Interior Styling and Spatial Narratives Master - IED Firenze

Language

English

Start date

April 2027

Frequency

Full time

Fruition

On campus

Duration

6 Months

Course Coordination

Benedetta Rossi

Price

EU/EEA resident students: €15.300

Non‑EU/Non-EEA resident students: €17.300

Between image and experience, space becomes storytelling.

Today, the interior stylist is a designer of visual narratives, able to read contemporary languages and transform space into a cultural device—narrative, sensory, and communicative. Retail, fashion, hospitality, exhibition design, and temporary installations are the key contexts where these skills find their fullest application, driven by a growing demand for hybrid profiles capable of connecting interior design, visual culture, styling, and storytelling.

Contemporary spatial design is a complex ecosystem: images, bodies, brands, and content constantly intertwine and need to be orchestrated with coherence and intent. In this scenario, styling is not a decorative gesture, but a design practice that builds meaning, guides perception, and makes spaces communicable, recognizable, and “activatable” for diverse audiences—between the physical and the temporary, between experience and narrative.

The Master in Interior Styling and Spatial Narratives trains professionals to navigate this complexity, developing theoretical, design, and editorial skills with a focus on concept building, the quality of staging, and the ability to translate an idea into environments that are coherent, communicable, and professionally applicable. The program combines theory and practice, spanning the phenomenology of space, visual culture, design methods, styling cultures, the history and theory of exhibition and narrative spaces, interior publishing and spatial storytelling, alongside representation techniques. Workshops, guided reviews, meetings with professionals, and moments of exchange with the creative and production worlds support students in shaping a distinct design identity.

The Master takes students from research to the definition of a professional profile through an immersive experience that integrates lectures, labs, workshops, and design activities with concrete outputs connected to contemporary space. Students work on visual research and concept development, exploring space as a contemporary narrative practice; they develop projects applied to exhibition, retail, hospitality, and temporary spaces, consolidating a structured methodological approach; and they complete a final project and portfolio, building a coherent, professional, and fully communicable presentation.

Upon completion of the Master, graduates are ready to work for creative studios, brands, cultural institutions, creative agencies, and organizations across fashion, design, publishing, retail, and hospitality—bringing skills that connect design, image, and experience, and that transform space into an effective, recognizable contemporary narrative.

Faculty

Course Coordinator

Benedetta Rossi

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News

03 July 2026

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Product Design IED Madrid alumni Jorge Penadés designs the Museo Reina Sofía's new public space

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22 June 2026

Jaime Hayón, Product Design IED Madrid alumni, honoured at the Escala Interior Design Awards

The designer received the National Excellence Award, recognising the work of leading interior design professionals in Spain.

19 June 2026

Sense of Dubai, a Project by Two IED Madrid Students, Wins at the Accor Design Awards 2026

Ana Cristina Lara Sanabria and Camilla Lari Prado received the Second Prize and the Public Choice Award for a proposal that transforms Dubai’s evolution into an immersive experience.

12 June 2026

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09 June 2026

Creativity in motion: the IED.60 Public Programme gets underway

June marks a special moment for IED: the Public Program IED.60 is in full swing, with a rich calendar of events spanning fashion, design, illustration and visual arts, bringing talks, exhibitions and open events to Milan, Rome, Florence and New York for the IED community and the wider public.

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IED AHEAD - Design your tomorrow, today.

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11 May 2026

Design tells its story at the Turin International Book Fair with EDICOLA IED

From 14 to 18 May, a newsstand of creativity presented the first two issues of Notes on Plural Intelligences alongside a selection of the best Italian and international magazines, accompanied by a programme of talks and workshops that explored themes of design, publishing and contemporary communication.

07 May 2026

IED.60 Public Program - May: between Plural Intelligences and the culture of design

The programme of IED events open to both the internal and external communities continues in may; it was launched to mark the 60th anniversary as a collective reflection on the role of design.