ba (hons) interior architecture & design - canterbury
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BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design - Canterbury
Welcome to UCAStarting university is a big moment – congratulations! By joining UCA, you’ve chosen an exciting and rewarding path.
As you join our community of students, artists and academics, you’ll explore how you can use your talent to shape the future of the world around you, and design a career that inspires you.
Our university is a place for the bold, the curious, the extraordinary - as you’ll see for yourself when you meet your lecturers, technicians and classmates. On your course, you can expect to learn from practicing artists, innovators and researchers, collaborate with students across different creative disciplines, and make connections with industry leaders.
At the end of it all, you’ll graduate with the skills and experience you need to build a successful career doing what you love, in a way that makes a difference.
We believe the world needs more people like you, and we’re delighted to have you with us.
Make your mark. Make it here.
I am delighted to welcome you to the BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design course at the UCA Canterbury School of Architecture and Design. The team and I are looking forward to meeting you and are confident that you will find your time with us exciting and inspirational.I encourage you to immerse yourself fully in everything that Canterbury and the School of Architecture and Design have to offer.
The campus and its studios and workshops are inspiring places to work and study, where you will collaborate with students across a range of design disciplines, from Architecture to Industrial and Product design.
You are joining the discipline of spatial design at an incredibly exciting time, and during your time with us you will be positioning yourself at the forefront of innovative, inclusive, and sustainable design.
Good design has the power to change people’s lives, and it takes vision, determination, and lots of hard work to achieve that change. We are here to challenge and support you every step of the way, to make a difference, and change the world.
JJ Brophy
John Joe Brophy Programme Director, Design
01227 817385
Rob Nice Year 1 Convener
Anna Baranowska Year 2 & 3 Convener
Course Welcome
Your Team
John Joe BrophyProgramme Director Design
Dr Anna Holder Unit Leader Cultural Context / Lecturer Architecture Design History & Theory
Kim Trogal Unit Leader Cultural Context / Lecturer Architecture Design History & Theory
Paul Found Unit Leader Communications / SL Industrial Design
Sonya Baker Unit Leader Creative Practice / SL Architecture & Design
Daniel Tollady Stage 1, 2, & Design Tutor
Your Team
In the second term we normally run a study trip. You’ll find that some of the urban spaces, buildings and exhibitions that we see on this relate both to your design projects and essays, and we hope that you’ll find the trip inspirational.
We’ll provide further details of the itinerary, the costs and how it will be arranged later in the first term. In previous years trips have been to Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Paris.
Field trips inside the UK are sometimes free, but you’re likely to be expected to cover the cost of travel associated with these field trips, such as travelling to London for an exhibition.
Please note that all trips and visits are subject to COVID-19 related travel restrictions.
Things to read
We will introduce you to a wide range of books throughout the course. Here are some you could consider reading before you start:
– Awan, N, Schneider, T and Till, J (2011).Spatial Agency. Other Ways Of Doing Architecture. London: Routledge.
– Blundell-Jones, P (2002) ModernArchitecture Through Case Studies. Oxford:Architectural Press.
– Calvino, I (2009). Invisible Cities. London,Vintage.
Things to watchFilms can be great sources of inspiration and knowledge about spaces, interiors, buildings, and cities. Here's just a few that we’d encourage you to watch:
– Blade Runner, 1982. Dir. Ridley Scott.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcZHjKJBnE
– Metropolis. 1927. Dir. Fritz Lang. Germany youtube.com/watch?v=yqlOK05vFLE
– Hiroshima Mon Amour, 1959, Dir. AlanRenais, France. youtube.com/watch?v=zjGdLZNAdRc
Trips and Visits
Reading List
Equipment & materials (recommended)
During the three years of the course you’ll need, and want, to invest in digital equipment. We advise that, for the moment, you don’t buy expensive computer equipment until you’ve received our recommendations for the specification of hardware and software.
However, if you’ve done so already, do bring whatever you have to Canterbury. Similarly, bring with you any other art and drafting materials that you already have.
Equipment List
Equipment & materials (essential)
We advise you purchase a pack of specialist drafting equipment. During the summer we will arrange a special reduced price for equipment packs with everything that you need (probably from Cowling and Wilcox) for incoming UCA School of Architecture students.
All packs ordered before the start of term will be delivered to us for you to collect when you start. Keep a look out and we will email you a link to order your pack nearer to the start of the academic year; the price will be around the £350 mark.
