Interior Design Studio - Future
UndergraduateCUR-BIA3502024
Course information for 2024 intake
Brainstorm ideas that could inform future design trends. Attempt to visualise the cities of tomorrow. Create an original spatial design concept. Explore extreme, complex and bizarre environment designs such as prisons, space crafts and bunkers.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Interior Design Studio - Future
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will:
- analyse relevant theory in relation to current realities and possible future environments
- synthesise theoretical propositions identifying concepts and patterns, to create an original spatial proposition
- explore design methodologies, to speculate on experimental spatial enclosures that re-vision the environment
- evaluate and communicate the development of own and others' work
- investigate and synthesise possibilities for spatial typologies, geographic variance and material realities.
- A Culture of Consumption and Extreme Users
- Sensory, Visual and Spatial Ethnography
- Analysing Interiors: Understanding the User Experience
- Search for Meaning: Themes, Patterns and Insight
- From Insight to Ideation
- Ideate & Brainstorm
- Conditions, Collisions and Connections
- Tactile, Tangible & Physical
- Macro_Narrative, Assembly & Sequence
- Micro_Body-interior relationships
- Communicating Your Design
- Critical Reflection
This subject was previously known as Interior Design Studio 10 - Future.
This theory informed design studio subject aims to synthesise and stretch the students' understanding and application of design methodologies towards speculating on and imagining new visions for the future. It focuses on extreme, complex and bizarre environments, such as space travel or the underground bunker. Philosophical and theoretical readings are explored as other ways of thinking and seeing the world. Similarly, possibilities for geographic, built and spatial typologies and material realities are investigated. Design prototyping and testing are to be done through digital fabrication and simulated environments. This subject involves fieldwork.
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- Design Presentation (50%)
- Design Project (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- CUR-FAST-DEG-2024 - Fast track your Curtin on campus study
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Access to hardware: webcam, speakers and microphone
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
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