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Design, Sustainability, Digital Culture for the Territory

Master Degree
LM-12 R
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Free
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  • Latvia
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Turkey

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What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The Master's Degree provides designers with design knowledge and skills, allowing them to use cultural, communicative planning, technological and socio-economic considerations to tackle the complexity of the contemporary issues of sustainability and digital transition.

Designers will be able to design systems of objects, communication artefacts and services, and manage industrial and advanced craft productions, as well as complex and systemic projects of visual communication keeping a constant commitment to the specificities of the local territory to promote its cultural heritage, and the productive ecosystem , the local identities, as well as the material and immaterial resources.

Sustainability, digital culture and territory define the three thematic areas of intervention of Design in this Course and around which teachings, laboratories, workshops, conferences, educational trips and international exchanges are developed.

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What do you learn?

The student of the Master's Degree acquires Design knowledge and skills, developing a critical and mindful attitude towards the discipline, through a transdisciplinary educational path, which includes the following design, scientific, technological, historical-critical and economic teachings:

  • Interaction Design, Data Visualization, Information Design;
  • Design of visual communication for cultural heritage and productions;
  • Design for circular and sustainable agri-food production;
  • Strategic design for territorial development;
  • Service design;
  • Movie science and landscape;
  • Contemporary art and cultural industries;
  • Architecture and history of exhibition and event spaces, • Biodiversity and sustainability in agri-food production;
  • Biomaterials and components for design;
  • Sustainable technologies for design.
The course organises teaching, organized in semesters and with compulsory attendance, through lectures and workshops also in collaboration with companies and institutions, both for the development of projects and prototypes that find direct application on the territory and for the development of complementary activities (conferences, seminars, workshops, conferences).

The course is completed through a mandatory internship and the development of a master's thesis as a final exam.

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What can you do with it?

The knowledge and skills acquired during the training process prepare the designer to enter the job market with a great professional and cultural awareness of his role.

Ethical considerations and social change ambitions are strengths of the designer who can design possible futures based on the principles and practices of sustainability and digital culture for the growth and development of the territory.

Design as a pervasive discipline opens up multiple job opportunities, represented by: Manufacturing industries, small and medium-sized enterprises, advanced crafts; Digital products and services companies; Professional firms and communication agencies; Public and private research centres; Cultural institutions and foundations; Museums, archives and libraries; Archaeological sites; Innovative start-ups; Solopreneurship.