Interior Design

Undergraduate Courses - Rome

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The Interior Designer interprets the urban changes by identifying roles, services, lifestyles and aesthetic of the interior space. This professional restyles the public image of cities, working for hotels, restaurants, cafes, shops, malls, merging urban with the intimacy and rest place for excellence: home.
Interior Designers - space artisans - embody the primary professional roles of contemporary times, when market and politics influence the transformation of existing spaces as well as cities expansions.

The course is accredited by Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR) as a First Level Academic Diploma. 

  • Credits
    180
  • Start date
    October 2019
  • Duration
    3 years
  • Attendance
    full-time
  • Language
    English

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Context – Spaces aren’t what they used to be. Times, societies and needs to experience the places are constantly changing therefore the Interior Designer interprets this evolution.

Methodology and structure – This Three-year course supports students in building a strategic vision and developing awareness of all the dynamics and variables affecting his activity.
The course structure is finalised to getting a balanced knowledge on space structure. It’s articulated in 4 main goals: Know your time, through the study of art history and architecture, sociology
and anthropology; Investigate new possibilities thanks to labs; Get the tools to use materials, colors, shapes and technologies; Tell the project through advanced skills of space representation.

First year is dedicated to getting a basic education, cultural references, tools and design methodology.
Students learn free-hand sketch and CAD - useful to make models using basic materials - subsequently 3D printers and laser cut machines.
Later on students get design consciousness and complete their skill set such as 3D modeling and production (render) of realistic images by the application of materials and lights to virtual settings.

By the third year students gain creative autonomy by experiencing the latest technologies of simulation and interaction applied to design, facing with real projects thanks to the collaborations with partner companies and institutions as MAXXI and MACRO exhibit spaces, cultural spaces as Teatro Eliseo or associations as la Fondazione Montessori and l’ONG Intersos.

Career opportunities – Interior Designer, Exhibit and Cultural Designer, Retail Designer, Hospitality Designer, Personal Designer, Concept Designer.

 

Remarkable is that teacher who accomplishes himself what he teaches to others.
(Italian proverb)

IED faculty are professionals that daily face the market. Here you can read their bios.

Laura Negrini - Director of IED Roma Design School

Laura Negrini - Director of IED Roma Design School
Architect. She worked in the Netherlands from 1997 to 2000, collaborating with UNstudio to big projects and international competitions. From 2000 to 2003 she worked at Studio Michele De Lucchi on the project for the new image of Poste Italiane. In 2004 she founded the studio aQarchitetturaquotidiana, that performs professional work in the field of architecture/design of spaces and public services.   

Giuseppe Vultaggio

Giuseppe Vultaggio
Architect

Francesca Delicato

Francesca Delicato
Architect, designer and illustrator

Riccardo Petrachi

Riccardo Petrachi
Architect

Pasquale Salerno

Pasquale Salerno
Architect

Alessandra Colucci

Alessandra Colucci
She lives between Oxford and Rome. She is a consultant specializing in brand management, strategic planning and creative direction. She works in Italy and abroad with companies and professionals of different business sectors. Since 2016 she has worked as a lecturer in Brand Retail at Oxford Brookes University.  

Alessio Tommasetti

Alessio Tommasetti
Architect, PhD in Sciences of Representation and Relief. Cofounder of Studio D’Arc, an architecture associate studio. Founder and Partner of the startup SHAPEUP Italy, awarded by Lazio Innova, for the digitalization and rapid prototyping in the world of fashion, 2016. Ambassador for Wacom. He deals with architecture, interior and product design, jewelry and accessories design, robotics and bionics, exhibit, prototyping, advanced rendering, video editing, special effects for the audiovisual, indie digital comics. 

Andrea Ricci

Andrea Ricci
Graduated in 1994 from University of Naples in Architecture. In 2009, he started his own architectural studio and contemporaneously continues to collaborate dynamically with others. He collaborated with King e Roselli Architetti, to projects like Es Hotel- now Radisson in Rome, where he became an associate and he worked at: New Library of the Università Lateranense, the National Convention Center Hotel at Doha, Qatar, the Tanjung Rhu Resort in Langkawi, Malesia, and the Sheraton Hotel at Malpensa.

Arianna Sodano

Arianna Sodano
Architect and Designer. She works with companies and organizations especially by focusing on ergonomic research. She wrote several articles and essays about ergonomics. She's SIE member, Italian Ergonomics Society, BEDA partner and ADI member, Association Industrial Design, for which association carries out promotional activities. She's Adviser to the board of executive ADI Lazio, Coordinator ADI Design Index and member of Permanent Observatory of Design. 

Barbara Brocchi

Barbara Brocchi
Fashion Illustrator. She has worked since 1986 as an Illustrator, Art Director and Product Designer with communication and publishing companies, advertising agencies, fashion companies.   

Benedetta Gaiani

Benedetta Gaiani
Architect, she studied in Ferrara and trained professionally with 5 +1 AA, for whom she currebtly works in Italy and France on some major international projects. Since January 2013 she has joined 3TI_LAB Architecture, and at the same time she got a degree in Photography in Florence.  

Giulio Gualtieri

Giulio Gualtieri
He began his experience in the field of architecture and design in 2002 by attending the Interior Design evening course at IED Rome. The following year he started to work at the Arch. Carlo Lococo professional studio and simultaneously enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture of Roma Tre. In later years developed a particular interest in architectural design through the study and development of the project by plastics. Acquires experience and technique especially during the collaboration with Arch. Massimiliano Fuksas. Graduating in 2008, he devoted himself to the profession, growing interest in the development of architectural models and prototypes, so as to establish, in 2011, the Officina06 atelier.  

Tiziana Proietti

Tiziana Proietti
Architect and Researcher in Architecture and Urban Design at the Department DIAP Sapienza University of Rome. From 2011 to 2013 she was a Visiting PhD Researcher at the University of Technology TUDelft where she conducted researches on the role of proportion in architectural design from the architecture of the twentieth century in the Netherlands. Since 2014 she’s been Co-publisher with Satyendra Pakhalé for the research platform CultureofCreation.

Valerio Paolo Mosco

Valerio Paolo Mosco
Architect and Critic. He taught at the universities of Chicago, Brescia and Ferrara. He currently teaches at IUAV in Venice. He is Author of several books: Fifty years of engineering in Italy and abroad, Edilstampa 2010; Steven Holl, Motta-Sun 24 hours 2009, US Architecture - East Coast, Motta-Sun 24 hours 2009, US Architecture - West Coast, Motta-Sun 24 Hours 2008, Zero Volume Architecture (with Aldo Aymonino , Skira, 2006); Valerio Paolo Mosco - Writings, Edilstampa 2006.  

Jacopo Benci

Jacopo Benci
Artist and Researcher. He holds a Laurea in contemporary art history from Rome’s Sapienza University. From 1998 to 2013 he was Assistant Director Fine Arts at the British School at Rome, where he is currently Senior Research Fellow in Modern Studies and Contemporary Visual Culture. He curated 64 exhibitions of resident artists and architects at the BSR, and others in Italy and UK. He has lectured, and published in peer-reviewed books and journals, on the works of Antonioni (2008, 2011, 2015), Pasolini (2011), and Luigi Ghirri (2017).