Create design strategies for the home, workplace, leisure, hospitality, and healthcare sectors while gaining a deep understanding of the essential issues that interior and spatial designers must address in every project.With a focus on key emerging themes within society, sustainability and wellbeing, this online part-time postgraduate degree can help you enhance and refine your existing skills and knowledge.Comprehensive degreeInterior and spatial design is a sector which encompasses every aspect of our being. From the homes we live in, the places we work and the spaces we visit, this global industry, and the employers within it, must stay innovative to cater to the needs of consumers, and the planet. With the right teaching, you’ll be able to gain a unique understanding which will make you stand-out as a thinking-practitioner.With a history of delivery expert craft, art and design education for more than 130 years, Buckinghamshire New University is the perfect place for you to learn the skills and knowledge that can help you take the next step in your creative career.Expert teachingThis part-time MA Interior and Spatial Design is led by a dedicated teaching team with a wealth of experience within the interior and spatial design, exhibition design, landscape design, model-making and design visualisation and animation industry. Many of your tutors on this course are also involved with design practice and research.What will I study?At the heart of the course is the focus on your personal interests and priorities we advocate and teach independent researching skills so that you can apply this learning in your own context and in line with your own, or your organisations goals.This course is about progressing existing and creating a new generation of designers who specialise in the design for the most pressing issues of the 21st century. The unique online curriculum combines theory and practical tasks that focus on key elements of research in sustainable reuse and understanding its environmental, societal, economic, and functional implications and developing strategies that account for the importance of social and ecological responsibility.The part-time MA offers you the opportunity to rethink the existing building stock and redefine new purposes and ways of using the urban fabric. You will analyse various case studies and look at the project's impact on the environment and will develop an understanding of technical processes such as construction, material sourcing and adaptive reuse to make a creative proposal for their project.During your time on the course, you’ll establish a clear aesthetic, theoretical and technological approach to adaptive reuse that properly equips you to engage in design practice.Through various modules your lecturers will provide you with current insight into the subject area, helping you refine your new skills, methods and knowledge to become critically engaged with your chosen subject area. During your time on the course, you’ll establish a clear aesthetic, theoretical and technological approach to adaptive reuse that properly equips you to engage in design practice.You’ll conduct independent research investigations on a selected topic of interest and take responsibility for managing time, plus develop knowledge and connections within the field of interior and spatial design. You will be expected to produce projects based on your own research evidence, developed, and explained visually and via referenced text.At the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to produce a focused Research Dissertation, throughout this you will receive one on one support with an allocated supervisor.