Socially Engaged Interiors explores interior design through a diverse range of social agendas, issues, and topics relevant to contemporary practice. The course responds to emergent and timely social concerns and engages with them through a series of interior design projects across varied contexts.

You will extend your design thinking and strategies in response to a diversity of environments, including exhibition design, retail, set and theatre design, cultural programming and infrastructure, event design, and community, urban, and civic settings.

You may undertake this course as a Minor, allowing you to shape your individual design profile and position yourself in relation to specific social themes and skills within interior design practice.

Independent and collaborative project work will enable you to research through design, experiment with techniques, and explore ideas to produce meaningful and socially responsive interior design outcomes.

Each semester offers a suite of different topics and options, and you will use a preferencing system to ballot for your preferred choice.

This course includes Industry Partnered Learning (IPL) activities, where you will have the opportunity to participate in authentic industry and community engaged activities and tasks to support your professional development. These may involve client and industry design briefs where you develop your projects within a scenario-based, simulated design practice environment.

The course is delivered by academic and industry professionals with expertise in interior design and related disciplines.