Master Course: Contemporary Landscape Visual Research and Design at IED Rome

  Italy

• Rome: 
Roma (Rome)

Description: This Master's Degree expands on two types of closely related instruction: one, theoretical lectures that give the students historical-critical training on the concept of contemporary landscape, having as a reference either architecture and urban planning or visual and performing arts; and two, laboratory lectures in which to develop a project in the territory which in turn will be developed in two phases: one dedicated to field research on the site or to the project in the laboratory, and the other dedicated to the design of the same project from a rational and practical perspective.

The project is arranged with a Roman organization or a local entity so as to let the students participate in an experience as real and educational as possible. The work is managed from the outset by setting up project work groups among the students, creating real work scenarios as much as possible, and giving students the opportunity to further specialize in the path they have already undertaken in their previous university careers, while also giving them the chance to encounter and compare other skills and professional competences.

Highlights: Master's Degree in Contemporary Landscape: Visual Research and Design aims to create a new professional that combines aesthetic and theoretical skills related to contemporary art with the technical and practical skills related to architecture and urban planning. The emergence and rapid spread of the metropolitan system has produced a series of extraordinary transformations of the very idea of landscape: from the new natural-artificial relationship, to the idea of an archeology of the contemporary, from the grandiose systems of self-building in the ghettos around the world, to the so-called temporary cities that host major ephemeral events, limited in time. The interpretation of these relatively recent microscopic and macroscopic phenomena requires a new professional competence, able to analyze them from a theoretical and historical perspective as well as to implement practical projects according to a new vision for the territory. The Contemporary Landscape Designer will therefore know how bring together both esthetic and functional changes of a world that is increasingly being defined more precisely by the term glocal: associated to historical and local values and traditions, but at the same time inevitably cast in a global and all-encompassing context.

A central element of the very idea of landscape transformation throughout the twentieth century has been the indissoluble link to contemporary visual and performing arts that have contributed to designing a new vision of all the contexts of modern living: from Land Art to Photography, from Site-Specific works to Situationism from Soundscape to Bodyscape. This Master's degree therefore aims to create a cross professionalism that combines deep aesthetic competence, based precisely on the specifics of the visual and performing arts in the landscape, with a strong and innovative design capability in action.

In this context, the choice to implement this type of Master's Degree in Rome becomes a fundamental advantage, because the city itself is a highly emblematic symbol: an esthetic witness of the history of art for well over two millennia, but at the same time a modern and lively contemporary metropolis in constant transformation. The city is therefore the ideal base for experimentation and research in the career of the contemporary landscape designer.

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Minimum Education: Bachelors

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 5

Application Process Involves:

• Resume
• Written Application

Istituto Europeo di Design- International Office-'s Mission Statement: For over thirty years, the Istituto Europeo di Design has been operating in the fields of Education and Research in the disciplines of Design, Fashion and Visual Communication. Today it is an international network with Seats in Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and Sao Paolo and organizes three year courses that are alternative study pathways to those offered by traditional universities, together with refresher and permanent training courses, advanced courses and post-graduate Masters degree courses. The scope of the Istituto Europeo di Design is in fact, to offer young professionals working in the fields of Fashion, Design and Communication, the most efficacious tools necessary to answer the demands of the production world: a project and communication culture that will accompany them throughout their careers.

Year Founded: 1966