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OCA Interior Design: Gingerbread City, London, December 2024

Posted: 16/01/25 09:25 | 3 Comments

You might make and decorate a gingerbread house at Christmas time, but could you make a whole city? Gingerbread City is an exhibition of just that—a city made from decorated gingerbread. It might seem irrelevant to those studying interior design and something more like a children’s holiday activity, but this gingerbread city is made by very experienced design professionals, and the annual competition is taken very seriously!

Interior Educators conference 2024

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Posted: 08/01/25 07:01 | 2 Comments

The main reason to seek out opportunities such as these is that it helps you keep up to date with current thinking (around whatever the subject matter is) and exposes you to new ideas that you may not have thought about before.

Interior Design – Competition time!

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Posted: 28/03/24 04:24 | 3 Comments

The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) has recently announced that entry is now open for their 2024 Student Drawing Competition.

Critical reviews in Interior Design

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Posted: 19/01/24 10:05 | 10 Comments

Just before Christmas I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in some first year student reviews with the Interior Architecture degree course at Westminster University in London. As a tutor it’s really helpful for me to see the work of students at other institutions so that I have an idea of the wider picture of Interior Design education (and student output) in the UK today.

Introducing our Interior Design External Examiner, Marianna Velissaropoulou

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Posted: 09/11/23 10:07 | 3 Comments

With assessment events held regularly three times a year, many of you will be familiar with what happens once you have completed the final assignment of your unit. But you might not know what happens in between the point that OCA staff have assessed your work, and the day that the confirmed result comes to you. Our current external examiner agreed to answer a few questions to throw some light on her role, what she most enjoys about being an external examiner with us at OCA, and whether she has any hints and tips for you as Interior Design students going forward for assessment.

Department stories: Interior Design

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Posted: 17/07/23 09:31 | 7 Comments

The Architecture Room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has been curated this year by architect Peter Barber. The work on display shows enormous variety in approaches to spatial model making, and underlines the necessity of using this hands-on physical method of design development as a way of experimenting freely and creatively.