Specializing Master in Interior Design

The Specializing Master in Interior Design, MID, by the Politecnico di Milano and run by POLI.design jointly with SPD - Scuola Politecnica di Design.

MID is a complete postgraduate training program that shares the experience of two of the most important Italian educational contexts.

Job description and final assessment

At the end of the Master, participants will have acquired capacities and strategic visions about project. They will be able to collaborate at an higher level with design studios as Interior Designer or Corporate Consultant, to work for real estate services, distribution, hospitality or furniture industries.

Didactic course


The Master will be provided in Italian.

The Specializing Master, oriented toward training professionals and career building, provides an amalgam of theory, experimental research, and design tasks. Practical skills are consolidated during topical project work that deals with producing, promoting, and planning spaces, services, and equipment. Learning takes place through a balanced mixture of general training, lectures, project work, and internship.

General Training
These units of introductory and specialist teaching provide tools and skills needed for designing.
Seminars and Lectures
At these encounters, students are brought into contact with inside witnesses to the profession: designers, enterprises, trade groups, and journalists.
Workshop
These simulations develop design skills. Topics include: producing and promoting an environment, its services, and the equipment with which it is furnished.
Internship
This training internship of about three months at design studios or companies enables students to transfer the skills acquired in class to a professional setting.

The Master will be provided in Italian.

Temario:

Topics of Instruction

Culture of living - domestic space
Consumption and distribution
The hospitality sector and hotel spaces and wellness
Exhibition
Work space
History
Materials and Technology
Lighting Design
System Design Milan
Theory and criticism of interior design
Empowerment

Culture of living - domestic space
The new imagination: traditional ways, trends, future objects for daily life. Interiors today and the evolution of living. How living is represented in the media. Interiors and the psychology of living. Space as narrative: signs, symbols, codes, and meanings in interior architecture. Interiors as strategy elements: languages and archetypal settings. Interiors between fashion and design. The urban setting. Other cultures of living.

Domestic Space
Evolving domestic space and new ideas for living. Choosing between handcrafted and mass-produced construction. Living with the senses: perception, shapes, and objects. Home furnishing and sensory settings. Proxemics and relations within space. Ambient healthfulness and comfort. The quality of space. Functionality and meaning of space and of its furnishings.

Consumption and Distribution
The psychology of consumption: merchandise as the object of desire. The evolving nature of consumption spaces and distribution spaces: from classic models to integrated shopping centers. Supermarkets, hypermarkets, and malls. Product lifecycle. Commercial space and communication strategies.

Consumption Space
Placement plans. Image choices. Spaces as interfaces between production and consumption. Design types and trends: luxury, fashion and accessories, fast food and slow food, sports and leisure, cars and cycles, consumer electronics, financial products. Dynamic displays: from the shelf to the temporary set. Technological and production issues. Designing finishing materials. Designing a furniture retail outlet: installation and communication issues. Designing restaurant space. Communication and marketing.

The hospitality sector and hotel spaces and wellness
Spaces, behavior, and archetypes: travel, vacation, business, leisure, and intimacy. The evolution of hotel interiors and their main types: traditional, trendy, design, boutique, and luxury. Designing atmosphere in hospitality spaces. Building hotel identity in industrial and design terms. Theme hospitality.

Hospitality Space
Interior design and hotels: designing interior hotel space. Designing arrival areas: lobbies and front desks. Designing private space: the hotel room in relation to its furniture and bathroom equipment. The hotel room as workspace. Contract design for hotel space. Designing finishing materials. Case histories.

Exhibition

Exhibition project in the scenario of contemporary interiors.

Work place

Interiors and the Workplace
Virtual work and real humanity. Toward the ubiquitous office: the architecture of omnipresent work. Smart buildings. Integrated interior design. Furnishing scenarios. Interior architecture and the psychology of the workplace.

Work Environments and Communication

Archetypes of work: the factory from manufacturing model to space-age myth. From the office building to the mobile office. General workplace requirements. Climate control and environmental comfort. Articulated spaces, built-in equipment, and interpersonal relations. Communication as a cross-cultural factor. The evolution of organizations: forms and locations of the new job. Architecture, the environment, and information technology. Indoor environment and natural environment. The search for the module: kind and amount of space. New formal features. Smart materials. Interior design and industrial design. Case studies.

History

Will be examined some cases and significant examples of interior spaces and furnishings, with reference to the recent history of interior design, highlighting the features/characteristics and underlying design methodologies, also in relation to an Italian approach/"way".

Titulación:

The Specializing Master grants 60 CFU, equivalent to 60 ECTS.

At the end of the course, passing the final examination, will be issued a Diploma of Specializing Master in "Interior Design" by the Politecnico di Milano.

Fechas:

The Specializing Master will end in March 2021.