Japan, known as the "top class of interior design", has no interior design major? Japanese aesthetics is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In addition to the well-known representative brands in Japan, the wider style influence also comes from the popular Japanese architecture and home design. Whether "experts" or not, we can always see that it is Japanese style when we walk into a space.
But even though it is known as the representative of the "trendy ICON" in the field of interior design, we find that there seems to be no interior design major in Japanese colleges and universities. Most seemingly similar disciplines are set up in the Department of Architecture, the Department of Space Science and even the Department of Industry, and most of the major names are environmental design, space interpretation, etc
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Japanese Interior Design
So, is there really no interior design major in Japan?
These majors are closely related to European and American art colleges and domestic colleges
Is there any difference between Interior Design/Interior Design?
Which university is the founder of "Japanese style"?
Next, we will learn more about the representative specialty of Tokyo Wumei!
Musashino, as the most famous and popular art school among the five beauties in Tokyo, the design discipline represented by the graphic field is more prominent. However, when we searched the official website, we only found a major named Space Performance Design Department, which seems to be more related to stage design. However, when we carefully reviewed the professional introduction and teachers, we found that this major not only includes interior design but also gives space a broader design concept.
Tokyo University of Plastic Arts is the first small-scale university of art and design in Japan named after "Shaxing", which has become an ideal college for many students applying for Japanese colleges and universities with its super high teaching level and teacher student ratio. The interior design direction of Tokyo University of Plastic Arts is a very representative interior architecture department in Japan.
The interior design of Japan Women's University of Fine Arts belongs to the Department of Environmental Design. Students need to learn the fields of creation, ranging from interior furniture/display design to interior/architectural design of public facilities (such as shops, museums, residences), and even all internal and connected external spaces, such as landscape design of parks/cities, urban planning, etc.
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Environmental Design of Tama University of Fine Arts
In the other two five beauty colleges in Tokyo, the interior design of Tama University of Fine Arts belongs to the field of environmental design, covering different directions such as architecture, interior, landscape, and home furnishing. It is a very comprehensive space design discipline.
The art department of Japanese universities is special. Similar to many domestic universities, students at the undergraduate level need to learn the basic knowledge of all art disciplines in the first year, and then they will be divided into different art majors in the second year. Interior design is included in the space department, which mainly studies space display and home design.
The interior design at the graduate stage largely depends on the research direction of the tutor in charge of the students, and the courses also focus on practical projects, but the Japanese Art teachers are very strong. Aoyama Gangchang, the author of "Detective Conan", graduated here and served as a guest professor. It is suggested that interested students can carefully investigate the tutor's background before making a choice~
Above all, we have made a systematic analysis of the interior design related majors of Wumei in Tokyo, from which we can see that five colleges and universities seek common ground while reserving differences. No matter what the major name is, they spread the concept of "interior" in their teaching philosophy to the whole interior and exterior space, neither defining the subject nor limiting the style, leading students to explore and practice more possibilities of space design.
This is also the real core of Japanese interior design style, which attaches importance to "people-oriented", emphasizes the unity of function and beauty, and creates an atmosphere. The above five colleges and universities are just one of the epitomes of Japan's interior design discipline, and other art colleges and universities will do more interdisciplinary practice in different fields such as interior, products and industry.
Secondly, since most Japanese graduate disciplines adopt the tutor system, students need to do detailed homework on each tutor's work style and research direction in advance, and choose colleges according to their future research plans and interests.
Similarly, for training institutions and portfolio counseling, students need to find more professional institutions for studying in Japan to ensure the best application results.
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