Course General Description

In recent decades Interior design has acquired a fundamentally important role in defining functional and cultural quality in contemporary cities. Interiors of any kind, both private and public (museums, hospitals, offices, airports, stations), permanent or temporary, are always a whole of elements which contribute to the quality of private lives and human relationships: the space dimension, décor elements and installations, lights, colours, sounds and micro-climate, are all elements which interior designers today must know how to modulate and put together. In such cases design means taking the container or context as a starting point and working 'within' it not solely on the way it is set up, furnished and equipped but also on the range of components which allow spaces to be inhabited from the cultural and functional points of view. The realms in which interior designers now work are manifold: - the domestic space both in the traditional sense and with new kind of domesticity which are features of contemporary societies: co-housing to home offices, domestic retail to selfbranding. In the era of the creative economy the home has turned into a workshop open to new public and private behaviours. - Public spaces - ranging from the great transit locations (airports, ports and stations) to public service buildings such as banks, post offices, hospitals and schools play a very important role with functional and aesthetic quality fundamental to civil interface. - Retail In recent years, following on from the phenomena of globalisation and consequent deindustrialisation, entire industrial areas in our cities have emptied leading to interior transformation of abandoned factories, laboratories and offices allowing contemporary cities to refunctionalise and respond to new needs with new functional and utility models. The School of Design offers a Laurea in Interior Design and a Laurea Magistrale in Interior and Spatial Design programmes at the Milan Bovisa campus.

School General Description

Politecnico Milano is a scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer. Research has always been linked to didactics and it is a priority commitment which has allowed Politecnico Milano to achieve high quality results at an international level as to join the university to the business world. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation and alliances with the industrial system. Knowing the world in which you are going to work is a vital requirement for training students. By referring back to the needs of the industrial world and public administration, research is facilitated in following new paths and dealing with the need for constant and rapid innovation. The alliance with the industrial world, in many cases favored by Fondazione Politecnico and by consortiums to which Politecnico belong, allows the university to follow the vocation of the territories in which it operates and to be a stimulus for their development.