About Domus Academy

Interior design deeply considers the kinds of relationships, activities, and habits that a space will support. In the Master in Interior & Living Design, you will collaborate with your international peers and company professionals on projects that re-invent the interior and living domains. With cultural, social, and practical concerns in mind, you will examine materials, furniture, lighting, and emerging technologies as you plan new and innovative spaces.

Career Paths:

• Interior designer
• Exhibition designer
• Lighting designer
• Living designer
• Space planner

The Master in Product Design program combines cross-disciplinary studies of design thinking with hands-on experience. You will have the opportunity to work on projects with companies on the front lines of product design, engineering, and business. You will learn how to analyze current industry directions, anticipate future trends, and explore new territories in design, technology, fabrication, and distribution.

Career Paths:

• Product designer
• Industrial designer
• Package designer
• Product engineer
• Product manager

The Master in Urban Vision & Architectural Design offers new techniques of inquiry into the methods, tools, and topics that define contemporary urban and architectural projects. In this program, you will study design-based strategies for transforming cities and regenerating metropolitan areas. Taking factors like the environment, social equity, and economic viability into consideration, you will design concepts for private and public spaces and collaborate on projects that define a better urban future.

Career Paths:

• Architect
• Architectural assistant
• Urban planner
• Urban designer
• Project researcher
• Project manager
• Landscape architect
• Landscape designer

Interaction design is about creating a product, service, or space that people will interact with through an intuitive visual and haptic (tactile) interface. In the Master in Interaction Design program, you will learn to define problems and solutions in the field of interaction and user experience. As you create enriched experiences through innovative technology, you will be encouraged to transform your original design visions into market opportunities.

Career Paths:

• Interaction designer
• User experience designer
• User interface designer
• Visual designer
• Digital strategist
• Design manager

In the Master in Service Design program, you will learn new skills in storytelling, prototyping, problem-solving, and business design that you can apply to develop intuitive and relevant service ideas. Through observing users, you will detect unmet customer needs and develop physical and virtual systems of service experience, working in close contact with professionals from private and public sector organizations.

Career Paths:

• Service designer
• User experience designer
• User interaction designer
• Design strategist
• Interaction designer
• Coder

The Master in Visual Brand Design aims to form effective, dynamic, and versatile visual brand designers and brand managers who are open to visionary innovations. You will learn to identify a company’s core philosophy, cultivate a deep understanding of its products and services, and design innovative ways to communicate the company’s brand values and story to its customers through physical, digital, and social media.

Career Paths:

• Visual brand designer
• Brand manager
• Brand strategist
• Graphic designer
• User interface designer
• Product strategist

The Master in Fashion Design program combines fashion studies with intensive studio practice. You will refine your own creative vision as you meet the challenge of designing new clothing and accessories for existing fashion brands. Your projects will combine conceptualization with textile manipulation, garment prototyping, branding, and image-based storytelling. You will develop a sophisticated understanding of the fashion industry and prepare for an exciting career within it.

Career Paths:

• Fashion designer
• Accessory designer
• Textile designer
• Branding consultant
• Fashion entrepreneur
• Fashion journalist
• Trend researcher
• Product developer
• Merchandiser

The Master in Fashion Management combines the study of fashion with an in-depth examination of its management side. You will learn how to respond to changing consumer trends, generate brand awareness of a fashion line, and manage a fashion collection from conception through production and distribution. You will work on projects related to product development, merchandising, advertising, and fashion buying.

Career Paths:

• Fashion brand manager
• Fashion buyer
• Fashion merchandiser
• Product manager
• Brand strategist
• Events manager
• Supply chain manager
• Marketing/public relations consultant
• Fashion entrepreneur

The Master in Fashion Styling & Visual Merchandising program blends the roles of the visual merchandiser and the fashion stylist to create a new professional profile: the visual fashion brand communicator, whose scope encompasses lookbooks, advertising campaigns, editorials, websites, social media, and multi-sensorial retail concepts. You will learn how to convey the brand values and identity of a fashion collection through powerful image-based storytelling and visual merchandising strategies for window and in-store displays.

Career Paths:

• Visual fashion brand communicator
• Fashion stylist
• Visual merchandiser
• Display designer
• Fashion show organizer
• Brand and communication strategist
• Entrepreneur
• Celebrity assistant

In the Master in Business Design program, you will learn how to apply design culture and design thinking to a wide range of business models, from start-ups to established enterprises. You will apply design-driven project management strategies as you practice drafting plans for business development, branding, marketing, and communication for a whole company as well as for specific product lines and new ventures.

Career Paths:

• Brand and communication strategist
• Entrepreneur
• Product manager
• Project manager
• Business consultant
• Innovation manager
• Business development manager

In the Master in Luxury Brand Management program, you will learn how to help luxury brands develop meaningful values, powerful messaging, and memorable customer experiences. You will analyze the individual and social behavior of customers and apply your insights as you plan new products for a luxury collection, create fashion editorials, or design compelling displays of luxury goods.

Career Paths:

• Luxury brand manager
• Product manager
• Marketing director
• Influencer
• Digital communications director
• Communications and PR manager
• Branding & marketing consultant
• Exhibition designer
• Fashion show organizer

A 15-week journey into Fashion Management that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Fashion Styling & Visual Merchandising that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Business Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Luxury Brand Management that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Interaction Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Service Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Visual Brand Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Interior & Living Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Product Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Product Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

A 15-week journey into Fashion Design that will lead you to join selected theoretical courses with professionals, active learning sessions and workshops working in international and cross disciplinary teams and taking advantage of many networking occasions.

