Bachelor programmme in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design
The Department of Design offers a professionally oriented, three-year Bachelor’s programme in interior architecture and furniture design.
We apply a practical approach to teaching, emphasising experimentation in the department’s well-equipped workshops. We are proud to be part of Norway’s largest art college, where opportunities to cooperate with other disciplines encourage academic and critical debate about themes of local and global relevance.
We define an interior as a social space that reflects cultural and social circumstances, and furniture as objects and artefacts in relation to such spaces. Focusing on our common future, the programme encourages the critical study of constructed environments.
Theory and method are well integrated in the programme. There is an emphasis on entrepreneurship and cooperation with industry so as to offer the best possible preparation for activity in the professional sector. The Bachelor’s programme provides the basis for our attractive Master’s degree in design, with specialisation in interior architecture and furniture design.
The programme has good links to an international network, allowing opportunities for student exchanges to some of the world’s leading design schools.
This specialisation runs project sites that presents students’ work and projects.
Curriculum
Curriculum not available in English. Language of instruction is Norwegian.
Course Structure
| Course code | Course name | ECTS Credits |
|---|---|---|
| IM102 | Construction | 10 |
| IM106 | Professional theory | 5 |
| IM103 | Spatial studies | 10 |
| DE101 | Drawing, Form and Colour 1 | 5 |
| IM101 | Context | 10 |
| IM104 | Spatial composition | 10 |
| DE102 | Art and Design History 1 | 5 |
| DE103 | Drawing, Form and Colour 2 | 5 |
| Course code | Course name | ECTS Credits |
|---|---|---|
| IM210 | Elective Studio | 5 |
| DE204 | Art and Design History 2 | 5 |
| IM209 | Transformation | 10 |
| IM211 | Structure | 10 |
| IM201 | Material studies | 5 |
| DE201 | Art and Design Theory 1 | 5 |
| Course code | Course name | ECTS Credits |
|---|---|---|
| IM307 | Anthropometry 2 | 10 |
| IM308 | Situation 2 | 10 |
| IM309 | Kombinasjon 2 | 10 |
| IM312 | Space and Performance 2 | 10 |
| IM202 | Anthropometry 1 | 10 |
| IM204 | Situation 1 | 10 |
| IM207 | Kombinasjon 1 | 10 |
| IM212 | Space and Performance 1 | 10 |
| DE302 | Art and Design Theory 2 | 5 |
| DE303 | Art and Design Theory 3 | 5 |
| IM305 | Manifest | 5 |
| IM311 | Exhibition | 5 |
| IM350 | Bachelor project | 20 |
Exchange
These exchange agreements are valid for bachelor programmme in interior architecture and furniture design:
Admissions
The application deadline is 01 April 2025. Admission opens two months before the application deadline.
About the Design department
The Design department offers both Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes in graphic design, illustration, clothing design, costume design, interior architecture and furniture design.
The department has excellent workshop facilities, and its small classes are highly conducive to training independently-minded practitioners who do not simply regurgitate the academic discourse, but rather challenge it in ways that develop their discipline and society as a whole. This is an important role for a public institution in an educational landscape where the number of design courses is constantly growing.
The Design department started life as Statens håndverks- og industriskole (Oslo National College of Art and Design) (SHKS), founded in 1818. The department is constantly seeking to develop the legacy and craft traditions of the SHKS, and regards its various workshop facilities as central to this effort.