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MA Interior and Spatial Design at Camberwell College of Arts is committed to the critical investigation of space through the theoretical and practical research interests and activities of our students.

Course overview

The course has a distinctive identity as it takes a contemporary view of experimental spatial practice and thrives on blurring disciplinary boundaries. It also benefits from a unique position of being a design course in an art school environment.

With a focus on research-led practice, you’ll be encouraged along a path of personal discovery. This starts with an area of individual research interest.

We have a particular expertise in experiential and sensorial aspects of what it means to inhabit space and interact with our environment.

We work with existing structures both internally and externally, with film and video, and between digital and analogue. We consider both physical and virtual space as equally valid forms of experience.

We treat making, drawing, text and debate as equal and complimentary forms of expression and representation.

The course encourages and facilitates cross-disciplinary activity. We provide opportunities for working on live projects and working on collaborations with practitioners in various fields.

There is scope within the course structure to negotiate what your portfolio submission can be at the end of each unit. In this regard, you might develop your writing, film making or other forms of practice as well as the more usual installation or design propositions.

What to expect

Questioning: You’ll think about what constitutes space and spatial practice and how we inhabit, experience and remember space.

Develop design sensibilities: These will enable you to observe, reflect and intervene in existing and speculative spatial situations.

Social responsibility: You’ll be asked to position yourself and your practice in a contemporary environment that responds to current aesthetic, political and social situations. We do not expect you to be passive in your actions.

An iterative approach: This method is aimed at encouraging understanding and critical reflection.

Build confidence: You’ll be encouraged to take control of your decision making and progression in forming an individual identity.

Access to Camberwell's shared workshops: Including printmaking, photography, film, moving image, digital, plastic, ceramics, wood and metalwork.