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Taylor’s University launched a first-of-its-kind programme in Malaysia, the Bachelor of Interactive Spatial Design (Honours) to produce future-ready graduates to meet the demand for digital talent. Offered under the Faculty of Innovation and Technology, the programme is fabricated to nurture students with transferable soft skills such as critical thinking, effective communication, creativity, and adaptability to greatly boost success in the working environment, apart from broad-based knowledge attained.

The course will teach the theoretical foundations of spatial design alongside immersive technology and automation content for indoor and outdoor environments. In addition, the innovative programme is complemented by Southeast Asia’s world-class future of extended reality (XR) learning centre, Taylor’s Virtual Online Future Technology & Extended Reality (VORTEX XR Lab).

The XR facility integrating augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) with an investment of more than RM1.2 million has access to the latest real-life extended reality equipment and specialised skills, useful for teaching and learning content creation as well as for ideation, designing, and prototyping immersive experiences – in line with the varsity’s ongoing XR efforts, its journey to transform its curriculum and pedagogy by embedding tech skills and modules into degrees, and the overall growth of immersive technologies.

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Interactive Spatial Design is the Future in Smart Homes Design and Smart Environment Design

Vortex Lab at Taylor's University — Vortex Lab at Taylor’s University

The Bachelor of Interactive Spatial Design (Hons) programme at Taylor’s is designed to answer current world demands with technological advancement. Engaged through immersive learning, students will learn the theoretical foundations of spatial design alongside immersive technology and automation content for indoor and outdoor environments.

Global research and advisory firm Gartner predicted that 70% of enterprises especially the retail sector will be experimenting with immersive technologies for consumers. Thus, graduates are not only needed to fulfil Malaysia’s 2050 vision for highly functional living that is driven by immersive technology but are also needed to meet the demand for such skills.

The programme offers two specialisations, Smart Homes Design and Smart Environment Design, and students have three learning track options to choose from – conventional internship, work-based learning experience with industry partners such as FrameMotion Studio Sdn Bhd, Virtual X Malaysia, Ministry XR, HONOR and IMT Smart Home, or the technopreneurship mode that provides students an opportunity to start a business with mentorship by Taylor’s University’s entrepreneur start-up incubator, BizPod.

The Smart Homes Design specialisation produces designers to create a personalised smart living space that can operate automatically, catering to individual needs and living styles, while the Smart Environment Design specialisation designs experience to change the way we interact with products and consume information using spatial technologies.

The programme focuses on producing digitally design savvy designers, technologist and techpreneurs to stimulate immersive spatial experiences of urban spaces, performances, museums, galleries, and many more. The discipline combines digital technology and traditional spatial design principles to improve the ways we interact with our surroundings as we have been using the environment as a medium to promote play, engagement, and communication.

Today, brands and businesses are eager to take advantage of spatial-based technologies to engage their customers with interactive spatial experiences for marketing or social benefits. Besides, the design market size is expected to gain market growth with a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 7.9% reaching 214,860 million by 2025. Hence, there is a growing demand for spatial designers who are able to design with interaction and space in mind.

What is Spatial Design?

VORTEX XR Lab crew member demonstrating real time environment scanning around Taylor's Lakeside Campus using a Matterport, and how it captures and connects spaces recreating interactive 3D construction sites — VORTEX XR Lab crew member demonstrating real time environment scanning around Taylor’s Lakeside Campus using a Matterport, and how it captures and connects spaces recreating interactive 3D construction sites

Spatial Design is a newly evolving design concept and methodology that integrates and surpasses the established concepts of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, landscape design, public art, etc. It is radical in the way that it changes how a designer thinks about space and people. Keeping them at the nucleus of the design, it focuses on the flow of space between interior and exterior. To put it simply, it is the holistic field that is now bringing together the other architectural and design concepts.

Traditional fields of design like architecture and interior design take into consideration the factors of space and people, but spatial design takes it to a whole new level. It does so by introducing the concept of sustainability principles into the whole design process. The key idea which a spatial designer will consider is space location.

Working from the inside out, spatial designers think about how spaces feel, how they are organised and how they might enrich the lives of those experiencing them. What makes a space intimate, culturally relevant, or public? What makes space feel right in these different contexts?

Spatial designers study how people move and interact in the spaces that matter to them, then design ways to improve them. This includes looking at how we interact with and are affected by space as well as the appearance of these spaces. Typically people adapt to the particular limitations of settings and environments they find themselves in, accepting these as given. Yet every setting is rich in renovative possibilities, harbouring changes that can make a world of transformative difference.

