Interior Design
Undergraduate Courses - Milan
- Credits: 180
- Duration: 3 years
- Attendance: Full-time
- Language: English
Main goal of the course is training students to design spaces merging feelings and perceptions with a rigorous functional disposition. They learn to interact with the Italian design system, that complex and unique network of relations among Italian/international Designers, schools, Made in Italy businesses producing furniture/lamps and customer companies.
Students learn those expressive tools that allow to develop, assess and explain a project from the briefing to the final creation and communication: the pencil, 3D modelling and rendering software.
Title - The First Level Academic Diploma is recognized by MIUR (Ministry for Education, University and Research) and equated with the Bachelor’s Degree issued by Universities.
Description
Context – The global market has a growing demand for eclectic interior designers with competences both in the architectural composition of a space and in the design of services, to organize and improve the relation between space and people.
Methodology and structure - The student acquires a broad range of competences: cultural, technical and project based. Cultural elements connected to design, architecture and art but also sociology and anthropology are all subjects of study, necessary to comprehend the evolutionary phenomena of behaviour.
Students are introduced to marketing, an essential tool for analysing brand values and market positioning of the companies the interior designer collaborates with. They gain their own solid project development method that, starting from ethical, social and sustainable values, allow them to acquire a mindset for strategic design. Once the design mindset has been defined, an accurate definition of spaces highlighting of psychological and physical wellbeing is developed through a careful use of materials, colours and lights.
To this end, the Designer must possess those expressive tools allowing to develop, assess and explain the project: the pencil, 3-D modelling and rendering software.
Career opportunities – Interior Designer, Exhibit Designer, Retail Designer, Restaurant Designer, Set Designer, Designer for Hospitality, Service Designer.
Subjects
I year
Perception Theory and the Psychology of Form
Design Methods
Drafting
Drafting
Drafting
Graphic Design
Material Typologies 1
History of Contemporary Art
History of Contemporary Art
History of Design 1
History of Design 1
Modeling Building 1
Modeling Building1
Modeling Building1
Introduction to Cultural Marketing
Introduction to Cultural Marketing
Design 1
Design 1
II year
Sociology of Culture
Sociology of Culture
Drawing Techniques and Technologies
Drawing Techniques and Technologies
Materials Typologies 2
Materials Typologies 2
Design 2
Design 2
History of Contemporary Architecture 1
History of Contemporary Architecture 1
3D Computer Model-Making Techniques
3D Computer Model-Making Techniques
Modeling Techniques 2
Modeling Techniques 2
History of Design 2
History of Design 2
Design Management
Design Management
Product Design
Product Design
Product Design
III year
Virtual Architecture
Virtual Architecture
Virtual Architecture
Layout and Techniques
Layout and Techniques
Layout and Techniques
Design 3
Design 3
Design 3
Design 4
Design 4
Design 4
Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts
Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts
Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
About IED:
Educational model
The design matrix takes the form of the four IED Schools: Design, Fashion , Visual Arts and IED Management.
Each IED location houses four completely independent schools: what unites them is the common denominator of design culture and shared inspiring principles.
IED teaching methods require that all the schools:
• forge strong bonds with the local production and operation systems in their regions;
• interface with their benchmark sectors;
• evolve depending on the growth standards of their underlying markets and professional situations.
For these reasons, rather than just keeping in step with their times, the IED training courses are often thriving trend anticipators. IED represents a conceptual innovation hub. A number of professionals from a variety of backgrounds come together to provide the input for a cross-fertilisation between areas and disciplines. The outcome is excellence. Evidence of this value is found in IED’s essential role in such leading events as Milan Salone del Mobile and Milan Fashion Week.
