NABA UNDERGRADUATE
3 YEAR BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE PROGRAM:
- Visual Arts
- Design
- Fashion and Textile Design
- Graphic Design and Art Direction
- Media Design
- Theatre Design
- 1-year First level Master programs (Master) and 2-year Master of Arts programs (MA).
- The Master programs are annual courses for students who wish to acquire specialized skills and experience in the artistic and professional world within a period of intensive studies.
- The Two-year Master of Arts programs (MA) are intended for students who wish to complete their five-year academic curriculum degree (3+2). The programs offer deep academic content, with theoretical disciplines being followed by intensive project work. Degrees awarded by NABA are equivalent to university degrees and are therefore valid for further studies in the university system in Italy and abroad.
NABA 1-YEAR MASTER PROGRAMS
MASTER IN ACTION MARKETING AND VISUAL COMMUNICATIONThe world of communication in the era of Internet has changed a lot and especially has transformed the look that helps to captivate the world and its events. This change has generated special tools and languages. The Master program in Action Marketing and Visual Communication offers curriculum of innovative specialization in theoretical and methodological approach for professionals in communication. Traditional advertising tools (pasting posters, TV, radio and press campaign) are supplemented with new techniques in communication which tend to penetrate in the interpersonal and emotional territory of the consumer performances, media-activism, creative activities/actions in the urban context). The main objective of the Master course is to develop competence and attitude of participants through team work. The projects realized are developed with partners and clients, such as public institutions, firms and communication agencies.
The Master course adopts the method of research - action: phases of analysis, design and implementation of communicative products are followed by phases of direct interaction with the target and working in the field. It is aimed on the one hand at graphic designers and art directors motivated to acquire new working methods and widen their professional portfolio and, on the other hand, at students with a background in humanities interested in participating in professionalizing projects and experiments.
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The Master course in Digital Environment Design develops a curriculum aimed at projecting and representation of environment and digital contents, chosen for interactive and virtual realization of scene design, museum spaces and exhibition mounting. In this background the work is the one of the Cultural Heritage and of interactive and multimodal Story Telling with the forms of new spectacularity. This Master course offers an innovative approach to studies in which research and experiment are linked in elaboration of “object-event”. It is not characterized as structured and defined by physical elements space, but rather as open space comprising also new streams of communication. While doing this course the students will experiment with the models of representing the digital environments marked by one of aesthetic dimensions, which has been very significant in the recent years. It is the interactive one that requires first of all the interdisciplinary interface design that needs a continuous syncretical action between arts and scientific research.
The course, being aimed at designers, architects, scene-designers, authors and multimedia designers is realized in collaboration with the most interesting digital design research groups dealing with both performance side and production of exhibition, theatre and museum design. The studies based on developing design projects and doing internship help to enrich the professional portfolio of the participants.
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The home has always recorded the changes that society, the economy and culture impress upon our daily lives. In the last ten years we have seen a profound transformation in the way we live and this presents new challenges for designing the home of the future.
The Master in Interior Design "New Domestic Landscapes" contains two distinctive areas of activity: the first involves a series of seminars and theoretical and cultural validations with contemporary historians, journalists, anthropologists, sociologists and artists who will help to trace the boundaries of domestic living in a variety of international scenarios. The second involves a series of project workshops with interior designers, light designers and experts in innovative and ecological materials who will help students build new design project scenarios. Each project will be executed as a real-life simulation in which the master program partners’ technical experts and managers will involve the students and work together to create experimental design scenarios. Model-making and advanced design software laboratories will complement the workshops in order to optimize project presentation skills.
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In collaboration with Politecnico di Milano. Further information on:
www.paesaggistraordinari.org/
The Master course in Photography and Visual Design, organized in collaboration with the International Centre of Photography Forma, offers a specialization curriculum for artists and photographic images designers. Due to the project workshops held by artists and communication professionals, the photography is explored in the context of various contemporary visual languages: arts, advertising and reporting. Cycles of theoretical and critical lectures and meeting experts coming from different artistic and professional environments allows for the comparison and acquisition of wider project culture. The Master course, being one-year long, is intended for students and professionals who desire to specialize their knowledge and skills within the period of intensive studies, aimed at gaining experience and relations in the artistic and professional world. It is possible to acquire 60 credits valid for continuing studies in Italy or abroad. The internship at a gallery, agency, photo studios and publishing houses and participating in projects and exhibitions help to enrich the artistic and professional portfolio of the participants.
