Interior Design Professional Practices
Overview
CIS Innovation Hub’s Interior Design Professional Practices, subtitled From Drawing to Doing: Understanding the Built Reality, is a 48-hour practical course for graduating architects and interior designers. The program runs as 30 hours online and 18 hours on-site or in workshop sessions, bridging the gap between academic design knowledge and real-world construction practice through site visits, hands-on workshops, and professional simulations. It is distinct from CIS College’s Interior Design Package course.
Participants build confidence in site assessment and construction detailing, learn to communicate with clients, contractors, and suppliers, and get hands-on carpentry and joinery experience, finishing with a capstone project presented to a panel of design and construction professionals.
What You Will Learn
- Read a site, including topography, orientation, zoning, access, and utilities, before starting a design
- Understand construction sequencing and coordination between trades such as structure, MEP, and finishes
- Interpret schematic, detail, construction, and shop drawings, and how a design package becomes an IFC package
- Apply sustainable, inclusive, and technology-driven approaches to interior design
- Understand materials, joinery, and hardware used in furniture and fit-out work
- Respond to a real site issue with a design change memo and a revised detail
- Price, market, and present interior design services as a freelance business
- Present a completed project to a jury of design and construction professionals
Course Curriculum
| Module | What you cover | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Understanding the Site | Site intelligence and pre-design logic (topography, zoning, access, utilities), plus an on-site visit to a pre-construction site | 4 hour |
| Advanced Design Concepts and Sustainability | Advanced space planning, sustainable and inclusive design, technology integration such as parametric design, 3D visualization and VR, smart homes, and advanced materials and textiles | 4 hour |
| Construction Logic and Technical Coordination | Construction sequencing, drawing types, and coordination between trades, plus a mid-construction site visit and a site-problem simulation workshop | 10 hour |
| Design Trends, Business, and Marketing | Global design trends, adaptive reuse, and luxury residential design, plus freelance business setup, pricing, marketing, and portfolio presentation for interior designers | 10 hour |
| Joinery and Material Execution | Materials and joinery basics, plus a hands-on carpentry workshop building a cabinet or shelf | 10 hour |
| Execution Simulation and Final Review | A site-change challenge brief, a capstone project presentation to a jury panel, and course wrap-up | 10 hour |
Who This Course Is For
Architecture and interior design graduates preparing to enter practice. Architects or interior designers with 12 or more years of experience are also welcome as guest participants.
Certification
Students who complete the course, based on attendance and project performance, receive the CIS Innovation Hub Achievement Certificate.
Target audiences
- Architecture and Interior Design graduates
- Architects or interior designers with 12+ years of experience (guest audience)
Requirements
- Background in architecture or interior design at recent-graduate level
- Ability to attend on-site workshop and site visit sessions
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