Undergraduate Diploma Programme in Interior Design
![]() by The Indian School of Design and Innovation (ISDI)Mumbai |
Category: Diploma in Interior Design | Interior Design
Eligibility: (Pre-requisites) | Any Candidate who has appeared for a 10+2 examination (e.g. A levels, CBSE, HSC, IBDP, ISC etc), or its educational equivalent in any discipline (e.g.: Science, Commerce, Arts) with an interest in Design & Innovation. Although, successful completion of the 10+2 examination is necessary to confirm the admission, our institution does accept predicted or preliminary grade indications until final results are declared. |
Medium of instruction: | English |
Foundation - First Year Studies
"ISDI’s first-year course of study immerses students in an exploration of design and innovation concepts, skills and critical practices, training them to become flexible thinkers and lifelong learners."
The curriculum offers a series of approaches to design and enables them to envision paths beyond the confines of a single discipline. Whether a student is interested in a traditional disciplinary area, a combination of creative and academic fields, or an exploratory approach to design, the first-year curriculum is designed to accommodate a variety of study paths.
The curriculum constitutes a common experience for all incoming ISDI students, with the same set of first-year course requirements for students in all undergraduate programmes. Students shape their path of study within those requirements, selecting from the options available. The curriculum balances breadth and depth, integrates studio and liberal arts learning, and gives students flexibility in choosing how to reach their educational goals.
Classes focusing on broadly relevant design concepts, tools, and methods (including studios exploring 2D and 3D processes, drawing, and digital design as well as liberal arts seminars) bring together students who are passionate about all kinds of art and design and who will one day forge new paths in an array of disciplines. This interaction is a central aspect of the first-year experience. Today's classmates are tomorrow's colleagues.
ISDI’s Foundation Year prepares students for life as skilled and socially responsible designers.
ISDI’s foundation year will include the following subject areas:
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Drawing and Imaging
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Design Writing and Reading
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Art and Design Methodologies
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Design Research
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History of Objects
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Space and Materiality
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Societal Energy Sources and Sustainable Systems
Future Opportunities
On completion of the Foundation Year, students at ISDI will be able to pursue 3-year globally benchmarked specialization in Communication Design, Fashion Design, Interior Design or Product Design.
Foundation Year - Sem 1
Integrative Studio and Seminar 1 - 6 credits
This course pairing brings together writing, reading, and making through projects that draw on creative and critical skills in a liberal arts and studio context.
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In Integrative Studio, students create projects that involve collaboration, cross-disciplinary activity, research, and prototyping.
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In Integrative Seminar, they develop essential reading and writing skills that help them connect text and visual elements, a practice central to art and design.
A History of the World Told through Objects - 3 credits
This lecture-and-discussion seminar traces world history through the social, cultural, technological, and religious functions of objects found in collections throughout the world and Mumbai. Readings, lectures, and field trips to museums introduce students to objects representing a span of time from prehistory up to the Industrial Revolution. Students conduct research on objects used by a society and report their findings in written form and presentations.
First-Year Studio: Space and Materiality - 3 credits
In this studio, students become familiar with the methods and tools used to investigate and manipulate space and materials. In ISDI's modelling facilities, studio classrooms, and shops, they explore form, connections between making and thinking, and properties of space and materials such as weight, texture, colour, durability, life cycle, and ecological impact.
First-Year Studio: Drawing and Imaging - 3 credits
In this studio, students explore human interaction with the visual world and create two-dimensional works using digital tools such as adobe illustrator and photoshop, drawing, photography, and mixed media. They investigate perception, representation, and culture as they record and then translate observations into visual form, organizing content, analyzing relationships, and communicating ideas.
Foundation Year - Sem 2
Semester 2 - 4Courses - 15 Credits
Intergrative Studio and Seminar 2 - 6 credits
Building on methods introduced in the first semester, this course pairs a reading and writing seminar with a studio exploring the impact of research on art and design practice. Students learn to use design tools employed by professionals in the field and undertake individual and collaborative projects that investigate how cultural values can be transmitted through art and design. Coursework emphasizes research, formal writing, systems thinking, and information navigation skills and introduces distributed learning techniques.
