The Interior Design studio trains students to create living spaces and objects related to those spaces by understanding and mastering the links between this activity and the cultural, historical and societal context in which it takes place. 

Rather than create interior design projects, students must think about design from the inside out. Students must look at things through the prism of the body and its movement in space.

The discipline covers all forms of environments, whether interior, exterior, domestic, urban, exhibition-related, etc.

Interior Design is a cultural, intellectual and technical practice. It is developed on a strong and clear conceptual footing, which entails keeping a close eye on the world and an ear to the ground, while adopting a critical approach to the production history of objects and spaces as well as the history of other artistic disciplines.

More than ever, interior design relies on smart collaboration with many other practices: by the end of their studies, students should know whom they need to collaborate with in any given situation and should understand the attitudes and recommendations of other actors while maintaining and developing a critical mind and their own personal approach.

Confrontation, critical exchanges with the school’s other studios, especially affiliated departments (design, scenography, typography, visual and graphic communication, urban space) is particularly important. Cross-departmental exercises are organized to this end.

Students will be in contact with a variety of fields – from the traditional design of spaces and objects to the conservation and restoration of movable and immovable heritage, as well as the development of public spaces and exhibitions in collaboration with landscape designers, programmers, museologists, visual artists, graphic designers, architects, engineers, etc.

The understanding and smart application of the practical aspects of the profession is another important dimension of the course. Students learn to analyse a programme critically, to examine the programme context, to think independently about current issues, etc. During the Master’s programme, they develop their own vocabulary based on these technical and historical foundations, integrating other dimensions as well, such as related to law and sustainable development. They develop a unique personal project, drawing on other cross-disciplinary resources available within the school.

Students are taught by teachers, assistants and lecturers whose different profiles and individual competences ensure a diversity of perspectives essential to the development of an independent practice.

Pedagogical coordination
Pierre Lhoas, architect

Pedagogical staff

Teachers
Marie-Pierre Vandeputte, Bruno Demeester, Jean Garcin, François Jegou

Assistants
Lieven De Boeck, Céline Poncelet, Valentin Bollaert, Marie Douel, Jonathan Sullam

Lecturers
Sara Cremer, Raffaella Crispino, Marie Debraine, Arnaud De Moor, Delphine Mathy