O Ensaio
Neuza Pires
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Undergraduate in Design
Interior Design
In Interior Design you will find appropriate technical, historical and cultural preparation. You'll be able to explore different forms of spatiality and ways of experiencing them. Through ideation and drawing, modelling and digital models, you'll have the opportunity to design and develop equipment and work on the lighting dimension, intervening in various types of environments. Between the home and the commercial space, the permanent and the ephemeral, you'll be able to create new forms of intervention for future ways of living.
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Professional Future
- Interior Designer in Design or Architecture Ateliers
- Furniture and Lighting Designer
- 3D Visualisation and Modelling Artist
- Interior Decoration and Styling Consultant
- Interior Project Manager / Construction Coordinator
- Professional in Set Design and Ephemeral Spaces
- CAD/BIM Technician in Design and Architecture Offices
- Trainer, Teacher and/or Researcher
- Interior Designer for Television and Audiovisual Production
- Home Staging Specialist
- Visual Merchandising and Window Display Specialist
- Sustainable Design Consultant
- Virtual Interior Designer
Creative processes and tangible outcomes
Projects
Critical, practice-based and contextual learning
Objectives
- Develop and cultivate a capacity for critical analysis and active observation for intervention in different project contexts.
- Experiment with possible methodological approaches depending on the intervention space.
- Explore tools for the manipulation and construction of spaces suited to the explicit and implicit needs of future users.
- Handle suitable tools for project representation and presentation.
Structure, content and learning progression
Curriculum
Semester — 1
Design Fundamentals 75 HC 8 ECTS
Design and Technologies 45 HC 4 ECTS
Drawing I 60 HC 4 ECTS
Interaction Design 45 HC 4 ECTS
Geometry and Projection 30 HC 4 ECTS
Themes of Contemporary Culture 30 HC 3 ECTS
Theory of Perception 30 HC 3 ECTS
Semester — 2
Semester — 3
Semester — 4
Semester — 5
Semester — 6
Electives
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Applications and Admissions
Profile
Dialogue between design, industry and culture
Partnerships
The Undergraduate Programme in Interior Design is also a space for contact with reality and the labour market, through partnerships with institutions and companies in the industrial and real estate sectors.
- Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos
- Câmara Municipal da Maia
- Câmara Municipal de Santo Tirso
- Câmara Municipal do Porto
- Matosinhos Habit
- Maia Ambiente
- Rar Imobiliária
- IKEA
- Mar Shopping
- Centro Comercial Brasília
Teaching, practice and research
Faculty
Year 2026–2027
Tuition Fee
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Scholarships
Enriching lives, opening minds
Erasmus+
Workshops, talks, exhibitions and on-site experiences
Agenda & Events
Undergraduate 2026/2027
Calendar
School Activities
● 1.º semestre · 21.09.2026 — 22.01.2027
● 2.º semestre · 18.02 — 22.06.2027
School closures
● Restauração da Independência · 30.11 — 01.12.2026
● Natal e Ano Novo · 21.12.2026 — 03.01.2027
● Carnaval · 08 — 10.02.2027
● Páscoa · 22 — 29.03.2027
● Queima das Fitas · 03 — 07.05.2027
● Sr. Matosinhos · 18.05.2027 · 12:00 — 12:00
● Corpo de Deus · 27 — 28.05.2027
Assessments
Publication
● 1.º Semestre · 25 — 29.01.2027
● 2.º Semestre · 28.06 — 02.07.2027
Exams
● Época de recurso — 1.º semestre — Inscrição · 01 — 02.02.2027
● Época de recurso — 1.º semestre · 04 — 17.02.2027
● Época de recurso — 2.º semestre — Inscrição · 05 — 06.07.2027
● Época de recurso — 2.º semestre · 12 — 23.07.2027
● Época especial — Inscrição · 02 — 03.09.2027
● Época especial · 06 — 10.09.2027
Special Statutes
● Entrega dos Pedidos de Estatuto de estudantes com necessidades educativas especiais · 23.10.2026 · 09:00 — 09:00
● 1.º Semestre — Entrega dos pedidos de Estatuto de estudante praticante desportivo de alto rendimento ou de Estatuto de estudante-trabalhador · 30.10.2026 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 2.º Semestre — Entrega dos pedidos de Estatuto de estudante praticante desportivo de alto rendimento ou de Estatuto de estudante-trabalhador · 26.02.2027 · 23:00 — 23:00
Change of Class
● 1.º Semestre — Apresentação do pedido de anulação da inscrição · 07.10.2026 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 1.º Semestre — Apresentação de pedidos de mudança de turma · 09.10.2026 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 2.º Semestre — Apresentação de pedidos de mudança de turma · 26.02.2027 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 2.º Semestre — Apresentação do pedido de anulação da inscrição · 26.02.2027 · 23:00 — 23:00
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