First-Year Studio: Time - 3 credits
In this studio, students focus on evolving concepts of time in art and design and the way those concepts shape human experience and our understanding of the world. They develop and structure narratives and shape user experiences in projects ranging from bookmaking to performance art to audiovisual pieces. media including adobe indesign and video editing software are used.
Sustainable Energy Systems - 3 credits
This course surveys, from multiple perspectives, the sources of energy that designers make use of when designing better futures. Through a combination of lectures and seminars, and fieldwork and experiments, students will be introduced to the physics, chemistry and biology of energy, and how these principles translate to the everyday experiences people have of their food, devices, clothes, rooms, buildings, transport and cities, etc. Students will learn about the issues surrounding societal energy sources, such as the pollution associated with their production and use, risks of climate change, or the challenges associated with infrastructural dependence on dwindling supplies. From a common foundation, students will be able to focus on the energy systems associated with particular kinds of designing.
Studio Elective - 3 credits
Students are provided with elective options and projects allowing them to explore specialisations they would like to take on Year 2 onwards.
Interior Design - Building A Foundation For Practice
"The Interior Design Programme at ISDI is understood as both a critical design discipline and a potent social and economic force. The learning experience at ISDI is intimate and thought-provoking."
ISDI’s diploma in Interior Design (ID) is a three-year specialisation pursued by students who have completed their Foundation Year.
Interior Design students take a series of Art and Design history and theory courses as well as a studio sequence that introduces interior and architecture issues of increasing difficulty and detail. Students learn to conceptualize and develop interior designs through to detailed resolution using representational means ranging from physical models to collage and digital renderings.
Students work in small groups with faculty to develop design concepts for residences, institutions, commercial spaces, and special building types. Each interior is treated as a unique confluence of forces that students navigate according to a value system that stresses environmental stewardship and cultural sensitivity.
Throughout the course curriculum students can focus on the following subject areas:
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Principles of Interior Design
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Impact of Interiors on Civic Life
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Space Planning and Building Codes
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Aesthetic and Lighting Needs
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Environmental and Urban Design
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Details, Furniture and Construction
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Elements of Space, Technology and Surface
Future Opportunities
On completion of the course you will be able to apply design concepts in architectural and interior design firms as stylists, retail designers, visual merchandisers and home decorators.
You will be able to design residences, institutions, commercial spaces and special building types.
Year 2 ID Curriculum - Sem1
Semester 1 - 4 Courses - 15 Credits
Interior Design Studio 1 - 6 Credits
Students will be introduced to the basic vocabularies, skills/techniques, practices and contexts of interior design through the vehicle of a series of small abstract projects. Human scale, interior programming, movement, circulation and fundamental form making will be explored in conjunction with the making studio. Students will be working both individually and collaboratively, in studio environments. This course also introduces students to an array of specific professional resources available to interior designers.
Representation and Analysis - 3 Credits
Introduces fundamental digital and analogue drawing tools to students. Two?dimensional and three?dimensional graphic digital software and the basic principles of analogue drawing are introduced and both techniques are applied to sketch, test, document and render drawings as both in class exercises to explore technique and build skills, and in support of design studio. This fundamental studio course presents baseline software platforms from which students will continue to build?upon and hone throughout their education.
Introduces fundamental digital and analogue drawing tools to students. Two?dimensional and three?dimensional graphic digital software and the basic principles of analogue drawing are introduced and both techniques are applied to sketch, test, document and render drawings as both in class exercises to explore technique and build skills, and in support of design studio. This fundamental studio course presents baseline software platforms from which students will continue to build?upon and hone throughout their education.
History of Interior Design - 3 Credits
A survey course which focuses on the development of interior styles as an expression of cultural, material, political, and aesthetic conditions from the 15th century to the present. It explores the evolution of interior design as a discrete field of practice and its recent emergence as an academic discipline and certified profession. The lecture and recitation course will introduce students to critical and fundamental theories of the modern interior, and locate the student's studio work in a larger social, political and economic context. Coursework will include essays and seminar presentations.
Studio Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Year 2 ID Curriculum - Sem2
Semester 2 - 4 Courses - 15 Credits
Interior Design Studio 2 - 6 Credits
Students will study the decorative interior—a study of surface, space, and small-scale place—making within a city context. The class introduces color, day lighting, and artificial lighting and utilizes abstract methods as design development tools. In this studio class, students learn to convey design ideas through drawings and models used as investigative tools, in studio teams and individually, in order to reveal the objective, subjective and phenomenological qualities of the space and are able to articulate ideas in critiques.
