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Product Design for Human-Robot Interaction – Master of Arts by Istituto Marangoni Milano Design

shuhei senda I designboom — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:18:52 +0000

The Master Course in Product Design for Human-Robot Interaction trains professionals to design intelligent robotic products that improve the relationship between humans and machines. The programme explores cognitive ergonomics, design semiotics, and interaction aesthetics, focusing on empathy, usability, and emotional design. Students learn to develop robotic concepts from brief to prototype, combining creative thinking with technical accuracy and advanced CAD and rendering tools.
The course includes collaborative projects with companies, guided by mentors acting as art directors, and hands-on prototyping in the school’s laboratories.
Part of the programme takes place at Scuola di Robotica in Genoa, offering direct exposure to applied robotics and interdisciplinary research.
In the final phase, students develop an individual thesis project that integrates innovation, functionality, and design culture. This Master prepares a new generation of designers to lead innovation in the fast-growing field of human-robot interaction, where design plays a key role in shaping future experiences.

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Luxury Boutique Hotel Interior Design – Master of Arts by Istituto Marangoni Milano Design

shuhei senda I designboom — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:50:50 +0000

The Master Course in Luxury Boutique Hotel Interior Design trains professionals in the concept, design, and management of interior spaces for exclusive boutique hotels where luxury, brand identity, and guest experience are central. The first semester focuses on design methodologies and project management within the luxury interior design sector including the study of materials, lighting, spatial composition, and storytelling. Students also develop advanced presentation skills and take part in a collaborative project with a leading luxury brand, gaining valuable industry exposure. In the second semester, students are challenged to design a complete boutique hotel concept, defining spatial layouts, immersive guest experiences, and high-end design solutions aligned with the brand’s identity and target audience. The programme integrates strategic thinking, brand awareness, and guest experience design, preparing visionary professionals ready to transform boutique hospitality through innovation, storytelling, and timeless elegance.

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Design Innovation for Emerging Technologies – Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) by Istituto Marangoni Milano Design

shuhei senda I designboom — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:44:57 +0000

The Bachelor’s Degree in Design Innovation for Emerging Technologies fosters a strategic mindset that combines creative vision with analytical skills. Students develop skills in research, critical analysis, and data-driven decision-making, learning to set goals, plan effectively, and manage resources to lead innovation processes.
The programme emphasizes creative problem-solving and cross-disciplinary thinking, preparing graduates to design solutions that integrate emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), generative design, robotics, and 3D printing—with user-centered and socially conscious approaches.
Learning takes place in a dynamic environment that fosters collaboration between students, faculty, and industry professionals across product design, interiors, and communication. This exchange of ideas and practices equips students with the tools, perspective, and adaptability needed to thrive in today’s evolving design and innovation landscape.

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Communication Design – Master of Arts by Istituto Marangoni Milano Design

shuhei senda I designboom — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:33:46 +0000

This two-year full‑time programme immerses students in the sociological, cultural, and creative forces shaping contemporary communication across rapidly evolving media landscape. Participants examine digital disruption, social change, image culture, and new media to design memorable, socially conscious strategies and integrated campaigns. Coursework develops advanced skills in visual‑communication techniques, art direction, and the creative potential of emerging technologies and multimedia languages. Grounded in historical‑critical inquiry and research practice, the programme explores how images acquire symbolic value over time and within fragmented media ecologies. Students engage with sociology of communication, experimental visual languages, and methodological tools that merge conceptual rigor with technical execution—training a new generation of communicators skilled in visual storytelling, content sensitivity, and multifaceted artefact creation.

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Visual Design – Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) by Istituto Marangoni Milano Design

shuhei senda I designboom — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:23:11 +0000

Studying a complex mix of technical design skills covering the most important digital software, drawing and design elements of typography and lettering, colour, print, layout composition and visual hierarchy, packaging and signage, participants also tackle the theories of perception and Gestalt, contemporary realities and sociocultural scenarios, creating meaningful designs in a technological and emotionally charged world. They learn how to communicate through visual language and storytelling, including video and new media (web design, blog, social platforms), focusing on visual communication as a strategic lever; creating a new approach in brand identity, sequential imaging in advertising, or innovative ideas in publishing and online magazines. By studying marketing strategies, communication methodology, cultural anthropology and the techniques of media, participants learn how to give a balanced and functional voice to a company, product, or service, applying creative solutions to marketing concepts in order to sell or promote products or ideas through design.

