Interior Architecture and Spatial Design BA Welcome Pack

Welcome to Interior Architecture and Spatial Design BA 2024.

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to your studies at the University of Northampton. The purpose of this document is to help you prepare for coming to study with us and give you an opportunity to meet members of your programme team as well as other students who’ve chosen the same course. We want to make sure that you are inspired, anchored, prepared, and enabled to succeed.

Through engaging with our welcome and induction activities you will get to know your super-supportive tutors, have a chance to make new friends and be able to access what you need to know and do to start studying successfully. Ultimately, we want you to feel confident about how you will learn.

This Welcome Pack covers the following key areas:

• A welcome message from your Programme Leader
• Details of online Welcome and Induction sessions scheduled during the second half of August and the first three weeks in September
• Technical information to make joining these sessions as easy as possible
• What happens during Welcome and Induction Week – meeting with your Personal Tutor and other University-wide events

Welcome – Your Programme Leader

The BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Spatial Design (iasd) course sits within the Department of Art and Design and is taught primarily in the Creative Hub building.

The iasd course gives you the opportunity to be part of a challenging and rewarding experience, both in terms of your personal development and for your vocational aspirations. With its combination of visual communication, spatial design awareness and professional practice skills, together with your development as a questioning individual, your enthusiasm and endeavours will make our vision a success.

Our curriculum engages with real local, regional and global issues through which we seek innovative spatial, sustainable and technical solutions. iasd provides students with an appreciation for and an understanding of place making. We work with light, material and surface qualities to propose places that have distinctive atmospheres.

The structure of our iasd course enables students to develop challenging design solutions that benefit society as well as contributing to their broader understanding of interior architectural design as a professional pathway.

Interior Architecture and Spatial Design team is made up of lecturing and technical support staff that work in the Creative Hub.  We also, from time to time, draw on the expertise of staff working in other design subject disciplines within the Department of Art and Design.  The key members of staff within the Department responsible for iasd are:

Programme Leader

Angelique Wisse

Senior Lecturer in Interior Design

Angelique.Wisse@northampton.ac.uk

Lecturing Staff

• Nasir Ahmed Naz.Ahmed@northampton.ac.uk
• Susan Jacobs Susan.Jacobs@northampton.ac.uk
• Angelique Wisse Angelique.Wisse@northampton.ac.uk
• Graham Stretton Graham.Stretton@northampton.ac.uk

Associate Lecturers

• Karin Johnstone Karin.Johnstone@northampton.ac.uk
• Claire Speedie  Claire.Speedie@northampton.ac.uk
• Nicola Wombwell Nicola.Wombwell@northampton.ac.uk

Head of Subject (Art and Design)

• Alex Taylor Alexis.Taylor@northampton.ac.uk

Alex is the third year lead tutor in Graphic Design and provides specialist input on numerous iasd modules through lectures and tutorials.

Technical Demonstrators

• Jason Duggan Jason.Duggan@northampton.ac.uk
• Paul Tallon Paul.Tallon@northampton.ac.uk