C10322v3 Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation
Award(s): Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture (BDesign)Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCIInn)
UAC code: 609550 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 079752G
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 240
Course EFTSL: 5
Location: City campus
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Inherent requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Professional recognition
Other information
Overview
With a strong emphasis on creativity and technology, the Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture is the first university program of its kind in Australia. The course focuses on design studios that incorporate advanced communication and technology skills with innovative design thinking and practice. While interior design is an established profession, spatial design encompasses a range of connected practices that engage directly and creatively with space, from designing an exhibition to directing a performance.
Taking a transdisciplinary approach, the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation utilises multiple perspectives from diverse fields, integrating a range of industry experiences, real-world projects and self-initiated proposals, equipping graduates to address the wicked problems, complex challenges and untapped opportunities in today's world.
The course equips graduates with critical thinking, spatial intelligence, creativity and the skills to practise in the expanded field of interior architecture, to take up leading roles in industry. Students focus on the complex relationships between people and space, and collaborate with architects, artists and creative directors on the spatial design of a wide range of environments including urban, retail, commercial and residential interior design.
By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own across disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate in a rapidly changing world.
Course aims
Through their study, students develop spatial intelligence and excellence in design practice. The program fosters a creative and explorative attitude toward the design process, underpinned by a reflective and critical engagement. In doing so, students generate a cohesive design approach where research and practice are consolidated in design outcomes.
The course cultivates a collaborative and global vision of design through a variety of interdisciplinary subjects, industry projects and international studios. Students develop the flexibility and confidence to work in the divergent and novel environments of contemporary practice.
The course has:
- an emphasis on creative, innovative spatial practice and international networks
- practice-oriented and research-integrated learning around specific projects
- engagement with innovative and creative technologies
- an emphasis on emerging design practices, and
- close links with creative practitioners.
Students are expected to develop an understanding of their individual design language and theoretical position in relation to historic and contemporary contexts.
Career options
Career options include commercial and residential interior design, interactive and responsive environment design, museum and exhibition design, production design for film and television, theatre and performance design, and visual and spatial branding.
By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximise the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Transdisciplinarity and Innovation at UTSAll UTS students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at UTS brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to UTS and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.
Diploma in InnovationThe Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.
All UTS undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at https://dipinn.uts.edu.au.
Transdisciplinary electives programTransdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.
Course intended learning outcomes
| A.1 | Ability to take autonomous responsibility for actions and decisions |
| A.2 | Ability to develop and establish an informed and ethical understanding and/or position toward social, technical and environmental practices |
| A.3 | Ability to recognise cultural diversity including indigenous, gender and multicultural perspectives |
| C.1 | Ability to work cooperatively as part of a team, initiate partnerships with others, take a leadership role when required and constructively contribute to peer learning and critique |
| C.2 | Ability to communicate ideas effectively including oral, written, visual, analogue and digital presentations (2D and 3D) |
| CII.1.1 | Identify and represent the components and processes within complex systems and organise them within relational frameworks |
| CII.1.2 | Select, apply and evaluate various techniques and technologies for investigating and interpreting complex systems |
| CII.1.3 | Discern common qualities of complex systems and model their behaviour |
| CII.1.4 | Generate insights from the creative translation of models and patterns across different systems |
| CII.2.1 | Recognise the nature of open, complex, dynamic and networked problems |
| CII.2.2 | Explore the relevance of patterns, frameworks, approaches and methods from different disciplines, professional practices or fields of inquiry for gaining insights into particular problems, proposals, practices, contexts and systems |
| CII.2.3 | Analyse problem situations or contexts from multiple disciplinary or personal perspectives and integrate findings in creative and useful ways |
| CII.2.4 | Test the value of different patterns, frameworks and methods for exploring and addressing complex challenges |
| CII.2.5 | Interrogate and generate ways to create value and evaluate outcomes |
| CII.2.6 | Examine, articulate and appreciate the speculative or actual value of outcomes for different stakeholders, communities or cultures over time |
| CII.3.1 | Communicate, explore, network and negotiate in ways that are inclusive of and mine for ideas from diverse disciplines |
| CII.3.2 | Design, develop and apply appropriate team-based decision making frameworks and participate collaboratively in teams according to proposed intentions |
| CII.3.3 | Use a range of appropriate media, tools, techniques and methods creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to discover, investigate, design, produce and communicate ideas or artefacts |
| CII.3.4 | Articulate often-complex ideas simply, succinctly and persuasively to a diverse team or audience |
| CII.3.5 | Create environments to support inspiration and reflexivity so that inter- and trans-disciplinary practices can develop and thrive |
| CII.3.6 | Recognise problems, challenges and opportunities that require transdisciplinary practices and assemble relevant teams to begin dealing with those problems, challenges and opportunities |
| CII.4.1 | Identify significant issues, challenges or opportunities and assess potential to act creatively on them |
| CII.4.2 | Work within different community, organisational or cultural contexts to design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment |
| CII.4.3 | Make decisions that recognise the humanity of others by engaging ethically and sensitively to the values of particular groups, communities, organisations or cultures |
| CII.4.4 | Take a leadership role in identifying and working to address community, organisational or cultural issues, challenges and opportunities through innovation |
| CII.5.1 | Imagine and design initiatives within existing organisational structures (intrapreneurship) or by building a new context (entrepreneurship) |
| CII.5.2 | Explore and articulate the transformation required to create and implement innovation, with sensitivity to the creative destruction that this requires |
| CII.5.3 | Identify required capabilities for realising an idea and create a venture team to achieve the aspirations of a particular innovation |
| CII.5.4 | Communicate confidently and with diplomacy to influence essential stakeholders or decision makers and to achieve impact |
| I.1 | Ability to apply experimentation in thinking and practice as a means toward developing an individual design approach |
| I.2 | Ability to understand and generate design propositions across a diverse range of design scenarios and negotiate final propositions with multiple stakeholders |
| I.3 | Ability to initiate and execute meaningful self-directed iterative processes |
| P.1 | Ability to apply and utilise appropriate communication techniques,knowledge and understanding to enable practical applications in spatial design |
| P.2 | Ability to rigorously explore, apply and extend multiple representational techniques |
| P.3 | Ability to apply and deploy disciplinary learning, with a continuing commitment to professional development |
| R.1 | Ability to independently select and apply appropriate research methodologies to carry out investigative study. |
| R.2 | Ability to analyse, formulate and synthesise complex ideas, arguments and rationales and use initiative to explore alternatives |
| R.3 | Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of interior and spatial design precedent and to contextualise one's work within the extended discipline |
| R.4 | Ability to reflect on, challenge and interrogate theoretical speculation |
Key
CII = Creative Intelligence and Innovation course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
Admission to the combined degree is on merit according to the admissions policy for the Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture.
