Postgraduate in Furniture Design for the Habitat
DURATION
5 Months
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Postgraduate in Furniture Design for the Habitat
He manages to create and develop furniture that solves the needs that society has in its domestic environment.
What is the language and basic references to innovate?In the postgraduate Furniture Design for the Habitat you will learn to create furniture capable of solving needs both in the home or work environment.
The Postgraduate in Furniture Design for the Habitatspecifically develops professional practices that make up the trade of "furniture maker" or furniture designer.This discipline presents some peculiarities that differentiate it.It requires knowledge of a language and its own references, present in each piece of furniture, a code refined over time, which allows us to communicate uses and attitudes, effectively resolving those objects that make up relationships in our home or work environment.
This immersion in the reality of furniture, from the present and the past, opens the doors to the industrial reality of a sector that is today one of the benchmarks in the production of avant-garde objects, with its own fashions and trends, new materials and technologies. , that enable us to advance and innovate.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the institute website for more information.
Curriculum
- Historical background of furniture as an motor for innovation
- Domestic furniture
- Custom furniture
- Construction criteria, materials and technologies
- Projects
Program Outcome
Postgraduate Degree in Furniture Design for the Habitat. Awarded by UVic-UCC.
ECTS credits: 30
Objectives
- Enable the student to work in groups or in collaboration with technical offices, adapting to new situations and evaluating the specific needs of a client based on the analysis of their catalog and their product.
- Incorporate the different techniques and methodologies that allow planning without producing a differentiation between the conceptual and constructive aspects, developing, in turn, the specific practices that make up the trade.
- Acquire habits in the expert observation of past and present attributes, which determine the characteristics of the codes that allow us to identify innovative objects or solutions.
- Achieve advanced knowledge of the sector by identifying leading manufacturers and designers, as well as current lines or trends, anticipating future scenarios and uses.
- Know and master the specific formal language of the sector to establish a fluid and coherent dialogue with the user, incorporating the desired attributes correctly in the projects developed.
- Know the processes, technologies and materials, as well as the auxiliary industries involved to generate real innovation in the sector, providing technically and commercially realistic viable solutions.
- Consolidate a Portfolio with the projects developed in the postgraduate course, showing the skills acquired and the work on specific aspects for each student, such as the personal brand.
skills
- Mastery of the tools for product design, oriented to the furniture sector, conceptual and methodological, knowledge of both representation techniques, as well as associated production processes and materials, which are applicable to:
- Furniture projects for industrialists and home market manufacturers.
- Special bespoke home furnishing projects
- Industrial furnitureprojects for communities
- Urban furniture projects
- Upholstered furniture projects
- Projects of singular representative furniture elements for collectivities
- Lighting Projects
- Furniture projects for industrialists and home market manufacturers.
- Special bespoke home furnishing projects
- Industrial furnitureprojects for communities
- Urban furniture projects
- Upholstered furniture projects
- Projects of singular representative furniture elements for collectivities
- Lighting Projects
- Mastery of formalization and associated codes in projects applied to different disciplines.
- Mastery of work phases and professional project planning.
- Mastery of the competences for the development of projects in working groups.
- Use of the necessary resources and codes to communicate with the different agents involved in the process (clients and collaborators).