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The course takes into consideration the latest evolutions of sound applications in industrial applications and in electronic communication areas: domotics, mobile, gaming, web, interactive systems and audio-tactile systems, audio comfort in architectural spaces, moving through web radio and sound design experiences in the most advanced musical areas.
Starting from the importance and responsibility of nowadays sound designer role, in the possibility of defining the "sound of things“, critical, theoretical and technological tools are offered for contemporary audio design, paying special attention towards new crossmedia orientations and multichannel architectures.
- The Master aims to highlight the evolution of the following sound design applications and technologies:
- Communication systems and technologies:: sound in web and mobile devices;
- Presentation systems and technologies: sound in exhibition spaces, events, fairs, audio branding, audio logos;
- Sound art: sound installations, live-electronics, Djing;
- Sound architecture: audio comfort audio in architectural spaces;
- Narrative ambients and audio narration.
MASTER IN FASHION SPORTSWEAR DESIGN
This Master program is addressed to graduates and professionals from fashion and design fields who are interested in specializing in one of the areas with higher professional prospective. The Master program in Fashion Sportswear Design aims to explore the field of wearable technology in addition to the research and innovation that sports products are bringing to other business sectors. The program focuses on the design of smart clothing with the ability to offer enhanced performance, but is also seeks to redesign uninhibited motion, and body 'equipment', proposing more efficient technologies that fit in harmony with today's trends. Sportswear is becoming increasingly prominent in our lives, perhaps through less formal styles, but above all through advanced materials, biological fabrics and reactive-electric gels that are already part of products and clothing for athletes of sector specific categories, but are becoming progressively more important for everyday use. If the body continues to be the most important frontier and clothing is its closest extension, the association with sport is certainly an interesting market. The sportswear business appears to be guaranteed, not only in luxury goods, but also for the mass market.
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NABA 2-YEAR MASTER OF ARTS (MA) PROGRAMS
Master of Arts in Visual Arts and Curatorial StudiesThe place of art in a society that is in transformation, as today, is defined according to a series of dynamic parameters through which it negotiates its status and operational conditions. The research that marks the role of the artist can be seen as a continuous production of space and time – that of the exhibition, of representation, of direct activities here and now – among all the possible social, individual, economic and political spaces and times. So it is possible to talk about plurality of areas and operational processes that must be conquered, imagined, or revealed when they are disguised in everyday and social life. As a consequence, there is a close relationship or even a overlapping between artistic and curatorial research: not only for a change in their respective roles, but for the continuous redefining of artistic space that sees both as active subjects of study.
The two-year MA program in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies is the only program in Italy and Europe with the objective of uniting a solid education in the field of visual arts production with a highly specialised curatorial program.
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The two-year Master of Arts Program (MA) in Textile and New Materials Design encourages students to explore, get to know and experience the world of surfaces, textiles and new materials that are involved in the design and fashion creative, project and production processes. The scientific goals of the two-year MA Program consist in providing students with the knowledge of the elements and the experimentation of the available tools in textile and materials design: from the processing techniques, the manipulation tools and the design methodologies, to “Materials Libraries” containing the most advanced materials to textile laboratories and the more avant-garde experimentation laboratories. This Program aims to train professionals capable of exploring this cross-disciplinary area–design, fashion, materials engineering, chemistry, decoration, graphic design etc.–in an innovative and pro-active way and a generation of designers who will take up an increasingly important role in developing trans-disciplinary languages of creativity and design.
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The new technologies, with the presence of user generated content and co-making of communication products, have changed the way of designing and communicating. Today, communication experts have to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to the various activities they have to carry out in an increasingly “fluid” context whose disciplinary boundaries are loosing their definition.
The two-year Master of Arts Program (MA) in Communication Design has been conceived with the aim of combining a solid training in the field of marketing and integrated communication with a wide range of technical-expressive skills (graphic design, media design, environmental design) with a new perspective of maximum integration between expressive tools aimed at producing real communication outputs.
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