Spatial designers create places for people to live, work, play and imagine. 

Studying the Spatial Design major to prepare for a career designing interiors, furniture, exhibitions, events, outdoor spaces, retail environments, scenes for stage and film, and art installations.

As a spatial design student, you unlock the potential of places by designing spatial environments that support, influence, and transform how humans live now and into the future. 

At AUT you’ll learn from an expert team who has been teaching spatial and interior designers for nearly forty years.

In AUT's studios, you’ll work on design briefs across the whole field of spatial design. 

The university encourages you to find your standpoint and voice and respond imaginatively to your place in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. 

You test and evolve your ideas through drawings, models, digital simulations, and hands-on prototypes, and work with community and industry partners.

What you study

At AUT spatial design degree is highly interdisciplinary, so there are lots of opportunities to cross over with disciplines like visual art, textiles, industrial design, and others; and the option to continue into postgraduate study in either design or architecture.

Key features

• Hands-on, studio-based learning
• A blend of practical, imaginative, and critical thinking
• Learn to visualize space using models, drawings, digital simulation, and physical prototypes
• Unlock the potential of existing buildings and places through innovative design
• Develop a flexible and collaborative creative process

• Certified copy of your birth certificate or passport
• Certified copy of marriage certificate (If required)
• Official academic transcripts
• English Language Proficiency (If Available)
• CV/Work experience (If required)
• A copy of the document(s) in the original language/and official English translation
• Portfolio

1_ All applicants need to meet AUT’s minimum entry requirements qualification equivalent to New Zealand year 13 or University Entrance.

High school qualifications from different countries:

India: 

• 12 years of schooling with an overall average of 75% in four academic subjects, including a min 60% in English from the All-India Senior Certificate (AISSC).
• All other Higher Secondary State Board Examinations require an overall average of 80% in four academic subjects with a min 65% in English.

China:

• Senior High School graduation plus one year of successful study at bachelor's level; or
• Senior High School graduation plus completion of a two-year diploma, with good grades, at a recognized university.
• A Tier 1 score in the National University Entrance Examination (Gaokao) at a recognized institution

2_ They must have a portfolio of creative and design work.

Don’t meet the entry requirements?

Consider starting with Tītohu mō te Hoahoa - Diploma in Design.

Foundation programmes

If you don’t have the academic qualifications needed for direct entry into an AUT programme, you can enroll in a foundation programme.

If you successfully complete the foundation programme and get the required grades, you are guaranteed entry into an appropriate AUT programme.