Postgraduate in Furniture Design for Communities, Contract and Urban

Postgraduate in Furniture Design for Communities, Contract and Urban

Get knowledge of industrial furniture design to meet the needs of users in their work spaces, contract and street furniture.

How can we create furniture able to solve the needs of the home or work environment? In the Postgraduate Degree in Furniture Design for Communities, Contract and Urban you will learn the language and the basic references to innovate.

The Postgraduate Degree in Furniture Design for Communities, Contract and Urban develops, specifically, professional practices that configure the profession of "furniture maker" or furniture designer. This discipline has some peculiarities that differentiate it from other design specialties. It requires knowledge of a language and its own references, which are present in each piece of furniture, a code refined over time. This allows us to communicate uses and attitudes, while effectively offering solutions for those objects that shape the relationships in our domestic or work environment.

This immersion in the reality of the furniture, from both the present and the past, opens the doors to the industrial reality of a sector that is today one of the references in the production of avant-garde objects. With its own fashions and trends, new materials and technologies, it allows us to move forward and innovate.

• Furniture and the workspace
• Furniture and urban space
• Lighting
• Materials and Technologies
• Sustainability and Ecodesign

Postgraduate Degree in Furniture Design for Communities, Contract and Urban. Awarded by UVic-UCC.

ECTS credits: 30

Objectives

• Enable students to work in a group or in collaboration with technical offices, adapting to new situations and evaluating the specific needs of a client based on the analysis of their catalogue and product.
• Incorporate the different techniques and methodologies that allow projecting without gaps or mismatches between the conceptual and constructive aspects, developing in turn the specific practices that make up the profession.
• Acquire expert observation habits to detect past and present attributes, which determine the characteristics of the codes that allow us to identify innovative solutions or objects.
• Achieve an advanced knowledge of the sector identifying the reference manufacturers and designers, as well as the current lines or trends, anticipating the future scenarios and uses.
• Know and master the specific formal language of the sector to establish a fluid and coherent dialogue with the user, properly incorporating the desired attributes in the developed projects.
• Know the processes, technologies and materials, as well as the auxiliary industries involved, to generate real innovation in the industry, providing viable and technically and commercially realistic solutions.
• Consolidate a Portfolio, with the projects developed in the course, that shows the competences acquired by working on specific aspects for each student such as the personal brand.

Competences

• Mastery of the product design tools; tools oriented to the furniture industry; conceptual and methodological tools; knowledge tools of techniques of representation, processes and associated production materials; which can be used in:
  • Furniture projects for industrial and manufacturers of domestic furniture.
  • Tailored furniture projects for homes.
  • Industrial furniture projects for collectivities.
  • Urban furniture projects.
  • Upholstered furniture projects.
  • Projects of unique furniture elements which are representative for collectivities.
  • Lighting projects.
• Mastery of the formalization and associated codes in projects applied to different disciplines.
• Mastery of work phases and professional project planning.
• Mastery of competences to develop projects in work groups.
• Use of the necessary resources and codes to communicate with the different agents involved in the process (clients and collaborators).