Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Interior Design Practices 4

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

ARCH3371

City Campus

Postgraduate

320H Architecture & Urban Design

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Andrew Miller

Course Coordinator Phone: Contact via email

Course Coordinator Email: andrew.miller@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building 100 Level 8

Course Coordinator Availability: Contact via email


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Recommended Prior Study 
You should have satisfactorily completed ARCH1501 Interior Design Practices 3 before you commence this course. 
Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.  
Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.   


Course Description

This fourth interior design practices course provides the opportunity for you to consolidate and produce your knowledge and skills of contemporary interior design technologies and practices. You will be able to initiate, synthesise and formulate these techniques to your advancing practice as an interior designer. You will be able to translate these techniques to your design studio projects, portfolio and more broadly extend your practice as an interior designer.
This course is the final of four Interior Design Practices courses which operate as direct support to studio projects providing opportunities to refine specific skill sets and design techniques including communication (written, verbal + visual), technologies (manufacturing, materials and experiential), relevant to the project and provide a base for further extension.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes
This course contributes to the following MC275 Master of Interior Design program learning outcomes:

  • Establish modes of practice that initiate and execute substantial Interior Design projects situated in contemporary interior design.
  • Respond to the challenges of contemporary interior design practice using an applied critical knowledge of relevant environmental, cultural, political, economic and ethical issues.
  • Generate innovative outcomes for Interior Design projects within a range of settings and engage stakeholders through a mastery of practice which synthesizes creative, critical, analytical, reflective and theoretical skills.
  • Effectively and fluently disseminate design research to specialist and non-specialist audiences through a mastery of communication skills in a range of forms and media which shows a sophisticated understanding of the technical and theoretical frameworks of Interior Design.

If you are taking this course as an option course or as part of a minor, this course will complement the learning outcomes you are developing in your program.


Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Conceptualise, synthesise and generate advanced and/or specialised design practice tools and processes and initiate new interior design approaches.
  2. Formulate communication processes and design outcomes from your experimentation to a range of audiences.
  3. Critically evaluate, extend and transform appropriate technologies to specific design processes or projects, and to the development and production of innovative design outcomes.


Overview of Learning Activities

Interior Design Practices 4 is a ‘vertically integrated’ course in which you will work with other students with different levels of experience in the program in a dynamic learning environment. You will engage with specific skills This stream of courses will operate as a direct support to the partnered design studio project providing opportunities to refine specific skill sets and design techniques including communication (written, verbal + visual), technologies (manufacturing, materials and experiential), relevant to the project and provide a base for further extension. Activities will include workshop-based projects, presentations, group and individual tutorials, group discussions, peer-to-peer critiques, student presentations and studio workshops. Other activities may include excursions to exhibitions and site visits


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
You will identify the learning resources specific to your own interests in conjunction with your tutors. These may include readings, critical study of precedents, and further refinement of the communication, workshop, and other skills that you have acquired in the previous levels of the course. RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. The University Library has extensive resources for Interior Design students.

The Library has produced a subject guide that includes quality online and print resources for your studies: http://rmit.libguides.com/interior-design

The Library provides guides on academic referencing: http://www.rmit.edu.au/library/referencing


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. 

Assessment Tasks

Assessment 1 – Analysis and experimentation 20%
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3

Assessment 2 – Mid-semester in-progress review 40%
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3

Assessment 3 – Documentation and presentation 40%
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.