The two-year course in Transdisciplinary Design will take place in Turin and will investigate new ways of conceiving and realising the relationship between design and society
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The Istituto Europeo di Design inaugurates the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Design
Date
04 November 2022
On Monday 17 October, the Turin campus launched the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Design, a two-year course created to contribute to the evolution of society through an open, dynamic and transdisciplinary approach to design, aware of the importance of transversal thinking that transcends individual professions.
The opening speech and introductory lecture by the Academic Director of the IED Group, Riccardo Balbo, inaugurated the intense program that will launch a network of high-level experiences across a broad range of disciplines: from interaction design to service design, from the design of autonomous systems through big data visualization to product and environmental design.
Some of the theoretical lectures take place inside OGR Tech, the hub dedicated to innovation and business acceleration. This is an ideal scenario to promote the composition of a multidisciplinary study-collective environment in which the participants, each with their background and starting from quite different skills, will investigate the reality of dynamic cities and mobility, learning how to learn, within a field of complexity, and integrate the future into their thinking.
The Two-Year Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Design is coordinated by Lowie Vermeersch and Wouter Haspeslagh, respectively CEO & Creative Director and Urban Planner & Mobility Researcher at design house Granstudio.
The teaching staff is composed entirely of experienced mobility and urban development professionals involved in the construction and management of urban governance structures, such as Paolo Verri, urban practitioner, Micheal Thomson, Founder & Director of Desing Connect and many others.
Interview with IED Turin Director, Paola Zini
Paola Zini, Director of IED Turin, explains how Turin is the ideal place to develop the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Design, which has Mobility as its central focus.
Interview with Michael Thomson, lecturer at the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Design
The world needs new designer types, able to go beyond existing disciplinary boundaries and navigate within conditions of complexity, with sustainable solutions that bring value to society and communities.
Interview with IED Academic Director, Riccardo Balbo
Riccardo Balbo, IED Academic Director, explains what the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Design is, in what terms it can produce innovation and what the possible fields of application are.
Interview with Lowie Vermeersch and Wouter Haspeslagh, Master's coordinators
What does mobility mean today and how does it interact with urbanism in designing the future? How does the transdisciplinary design studio work and what kind of projects should students expect to work on?
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