The Italian Design Touch with Alessi

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COURSE PROGRAM


This course sets out to be a training process, the goal being to enhance participants' professional skills and attitudes and so enable them to meet the need for proactivity or rather take creative and proactive action. In this context, the course creates a highly dynamic fabric, capable of conceiving potential new worlds and new perspectives for thought and action. It seeks to increase the participants' awareness ofrntheir own resources and choices, as well as their ability to become a driving force and launch-pad for new realities.

METADESIGN

The basic idea is the meta-project, understood as arnvision, an imaginary context, the starting point forrnconcrete action resulting from a creative process. A process whose dynamics will create new connections and unexpected cognitive and emotional processes while still referring to the needs of the professional realities in which they operate to reveal new, hidden needs. A journey of training and participation, regarding both the final product and the end result.

COURSE STRUCTURE

The course starts with a conoscitive process, needed to understand the person, followed by the development of strategies for grasping the relational dynamics of the individual within a group. Creative sessions which then lead onto proactive exploration processes and conflict resolution. Then there will be an introduction to the thought and metadesign processes.

OPERATIONAL PHASE:

1. Construction of a metaproject, as the development of a personal creative vision related to its mission and its vision, plus a visit to the production departments of famous design companies.

2. Design and implementation of the product with a strong stress on sustainability within an existing "Alessi" metadesign line or a metadesign created and defined in the workshop specifically for "Alessi"

3. Visits to the production departments of famous design companies

4. Definition and development of the project, up to the finalization of the product.

5. Feedback on the overall process, sharing and presentation of the product with a final exhibition of the work, open to the public and the media.

Period
17-06-2013 - 28-06-2013 (2 weeks)

Target group
The course is intended for designers, arts and designrnstudents and creative minds from other professional worlds, such as artists, cartoonists and advertising graphic designers. Anyone who wants to share arnprocess which, through experience and the creation of a product, may increase the creativity and the realization of a personal metadesign vision.

Course aim
This course sets out to be a training process, the goal being to enhance participants professional skills and attitudes and so enable them to meet the need for proactivity or rather take creative and proactive action.



Credits
0.0 ECTS credits

ADMISSION CRITERIA

- Registration form

- Motivational letter

- CV (max 3 pages)

- PortfolioWe will only accept a maximum of 18 candidates. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance from the Politecnico di Milano.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

12th May 2013T

he course will only be held if a minimum of 15 participants is reached.

INFORMATION ANDENROLLMENTS

summerschool@polimi.it

You must specify in the object of the e-mail: The Italian Design Touch With Alessi Registration

Course fee
EUR 1700: The cost includes enrollment for the course and accommodation (Villa Del Grumello guesthouse) www.villadelgrumello.it

Course leader
Arturo DellAcqua Bellavitis (Professor Polytechnic University Milan), Massimo Duroni (Italian designer) & Laura Polinoro (Italian Designer)

POLITECNICO DI MILANO Como
Address: Via Natta 12/14
Postal code: 22100
City: Como
Country: Italy
Website: www.polimi.it
E-mail: summerschool@polimi.it
Phone: +39 (31)3327434