focus

Scenic and set design

What you may learn

How to design performance spaces from scripts and creative ideas. You use drawings and models to explore space, movement and visual storytelling.

What to check

Check for script analysis, spatial models, technical drawings and collaborative production projects. Check theatre or film coverage and supervised construction safety.

Scenic design concerns sets and performance spaces. Costume design concerns clothing. This focus does not confer structural design authority. Related fields are optional alternatives.

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Connected careers

Scenic design teaches you to turn scripts into ideas for performance spaces. Drawing and model projects help you explain those ideas.

Check for script analysis, spatial models and collaborative production projects. Check theatre or film coverage and supervised construction safety.

Sources and limitations

BA (Hons) Theatre and Performance Design: Wimbledon course units · University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts · 2026-10-11

The curriculum concerns live performance. It does not establish film set workflows, structural sign-off or independent stage construction competence.

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