Materiality and Assembly for Interiors - 3 Credits
An introduction to the nature of hard and soft materials and their direct application in creating and enclosing space. Materials are considered as matter, for their phenomenological effects, their cultural, historical and contemporary and particular use in interior design. Consideration is given to the impact of material choices and deployment on people and the environment and as they are installed in interior assemblies. As a seminar, assignments will be both individual and team based, and will include a number of on?site field trips.
Introduction to Design Studies - 3 Credits
This class examines different aspects of design and visuality by looking at larger questions of production, consumption, and use and how these issues become part of a larger discourse about design and visual culture. The design process is intricately tied to visuality, or how things appear and look; thus, the course uses images to provide students with a better understanding of their chosen field of study at Parsons. In this class, students will assess the relationship between design and the visual by investigating questions about gender, spatial control, ethics, race, status, and class; and will look at a variety of theoretical, historical, social, and political writings to explore this complicated topic.
Studio Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Year 3 ID Curriculum - Sem1
Semester 1 - 5 Courses - 15 Credits
Interior Design Studio 3 - 3 Credits
Design Studio 3 challenges students to draw and represent ideas in an increasingly sophisticated manner with an increased understanding of their personal design process. This studio emphasizes an integration of environmental issues including energy use, passive construction, solar orientation and material selection to modify both space and climate to comfortable human habitation, synergistically providing heating, cooling, and lighting. A key objective of the studio is to develop both quantitative and qualitative understandings of energy design approaches and their fundamental interior design value. A basic challenge of the studio will be to not only develop an understanding of energy conservation and design, but to investigate this through designing interiors that balance use, energy, and enjoyment in a sustainable manner. Taught in conjunction with Energy and Ecology in the Interior.
Energy and Ecology in Interior - 3 Credits
Introduces environmental principles and approaches to ecological design as they relate to the interior environment. The class will prepare students to understand their physical environment: how elements in the built environment interact to modify both space and climate. The material will be presented to provoke studio design issues and to provide an understanding of the integration of environmentally conscious design strategies. This course offers scientific and technical support for Interior Design Studio 3 in a seminar context with individual and team coursework.
Lecture Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Liberal Arts Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Studio Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Year 3 ID Curriculum - Sem2
Semester 2 - 3 Courses - 15 Credits
Interior Design Studio 4 - 6 Credits
This transitional studio builds on prior studio learning to understand the complexities of designing for a specific social group. It also incorporates natural and artificial lighting, materials selection and particular programming challenges for interiors using a wide range of static and dynamic media. Students will be given opportunity to work with outside partners or advisors and will demonstrate ability to work both individually as well as on a team. While project work will be primarily studio based, content may require off?site research and engagement.
Liberal Arts Electives - 6 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Studio Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Year 4 ID Curriculum - Sem1
Semester 1 - 4 Courses - 15 Credits
Interior Design Studio 5 - 6 Credits
In this studio students are encouraged to develop their collaborative skills on larger scale projects, where interior and architecture are developed simultaneously and collaboratively. Material and assembly investigations to study design of a large scale detail integrating interior and exterior architecture are part of this course. Representation and translation of design ideas and the ability to present design work coherently and compellingly to a wide range of stakeholders, are critical requirements for this studio course.
Pre-Capstone - 3 Credits
Students will choose from of a range of courses designed to prepare them for their capstone experience. These will stress a reciprocal relationship between independent work and class time, practice and theory, which will enable them to reflect critically on art, design and visual practices as they relate to issues of sustainability, politics, and social justice. This is an upper-level methodology, research, and writing class that continues to refine the skills and thought processes students have acquired as they progress through Parsons: presentation skills, writing skills, self and peer reflection and assessment skills, executive skills, research skills and systems thinking.
Lecture Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Studio Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Year 4 ID Curriculum - Sem2
Semester 2 - 3 Courses - 15 Credits
Interior Design Studio 6 - 6 Credits
Develops a capstone project that synthesizes prior program learning. Reconciling multiple stakeholders and audiences, students work towards presenting their projects as a form of social engagement and innovation. Students will primarily work individually, but may collaborate with classmates and other programs with special approval. Students may select from a range of architectural and interiors projects to apply prior studio learning. Sophisticated representation and analytical thought, self?driven and self?critical students should exhibit a thorough approach to design, engaging concept at all scales.
