KA5017 - Interior Architecture Theory 2

The module content will be delivered as a sequential programme of lectures supported by research led, participatory group seminars. In response, increased independent learning will allow you to explore your own themes and your evaluative thinking, framed around the set assignment. The lectures will explore a range of advanced exemplar case studies and theories that will promote discourse within the supporting seminars and an advanced application of knowledge within your directed and self-directed individual study. The seminars are a forum for tutor formative feedback and peer discussion, where critical ideas are appraised to expand your personal learning journey.
To aid contextual understanding and critical appraisal, a wide range of visual material will be used to support the module content and your learning as an accessible experience.

Direct participation in lectures and participation to group seminars and associated discussion is essential to your development. Feedback on formative work can be offered in a variety of forms throughout the duration of the module. Written feedback will be provided at summative assessment points to help you reflect, develop and learn. Periods of self-directed learning are essential for your personal research, creative explorational and development of assignment work whilst we have an open-door policy so that you can seek further support should you need it.
Your learning will be supported through the lecture programme content and the provision of supporting texts. The structured seminar sessions will allow you to discuss approaches to your research, analysis skills and writing plans. You will also benefit from specialist software to authenticate the originality of your personal enquiry, whilst benefiting from peer support and peer learning. In addition, assignments, presentations, relevant associated module information and specific reading lists will be uploaded to the eLearning Portal (Blackboard), so that you can access module content when needed. The university library offers support through its extensive physical and on-line resources, through e-reading lists. In addition, guidance on developing academic study skills, is provided by the Ask4Help facility.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
KU 1. Articulate knowledge and evaluation of a range of historical and theoretical principles and praxis of inteiror architecture and the wider arts

KU 2. Apply theories and principles from the history of interior architecture and the wider arts to scholarly argument and critical synthesis

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
IPSA 1. Apply academic skills of research, study and evaluation to the development of critical scholarship within the concepts of phenomenological and contemporary theory.

IPSA 2. Articulate skills of academic writing and appropriate communications methods to articulate advanced theories, concepts and learning using appropriate subject vocabulary.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
PVA 1. Appreciate the wider influence of artistic, societal, cultural and technological developments on Interior Architecture within a structured and managed research methodology.

Formative assessment will take place within each seminar and will be delivered in form of verbal feedback after presentations, as well as through informal class and individual discussions.


Summative assessment is of the illustrated written assignment (4000 word equivalent) covering all MLO’s (KU1, KU2, IPSA 1, IPSA 2, PVA 1)


Feedback will be in written form and of the final assignment, to aid individual development and learning. Moderation of summative assessment will take place in at the end of the module.

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Within this module you will further contextualise your knowledge and evaluation of the holistic and thematic concepts and theories that underpin Interior Architecture and the creative arts. Through the use of lectures and research-led group seminars you will evaluate and articulate the interconnected philosophies informing the interior condition, approaches to building adaptation and their societal impact. You will analyse and evaluate theories to contextualise the thematic epochal and conceptual shifts within Interior Architecture and their interrelated relationship to advanced contemporary thinking. Lectures will explore the advancements of Interior Architecture and creative reuse via a set of advanced theoretical and cultural paradigms, contextualised against an appreciation of their contribution to society and their associated technological and material conditions. The Assessment work will allow you to further develop and express your critical thinking skills and apply your advanced research led learning within an appraisal of your theoretical knowledge.