"Anyone can be creative. It’s rewriting other people that’s difficult."
Bertold Brecht

Edinburgh is a vertiginous maze of stone buildings and alleys overlooking the North Sea. Once a year, in August, it plays host to the world’s largest festival of the performing arts. Overlooking the ancient castle, Edinburgh College of Art is small institution of about 1,500 students; but it offers a huge range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Fine Arts to Architecture, Visual Communications, and Design.

Interior design and Furniture share a state of the art studio and workshop, in which all students have their own spaces, and access to facilities from traditional drawing boards to digital repro, wireless internet access, and a modelmaking workshop. Interior design at eca offers a strong grounding in both theoretical/cultural and practical aspects of Interiors. A relaxed regime of study encourages students not only to resolve design projects in depth and with freedom, but to reflect upon them to a similar degree. Students address issues from architectural renovation, to lighting, exhibition and interpretive projects; but at the heart of every project is the unanswered, critical question, which can only be answered by the student: "What is Interior Design?"