Master in New Trends in Industrial Product Design

Program Overview

The Master in New Trends in Industrial Product Design program equips students with the skills and knowledge to navigate the challenges of modern industrial product design. Through a focus on mobility, food, and home sectors, students develop innovative design solutions that meet evolving user demands and market trends. The program's practical foundation includes collaborations with industry leaders, providing hands-on experience and career opportunities in various design fields.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Overview:

The Master in New Trends in Industrial Product Design program provides students with the opportunity to master the current challenges that arise in this field in order to cultivate them as highly qualified and in-demand professionals. The objects that populate and comprise our lives are the result of social, cultural, economic, and technological shifts. Creative professionals must possess an acute understanding of these phenomena in order to fulfill market demands, anticipate and cater to novel consumer requests, while seamlessly integrating evolving trends during the ideation and development phases of novel products through the implementation of contemporary techniques, methodologies of ideation and innovation, empowering participants to develop value proposition that resonate deeply with prevailing market conditions.

Objectives:

• To develop a comprehensive understanding of the key challenges that characterize the modern industrial product design landscape.
• To provide foundational knowledge and professional practice to cultivate innovative design products that respond to prevailing user trends and demands.
• To equip the students with a panoramic view of the novel scenario that the modern production market presents concerning social trends, methodologies, technology, sustainability, sustainable development, project communication, etc.
• Cultivate the capacity to develop their professional trajectory in mobility, food design, or furniture.

Outline:

The Master's program, renowned for its theoretical as well as practical foundations, encompasses a range of modules with a specific focus on three core industrial sectors:

Mobility:

• This module is predicated on the notion that knowledge of the most sustainable materials forms the cornerstone of addressing the evolving travel requirements.
• Students will be guided to confront real-world challenges through an experimental project in collaboration with the automotive firm Hispano Suiza.

Food:

• This module is predicated on the notion that knowledge of the most sustainable materials forms the cornerstone of addressing the evolving travel requirements.
• Students will be guided to confront real-world challenges through an experimental project in collaboration with the automotive firm Hispano Suiza.

Home:

• The furniture and housing sectors serve as benchmarks for the notion of transformation.
Within this module, scholars will attend and actively participate in Salone del Mobile.Milano, gaining firsthand insights as to how industry leaders adapt to novel lifestyles as well as their strategies to communicate such designs.

Careers:

Career opportunities:

• Product designer
• Industrial designer
• Mobility product designer
• Product designer for the food sector
• Designer of objects and furniture for home and lighting
• Head of Design in companies belonging to the sector
• Manager of Innovation
• Researcher in new materials
• Design project manager
• Trendsetter or trend forecaster
• Concept development for product or service design
• Creative or artistic director
• Product manager or project manager for Industrial Product Design
• Manager of design and innovation for specialized projects
• Design and innovation head or director
• Director of project management for the creation of products for mobility
• Food sector or design and construction of household objects/furniture