In the complex and rapidly changing urban ecosystem of the 21st century, the discipline of Interior Design – sometimes redefined as Interior Urbanism – plays a critical role.
Driving modern concepts like sustainability, urban renewal, mixed-use development, or repurposing architectural spaces, interior designers become agents of change, impacting the social, cultural, economic and technological arenas in vast cities and megacities.
At the same time, interior designers create our most intimate surroundings, using both new and traditional materials and technologies to address our personal, social and physical needs.
HIT’s Department of Interior Design is home to generations of students.Placing the designer at center stage, we teach our students to think creatively, disrupt conventions and become agents of change in the modern urban environment.
Throughout their studies they explore materials, methods and technologies, acquiring extensive knowledge and a wide range of skills for designing any project – from large spaces to the smallest details.
The Interior Design curriculum is structured as a sequence of modules – knowledge units addressing a chosen conceptual theme which changes every semester (Purpose, Borderline, Mold, Representation, Identity, Context, Standpoint).
Each module functions as an Integrative Studio to which teachers bring different perspectives from their respective disciplines, while satellite courses offer cutting-edge content in Media, Technology and Theory.
This structure facilitates broad sharing and faculty involvement, while encouraging teamwork, responsibility, creativity, investigation and experimentation. Opportunities for hands-on experience are provided through the special Clinics program, in which students address real-world challenges posed by clients from various organizations.
Studies at the Department of Interior Design culminate with a final project – involving research and innovative thinking and bringing into play the vast knowhow acquired through the program. Most final projects seek solutions for real social or environmental issues faced by Israeli society today.
The program’s graduates are in great demand in the Israeli marketplace, rising to key positions in leading architectural and interior design firms, and often establishing their own successful design agencies. Many of our alumni return to us in mid-career as teachers, to take part in educating the next generation of forward-thinking interior designers.
The program’s faculty members are all professional interior designers and architects who bring valuable practical experience to the studio and are highly dedicated to their students and educational mission.