Interior Design

The course leads participants through the entire process of an interior design project. Students have to analyse behaviours and needs, meeting expectations and respecting customer’s identity. Students are asked to focus on the interaction between users and space, developing layouts highlight awareness towards colours, materials, finishing, light effects, offering a sensorial and emotional experience

The communication lab trains students to properly present their projects to the customer and the market. The lab is divided as follows: preparation and presentation of a storyboard on a complex graphic project. Definition of all tools supporting the story; presentation speech at professional level.

In order to support the language knowledge, cross-disciplinary meetings are organized in collaboration with Master courses of other IED Schools in order to provide students with a complete overview.

This programme helps participants understanding the basic functions of analysis. Students have to accomplish several tasks: deriving precise geometric characteristics; developing a three-dimensional model for the construction of an artefact; computing a series of transformations in a three-dimensional form; representing a precise set of drawing instructions; developing an individual creative process capable of interpreting the communication between designers and users.

One of the most important objectives of this Master course is the achievement of a personal expressive language. The most awarded Designers stand out thanks to their works characterised by a univocal and personal expressive code. This lab encourages the student to search for a very different personal architectural language.

This lab explores characteristics and limits of new materials with reference to product and interior design, taking in consideration the environmental issues. It analyses sensorial features, surface finishings, emotional feedbacks and chromatic ranges of materials. Moreover, a focus is dedicated to sustainability and ecologic materials deriving from recycling.

The course covers the basic principles and practices of architectural lighting. Students acquire technical and expressive knowledge of light technologies, light control and the use of both artificial and natural light, realising their models under professor’s supervision, applying it to the projects. 

Projects simulate a real professional situation: students receive a brief and are asked to work on it using the acquired expressive tools. The pathway follows a rational structure, i.e. preliminary research, analysis, concept’s definition. The last step is the delivery of an innovative and expressive project.
 

One of the strategic assets of the School includes the training of designers able to relate themselves to the economical system by interpreting its needs and its values as well as the customer positioning with reference to the market. New designers must be able to interpret a project brief, understanding brand’s values and sensing the market changes. They also need to interpret companies from an external point of view in order to propose new projects. 

IED Students gather information during the Salone del Mobile in Milan as a useful exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction of products, projects and installations exposed during Milan Design Week.

A face to face confrontation with experts in personal branding provides participants with the necessary skills to present themselves properly, preparing their own portfolio and cv, and improving their online professional profile.

During this course, students have the chance to both visit companies belonging to the Italian Design System - in order to get into production sites and processes and to participate to specific events - understanding communication and marketing strategies applied to the design field. 

Cross-disciplinary activities gather students from different Master courses, providing them with a broader overview of design, supporting them in the acquisition of major design languages. These activities are structured in order to allow students to “think out of the box” and outline a personal pathway.

The Final Project is a complex professional task carried out in partnership with a company. Students must show the acquisition of a design thinking mindset and a flexible innovation process thought, the ability to work autonomously within a team, and to have the necessary skills to communicate in both a concrete and impactful manner.