STUDY PROGRAMME
Design

AFAM CODE
ABPR17

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Design

CREDITS
8

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

The Design 4 course is structured as a design workshop and design research, and allows to choose among different course themes. The course is propaedeutic to the final thesis for both Interior design and Product design. The course will be divided between research on a topic that the student will later develop into the final thesis, and short project-oriented workshops.

The programme grants 8 credits, divided as follows:

• PROJECT RESEARCH: 3 CFA

• PROJECTS/WORKSHOP: 5 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

PROJECT RESEARCH:

• Manage research tools to develop the thesis subject

• Develop a comprehensive research that includes historical, productive, market and language inquiries

PROJECTS/WORKSHOP:

• Develop, over short time, comprehensive projects from concept to prototype

• Correctly respond to a project brief

PROJECT RESEARCH:

• Research on the thesis project topic

PROJECTS/WORKSHOP:

• Short projects and workshops on different Interior-design related themes

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the development of different projects:

• Classroom lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

PROJECT RESEARCH:

• Oral exam

• Exercises

PROJECTS/WORKSHOP:

• Oral exams

• Graded exercises/revisions

• Completion of comprehensive projects

• Submission of exercises, projects or research work

• Correctly respond to a project brief

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the programme modules.

• Forty, A. (1992) Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750, New York: ed. Thames & Hudson.

• Garetti, M., Design of production systems, FrancoAngeli.

• Ritter, A. (2007) Smart materials in architecture, interior architecture and design, ed. Birkhäuser Verlag AG.

Many of the recommended sources, together with additional material, are also available online on MyNaba, in the Library section.

Books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.