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INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO

Design the Evolution of Living Space

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course is aimed at students with an initial understanding and experience in Interior Design with the intention to stimulate further in their knowledge and skill. This course is about the comprehension of interior living spaces and the perception of them. Interior designers must develop a deep sensitivity on the lifestyles of both mass and individuals. Making a project means to deal with the dimension of the city and the time of public and private living, to listen to the background noise that walks on our side in opposition to our private pods. Our aim is seeking “talking wallpapers” to surround our bodies.
Interior means intimate: it depends on the distance from our sensorial devices.
This distance is measurable, and, from a materialistic point of view, consistent. The course will introduce the students to a peculiar form of experience: being a designer means to be author of a portion of space that interacts with the Whole. The point of view of any designer, is a deforming mirror that record the world outside in the shape of our next projects.
A walk through this “alchemy”, is the aim of this course.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The students will start with a personal research on interior spaces into the city.
They will select the data and take personal notes through drawings, pictures, texts. Then each student will be asked to design an interior layout into a special location in the city selected on the basis of the first phase of the course.
The final results will be presented in an exhibition, a booklet and a cd/dvd.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Students will have to be motivated and curious, ready to work as individuals and in groups. Active participation in the seminars and studios will be highly profitable for the students. Drawing (by hand or digitally) and model-making skills are required. In general the level of education should be equivalent or higher than the second year of college studies (BA) in design.
Students that already participated to the introduction level (30 June – 11 July) will be accepted in this course. In this case be ready and flexible to manage an upper level, sharing with designer the experience and the process of design work. If this level isn’t part of your own, you can also participate as an auditors.
All classes are conducted in English, so you will be required to have a fluent understanding of the language.

OUTPUT

During the first phase students will be free to express their own research by the means of any technique, hand drawing, digital graphics, movie, etc..
Digital media will take a relevant part during the course, that will end with a common format for everyone to create a shared platform for an exhibition and for the layout of a booklet.
So be ready to manage at list and by your own: a digital camera including the download process, a power-point slide show/presentation.
Delivery details and format will be available in the beginning of the course.