Bachelor
Spatial designers create places for people to live, work, play and imagine. Study the Spatial Design major to prepare for a career designing interiors, furniture, exhibitions, events, outdoor spaces, retail environments, scenes for stage and film, and art installations.
As a spatial design student, you unlock the potential of places by designing spatial environments that support, influence, and transform how we live now and into the future. You'll learn from an expert team who has been teaching spatial and interior designers for nearly forty years.
In our studios, you'll work on design briefs across the field of spatial design. We encourage you to find your own voice and respond imaginatively to your place in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. You test and evolve your ideas through drawings, models, digital simulations and hands-on prototypes, and work with community and industry partners.
Our students work on a wide range of projects across the discipline of spatial design. You can view examples of some the projects by our spatial design students on the link below.
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Our graduates work in significant roles in major New Zealand interior design offices, lead their own firms, and work with community organisations like councils, museums, and schools.
They design residences and office interiors, healthcare spaces, gardens, kitchens, jewellery, and yacht interiors. They have contributed to the design of social housing, high-end apartments, retail and hospitality venues, and blockbuster film sets. They have exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and interned with Sundance Film Festival and MoMA in New York.
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