Milan, Italy
DURATION
14 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
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Introduction
A product is an object or idea that is a human-based combination of diverse cultures, technologies, needs and physical conditions. An original interpretation of these interactions generates an integrated design artefact, which stimulates users to further adapt, discover and think about the artifact, and their everyday experiences. Today, Product Design is breaking boundaries for novel explorations and experimentation of new technology, material, product identity, and business strategy evolving into new and exciting career opportunities yet to be discovered.
The Master in Product Design combines a unique cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach through hands-on experience in collaboration with companies that are at the forefront of design, engineering, and business. This challenging method advances the knowledge of what is currently happening in the industry and consequently enhances the ability to anticipate future needs for visionary design solutions. The program artifact explores new territories for embedding design, technology, and novel methods for fabrication and construction.
Double Award Master
The Double Award Master path allows students to obtain an Academic Master validated by the Italian MUR and a Master of Arts, with international validation in the UK from Regent’s University in London.
Students integrate additional lectures and a more in-depth individual project Master'sPath their 5-module programMaster'sPath, which includes the curricular internship and final project.
The UK validation gives students more international recognition of their course of study and the opportunity to obtain a Master of Arts Degree (90 ECTS) awarded by Regent’s University London that allows them access to most international doctoral programs.
Duration
Academic Master's Programme: 11 months
Double Award Master's: 14 months
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Ideal Students
The program is suitable for candidates who have a first-class degree and/or professional experience in interior design, product design, architecture, engineering, visual arts, or other disciplines, related to the field of study, and who want to take their career in product design to the next level.
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Curriculum
The Academic Master’s Programme path consists of 4 modules (course + workshop) plus 1 module including a professional experience and a Final Workshop Project.
The Double Award Master’s Programme path includes additional dedicated classes and a 6th module as a Final Major Project.
Theoretical Courses
- Design Culture
- Design Formation
- Business for Design
- Professional Accelerator
- Activities
Core Workshops
- Envisioning
- Advanced Design &
- Processes
Elective Workshop
One to be chosen among:
- Product Strategy
- Experience Design
- Identity Design
- Entrepreneurship through
- Design
- Tangible Interactions
- Service Design
Program Outcome
On successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:
- Manage the professional development of creativity, design, and product solutions for omni-channel distribution and consumption.
- Implement inter and cross-disciplinary creative exchange to evolve an appropriate creative language for contemporary solutions and storytelling.
- Get leadership and communications skills for the development of complex creative design projects.
- Develop responsible ethical practices and solutions.
The program ensures students will gain the skills and attributes to:
- Independently undertake advanced research.
- Develop product concepts employing techniques to deliver innovation for future product design development opportunities.
- Conceive, design, and implement creatively, product design concepts, collections, scenarios, and solutions at different scales, utilizing cross-disciplinary creative and business approaches.
- Document, present, communicate, and defend a contemporary approach to product design development by critical thinking.
- Learn brand representation, communication, business, and consumer interaction strategies in the context of product.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Students will get the knowledge, confidence, and insight to pursue creative roles in Product Design, Industrial Design, Design Strategy, Research, and Management. The program will equip students with the skills they need to
succeed in the international Product Design arena. Start their businesses of product or multi-disciplinary design or explore a wide range of design-related roles.
- Product/Industrial Designer
- Design Research
- UX/UI Designer
- Packing/ CI Designer
- Entrepreneur