Educational objectives
The current production model is based on procurement on a global scale, on self-identification with the products, on their continuous obsolescence, on perpetual competition and on having little concern about the generated waste products: a string of actions linked to one another that describe a "linear" activity model. The future requires us to adopt a new approach to design and to production processes in order to obtain sustainable products.... More...
The current production model is based on procurement on a global scale, on self-identification with the products, on their continuous obsolescence, on perpetual competition and on having little concern about the generated waste products: a string of actions linked to one another that describe a "linear" activity model.
The future requires us to adopt a new approach to design and to production processes in order to obtain sustainable products. The Systemic Design methodology works in line with Nature, following Generative Science wherein the OUTPUT of a system is the INPUT of another.
In other words, it is a question of designing material and energy flows that flow from one system into another:
striving to reach zero emissions,
materializing a new economic and productive model,
generating a community that is strongly related and consciously connected to its territory.
The educational objective of the Master of Science degree program consists in:
- providing a knowledge set and organizing a cross curricular work group, made up of faculty from single subject courses, in order to define the system of relations that a product sets in motion for the resources it needs and for the output is generates;
- training a designer to configure and fully manage the industrial product design activities with a "zero emissions" goal;
- training a designer who relates the interest for innovation to a broad vision approach to the production system, which places man at the centre of the project and takes into consideration many human factors.
MSc graduates in Systemic Design consider the environmental issues related to products and environmental protection, bestowed upon industries with increasingly restrictive national and international regulations, as priority, whatever the issues addressed, because they cross all human activity; and they are therefore able to configure a single system and also a complex system of several interrelated systems that have an effect on a territory. In relation to the latter training, Systemic Design graduates are able to interact with specialists in other sectors (industrial production, marketing, economics ...) to make these sectors evolve in order to develop open industrial design systems, and new and sustainable products and product systems.
The program is divided into 4 independent cross curricular topic modules (corresponding to the first and second semester of each year), each of which is devoted to a specific theme.
To obtain the MSc degree in SYSTEMIC DESIGN it is compulsory to attend two fundamental and mandatory modules:
- PRODUCT COMPONENTS
- OPEN SYSTEMS
To complete the curriculum the student will need to choose two other modules among those offered within the SYSTEMIC DESIGN program:
- INNOVATION
- VIRTUAL DESIGN
The faculty, of the different subjects conveyed in the modules, work together to achieve the workshop's educational objectives by combining single-subject teaching (2/3) and shared design sessions (1/3).
The design work, produced an shared among all workshop professors, is subject to a joint assessment.
The scientific subject contents that are divided according to the learning area and defined by the "Dublin descriptors" are shown in the chart on the panel A4b.
Career opportunities
The educational objective of the Master of Science degree program consists in:
- training a designer to configure and fully manage the process and industrial product design activities with a "zero emissions" goal;
- training a designer who relates the interest for innovation to a broad vision approach to the production system, which places man at the centre of the project and takes into consideration many human factors.
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- training a designer to configure and fully manage the process and industrial product design activities with a "zero emissions" goal;
- training a designer who relates the interest for innovation to a broad vision approach to the production system, which places man at the centre of the project and takes into consideration many human factors.
MSc graduates in Systemic Design consider the environmental issues related to products and environmental protection, bestowed upon industries with increasingly restrictive national and international regulations, as priority regardless of the issues addressed because they cross all human activity.
Graduates in Systemic Design can interact with specialists in other sectors (industrial production, marketing, economics ...) to identify the driving and innovative sectors in support of which to develop the design of open industrial systems and new and ecological products and product-systems.
The MSc degree course is designed to train professionals with a solid environmental culture that operate in the DESIGN OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS either as a freelance or in institutions, public and private entities, as well as in design firms and companies working on industrial design.
The overall curriculum, after the MSc degree, can be further refined with the second level masters for higher professional qualification and with the PhD programs for higher scientific education.
| The Study program qualifies the following professional profile/s: | Roles and skills: |
| SYSTEMS DESIGNER | JOB ROLES:
A systems designer, with all the necessary skills, is able to work on the complete design of an open industrial system, from inception to implementation. SKILLS RELATED TO THE ROLE: Interacts with the innovation dynamics of a product, from intermediate to final, and its life-cycle in the context of social, cultural, production, consumption and market innovations. The designer is perfectly capable of configuring and managing the design activity while striving to reach "zero emissions": he is therefore capable of indicating new scenarios of production and consumption based on a systems perspective, where the "output" of a production chain becomes the "input" of another. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: This professional figure finds employment opportunities mainly in design support activities in company consortia, and in private and public organizations. |
| DESIGNER OF COMPLEX PRODUCTS | JOB ROLES:
A designer can independently manage the sustainable design of an industrial complex product, and, in cross curricular project teams, can address issues related to its feasibility in technical, economic and production terms, and lastly to its commercialization. SKILLS RELATED TO THE ROLE: Able to configure and to fully manage the industrial product design activities and in particular to develop the issues concerning the environmental compatibility of products and environmental protection; he is also an expert in the design of complex products aimed at sustainable development in support of driving and innovative sectors. These skills also relate to production , communication and distribution strategies that contribute to a company's identity definition, the design interventions on the physical context of production and use of products, multimedia communication, the design and production of communication products and preparation of real models, prototypes and animated virtual models. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: The designer can work as a freelance, in the technical departments of manufacturing companies, in design firms, in public bodies |