Explore UCA Canterbury
I love UCA Canterbury because… “The people and the community here are inspiring – there’s a real sense of collective positivity. My favourite places on the campus are the studios. They are the engine room – often noisy and a bit messy, but so vibrant and exhilarating to be a part of.”
I love UCA Canterbury because... “It has been 3 months since I moved here and now this place feels like home. Everything is so interesting! My course is all about space design, but UCA has shaped that course in a different way and is giving us lots of opportunities to work on different aspects of design.”
JJ Brophy – Programme Director, Design
Akansha Jain – MA Interior Design
Meet our campus community
The campus here is a great place to really discover your independence.
It’s very welcoming and relaxing, and because it’s small you get to know all the staff a lot better. They become friendly faces very quickly, especially at the library, which – surprisingly – is a great place to socialise, as well as study!
I love Canterbury itself, too. It’s so cosmopolitan and a melting pot of people from all walks of life. It’s also got two train stations and a great bus network, so everything around you is super accessible.
by Morgan Ruffell
Cité Crêpes This is a small catering van in the centre of town which serves a great range of yummy crêpes. It’s really popular and a good place to stop on a nice day and have a bite with friends.
Canterbury CathedralI think this is probably a given. It’s a stunning piece of architecture and a wonderful place to go for the history and atmosphere.
Westgate GardensMe and my friends often met here to relax and socialise on sunny days. It’s really beautiful and peaceful.
Curzon CinemaThis is a great cinema, small and not too commercial. They show a really wide range of movies, from the big blockbusters to small indie films.
Margate BeachIt’s really easy to reach Margate Beach and it’s always nice to escape the city for a while. Plus, if you can’t stay away from art for too long, there is always the Turner Contemporary nearby!
“ I just love Canterbury. It’s so cosmopolitan and a melting pot of people from all walks of life.”
My top spots
A student’s guide to… Canterbury
City Crepes ©Hayley Brown
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Westgate Gardens
Canterbury Cathedral
Malik Nieto ArtsIssey Hennessy
Sophie Lou
Becky Stapley
Anastasija Strelcova
What could you create?
During your time with us, you’ll build your skills and hone your talents to produce some incredible work. Here are a few highlights created by recent graduates…
Our graduates are forging stellar careers in fields from Fashion to Film, Architecture to Craft, Business to Games Design. We caught up with a few to find out more about their successes, and how they made the most the most of the UCA experience…
Where could your talent take you?
Phoebe Fox, photographed by Vendy Palkovicova. Tihara Smith. Picture by Kayleigh Pace.
Phoebe Fox
BA (Hons) Music Marketing and Promotion, 2019Soon after completing her degree, Phoebe was touring the world photographing the likes of The Amazons and Anne Marie – a journey that began while she was still a student.
“I contacted small bands I liked to ask for photo passes to their London gigs, and used the UCA equipment to build a portfolio,” she explains.
“I spent three years balancing touring, festivals, shows and portraits with university commitments. The UCA lecturers were incredibly supportive. After I handed in my final major project, I went home to pack and got straight on a tour bus with Anne Marie.”
Tihara Smith
BA (Hons) Fashion, 2018Fashion graduate Tihara Smith’s final degree project - a collection inspired by her grandparents’ experiences as part of the Windrush Generation – set her up for career success.
“I wanted to highlight the positive contribution of the Windrush Generation and celebrate the islands of the Caribbean,” she says.
After graduating, Tihara widened her range and started selling it online and at festivals, markets and wedding fairs, and it proved so popular that she now runs her business full-time. “It’s been really exciting to see it grow,” she says. “I think some of the best collections are created from real stories that are personal to the creator.”
Will McGregor
BA (Hons) Film & Digital Art, 2010Will has amassed credits directing episodes of cult drama Misfits, period saga Poldark, his first feature film, Gwen, and an episode of His Dark Materials.
“Space, time and support to make my own work was the greatest gift UCA gave me,” he says. “The campus felt like an incubator for creativity; all these creative individuals in one place, with access to kit and exposure to new ideas.”
“Make the most of that opportunity to make work and meet people, and make sure you get your work out there – enter all the student festivals and competitions you can!”
