Contenido
Design - Made in Italy .
Summer and Winter courses - Florence.
Credits: 6 CF
Duration: 4 weeks
Attendance: full-time
Language: English
The course Design - Made in Italy intends to provide a basic understanding of the design industry and Made in italy system. In particular, the program aims at highlighting the close link between the development of a product concept and the manufacturing skills and values.
The course aims at giving to young designers the awareness of Made in Italy values and a basic understanding of supply chain processes that create the final product quality.
The course trains junior product designer, product engineers, communication professionals with a proper knowledge about the tangible and intangible values of made in Italy product or craftsmen with a basic knowledge about design.
Description.
The course introduces students to the historical, geographic, artistic and cultural forces that contributed to Italy’s premier role for creative and artistic design in all fields. We consider technology, frequent innovation for craftwork manufacturing approach as the basis of the success of the “Italian design system”.
The education program explains the socio-cultural environments of major artistic movements and craft-based manufacturing processes. In particular the course focuses on relationship between design processes and the historical “saper fare” (know-how) design industries.
The course intends to demonstrate through individual and group presentations how design has multiple implications and applications in the high-end manufacturing processes.
IED:
Structures and Facilities:
From classrooms dedicated to academic lessons, to communal spaces at disposition of the student, and relying on skilled personnel, IED built structures and facilities aimed to transforming “know” into “know how to do”.
Classrooms:
All the activities held in classrooms are planned to translate theory into experience, for this reason every classroom is provided with educational and research tools: computers with Mac OS X and Windows, projectors, sound stystems.