Introduction
The two-year Master of Arts Degree program (MA) in Textile and New Materials Design encourages students to explore, get to know and experience the world of surfaces, textiles and new materials involved in creative, project and production processes of design, fashion and interior. The scientific goals of the two-year MA Program consists in providing students with the knowledge of the elements and the experimentation of the available tools in textile and materials design: from the processing techniques, the manipulation tools and the design methodologies, to materials libraries (“materiotheques”) containing the most advanced materials, to textile laboratories and the more avant-garde experimentation laboratories. This program aims to train professionals capable of exploring this cross-disciplinary area – design, fashion, materials engineering, chemistry, decoration, graphic design, etc. – in an innovative and pro-active way and to create a generation of designers who will take up an increasingly important role in developing trans-disciplinary languages of creativity and design. The working methods adopted during the two-year Program will aim at crossbreeding the traditional processes of weaving and dressmaking with the more experimental ones of architecture and design, engineering and communication, digital art and decoration.
Educational Philosophy
The program is aimed at developing analytic, project and communication skills of a cross-disciplinary profile between design, fashion, theatre and interior design who will deal with materials and textiles, but also able to work on those metalanguages who create a network among different disciplines and knowledges in the area of metaproducts and semimanifactured products.
In order to develop such complex skills, the program is structured with: technical and laboratory disciplines, aimed at developing the knowledge of primary elements in this area (materials, textiles, yarns); project workshops, aimed at experimenting project methodologies related to different areas (theatre, fashion, design): theoretical courses, aimed at knowing and implementing the languages belonging to the complex network of textile and materials design.
Summary
Fields of specialization: design, fashion, textile and surfaces design, knitwear and accessories, architecture, interior design, stage setting, communication, decoration, theatre design, art.
Professional profiles: fashion designer, stylist, designer, trend setter, cool hunter, architect, interior designer, stage designer, artist, editor of specialized magazines.
Director: Anna Barbara.
Language: Italian.
Title: Master of Arts Degree (legally recognized by the Italian Ministry of University and Research).
Credits: 120 CFA.
Duration: two years, from January to December of the following year.
Yearly schedule: 600 hours of class and 800 including individual studies, group studies, internship.
Internship or company project: the internship period can be carried out with an external institution, an international materials library, a trend agency or a specialized publishing company, or by participating in a design, fashion, architecture or interior design project developed within NABA together with partner institutions or companies.
Study abroad: it is possible to take a study abroad period in one of NABA partner universities and academies, within the frame of international agreements (LLP-Erasmus and others).
Evaluation: In addition to the final exams, students have to develop a final thesis and an artistic-professional portfolio.
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