Hannah Bamgbala
BA (Hons) Fashion, Media and Promotion, 2020Hannah Bamgbala’s final degree work was inspired by her sister, Mercy, who has Down’s Syndrome and a serious eye for fashion.
Hannah’s Young, Kool and African website focused on bringing greater diversity to fashion and the media, and she’s gone on to work with the Down’s Syndrome Association to make sure that people of all ethnicities are better represented in their campaigns.
“If you have Down’s Syndrome and are Black — or from another ethnic minority background — there is no one visible for you and your family to relate to,” says Hannah. “That has to change.”
Will McGregor on set
Hannah Bamgbala and her sister, Mercy.
Jamie Windust
Lucy Noble
World Health Sanitation Box ©George Stoneham
Lucy Noble
BA (Hons) Film Production, 2014Lucy has worked as a script supervisor on films including Marvel Studios’ Black Widow, hit series Devs, Elton John musical Rocketman and Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One.
“I dabbled with script supervision throughout my degree,” says Lucy. “I reached out to script supervisors working professionally, asking for the chance to shadow them on set. All that time in the UCA film studio was useful, too – definitely get in there and practice in that arena, where you have a huge amount of control; it’s something you won’t always get when working on location.”
George Stoneham
BA (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA part 1), 2020George caught the eye of the RIBA Rethink 2025 judges, securing a place on the prestigious award’s longlist with an idea to turn former telephone and police boxes into “sanitation stations” that allow people to sanitise themselves on the go.
“While designing the Sanitation Box, I realised how much our world will have to change to design clean and healthy architecture,” he says. “We need to break down compact cities like London and design new, expansive cities with more green spaces, fewer cars, and buildings that flow better.”
Jamie Windust
BA (Hons) Fashion Management and Marketing, 2018Since graduating, Jamie Windust has become a champion for LGBTQIA + issues in the fashion industry and beyond. They are a magazine editor, a writer for Gay Times and Metro UK, a signed model and a consultant helping brands such as UGG and ASOS to better represent and impact queer identities.
“I discovered my sense of self at university, and I don’t think I would’ve been able to do that in such an affirming and positive way if I wasn’t at UCA,” says Jamie.
“In my final year, I got to apply everything I’d learned to starting a business I feel passionate about. It’s a great space for people to launch real, tangible brands.”
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Getting hereOur address is: UCA Canterbury New Dover RoadCanterburyKentCT1 3ANTel: +44 (0)1227 817 302
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We have begun an exciting project and a new chapter in our 160-year history. From 2022, we’ll be establishing world-leading Centres of Excellence to bring like-minded students and academics together around their shared passion for creative subjects.
As we focus on growing as a global creative university, we will be stepping back from Further Education from September 2023. However, all Further Education students joining us in 2021 will finish their courses with us, as usual.
A new chapter for UCA
Course Enrolment & Induction Teaching begins
BA, BSc and MArch 20 - 24 September 27 September
Postgraduate 20 - 24 September 27 September
International Foundation (Autumn start) 20 September – 1 October 4 October
Christmas Break 2021 Easter Break 2022 2021-2022 year ends
20 Dec 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 4 Apr 2022 - 22 Apr 2022
10 Jun 2022 (BA, BSc & MArch)
13 May 2022 (International Foundation)
Enrolment and inductionEnrolment officially makes you a UCA student, and induction covers how to make the most of our facilities, libraries, IT and student services. You’ll receive an email with details of when and how to take part.
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International student task list
If you’re an international student and you’re coming to the UK to study with us, then there are a few things you need to do along the way.
Follow the steps below – not all of them will apply to you, but make sure you check them all, just in case.
1) Before you leave home:
□ Arrange your visa to study in the UK (if required)
□ Arrange your accommodation.
□ Book your airport pick up to take you to your accommodation.
□ Complete your online enrolment. You will be notified by Admissions when this is available to complete.
□ Pack all of the original documents that you have used when completing your online enrolment in your carry-on luggage (including academic and English qualifications). These may be requested at Immigration.
□ Read this information on the cost of living in the UK (if you need any further information, please contact your campus Specialist Adviser).
2) When you arrive in the UK:
□ Collect your BRP card (only if you require a visa).
□ Register at the local police station (not all nationalities are required to do this – please click here for additional information).
□ Register with a local Doctor (GP).
□ You will need to provide all of the original documents that you brought to the UK with you at your physical enrolment. You will not be able to fully enrol on your course without them.
