Interior architecture is defined as the study of spaces and spatial experiences, using the language of architecture, and with the goal of addressing and resolving issues of habitation. Interior Architecture at Victoria teaches students to design the 3D 'architecture' of an interior. In this sense it is very different from interior 'design' programs offered elsewhere in New Zealand, that deal only with 2D surface treatments. Interior Architecture students have a unique advantage in sharing common courses with Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architecture History and Theory and Building Science students, within a facility devoted to the study of the built environment. Students are trained to take a strong personal position in relation to design, to experiment and to reflect on the implications of their design position. Our aim is to prepare students for leadership roles in the interior discipline. Our Interior Architecture graduates are trained to become specialists in the design of architectural space and spatial experience. Students are taught to explore how time, movement and perception challenge presumed boundaries between the pragmatic and the theoretical, and even between the habitable and the mythological. Our graduates have gone on to design spaces for buildings, spaces for cities, spaces for movie narratives, spaces for video games—any career that requires a specialized knowledge of how we interact within space.