Interior Design at The Glasgow School of Art is a vibrant Studio Community. A place where creative imaginations promote a deeper understanding of the potential and actual value of the spaces we inhabit.
It makes use of its location – a specialist Studio within a specialist Art School – to focus on how the nature, quality and potential of the interior can be developed. The Studio is central to such considerations. It is a place where we discuss, develop and define that which surrounds us. It is a place where we talk, make, draw and show. It is a place where we reveal how the world we hope to inhabit might appear, how it might feel and how it might be.
IDGSA's focus is upon building an environment where the many ways of creating and defining interiors are explored; a creative, imaginative and critical space for students and staff to focus on and navigate through the subject, and develop a deep understanding of the crafting of interiors and the craft of learning.
The programme has around 30 students in each year. This facilitates a particular creative cohesion and allows staff to support individual abilities and aspirations. All full and part-time staff combine, to varying degrees, practice, research and teaching, offering a complimentary range of specialist experience. Visiting tutors bring additional voices to the studio. The work of staff members is regularly published, exhibited and built in the UK and elsewhere.
Patrick Macklin
Head of Department, Interior Design
Design History and Theory
An element of the programme is delivered by the department of Design History and Theory. For most of the four years of undergraduate programmes in design, one day per week of the student timetable is allocated to Design History and Theory. It is an externally linked critical mass of diverse research expertise in broad-based critical studies for contemporary creative practices in design. More information on the department and staff profiles can be found here.
