Master of Science in Product and Service Design
Rome, Italy
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
The M.Sc. in Product and Service Design is for students who want to deepen their design skills by exploring new technologies, cultural contexts, and social issues.
Our students will face creative challenges in developing products and services to improve people's lives according to the Digital and Green Transition. They will design extensively, think creatively, and reflect critically.
The Master's Program is organized in 4 semesters in 2 years.
During the first year, students will acquire innovative skills in Aesthetics and Social Communication, Design issues, Smart Technologies & Open Design, Digital Representation & AI, Mechanics and New materials, Human Factors, and Strategic Management; as well as they will also explore and practice the most recent Design Thinking methodologies as well as the face of with the topic of
In the second year, they will understand and develop sustainable, smart, and innovative production and consumption processes facing 4 different areas of application:
- Design for Interaction, exploring, and applying smart technologies with a critical and futuristic approach
- Design for Service and Social Innovation, with a human-centered and UX approach; Design for Material, with particular attention to bio-mimesis and sustainability; Design for New Craft and Industry, considering the innovation of new typologies and new aesthetics.
In the second year, the last semester is dedicated to the final work which is a research-based activity aimed at developing a functional prototype of an innovative product and service, in collaboration with international R&D company departments or university labs or research centers.
Our graduates can spend their skills as Design Strategist at the management level for companies or new start-ups or as Design Researcher within Research Centres or successfully continuing their training in the Ph.D. course.
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Curriculum
First-year
First semester
- Laboratory of aesthetics
- Laboratory of virtual modeling and representation
- Laboratory of smart objects
- Laboratory of Mechanics
Second semester
- Elective course
- Design issues
- Advanced design studio
Second year
Second semester
- Further learning work and training
- Thesis work
Program Outcome
Learning outcomes
The Master of Science in Product and Service Design is to train designers in the field of advanced production of innovative artifacts and services, with strategic skills and vision and management of typical processes of the post-industrial society. The course is entirely taught in English and is defined to welcome students from different geographical and educational backgrounds (design, architecture, engineering) creating a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment by integrating design skills, engineering skills, and socio-critical skills necessary for the development and management of design-driven product, process, and service innovations, operating internationally. Students will be engaged in an intense project activity, creatively thinking and critically investigating. The main didactic goals are:
- Knowledge and understanding of the material culture of Design about socio-cultural and economic repercussions
- Control of the technical-productive, technical-functional, and formal aspects of the artifacts (tangible or intangible) but also of all the processes that accompany the design-production-consumption path informed and guided by strategies of economic, social, and environmental sustainability
- Development of Design Thinking skills which, by grasping the potential and resources of a local system, connect it with the critical capacity to the global dimension by developing products and/or services, starting from the understanding of cultural, social, and relationships between resources and activity, is capable of producing Design-driven Innovations that condition the material and immaterial culture of contemporary societies.
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Career Opportunities
The Design Strategist will find wide employment opportunities as:
- Freelancer
- Within public and private institutions and bodies
- Within studios and design companies
- Within small, medium, and large companies.