The course aims to stimulate and refine the student's sensitivity towards practical/constructive aspects of the living interior space and to combine them with aspects of method and culture of the project at different output scales. At the end of the course the student will be able to understand and design the relationship of reciprocity and contextual coherence between spatial and product elements, in close relation with the user's daily experience. The course develops a program organized to ensure: -a good knowledge of the state of the art on the theme of interior spaces and furnishing objects; -a design attitude aimed to the quality of the environments we design for living that, while privileging the specific modeling of the architectural interior and the furnishing object, knows how to underline the indispensable relationships with the building in its entirety and complexity from the organization point of view; -a specific sensibility for handcrafted and serial furniture products, for interior detail solutions and for issues related to materials, colours, finishes and light; -a knowledge of project and process management practices and production technologies with a focus on lightweight, accessible and appropriate technologies.

Good knowledge of history of contemporary architecture and industrial design, as well as basic knowledge of the typological characters of architecture, building, and product representation.

The course aims to investigate issues related to the space of contemporary living and those solutions able to respond to the changes taking place, whether they are social, economic or health: flexible living, shared living, emergency living, confined living, home-office. Themes of immediate use for the interior architect will be dealt: the optimal proportions for domestic environments, the anthropometric and ergonomic criteria for moving in the spaces of the house, the features of the internal finishing materials of the building box. From the design point of view, issues related to the process of defining the project application will be dealt. Moreover, the different scales of the furnishing object and its different roles in the context of the fruition and organization of environments will be reread. Everything will be read, with theoretical lessons and case studies, with a view to experience solutions to model and equip the space, methods to ensure the centrality of the user, knowledge, procedural rules and constraints to be respected in the intervention. The living space and furniture products will be the object of an investigation that will combine objective aspects - paths and relationships between the parties, program and brief constraints - and subjective aspects - needs of use, management and production, meaning and perception of space. Attention will be focused on the use of materials and light, on the study of the dimensional relationships and proportions between the parties, on the quality of the relationships linked to the hierarchy of spaces and the positioning of furnishings.

There will be lessons, of theoretical and case study type (30 hours), and design applications related to the disciplines of interior architecture and industrial design (30 hours). In this way the student will understand the problems and opportunities related to the design of the interior architectural space and its relationship with the furnishing object, standard or designed ad hoc; this will take place in a sequence of experiences that will see the culture of interiors and industrial design intertwined and that will lead students to confront the criteria of reading the hierarchy of spaces (from public to private, through the spaces of relationship), to read the relationship between furnishings - isolated and integrated - and environments, as well as to experience the methods for the design of rooms and objects that are placed there to support the performed functions.

The bibliography is articulated in design manuals and texts of practice, history and culture of furniture; among them: - S. Canepa, M. Vaudetti. Architettura degli Interni e progetto dell'abitazione - Nuove tendenze dell'abitare. Wolters Kluwer, Milano, 2015 - J. Pile. A History of Interior Design, John Wiley & Sons. New York, 2013 - C. Germak (a cura di). L'uomo al centro del progetto. Allemandi, Torino 2008 - B. Munari. Da cosa nasce cosa, Laterza. II Edizione 'economica Laterza', Bari, 2010 - D. A. Norman. La caffettiera del Masochista. Psicopatologia degli oggetti quotidiani. Giunti Editore, Firenze, 2009 - A. Yudina. Furnitecture. Furniture that transforms space. Thames & Hudson, New York, 2015 Supplementary material will be made available online (handouts and in-depth bibliography)

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Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Group project;

The examination, oral individual in the classroom, lasting 30 minutes, consists in demonstrating the knowledge of the topics dealt with in class and the application of them in the exercises carried out during the course in group, previously revised by professors according to a specific agenda. The exercises are to be understood as a design reflection on interior spaces and products characterizing the world of living. The evaluations of the project exercises will contribute to form the final grade in the measure of 80%, the interview will contribute for the remaining 20%. The evaluation is expressed in 30/30. A minimum score of 18/30 is required for each discipline. The maximum rating is 30 cum laude.

In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.