Description

According to the chosen course, the Master course aims at training two professional profiles in the environmental planning scope: an architect expert in sustainability, with reference to the construction, and in urban layout (Urban course of study), and a landscape architect, expert in re-territorialisation processes or territorial requalification (Landscape course of study). In both cases, the Master course aims at training designers able to face the complexity of the contemporary world through logics of intervention in order to promote new ecology forms, i.e. new relationships between different things such as between built and natural landscape, between buildings and energy resources, between places of consumption and of production, between public and private spaces, between spaces and inhabitants, between human beings and other living species.

As a matter of fact, if the challenge of the new millennium is to produce architectures, cities and landscapes able to work in a new way by supporting life and a peaceful coexistence on our planet, it is necessary to train a new generation of designers (designers, architects and engineers) who can plan and realize a universe of architectures, cities and landscapes, not only energetically efficient but also able to self-produce - locally and without harmful wastes - the energy necessary to their operation, and to exchange energy and information on the net in a circuit of systematic relations that positively connects natural and built environment, spaces and inhabitants, human community and other living species.

Aimed at:

The Master course is addressed to engineers, architects, town planners, designers, graduates in Academy of Fine Arts, in history of Art, landscape designers and professionals working in the field who want to develop further skills.

Highlights

The Master courses in Urban and Land consist of a preliminary section shared by the two courses of study that aims at creating theoretical and practical skills concerning the concepts of sustainability, ecology, territory, ecologic mark, renewable energy, history of the city and of the territory, environmental planning principles, sustainable management of mobility and waters, agriculture of proximity. Besides the architectonic simulation (simulation based design), the technical part of the Master course in Sustainable Urban Design regards the abilities in planning renewable energy equipment, in analyzing buildings and urban systems at thermo-fluid dynamic level and in developing a design method based on the energy.

The summary workshop includes the design of a model district with zero emissions, a system of on-site phyto-depuration of the waters and agriculture of proximity, i.e. a district that works as a real urban ecosystem. The technical part of Landscape Design concerns the abilities in botany, geography, aesthetics and contemporary art, history and landscape design.

By considering the general loss of shape and structure of the city as well as of the countryside, the summary workshop will develop integrated strategies to re-create the relationship between the human being and territory, to rebuild the urban continuity and the energy self-sufficiency of a community, i.e. it will define strategies for a new sustainable development (or for a new form of garden) starting from the special characteristics of the local contests. The Master course includes theoretical lessons and lessons in lab.

The main subject of the course is the interdisciplinary comparison explained by architects, sociologists, biologists and engineers and realized on the field through an actual design exercise arranged with an external customer (research centre, institution or company), and with a teacher specialized in the considered field.

Degree Level

Masters Degree

Minimum Education

Diploma/Certification

Subject Areas

• Design
• Interior Design

Cost in US$:

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Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Apartment/Flat
• Independent living

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 5

Scholarships are Available

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Application Process Involves

• Resume
• Written Application
• Other

IED - Istituto Europeo di Design's Mission Statement

The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) is a design school that attracts students from over 90 different countries to its one and three year/four undergraduate, masters courses and advanced training. The school was born in 1966 to the intuition of its President Francesco Morelli. Through time, it has become a 100% Made in Italy international network of excellence, operating in the fields of training and research, in the disciplines of Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management. The school is spread around twelve cities: (Milan, Turin, Venice,Cagliari, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing and Shanghai). Every year more than 1800 foreign students enroll in its courses, mainly coming from Europe, Central and South America and East Asia. The school offers more than 500 courses in English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Year Founded

1966