Master in Car Design

  Italy

• All Other Areas in Italy: 
Milano

Description: Domus Academy's Master Program in Car Design is part of the design logic of an increasing functional relation between mobility and territory, facing the complexity of developing vehicles suited to new needs. Automotive companies need a new generation of car designers, capable to integrate tradition with changing and diverse market requirements and new technological developments.

The Master in Car Design aims at updating and developing professional competencies of young, promising designers. It benefits from Italian car design tradition, and it pursues an integrated design approach, where means of transportation are built respecting ergonomics, safety, without forgetting the environmental impact, and taking into a very serious account aesthetics.

The Car Design Master Program lasts from April 2009 to March 2010; it is articulated into lectures, testimonials and field visits, research projects, workshops and a final Master thesis.

The Master in Car Design follows the pedagogical approach of "learning by designing", where participants learn by a direct, active involvement in several design experiences. Here the challenge relies in designing not only what theory and experience say it is possible, but to look beyond and developing concepts that will be the cars of the future, pursuing a method to direct the existing know-how towards an innovating vision.

The Car Design Master Program aims at strengthening participants' design competencies together with the development of their managerial profile. At the end of the program, they will be ready to work as car designers within the framework of a company or design studio organisation, and they will be able to effectively interact with the marketing, production and finance functions.

Highlights: Audi will support the 2009 edition of the Master in Car Design with its technical and design consultancy. Faculty of the Master in Car Design will include car designers and professionals in different design fields, companies' managers, marketing and management consultants, automotive sector experts.

In order to facilitate the participation to the Master of talented young designers, Domus Academy provides some scholarships covering part of the tuition fee.

Participants to the Domus Academy's Master Program in Car Design are going to become professionals in the automotive sector, and to acquire different and multiple skills, thanks to the multidisciplinary approach of the school. Technical and managerial competences are in fact at the basis of this course, to allow the students to gain a global vision and to confront with all the parties involved in the creation of an automotive product. The School own Career Service will help participants to establish contacts with a wide number of perspective employers, ranging from car manufacturers' design department to leading design studio active in the automotive and transportation sectors, in Italy and abroad.

Cost in US$: 25720

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently Or in Groups

Scholarships are Available. -  * Domus Academy and Audi are looking for the best design talents! * Domus Academy and Audi look for the car design talents of tomorrow. * Young creatives, driven by design passion and ready to start a career in car design, have the opportunity to shape the automotive world of the coming years. * Among the mass production objects, cars are the most diffused, the most expensive, the most technologically advanced and above all still the most desired. What makes a car desirable? What makes a vehicle the actual platform of our dreams? What makes car design a promise for a forthcoming future? * Desire Design is a competition project that aims at rediscovering the fundamentals of car design. * Participants are requested to submit a design project of a car with a strong emotional impact. * The prizes are 3 fantastic scholarships (70%; 50%; 30%) to join the Master in Car Design in April 2009! * All candidates who send their project as participation to the competition will receive an award consisting of 10% discount on the tuition fee to attend the Master in Car Design. * The winning projects will be selected by Marco Bonetto (Domus Academy, Master in Car Design Director), Walter De Silva (Volkswagen Group, Director of Design), Wolfgang Josef Egger, (Audi Group, Head of Design), Fabrizio Giugiaro (Italdesign Giugiaro, Style Director ) * The works must be received at Domus Academy by and not later than January 15, 2009. Candidates will be informed on the results of the competition via e-mail by January 31, 2009.

Application Process Involves:

• Essay
• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Resume
• Transcript
• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time Is 3-4 weeks

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

Domus Academy Milan's Mission Statement: For over 25 years, Domus Academy has styled itself as a workshop for advanced level study and research to further the innovation potential of Design and Management. Focusing its teaching and research work on developments in industrial manufacturing processes, the gradual shift in aesthetic idiom and modification of consumer behavior as well as public and private forms of service, Domus Academy aims to be an international forum for debate on these issues as regards Made in Italy product and fashion design, interaction and web design, Urban vision and architectural design, design direction, car design, accessories design and business design.

Year Founded: 1982