Some ideas for upskilling during lockdown

It is not too late to join this edX MOOC! 

Although the MOOC is aimed at school leavers and those interested in the built environment and spatial design professions, it is a good refresher for any student in architecture, interior design, planning, urban design or landscape design. 

'What do architects and urban planners do?

We practice in the built environment’s “hidden professions”. Why hidden? Because people live, work and play daily in the spaces that we design, but seldom see us at work. This MOOC was conceived to show how these spaces are designed and what different spatial design professionals – urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects, architects and interior architects – actually do.

This MOOC is targeted at school leavers and students considering career choices, potential clients and anyone who is curious about the built environment. Whether you want to find out whether you would enjoy doing these jobs, who to appoint to design your project and what to expect, how to prepare yourself to study in these fields, or are simply interested in the world around you, we hope that this course will answer some of your questions.

We will take you through a brief introduction to cities and the need for design professionals, define each profession’s scope of work and then take a more detailed look at one example of each profession’s involvement in a regional project. Finally, we will discuss how spatial design professions collaborate with others and summarise the skills required for these jobs.'

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