Liberal Arts Electives - 6 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Studio Electives - 3 Credits
Students should explore their elective options with their advisors to create a coherent study plan.
Entrance Exam
All Candidates interested in pursuing full time Under Graduate Diploma Programmes, Post Graduate Diploma Programmes and Post Graduate Certificate Programmes are required to complete out Entrance Test known as the ISDI Challenge.
The ISDI Challenge is an adapted version of the Parsons Challenge and it helps the Admission Committee understand how a prospective student develops ideas, translates them to good design and form, communicates that , and defends the work in writing.
Fee Structure
Under Graduate Diploma Programme
Year 1 : 2013 - 2014 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
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Registration & Admission Fee (One Time) | 45,000 | ||
Security Deposit (Refundable) | 25,000 | ||
Tuition Fee | 165,000 | 165,000 | 330,000 |
Library Fee | 12,000 | 12,000 | 24,000 |
Resource Centre Fee | 15,000 | 15,000 | 30,000 |
Total Academic Fee | 192,000 | 192,000 | 384,000 |
Total Year 1 Fee | 454,000 |
Classroom - Regular | ||||
When | Duration | Where | Remarks | Price |
Not Specified |
3 Years |
All Venues | Not Specified |
INR 4,54,000 Per Course (Taxes As Applicable) |
Price Notes: Terms and Conditions : Fee Structure The Academic Fees are payable by Semester Payment of Registration & Admission Fee, Security Deposity & Academic Fee is payable within one week of confirmation of admission. For payment of all fees, kindly make a Demand Draft in favour of 'ISDI' payable in Mumbai. The Registration & Admission Fee is a one time fee payable only in the first year on confirmation of admission. The interest free Security Deposit is also payble on confirmation of admission and will be refunded on completion of the chosen program after the adjustment of all dues if any. Fees are subject to a year on year increase of 10% Cost of materials used by students throughout the program are not included in the Academic Fee All refunds will be considered and governed by our Fee Refund & Guidline Policy. |
Mumbai, Parel (Other):- North Annexe, One Indiabulls Centre, Senapati Bapat Marg, Parel, Mumbai - 400013, Maharashtra, India
The Indian School of Design and Innovation (ISDI)
A New Model
"There is recognition worldwide that the disciplines of design and innovation can play a significant role in helping address issues of economic development and social improvement."
These challenges take on a special urgency in India, where a growing population and a rapidly evolving society can benefit from design intervention.
The Indian School of Design and Innovation (ISDI), which opens its doors to students in July 2013, is committed to a new educational model inspired by the idea of design and innovation as transformative forces in society.
Located in the dynamic coastal city of Mumbai, ISDI offers a series of globally benchmarked Undergraduate Diploma Programmes (UGDP), four year intensive programmes (foundation year plus three year specialisation) for students across the disciplines of fashion, interior, product and communication design. Opportunities to engage in design education for graduates and young professionals start in September 2013, with the launch of ISDI’s one year Post Graduate Programme (PGP).
ISDI has entered into a collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design, a global leader in design education, which will enable ISDI to benefit from Parsons’ rigorous curriculum, prominent visiting faculty, well established student exchanges and global relationships.
ISDI’s academic ideology moulds designers to cater to a diverse range of industries and employers.
All educational programmes are built upon the foundation of a forward-thinking and innovative curriculum, industry sponsored projects, national and international collaborations and a deep sense of social and environmental responsibility.
Creativity, innovation and sustainability are core to ISDI’s philosophy.
ISDI has been conceptualised with the following goals in mind:
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To become India’s premier destination for students wishing to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across all design disciplines and specialties
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To emerge as a world-class institute of design and innovation established through a collaborative effort among designers, industry leaders, academic professionals and policy makers
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To create a school that is truly Indian in its core make up, but also global in its outlook
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To deliver the latest interdisciplinary design education driven by systems thinking and responsible innovation
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To foster creativity, nurture design and promote new talent
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To provide opportunities for internships and placements through unmatched professional connections