Language

English

Start date

July 2026

Frequency

Part-time

Fruition

On campus

Duration

2 Weeks

Course Coordination

Irma Arribas

Begin your journey into interior design by exploring how spaces are imagined and transformed, discovering your creative voice through hands-on design experiences.

Interior design is a constantly evolving discipline, expanding across a wide range of contexts and scales and opening the door to new professional profiles and creative opportunities. From domestic and leisure spaces to urban, natural, analog, and digital environments, interior design explores how space is inhabited, perceived, and transformed through materials, light, sound, narrative, and human experience. 

This Interior Design Junior Course is conceived as an immersive introduction to this creative field, offering young students the opportunity to explore spatial design from a practical, experimental, and conceptual perspective. The program invites participants to observe, analyze, imagine, and design spaces while developing a critical and creative mindset. 

While some students join the course with a clear interest in pursuing interior design in the future, others see it as a moment of discovery—an opportunity to explore different ways of thinking and working with space.  

Information to decide

Explore interior design in a creative summer experience where ideas become projects and curiosity turns into spatial thinking. 

The program is structured as a full immersion into the world of interior design, with a strong emphasis on hands-on learning. Through a series of practical exercises, students explore the fundamental tools and skills used by interior designers to conceive and develop spatial projects. 

Classroom work is complemented by research, observation, and design development, allowing students to engage deeply with each exercise. Individual and collective experimentation, guided by lecturers, plays a key role in the learning process, fostering creativity, critical thinking, and active participation. 

This program is aimed at young students between 15 and 18 years old who are curious about the world of interior spaces and want to explore whether interior design could be their future academic path. 

It is especially suited to students with artistic or creative sensibilities, an interest in spatial environments, and a desire to understand the professional reality of interior design. The course also offers a valuable first academic experience, encouraging collaboration, idea-sharing, and creative confidence. 

Interior Design – Junior is highly recommended for students considering pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design

The curriculum is designed as a shared space and time framework that encourages connection, curiosity, and the exchange of individual perspectives. Throughout the course, students acquire essential knowledge and skills that allow them to begin developing their own personal approach to interior design, while gaining a realistic insight into the academic and professional context of the discipline. 

Syllabus

Interior Design Research

This subject explores the relationship between space, the individual, and society, as well as how tangible and intangible elements contribute to the creation of atmospheres. Sustainability is addressed from a broad perspective, considering not only material choices but also production processes and their impact. The course also introduces the social and political responsibility of interior design in shaping both society and the environment.



Representation

Design is a creative process that requires the ability to analyze ideas and communicate them clearly. This subject focuses on developing representation skills that support observation, creativity, and communication. Drawing becomes a key tool for thinking, reflecting, and engaging in a continuous dialogue with the design process.



Conceptual Development

Designers communicate through concepts—condensed ideas that are later expanded through drawing, writing, and other creative techniques. In this subject, students learn to build and articulate concepts as a way of developing personal design language, supporting collaboration, and expressing the character and intention behind a project.



Space Design

Space Design is the core of the program, bringing together the knowledge and skills acquired in the other subjects. Starting from a 1:1 analytical exploration of a physical space, students gradually transform it into a digital and hybrid spatial proposal through guided design processes. 

Research, analysis, creativity, representation, and play are used as key tools throughout this process. The continuous evolution of the project is documented in a hybrid record that becomes an essential part of each student’s first design portfolio. 

Faculty

Course Coordinator

Irma Arribas

PhD in Visual Communication in Architecture and Design

News

28 November 2025

Talent Days at IED Torino: a bridge between creativity and the world of work

Two days of meetings and interviews between students and companies to foster networking, dialogue, and early professional opportunities in the fields of yacht design and communication.

Overhead view of a labyrinth of fabric panels and light

10 February 2026

IED Barcelona bathes Llum BCN 26 in warm light

The lighting design installation “Fabric Maze”, a labyrinth of fabrics, lights and shadows inspired by the textile past of the Poblenou neighbourhood, created warm visual compositions with each visitor’s passage.

09 February 2026

Creativity, design and architecture at the Workshop Week 2026

From 2 to 6 February, 430 students at IED Barcelona took part in this annual multidisciplinary academic activity, which offered 25 multidisciplinary workshops inspired by the Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026 event. And, for the first time, it included mobility between campuses.

05 February 2026

IED Barcelona crowned winner of the DVN Vehicle Lighting Design Contest

The project “Prisma”, created by fourth-year Transportation Design students, has won first prize, outperforming 31 projects from five other international design schools.

Poster for the Saló Ensenyament 2026 showing two cheerful young people against a blue background

03 February 2026

IED Barcelona at Saló de l’Ensenyament 2026

From 18 to 22 March, attendees at this event focused on educational guidance will have the opportunity to explore the school’s design training programmes at stand D-453, located at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc venue.

A table with various posters and images from graphic design campaigns

30 January 2026

Portfolio Review Day Visual Arts 2026

The third edition of the annual exhibition showcasing the best work by fourth-year students from the Visual Arts School at IED Barcelona brought together the personal perspectives of a new generation of creative talent.

26 January 2026

IED’s campuses in Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona are hosting Valor Ancestral, the travelling exhibition by Latam Creative Talent.

The exhibition will debut in Madrid on February 17 as part of the Madrid Design Festival.

Close-up in black and white of a man's face looking to the right

12 January 2026

Stéphane Rolland’s haute couture at IED Barcelona

The star guest of the 10th Barcelona Bridal Night at Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week 26 visits the school to discover the creations by alumni of the Postgraduate Programme in Wedding and Ceremony Dresses Design, who will open the runway show next 22 April.

General plan of a design project exhibition

12 January 2026

Portfolio Review Design 2026

The annual showcase of standout projects by final-year students in Interior, Product, Transportation and Business Design at IED Barcelona presented innovative proposals that envision the companies, objects, homes and vehicles of the future.

Don't miss it

05 February 2026 - 07 March 2026

Madrid

IED Madrid · Official School of the Madrid Design Festival

From 5 February to 7 March, IED Madrid presents a diverse program deeply connected to the city, positioning it as the festival’s largest creative hub.

Exhibitions and Festival

18 March 2026 - 22 March 2026

Barcelona

Saló de l’Ensenyament 2026

From 18 to 22 March, we look forward to welcoming you at stand D-453 at the Montjuïc venue of Fira de Barcelona, where you will be able to discover our educational offer in Design, Fashion, Visual Arts, Marketing and Communication. Come and visit us!