The workshops will be carried out in a sequence and not in parallel and will deal with three themes which will integrate each other thereby enriching the final scenario with alternative points of view:
- Domesticscapes, scenarios of contemporary living. Domestic projects applied to places and situations belonging to various international contexts so as to verify how global living also means building spaces that have an unprecedented local identity.
- Minimal Living devoted to the essential home. Domestic scenario ranging from the compressed home to the residence, from the new-generation hotels to all the conditions of living in reduced spaces.
- Move-arch, about nomadic living. The portable home; the extreme scenario of the nomadic way of living, of the moving home in total contradiction with the idea of the home as a fixed and immovable place. A space where the needs and the essential furniture follow those who travel a lot and move frequently.
Every design project will be structured as a real simulation of the activities of a professional design studio in which the various public and private partners will involve the students in experimental projects aimed at developing and defining new scenarios and at the same time at working together with technicians and managers of the companies involved in the project. The workshops will be integrated by modelling, simulation, rendering laboratories and by the advanced teaching of IT programs that serve to enhance the representative capability of the project. The workshops will be accompanied by a series of seminars and theoretical and cultural debates with contemporary historians, writers, anthropologists, sociologists and artists who will help students read, interpret and trace the fluid boundaries of contemporary domestic life in various international scenarios. The Master Program includes courses in History of Architecture, History of Design and Contemporary Art, Anthropology, Sociology and Marketing as well as integrated laboratories in Light Design, Gardening Architecture, Textile Design, Furniture Design, Domestic Materials and Technologies, Sensorial Laboratory.
| TRAINING ACTIVITIES | ARTISTIC-DISCIPLINARY AREA | CREDITS | TOTAL CREDITS |
| Project workshops | Project Methodology I: domesticscapes | 8 | |
| Project Methodology II: minimal living | 8 | ||
| Urban and territory-based project design: move arch | 8 | 24 | |
| Theoretical courses | History of Architecture: History of Domestic Landscape, History of Architecture | 4 | |
| Anthropology | 2 | ||
| Contemporary Art Phenomenology | 2 | ||
| Brand Design | 2 | 10 | |
| Technical-methodological labs | Computer Graphics and Rendering | 2 | |
| Light Design | 2 | ||
| Design system: Materials and soft technology | 2 | ||
| Furniture design | 2 | ||
| Modelling | 4 | ||
| Textile Design | 2 | ||
| Landscape design | 2 | ||
| Sense design | 2 | 18 | |
| Further training activities | Internship | 4 | 4 |
| Personal studying and projects development | 1 | ||
| Professional Training | 1 | ||
| Portfolio | 1 | ||
| Final Project | 1 | 4 | |
| TOTALE CREDITI | 60 |
Internship and Professional Training
Throughout the year students will acquire a number of methods and techniques in the extra-curricular Personal Training Courses, which will be useful to them in the working environment: designing professionalism, budgeting, presentation techniques, practice in MS Excel and Power Point, team building, realizing a portfolio, represent the modules through which the tools aimed at facilitating the students’ entrance in the job market will be acquired and developed.
A part of the study process is a period of internship, that may be undertaken in companies operating in the design, light design, interior design fields, publishing companies and editorial offices. During this period students will be able to see the application of what they have learnt and establish professional connections with extremely important and strategic production and creative realities.
It is also possible to participate in an intensive laboratory at NABA, within the frame of a project co-production between NABA and partner companies and institutions.
Evaluation
The program foresees individual evaluation at the end of each design workshop and every cycle of theoretical lessons and laboratories, checking the different parameters and monitoring the development of the student’s design and technical skills, as foreseen in the curriculum. The Master program ends with a final exam, open to the public, where the student will present a final project and a portfolio, showing the intermediary stages of the single projects carried out during the course.
