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The specific purpose of interior design is that it transposes ideas, emotions, associations and projections in spatial forms, and stages them atmospherically.
Thus, interior designers are “spatial artists” whose mission it is to develop a designed environment – complex, differentiated, goal-oriented and integral. They are mediators of analytical realities and new planning concepts – theoretically verbalised and graphically tangible; they are artistic and technical designers, down to the finest detail. They are implementers of ideas, tastemakers, advisors and supervisors of tasks in all areas of society.
The task of designing the public and private environment is a great responsibility. It requires a profound knowledge of space and form phenomena, of the liberal arts and their interdisciplinary relationships, as well as a comprehensive training in the theory, history and methodology of space.
The Detmold Master’s Programme in Interior Design provides the foundations for this mission in the form of specialised and expanded approaches to the phenomena, functions and interpretations of space, by means of a complex artistic, technical and scientific range of courses. The basis for this is a concentration and interconnection of such specific facilities as a spatial lab, a light lab, a colour studio, a materials lab, CAD and multimedia labs, and a scenography studio. The nurturing of relevant skills is greatly facilitated by access to these resources. Access is also available to a range of associated expertise in co-operating institutions and companies in the vicinity of Detmold. This environment ensures an excellent and varied range of opportunities for the student.