Interior Design

Interior design is the discipline concerned with how the quality of the spaces we inhabit can be shaped through creative, technical, and intellectual work. It asks not just how rooms can be made to look attractive but how space can be used to create experiences, support activities, embody values, and contribute to the lives of the people who move through them. Interior design at degree level moves well beyond decoration: it engages with architectural thinking, material culture, social and psychological dimensions of how people relate to environments, and the technical knowledge needed to realise ideas in three dimensions.

At Glasgow School of Art this four-year full-time programme is situated within a specialist studio community that uses its location in a specialist art school to focus on how the nature, quality, and potential of the interior can be developed. The studio is central to the programme, a place for talking, making, drawing, and innovating, and for deliberating how the spaces we hope to inhabit might appear, feel, and function. You will develop creative and critical thinking about how interiors are constructed and experienced, exploring a wide range of ways of creating and defining interior space, from domestic and commercial environments to hospitality, retail, healthcare, and cultural spaces.

The programme builds technical competence in drawing, model-making, digital visualisation, and specification alongside the conceptual and contextual understanding that makes interior design a genuinely rigorous discipline.

Graduates in interior design find careers across a wide range of design sectors. Interior design consultancies, architectural practices, hospitality and retail design, exhibition and set design, theatre and production design, and design management are among the most direct destinations. The combination of creative, technical, and critical skills developed at Glasgow School of Art is valued across the creative industries.

Many graduates also develop independent practices or continue to postgraduate study in interior design, architecture, or spatial design.