With each project spatial designers research and develop a deep understanding of existing places, people, stories, and activities. They look for innovative, sustainable ways of working with materials, adapting and reusing wherever possible. They collaborate with other designers and community stakeholders, while bringing their own cultural and personal perspectives.

What Type of Knowledge and Skills will You Require to be a Spatial Designer?

Bachelor of Interactive Spatial Design (Honours) at Taylor's University to Foster Digital Talent in Malaysia — Bachelor of Interactive Spatial Design (Honours) at Taylor’s University to Foster Digital Talent in Malaysia

Creative capacity to imagine, invent and shape existing or new spaces
Able to synthesise diverse needs and ideas into a coherent and inspiring whole
Ability to visualise effective, stimulating spatial possibilities for complex problems/situations
Capacity to create ingenious designs despite time, resources or other factors presenting barriers
Ability to communicate convincingly through design ideas, text, personal discussion and verbal presentation
Experienced in consulting, negotiating and discussing concepts, projects and plans with clients, colleagues, suppliers and industry officials
Consistently works with accuracy and strong attention to detail
Most roles require skills with design applications such as Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Rhinosorus and Revit, as well as AutoCAD software.

Taylor’s Virtual Online Future Technology & Extended Reality (VORTEX XR Lab)

Taylor's Vortex Extended Reality Lab — Taylor’s Vortex Extended Reality Lab

The innovative programme is complemented by Southeast Asia’s world-class future of extended reality (XR) learning centre, Taylor’s Virtual Online Future Technology & Extended Reality (VORTEX XR Lab).

With an investment of more than RM1.2 million, Taylor’s University offers access to the latest XR equipment and specialised skills. These will prove to be useful for ideation, designing, and prototyping immersive experiences, increasingly in-demand skills for graduates in this day and age.

The XR facility integrating augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) has access to the latest real-life extended reality equipment and specialised skills, useful for teaching and learning content creation as well as for ideation, designing, and prototyping immersive experiences – in line with the varsity’s ongoing XR efforts, its journey to transform its curriculum and pedagogy by embedding tech skills and modules into degrees, and the overall growth of immersive technologies.

What will You Study in the Interactive Spatial Design Degree at Taylor’s?

X-Space : Taylor’s University Collaborative Classroom

The programme focuses on producing savvy digital designers, technologists, as well as techpreneurs to stimulate immersive spatial experiences of urban spaces, performances, museums, galleries, and more.

The Bachelor of Interactive Spatial Design at Taylor’s University is designed to answer current world demands with technological advancement. Engaged through immersive learning, students will learn the theoretical foundations of spatial design alongside immersive technology and automation content for indoor and outdoor environments. Taylor’s is the first university in Malaysia to offer the Bachelor of Interactive Spatial Design (Honours).

Learn theoretical foundations of spatial design, alongside interactive technology and smart automation content for interior and exterior environments, through immersive experiences. The Interactive Spatial Design programme at Taylor’s University focuses on engaging physical, augmented reality, virtual, and interactive environment-based design content to stimulate spatial engagement, customisation, and connectedness. Graduate as a creative and digitally savvy designer and technopreneur, equipped with interdisciplinary future-making spatial skills and processes.

Students will be able to choose from two specialisations — Smart Homes Design and Smart Environment Design in this three-year full-time degree programme.

The Smart Homes Design specialisation produces designers who create personalised smart living spaces that can operate automatically, catering to individual needs and living styles, while the Smart Environment Design specialisation focuses on changing the way we interact with products and consume information using spatial technologies.

Why Study Interactive Spatial Design at Taylor’s?

Malaysia’s 1st private university to offer the Bachelor of Interactive Spatial Design (Honours), designed to answer current world demands with technology advancement. It is action-driven learning using the latest XR equipment & specialised skills – useful for ideation, designing & prototyping immersive experiences.

Furthermore it Encompasses Smart Environment Design & Smart Homes Design, focusing on interactive experiences through smart devices, digital sensors & display media.

There are three learning track options students can pursue, one being a conventional internship with a multidisciplinary project.

The other two comprise a work-based learning experience with industry partners such as FrameMotion Studio Sdn Bhd, Virtual X Malaysia, Ministry XR, HONOR, and IMT Smart Home, as well as a technopreneurship mode, which provides students with an opportunity to start a business with mentorship by Taylor’s University’s entrepreneur start-up incubator, BizPod.