In this short course, participants will be asked to consider several dominant contemporary topics (such as the relationship between technology and ethics, current and future social transformations, new working scenarios, the future of food, access against ownership, inclusive design, etc.). Guided through the process of critical reflection, they will be asked to ideate and implement design scenarios with the aim of offering a glimpse of how things can be.

STRUCTURE – SUBJECTS:

• Design contexts
• Approaching design – critical analysis
• Embedding relevancy in the design process
• Designing for a better future
• From ideation to proposals

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Analyze contemporary topics from critical perspective to inform the design process;
• Develop an articulated design context based on research;
• Formulate a conceptual proposal for a product, service, space or architecture that responds to a new design context;
• Apply a design method in a process that reframes the role of design;
• Appraise how design can positively impact our future.

This course introduces methods and strategies for envisioning the future as part of the design process. The course will explore the field of futures studies and foresight practices in relation to design to help participants design products, interaction and services scenarios for our near and next futures.

STRUCTURE – SUBJECTS:

• Design methodology
• Creative methods
• Forecasting and envisioning
• Design-based futures
• Futures studies and speculative design

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Analyse new and emergent cultural changes extracted from a variety of sources to inform the formulation of a possible future context;
• Develop a concept for a future scenario;
• Demonstrate knowledge in the field of experiential futures;
• Design an object, service or interaction project responding to a constructed future scenario;
• Create a digital and/or physical mockup to experience a future scenario.

In this short intensive course, the participants will explore the complexity of visual languages and intent while being introduced to essential filmmaking principles and the technical skills to allow personal iterations in a range of video formats. Participants will approach visual narration and style while designing and producing a video project from script to screen. The participants will have the opportunity to investigate and realize a video content directed toward one among different areas of creative industries; short fashion film, brand video, creative personal narrative or video for social media.

STRUCTURE – SUBJECTS:

• Format, intention and style_content
• Video languages and integration into creative process
• Narration and storytelling
• Video making fundamentals
• Production processes
• Product/service system innovation

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Analyze video style and content from online sources to inform a personal video project in different communication contexts;
• Develop an informed narration to guide the video project;
• Organise the production process, including planning and technical components to create a video to a professional standard;
• Design a video consistent with the intention of the brief to complete with a defined visual language;
• Appraise the storytelling and effectiveness of one’s own final output within the selected media context.

At the beginning of the course, participants will identif y a company and use a design thinking approach to discover weaknesses and threats that are making its future uncertain. Then, they will apply business design methods to define a viable proposal to pivot its business model. In the latter part of the course, the participants will adopt a service design mindset to develop an innovative, human-centred product/service system that can be delivered to the market in a very short time frame, to boldly reorient the company toward a successful direction.

STRUCTURE – SUBJECTS:

• VUCA world
• Design thinking
• Business design
• Service design
• Product/service system innovation

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the current complex global business context applying an original interpretive perspective;
• Use a design thinking approach to detect the key factors related to a company situation;
• Apply business design methods to define why and how to effectively pivot its business model;
• Adopt a service design mindset to develop innovative product/service systems;
• Elaborate a product/service system innovation project at fast pace and under pressure.

This two-year Master of Arts programme offers an innovative vision and approach to creativity and the design industry. Its objective is to establish and anticipate cross-cultural directions of multi-faceted themes. Design is undergoing a pivotal, paradigmatic shift as it moves into contemporary contexts. As pressing social and environmental issues converge with the continuous development of advanced technologies, possibilities are expanding around what and how we design and the type of experiences we create. The programme embraces design as a cultural act, advancing strategies of innovation while promoting interdisciplinary methodologies in addressing and solving the challenges of tomorrow.

This Master of Arts Programme offers an innovative vision and approach to creativity and the industry.

You will explore technology throughout, including virtual, augmented, and extended reality, artificial intelligence, Web 3.0, and the ecologies of materials.

You will also apply new design approaches and models to transversal and hybrid futures and to issues of sustainability, and circularity.

 The Design Innovation programme focuses on:

• Strategy, vision, and design
  
• Humanity-centred design
• Technological advancements and new design propositions
• Application of interdisciplinary knowledge to disruptive directions within design.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

This programme can prepare you to launch a career in the following advanced roles within the industry:

• Product/strategic designer
• Materials innovator
• Design director
• R&D and process innovator
• Innovation & transformation manager
• Extended reality design specialist
• Generative design expert
• User experience designer

It will also prepare you to begin a PhD programme in the design area.

This two-year Master of Arts programme offers an innovative vision and approach to creativity and the fashion industry. Its objective is to establish and anticipate cross-cultural directions of multi-faceted themes.

The programme integrates art, fashion technology, and digital design within a new framework of multidisciplinary theory, practice, and experimentation. It focuses on innovative approaches within materials and workflow—with the aim of generating the next visionary leaders of the fashion system. You will explore technology throughout, including virtual, augmented, and extended reality; artificial intelligence, Web 3.0, and the ecologies of materials. You will also examine new business models based on sustainability, circularity, and ethical practices.

The Fashion: Design, Art & Technology programme focuses on:

• Experimentation and exploration of new fashion languages and contexts
• Innovative sustainability (both in business models and materials)
• Application of interdisciplinary knowledge to disruptive directions within fashion

You will deeply explore theoretical coursework, then put your knowledge into practice within an unconventional mix of workshops, seminars, specialized laboratories, and bootcamps.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:

This programme can prepare you to launch a career in the following advanced roles within the industry:

• Fashion designer
• Fashion entrepreneur
• Creative director
• Community/sustainability / CSR (fashion) manager
• Innovation & transformation (fashion) manager
• R&D process / materials (fashion) innovator
• Digital fashion designer / 3D modeling designer

It will also prepare you to begin a PhD programme in the fashion design area.