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Master of Arts in Interaction Design by IED

shuhei senda I designboom — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:11:29 +0000

At IED Torino, the two-year Master of Arts in Interaction Design invites students to rethink how they engage with technology, combining emerging tools with a human-centered perspective. The program trains designers to navigate the complexity of digital transformation by blending technical skills with deep empathy for users and real-world contexts.

The course takes an experimental, interdisciplinary approach: students explore UX design, creative coding, AI, ethnographic research, digital sociology, and physical prototyping to learn how to design interfaces, smart devices, and service systems through social, environmental, and ethical lenses. Learning is project-based and closely connected to industry, offering students hands-on experience with today’s design challenges.

Set in Turin — a city with a strong industrial and technological identity — the program prepares future professionals to lead sustainable innovation in fields such as IoT, edtech, mobility, service design, and digital products.

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Master in Social Ecological Design by IED

shuhei senda I designboom — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:58:42 +0000

What if design could become a transformative practice — one that fosters deep, respectful connections between humans, communities, and the ecosystems they inhabit? At IED Torino, the immersive and experimental Master in Social Ecological Design reimagines design as an act of care.

The program is grounded in critical theory, hands-on material exploration, and direct engagement with places and communities across Italy. Over 16 months, participants move between classroom learning, individual research, and fieldwork—taking part in urban labs in Turin, community projects in Sicily, off-grid experiences in the Alps, and an eco-bootcamp in Tuscany. Students will develop a versatile skill set—including biomimicry, cultural activism, multispecies thinking, creative ethnography, systems analysis, inclusive design and much more—while working closely with local stakeholders, designers, experts and peers.

Mentorship, collaborative workshops, and embedded practice support each student’s journey in confronting today’s complex challenges and shaping socially and ecologically engaged futures.

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Master of Arts in Design X Other Species by IED

shuhei senda I designboom — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:44:20 +0000

Can design facilitate the transformations necessary for humans and non-humans to collectively address the environmental challenges crucial to the survival of both?

The brand new IED Master of Arts, delivered in Milano, explores transdisciplinary design as an ecological practice that fosters coexistence between humans and non-humans. Addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, the program promotes non-anthropocentric approaches through collaboration with experts in ecology, sociology, and environmental humanities. Students engage in real-world projects — from multispecies habitats to biodiversity-enhancing products — gaining skills to design for entire ecosystems. Led by prominent practitioners and researchers, the course prepares graduates for careers in research, academia, and ecological design. Open to diverse professionals, it cultivates new roles like Ecosystem Service Designer, advancing ethical, systemic solutions for a shared and sustainable planetary future.

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School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA Products of Design

shuhei senda I designboom — Tue, 20 May 2025 07:49:29 +0000

At School of Visual Arts (SVA)’s MFA in Products of Design, students are trained as multilingual designers — fluent across physical, digital, social, and business design. The school’s no-grades policy fosters risk-taking and mentorship, not measurement. Its NYC location offers unmatched access to leading design studios and groundbreaking organizations. As well, the faculty are all industry leaders, blending real-world experience into daily teaching. SVA partners annually with MoMA to create products for retail and manufacturing. Most importantly, its program champions ethical design and systems change. With empathy and purpose at the center, the school prepares designers to lead with both skill and conscience in an evolving world.

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Master in Critical Design at Elisava

maria esnaola — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:54:41 +0000

How could subversive imagination be a trigger for transforming the current environmental, political and cultural crisis into desirable futures? The Master in Critical Design at Elisava explores the instrumentalization of critical design in the creation of an impactful change within specific spatial context.

It combines theoretical study, research investigation and practical work led by international architects, thinkers, artists, activists, curators and publishers. Students will acquire a broad set of perspectives on key challenges of our times and tools to add to the international conversation on geopolitics, spatial justice, environmental activism, care, identity politics, feminist studies and practices, climate justice, extractivism, non-human rights, political art and design, critical architecture or urban radical alternatives.

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