3) Once you have completed your physical enrolment:
□ Apply for your council tax letter (available via MyUCA once you are fully enrolled).
□ Apply for your Bank letter to open your local UK bank account (available via MyUCA once you are fully enrolled).
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Course Title: BA Interior Architecture and Design
Programme Director: JJ Brophy
Delivery for 2021/22 academic year
We would like to reassure our students that we are committed to delivering a face to face experience for 2021/22 and we are hoping that 2021/22 will be a year when our students can return to all of our campuses. However, we are aware that changes to our delivery may continue to be required in response to public health advice and as a result of any ongoing Coronavirus measures. We have prepared this information to let you know how your course may be adapted based on changes that were implemented during 2020/21, as a result of Government advice.
We are not planning on making any changes to your course or unit aims, learning outcomes, or assessment methods, under any of our delivery scenarios.
Scenario 1 – Social Distancing rules are continued/re-introduced as a result of public health advice for the 2021/22 academic year:
Changes to learning spaces
• Our priority as a university is to deliver our teaching on campus. This may be insocially distanced face-to-face tutorials, group seminars and workshops.
• We will adapt the layouts of our classrooms, workshops and studios so you can havesafe access to these and other specialist facilities, taking social distancing measuresinto account and providing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) where needed.
Timetabling
• We will adapt the scheduling of classes to limit the number of students on campus atany one time
• We will adopt the ‘bubble’ principle: meaning you will be taught in smaller groups toenable social distancing, and have as little physical contact with other groups aspossible
• We will plan the scheduling of your classes so you can transition between them safelyand make the lowest possible number of trips to and from campus each week.
Contact time
• We will not change our approach to contact time and scheduled delivery, this will stilltake place as published in our Programme Specifications and unit descriptors.However, some of this contact time may take place in a different way in order to enablesocial distancing to be implemented and to prioritise students’ access to facilities andworkshops. This will mean moving some of the larger scale activities such as lecturesand seminars online.
Online learning
• Where practical, we’ll also put our lectures, classes and seminars online so that you can still access them if you are self-isolating, shielding, or unable to come to the UK.
Teaching during COVID-19
Industry links • We will continue to host visiting lectures, industry projects, and networking events
either face-to-face or through online learning.• We will make plans to deliver work placements safely – even if that means you
working for your placement organisation remotely. Where that’s not possible, we’lloffer alternatives to make sure you still get plenty of industry interaction
Assessments • Assessment for at least the first half of the academic year will remain online. If you’ve
been personally affected by Coronavirus, your assessments will take that into accountand make sure you aren’t disadvantaged by it.
Equipment & resources • We’ve developed new library systems and cleaning processes for loans and
equipment hire to make sure you can borrow what you need safely.• We’ll offer IT equipment loans to our students who need them most.• As soon as Government advice permits, we will provide as much physical access to
our libraries as we can to ensure that you have access to our physical and digital collections, but are able to observe social distancing for your own safety and that of others.
Scenario 2 – a further lockdown is implemented by Government
During the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years we introduced a number of emergency measures that included:
• Moving learning and assessment online• Looking at prior activity with a view to ensuring that learning outcomes are covered
somewhere within the year of study and adjusting assessment tasks accordingly• Providing alternative assessment where the original assessment is not deliverable• Providing extensions for units where necessary for the learning and for individual
students if their circumstances require it• Where the University is not the awarding body, following the validators’ exacting
requirements for predicted and other grades so that students receive a final outcomecommensurate with effort and aptitude
These measures would be re-introduced if necessary, but only for the period covered by the lockdown, with a return to scenario 1 as soon as is safe and practical to do so.
Adapting to your feedback • We’ll continue to work with you to find out how you’re feeling about the new measures.• You’ll have the opportunity to work with teaching staff to adapt and improve the way
we deliver your course in line with public health guidelines.
• You’ll have one-to-one Personal Development Tutorials with an academic tutor,where they’ll talk through your progress and check on your wellbeing. They willalso offer online sessions when face-to-face meetings aren’t possible.
• You’ll have access to a full range of specialist advisors who will offer onlinesessions when face-to-face meetings aren’t possible.
• All our plans take vulnerable learners and students with additional learningrequirements into account – we’re making sure we can deliver learning safely toall our students, whether that means accessing teaching on campus, or online.
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