Domus Academy was born in Milan in 1982 as an open project around the Italian design and fashion experience. During the years, DA also asserted its importance as a school, in the full meaning of the term: a place of post-graduate training and research laboratory on the processes of industrial creativity, on the aesthetic and consumption scenarios, on space and time relationship, on the form of public and private services and on the radical changes deriving from the diffusion of the "Web". Strongly rooted in Italy, Domus Academy works in an international perspective, in order to enrich, spread and update the design culture. Domus Academy is a real point of connection between design, fashion and management culture.
In 1994 Domus Academy was awarded to Compasso d'Oro for the career for the quality of its teaching and publishing, for its constant attention to borderline themes, from humanization of technology to exploring the relationship between design and fashion, from reflection on the sociology of design to design management and to design of services.
TRANING The Master courses are at the basis of Domus Academy’s training activity. With the structure of post-graduate courses, according to the typical DA training formula, they address young graduates from various disciplines. Students are enrolled after a selection based on their resume and portfolio of projects. Thanks to the collaboration of a staff made of designers, consultants, visiting professors and tutors, students are offered the possibility to get in touch with some of the most stimulating professional realities of the Italian and international scenario.
Domus Academy proposes nine Master courses in Milan:
Accessories Design Business Design Car Design and Mobility Fashion Design Interaction Design Interior and Living Design Jewellery Design Product Design Urban Management and Architectural Design
and one in Rome: Cultural Experience Design and Management
Together with the Master courses, Domus Academy offers tailor-made courses for companies and institutions and a wide range of summer sessions.
RESEARCH AND CONSULTING Through Domus Academy Research and Consulting -DARC - DA carries out research and professional consulting activities. Since 1985 DARC has been working side by side with companies, associations and international research centres on the themes of innovation in the project. DARC’s original design approach is based on the Italian culture of the project that considers Design as an integrated activity able to perceive the signals of transformation of society and markets, in order to translate them into new products and services, as well as strategies for corporate innovation. DARC explores and grows competences in new territories of design through activities of basic research and provides consultancy to the management of companies, to internal Design groups and to Research & Development groups in the following areas: advanced design and scenarios, soft architecture, brand culture and integrated communication, service design, identity of materials, interactive media.
Master in Accessroies Design Validated and awarded by the University of Wales The evolution of the Fashion System demands for the designers not only to be able to design collections, but also to be professional characters with growing multi-disciplinary competences, capable of managing and communicating with the various sectors involved. Today the fashion designer needs to be manager and art-director at the same time, and must be able to manage the project up to the product, the communication and the retail aspects. Only in Italy and only in Milan it is possible to study at the centre of a Fashion System that is unique in the world and internationally recognized; Where the creativity of the fashion designers integrates with the production capacity, with the quality of fabrics and confection, with entrepreneurial abilities as well as with retail and communication innovations, allowing a direct contact with this world, its protagonists and events.
Master in Business Design Validated and awarded by the University of Wales In Design driven firms, managers must be able to combine managerial skills, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit, within a perspective able to embrace at the same time design and production, tradition and innovation, reality and vision, everyday life and future. The modern manager is a figure that gets trained and thrives in a border area where designers, managers and entrepreneurs, experts in enterprise and corporate organizations, in information technology, communication, marketing, contribute to the creation of new operative codes and a new strategic language for the companies and the market. Master in Car Desing & Mobility Validated and awarded by the University of Wales The Design department of Domus Academy arises from the awareness that today the design world needs more complex design solutions, able to integrate different disciplines and particular research perspectives, in order to properly answer to the current vision of the global and delocalized production world. Designing, producing, promoting and marketing a product or a service in the post-industrial society of information, requires designers with very specific skills, able to dialogue with different players and to handle the market following non-conventional rules.
Master in Fashion Design Validated and awarded by the University of Wales The evolution of the Fashion System demands for the designers not only to be able to design collections, but also to be professional characters with growing multi-disciplinary competences, capable of managing and communicating with the various sectors involved. Today the fashion designer needs to be manager and art-director at the same time, and must be able to manage the project up to the product, the communication and the retail aspects. Only in Italy and only in Milan it is possible to study at the centre of a Fashion System that is unique in the world and internationally recognized; where the creativity of the fashion designers integrates with the production capacity, with the quality of fabrics and confection, with entrepreneurial abilities as well as with retail and communication innovations, allowing a direct contact with this world, its protagonists and events.
Master in Interaction Design Validated and awarded by the University of Wales Designing, producing, promoting and marketing a product or a service in the post-industrial society of information, requires designers with very specific skills, able to dialogue with different players and to handle the market following non-conventional rules.
Master in Interior And living Design Validated and awarded by the University of Wales The Department was born with the objective to work on the whole universe of urban experience. In this perspective, the department has created a training project of excellence able to reflect on the changes and transformations of the built space, promoting a permanent research activity for design models and solutions that are appropriate and innovative.
Master in Product Design Validated and awarded by the University of Wales Nowadays, skilled designers can make it in the design world of the post-industrial and information era only if endorsed by a complex and sophisticated professionalism, which can autonomously master very dynamic and multi-disciplinary competences. A designer’s activity in fact, doesn’t only involve the design and production of a service or a product, but it implies its promotion and marketing, as well as the aptitude to keep a constant dialogue with different actors and the handling of market rules which are often unconventional.
Master in Urban Management And Architectural Design Validated and awarded by the University of Wales The Department was born with the objective to work on the whole universe of urban experience. In this perspective, the department has created a training project of excellence able to reflect on the changes and transformations of the built space, promoting a permanent research activity for design models and solutions that are appropriate and innovative.
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