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Registration Fee: 3 years
9am to 4pm
English
180 ECTS
9.000€ per academic year
500€ (first year only)
Become an Interior Designer and help shape the World of today and influence the future.
Creative, ergonomic and functional designs are important features of all outstanding and inspiring interiors that have an impact on our daily life and wellbeing. We, as humans, thrive in functional, inspiring and well thought-out interiors, and as a result Interior Design plays an important part in any current building project. Simple, but deliberate, design solutions can change the feel and ambience of a space, and with this in mind investors, building companies and architects employ the interior designer already in the first stages of the building project.
At Marbella Design Academy we take great pride in helping to develop the future generation of Interior Designers. Our graduates reach a high level in all practical subjects, as well as an extensive proficiency in the latest technologies including computer programs such as: Auto Cad, 3D MAX, Photoshop and Illustrator.
The Interior Design Course at Marbella Design Academy is designed to meet high academic standards, and aims to equip students with the necessary skills and understanding in order to explore and apply the creative potential of interior design to the expression of ideas, and in resolving design, ergonomic and functionality problems within a given budget.
It encourages a wide-ranging and creative approach to the array of techniques employed in the field of interior design that include sketching, ergonomics, color theory, phycology within design, materials, design software systems, photography, as well as basic technical construction skills needed for real world application.
At the Marbella Design Academy we allow students to develop and explore diverse systems of design, illustration and expression, for potential space creation. It will also develop their capabilities to confront the challenges of a highly competitive professional environment within their chosen field of Interior Design.
Rationale
In the world of today, the presence of creative design is visible as a permanent and prominent feature of all arte facts and communications encountered in our daily life. Our environment contains constant displays of imagination at the service of commerce executed by professionals presenting an extensive command of specialized technological tools. Our life is conditioned by series of unconscious responses to the stimuli of these manifestations, the motivation behind them, as well as their proposed projection.
The Interior Design course aims to equip students with the necessary skills and understanding in order to explore and apply the creative potential of interior design in the expression of ideas, and in resolving design and visual communication problems.
This course encourages a wide-‐ranging and creative approach to the array of techniques employed in the field of interior design that include sketching, design software systems, photography, as well as basic technical construction skills needed for real word application.
It will allow students to develop and explore diverse systems of design, illustration and expression, for potential space creation. It will also develop their capabilities to confront the challenges of a highly competitive professional environment within their chosen field of Interior Design. It will allow them to develop intellectual resources and select the appropriate techniques in order to accomplish innovative outcomes.
Teaching and Learning Strategies
To ensure students' acquisition of the skills and knowledge that will consolidate their roll in the professional field, a variety of teaching/learning strategies will be used. These will include:
- Lectures - Introducing ideas and exploring contextual or critical issues. Briefing classroom assignments as well as independent projects.
- Staff-led Seminars – developing and discussing contextual issues relevant to the curricula
- Workshops - in which specific skills are analysed, related issues, technical challenges or problems are taught and specialized techniques are practised.
- Visiting Seminars & Master Classes - in which students will be exposed to a wide range of issues in relation to contemporary practice in the field.
- Educational Trips and Visits - to develop an awareness of contemporary practice and a range of references for use in approaching problems in a professional environment.
- Tutorials - used both individually and in small groups, for the close attention to the development of each individual's work and monitoring of their progress.
All teaching delivered at module level is designed to support the development of individual and independent learning and is organised as:
- Supported: taught time, such as lectures, seminars, tutorials etc. where students are offered direct support for their learning by staff.
- Directed: where students are carrying out assignments overseen by teaching staff.
- Independent: study or assignment period completely independent of tutors.
Aims of our Academic Programmes
At the Marbella Design Academy, we aim to ensure students a full education to consolidate their professional resourcefulness and projection in the industry of their choosing. To achieve this, MDA strives to:
- Provide students with a programme designed to offer comprehensive and balanced knowledge incorporated within an intellectually demanding study scheme, allowing them to evolve towards assuming a professional position in continuous evolution within their chosen industry.
- Provide students with well-honed practical capacities and in depth understanding of the realities of ever-changing technology within their field, ensuring permanent growth of their resourcefulness and creativity.
- To provide students with in depth training on the commercial aspects of their chosen profession, in order to allow them to exploit the acquired capacities and knowledge.
- To provide students with the opportunity to develop transferable skills referring to communication, self management, time management and problem solving, as well as a comprehension of the complexity of human relations both in a social and personal context within this and other professional fields.
- To provide students with a profound analytical capacity, critical awareness and intellectual independence, stimulating originality of the thought process.
- To provide students with the capacity to challenge conventions and engage in ground breaking evolution of their field, with the means to defend their ideas and decisions with informed conviction.
Graduation Example
The diploma project example is shown in a panorama view. You need Java installed in order to view the panorama. Kamilla from Poland graduated Interior Architect from the Marbella Design Academy.
Hint: To pan through, drag the cursor through the scene.To zoom in or out, click the + or - button.Panning can also be controlled by the cursor keys LEFT, RIGHT, UP and DOWN.
Geographical Distinction
The Marbella Design Academy is situated in an area that contains a wealth of career opportunities within the Interior Design field. The area has become a congregation point for the affluent of international origin, in which the evolution of building has developed hand in hand with extravagant displays nurtured by strong financial investment in originality of design. Amongst the teaching staff, there are tutors that participate professionally in firms dealing with Interior Design both locally and for the international market. Many of these firms working the field offer chances for hands-on training and eventual integration in the industry for our students.
Quality
To assure academic quality, the Marbella Design Academy has based the development of its study programmes on:
- QAA Benchmark Statement for Art and Design 2008
- QAA Benchmark Statement for Art, Architecture and Design 2008
- QAA Framework For Higher Education Qualifications 2010
- Ministry of Education of Spain - Boletín Oficial Estado - issues between 1997-2010
- ECTS User's Guide 2009