MA/PgCert/PgDip Interior Design Innovation in Cambridge United Kingdom | Anglia Ruskin University

Expand your interior design expertise and spatial concepts beyond conventional limits, embracing speculative, analytical, and entrepreneurial methods that span from individual rooms to entire urban landscapes. Drive meaningful societal, health, and environmental impact through ethical, systemic advancements in built spaces. With urbanization nearing 70% and people spending 90% of their lives indoors, interior designers now hold unprecedented influence in enhancing quality of life—crafting intelligent, interconnected spaces, services, and experiences that are both shared and purposeful.

Enrolling in ARU's MA Interior Design Innovation program equips you with the theoretical foundations, practical abilities, and leadership insights needed to shape tomorrow's living, working, learning, and leisure environments.

You'll explore smart city concepts through an interior design lens while addressing global health and wellbeing challenges—mental, physical, emotional, and social—by reimagining existing spaces and experiences. These may encompass retail, exhibitions, entertainment, housing, hospitality, urban interactions, and transportation. Studying in Cambridge's startup-inspired setting fosters creative problem-solving within a collaborative culture that encourages open idea exchange and relationship-building.

You'll benefit from mentorship by industry-experienced faculty who maintain active studio practices and have collaborated with leading firms like OMA, Fitch, Ford, Ramboll, Transport Research London, and Samsung.

The program's creative flexibility yields diverse outcomes rooted in design futuring—exploring design's expanded ethical and professional applications—from rethinking retail and leisure to transforming hospitality, housing, and mobility solutions.

Our curriculum integrates guest lectures and real-world industry projects focusing on smart cities, intelligent mobility, architecture, digital interactivity, advanced materials, retail branding, hospitality, and accessible environments.