning Language: ESP Start date: 01-07-2013 Credits: 10*	ESP	ENG
Design Thinking and co-creation Duration: 4 weeks in the afternoon Language: ENG Start date: 01-07-2013 Credits: 10*	ESP	ENG
Eco Design - Summer Duration: 4 weeks in the morning Language: ESP Start date: 01-07-2013 Credits: 10*	ESP	ENG
Interior Design - Summer Duration: 4 weeks in the morning Language: ESP Start date: 01-07-2013 Credits: 10*	ESP	ENG
Interior Design - Winter Duration: 3 weeks in the morning Language: ESP Start date: 13-01-2014 Credits: 10*	ESP	ENG