
Department
DIPARTIMENTO DI CHIMICA, MATERIALI E INGEGNERIA CHIMICA "GIULIO NATTA"
Description
The educational project is based on a blended learning approach that integrates theoretical training modules in e-learning with face-to-face workshop activities and a project work developed during a professional internship.Theoretical training modules in e-learning mode: students, using the e- learning platform, follow all the e-learning didactic modules managing autonomously the times and the hours of use of the didactic contents with exercises for the assessment of learning contents. The theoretical training modules, delivered in e-learning mode, concern the following subjects: - strategic design and design thinking; - human centered design; -marketing and communication; - companies, the sector and the markets; - materials and technologies; - laws and safety; - pedagogy, psychology, cognitive ergonomics; -communication and distribution. Face- to-face design workshops: the workshops are intensive design sessions lasting four weeks each (the master's program includes 2 workshops carried out with companies operating in the children-oriented sectors). Starting from the skills gained in the e- learning modules and during the workshops, the candidate will then be able to develop a project work during a professional internship lasting 3 months. During the internship, the candidate will be able to independently develop a final project based on the practical experience developed in the internship and the knowledge and interests gained throughout the Master. The Final Project must be delivered in the form of a digital presentation and discussed in an exam session with the presence of the appointed Teaching Committee.
Educational project
The Master in Design for Kids & is organized in partnership with Assogiocattoli, which represents Italian manufacturers and distributors working in this industry Italy generally excels in design (that means culture, method and practice of project and production) in several fields like fashion, food and creativity applied to multiple activities, but in the toy and childcare productions Italian design has yet to play a key role in building a recognizable identity. The "Design System" and "System of Enterprise", shows significant episodes but certainly not a coherent and recognizable oversight in children's products, in furniture for children, in the game and in the toy sector. From this scenario it comes a need in poly-technical and multi-skill training. Designers and, in particular, strategic designers have the role of create scenarios understanding them any aspects and skills that compose the system. Design a toy or a product/service for children needs the skills to design the whole system of artefacts, around the child and for products and services. Too often actually products for children have been interpreted as the declination of pre-existing goods, overloaded with signs, functions and colours inserted in a deliberately redundant packaging, or the unmediated reproduction of an adult object. Today technology offers interesting opportunities but often it is not a vehicle of qualified contents able to generate new ways of playing, learning and socializing or stimulating creativity and imagination, but more often it is a self-referential and not suitable for children component. If we think today about the "Design for Kids", then we realize the number and type of skills needed to design a quality product aimed at the world of children.
Requirements
Master in Design for Kids & Toys is open to applicants holdinge a university or academic degree (Laurea or Diploma Accademico equivalent to a Bachelor of Science) or a Laurea Magistrale or Diploma Accademico (equivalent to a Master of Science) in Architecture, Engineering and Industrial Design, and in related economic disciplines,Communication Science, Educational Science and to applicants with equivalent qualifications. The Board shall admit applicants who have qualifications in disciplines other than those specified above, if the Master may complete the training of the applicant or the professional skills and experience shown by same. Equivalent foreign qualification in their respective University Systems will be considered valid.
Location
Milan
Faculty and staff
Director: BARBARA DEL CURTO
Co-Director: ARIANNA VIGNATI
Department/School/Institution
POLI.design S.c.r.l.
VIA DON GIOVANNI VERITÀ, 25
20158
MILANO
Contact person
Dott.ssa ELISA PICCINI
0223997297
selezioni@polidesign.net