Application deadline
30-11-23
Start
29-01-24
Price: 16500
End
31-03-25
Duration
14 months
http://www.polidesign.net
Description
The Master integrates extensive design and engineering skills with thematic and
specific competences in the food area, related to humanities, food technology and
gastronomic sciences. It therefore provides generalist knowledge and specific in-depth
studies on
methods and tools for the design of the product-service system; on basic elements
useful for the understanding of culture, sociological and anthropological factors related
to the food sector; and on specific sciences, technologies and techniques.
As a whole, it provides an explanatory and comprehensive overview of food systems,
from agricultural production to food processing, from distribution to consumption, from
planning to recycling in a circular economy perspective.
The Master is organized according to a mix of theory and practice that sees the
alternation of lessons and hands-on activities on projects and exercises organized in
the
form of workshops or applied experiences, such as study-tours and compulsory
internship.
It trains design and consulting profiles who are able to integrate creative and
operational skills, through the development of hard and soft skills, which train
participants to work in multidisciplinary teams, in competitive and highly strategic
contexts, in quick and dynamic organizations.
The Master is offered to a national and international market and will therefore be held
in
English.
Educational project
The specializing master is in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Scienze
Gastronomiche aims to train professionals, entrepreneurs, private and public operators
with competences in the design and management of systems, processes and products-
services in the food sector. Innovators characterized by a profile combining the design
and experimental approach of design with the thematic knowledge of the logics of the
food sector in all its extension "from field to table", including the traditional and more
advanced production and distribution systems and with a specific attention to
sustainability.
The sector, which already expresses forms, experimentations, experiences, innovation
and project-oriented cases, requires a transversal expertise able to integrate in a
strategic way the different design factors. For this reason, the Master completes the
design (in the disciplinary extension of systems, strategies, services, products-services,
communication) and food engineering skills, brought by Politecnico di Milano, with the
thematic and specific ones in the food area related to humanities, food technology and
gastronomic sciences, brought by the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
Participants will be able to: 1) understand the socio-economic and environmental
transformations of the sector; 2) outline innovative models and strategic orientations
for the specific sector; 3) use theoretical and critical skills to define design
opportunities; 4) understand and use the potential of the sector's technologies, as well
as the main elements of the production processes of the different supply chains; 5)
understand and design the territorial impacts of food supply chains; 6) manage the
main elements of food safety and planning; 7) design complex solutions and their
articulation in terms of product, service, communication and space; 8) design for
sustainability; 9) use specific design tools for design; 10) manage all phases of the
process of conception, design, development and implementation of an innovative
solution in an advanced perspective.
Requirements
The Master welcomes candidates with a Degree or Specialist/Master's Degree or a First
or Second Level Academic Diploma in Design,
Engineering, Architecture, Economics and/or Management, Social Sciences/Humanistic
Sciences, Gastronomic Sciences, Agriculture, Food Technology, or to people with other
types of degrees who have also gained significant professional and work experience
and
who wish to strengthen their professional path in the field of food innovation, acquiring
and developing specific and qualified competences.
Location
Milan
Faculty and staff
Director
STEFANO MAFFEI
Co-Director
FRANCESCO BOMBARDI
Department/School/Institution
POLI.design S.c.r.l.
VIA DON GIOVANNI VERITÀ, 25
20158
MILANO
Contact person
Dott.ssa ELISA PICCINI
0223997225
selezioni@polidesign.net