UTS: Design, Architecture and Building may consider applications based on the results of the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) if students lack academic qualifications but have extensive professional experience. The STAT is conducted through the Universities Admissions Centre.
Students must refer to the inherent requirements for all degrees offered by Design and Architecture in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
Non-current school leavers are selected on the basis of academic merit or on the basis of portfolio and interview rank.
Students must refer to the portfolio eligibility for the faculty’s consideration in order to get a place.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL iBT: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64 with a writing score of 50; or C1A/C2P: 176-184 with a writing score of 169.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are academic and non-academic requirements that are essential to the successful completion of a course. For more information about inherent requirements and where prospective and current students can get assistance and advice regarding these, see the UTS Inherent requirements page.
Prospective and current students should carefully read the Inherent Requirements Statement below and consider whether they might experience challenges in successfully completing this course.
UTS will make reasonable adjustments to teaching and learning, assessment, professional experiences, course related work experience and other course activities to facilitate maximum participation by students with disabilities, carer responsibilities, and religious or cultural obligations in their courses.
For course specific information see the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Inherent (Essential) Requirements Statement.
International students
International students (excluding those studying in an Australian high school) must submit an application to UTS International (in person, by mail or online) or through an accredited UTS representative.
Applicants must submit the following material:
- a six-page digital portfolio in PDF format (landscape) of their work; this may include images, animation or video (max. size 5MB)
- one of the PDFs must be a 150–200-word written submission that selects and identifies one of the submitted pieces of work, and addresses the aim of the work and why it succeeded (to enable this PDF to be easily viewed, text must be supplied in 16-point Helvetica font, with 1.5 line spacing).
Course duration and attendance
The course is offered on a four-year, full-time basis.
Course structure
Students must complete 240 credit points, comprising 144 credit points in interior architecture and 96 credit points in creative intelligence and innovation. The creative intelligence and innovation subjects are undertaken in accelerated form within July and Summer sessions during the first three years of study, and through one full year of study after completion of the professional degree. The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is not offered as a separate degree, but is completed only in combination with the professional degree program.
Industrial training/professional practice
In the final year of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation, students can undertake between 6 and 12 credit points of internship (work experience) that relates to innovation within their research, career development or core degree specialisations. For students undertaking 12 credit points of internship, international internships may be negotiated.
This course involves significant industry engagement as part of the learning process. Students may be required to relinquish intellectual property when they opt in to certain industry-related experiences, particularly relating to internships and capstone projects.
Course completion requirements
| STM91203 Core subjects (Interior Architecture) | 120cp | |
| CBK90823 Electives (Interior Architecture) | 24cp | |
| STM90839 Core subjects (Creative Intelligence and Innovation) | 96cp | |
| Total | 240cp |
Course program
An example program is provided below.
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 86004 Design Studio: Foundations in Interior Architecture | 12cp | |
| 86008 Communication and Construction: Representation | 6cp | |
| 86006 History and Theory 1 | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81511 Problems to Possibilities | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 86007 History and Theory 2 | 6cp | |
| 86005 Design Studio: Inhabitations | 12cp | |
| 86009 Communication and Construction: Generative Methods | 6cp | |
| December session | ||
| 81512 Creative Practice and Methods | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 86530 Design Studio: Knowledge Spaces | 12cp | |
| 86114 Communication and Construction: Material Futures | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81513 Past, Present, Future of Innovation | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 86113 Communication and Construction: Technologies | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| 86529 Design Studio: Scenographic Spaces | 12cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| February session | ||
| 81514 Creativity and Complexity | 8cp | |
| Autumn session | ||
| 86221 Communication and Construction: Interior Technologies | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| 86533 Design Studio: Spatial Agency | 12cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81515 Leading Innovation | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 86222 Communication and Construction: Synthesis | 6cp | |
| 86223 Design Studio: Interior Architecture Major Project | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| December session | ||
| 81516 Initiatives and Entrepreneurship | 8cp | |
| 81522 Innovation Internship A | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 81531 Industry Innovation Project | 12cp | |
| March session | ||
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 81521 Envisioning Futures | 6cp | |
| 81528 New Knowledge-making Lab | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 81525 Innovation Internship B | 6cp | |
| 81523 Speculative Start-up | 6cp | |
| 81528 New Knowledge-making Lab | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 81532 Creative Intelligence Capstone | 12cp | |
| August session | ||
| 81524 Transdisciplinary Practice at the Cutting Edge | 6cp | |
Professional recognition
Design Institute of Australia; International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers; Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association (IDEA)
Other information
Further information is available from:
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