BA (Hons) Interior Design Architecture
Blend your artistic flair with technology and design, to create innovative and attractive indoor spaces for both domestic and commercial use on this SBID accredited degree.
View courseDr Rara Warakanyaka
Senior Lecturer
Department of Art and Music
Room no. JM309
Biography
Rara Warakanyaka is an educator, researcher and interior architect whose work explores the relationship between interior practice and the urban environment. Her research particularly examines how informal and everyday spatial practices can act as catalysts for creating more liveable, socially equitable, and inclusive cities.
As a Senior Lecturer, Rara teaches across both interior design decoration and interior design architecture courses, bringing socially engaged and sustainable perspectives to the practical and architectural dimensions of interior design education. Her teaching integrates critical thinking with design practice, encouraging students to consider the broader social, cultural and environmental impact of interior design.
Rara holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, where her doctoral thesis, Inside/Out: Street Vending and Participatory Interior Urbanism in Jakarta, investigated informal urban practices and participatory approaches to interior urbanism.
She has worked in Higher Education since 2012 and has taught internationally across Indonesia, China and the United Kingdom.
Further information
2023 – present: Senior Lecturer in BA (Hons) Interior Design Architecture and BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration, Southampton Solent University
2018 – 2019: Senior Teaching Fellow (Flying Academic) in Fashion Interior Design at Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation (SCF), University of Edinburgh
2016 – 2018: Lecturer in B.Arch. Interior Architecture, Universitas Indonesia
2012 – 2014: Teaching Assistant in B.Arch. Interior Architecture, Universitas Indonesia
Courses
BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration
With award-winning graduates and a teaching team of industry professionals, our SBID-accredited degree will provide you with the design skills to turn your vision into reality.
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