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.
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