Introduction
The home as a shelter; the home as a laboratory and a workplace; the home as borderland between private and public worlds; the home as a meeting place and a place of solitude; the home as the projection of our most hidden desires; the home as an ecological resource and a source of solidarity; the home as condition in nomadic movement; the home just for a few hours, in a place of passage, in other realities. In the history of mankind the home has always represented one of the starting points of the changes that have subsequently transformed the cities and our daily lives. In the present period, it is necessary to revisit this theme and look at it from a different perspective, with curiosity and experimentation, so as to explore the innovative and diverse dimensions of living. The home becomes again a place of extensive experimentation, from its most important spaces to the textiles that will make it alive. It is necessary to rethink the home and to blend its history, its profound and archaic dimensions with a willingness to listen to the future and to what is taking place in our cities. The home is considered as a key entity of the minute transformation process of the city; a new place of work, a place for creativity and at the same time the place for a family that is changing and whose desires and goals mutate as well with the passing of time. The home is also looked at as a complex and open system, with particular attention to the co-housing experience and to the control/recycling of the resources and to the environmental quality. The home, thus, represents a fragment of the positive and different change we all wish could take place in our metropolises.
Educational philosophy
The Master Program in Interior Design aims at selecting and developing those cultural and design tools capable of integrating the traditional knowledge of an architect and of an interior designer in facing a change of scenarios which is affecting the horizons of domestic dwelling. Traditional and well-established subjects will be joined by experimental subjects and workshops devoted to new design themes, by the research and knowledge of materials, by sensorial laboratories and by a sophisticated and invisible use of technology.
In all the courses, design projects and cultural approach share a double fundamental assumption: the role of ethical and social awareness that every transformation process implies and the necessary environmental and ecological quality of every tool and element which will be used. The course will follow three different design paths through three workshops dealing with three different themes in a sequence which are integrated with each other and will finally build up to an organic entity. Every workshop will be supervised by a tutor and will include the participation of various guests who will bring their own experience and share their own ideas in the various phases of the project. The tutors will structure the course according to the activities of a real professional design studio: working groups will be defined and a lively interdisciplinary public debate will be pursued. The activity of design experimentation will be accompanied by the theoretical and practical courses aimed at refining the practical and cultural tools to deal with the proposed themes more effectively.
Summary
Fields of specialization: architecture, design, interior design, home design
Professional profiles: interior designer, architect, specialized magazines editor
Director: Luca Molinari
Language: English
Title: Academic Master
Credits: 60 CFA.
Duration: one year, from January to December.
Yearly schedule: intensive - 600 hours of class and 800 including individual studies, group studies, internship
Internship or company project: the internship can be undertaken in an external institution (architecture studio, design company, specialized publishing company) or within NABA, in a development laboratory supported by a partner company.
Evaluation: in addition to the individual evaluation at the end of each course module, there will be a final exam open to public, foreseeing the presentation of the portfolio including the projects carried out during the course.
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