Faculty of Design
Curriculum
Curriculum Bachelor’s in Interior Design (BID)
This is a five-years (ten-semester) program culminating with a Bachelor of Interior Design degree.
| Semeter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Studio 14 Credit | CEPT Foundation Program | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 | L3/ Internship | L3/ Internship | L3/ Internship | L3/ Internship | |
| Technology 2 Credit | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | T6 | T7 | |||
| History 2 credit | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | H7 | |||
| Electives | Electives can be offered from the offering during the semester or from the summer winter school. | |||||||||
Note: For successful completion, a total of 200 credits are required. The distribution of credits is subject to change. The student would be informed about the same at the time of registration.
Program Details
CEPT Foundation Program
The CEPT Foundation Program is envisioned to achieve excellence in the skills, abilities, and capacities required by first-year students while ensuring that they also have a strong work ethic. The program is premised on the understanding that engaging with built environments requires an in-depth understanding of one's areas of expertise and the ability to dialogue.
Students learn to understand materials and structures and explore them through models. These skills build towards the development of critical thinking by working on data collection, analysis, and representation in a range of aspects of the built environment. Overall, the Program develops the ability to tackle complex problems in their environment, in each student.
The Studio Units (Level 2 and Level 3)
Learning and teaching is centered on the studio or units which comprises 12 to 15 students. L2 studio comprises 2nd and 3rd year students and L3 studios comprises 4th and 5th year students. L2 studios focuses on Building arguments and rationales. In L3 studios, the students use multiple design abilities to solve complex design problems.
Technology courses
The technology courses provide scientific principles, methods and framework to engage in the making of the interiors. They also technically equip professionals to engage in the systematic analysis and production of built space using current tools and technologies.
These are disseminated through:
| Course 1 : Digital Representation of Space This course aims to use knowledge of technical and digital representation of drawing for analysing the built environments. |
| Course 2 : Components and systems for interior design The course has been developed to give comprehensive knowledge about systems and solutions for Interior Design. It includes concepts such as construction, context, material use and other physical properties. |
| Course 3: Interior Services This course primarily looks at workings of complex systems of Interior spaces such as HVAC, Lighting and electricity, and Plumbing. It also looks at the role of an Interior Designer vis a vis collaboration with various consultants in the profession.
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| Course 4: Skins, Surfaces & Finishes This course gives the understanding of the final appearance of all exposed interior surfaces; floors, walls, ceilings, and all finish natural and synthetic materials, such as tile, stone, plastic laminate, wood, and paint, etc.
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| Course 5: Appropriate and Emerging Design Technology This course focuses on emerging and cutting edge technologies for the built environment with a concentration on assembly based construction, digital fabrication, integrated design systems, and performance-based solutions.
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| Course 6: BIM – Exploring tools (Revit) for Interior Design Projects This course has been developed to give a thorough knowledge of Building information, management, and performance systems through the use of appropriate software and simulation tools.
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| Course 7: People, Process & Technology This course looks at the intersection of 3 concepts that define the field, practice, and pedagogy of Interior Design. |
History Courses
The history courses provide for a comprehension of the social, cultural, as well a historical debate that has a direct impact on thinking as future practitioners. They allow us to look at Interior Design for built spaces and other related development within India and abroad through a lens of history.
These are disseminated through:
| Course-1: History of Interior Design The course explores the changes in functional conventions and spatial outlines during the past century in the dwelling, retail, and commercial establishments. Changes in any establishment occur due to new social forms, cultural Influences, political compulsions, economic realities, and Technological Innovations. |
| Course-2: Industrial revolution & Arts and Crafts movement Whereas proponents of the Industrial Revolution encouraged mechanization and new technology, people in the Arts and Crafts movement looked back to the Middle Ages. Both groups firmly believed in progress—the improvement or even perfectibility of the human condition—yet one group looked to the future while the other favored a return to the past. Mechanization caused rapid and dramatic social changes that continued into the Victorian period (1837–1901). |
| Course-3: Elements of space making |
| Course-4: Story of Art Making the transient and the invisible, visible - the imagined, the seen and the remembered. The creator, the created and the experienced - A journey into envisioned realms. Stone, Clay, Metal and Colour - Old Worlds, Enduring Visions. |
| Course-5: Design Ethnography This course attempts to explore some meaningful ways in which ethnography can inform a design conceptualization process. The course aims to focus on the details of everyday life to provide inputs into what is needed and what is missed. |
| Course -6: Design and the Modern World Space making is much more than an act of building. It has emotions and expressions. Design is a dialogue where the Designer encodes the messages and clues while the perceiver decodes the same. As space designers we conceive and as onlooker users perceive. |
| Course -7: Design Research Methods The course with specific emphasis on research methods in design, looks at various methods that can be employed to undertake a research area or subject. |
Elective Courses
Students are offered every semester a basket of elective courses which they can choose from. These courses include photography, graphic design, pottery, glass workshop, etc. These courses are both classroom based as well as workshop based.