Master of Arts - Transdisciplinary Design
- 2 years
- Duration
- 20,200 EUR/year
- Price
- Oct 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Multiple Locations / Italy
- Location
Program description
The UN's SDGs serve as a constant reminder of the importance of developing long-term strategies to raise the quality of life in the world's cities and on the move.
Identifying and dealing with this issue requires novel approaches and expert actors. From this realization comes IED's first-ever MA in Transdisciplinary Design program.
A two-year program with a unified philosophy, methodology, and overarching goals that is presented with two distinct foci in each city. The Milanese version focuses on urban transformation, while the Turin one looks ahead to transportation innovations.
Awarded Title: The course is accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, (MIUR) awards a Second Level Academic Diploma, grants the acquisition of 120 ECTS valuable to access further studies in Italy and abroad.
Program structure
1st YEAR MILAN
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Phase 0 – Foundations
Establishing the group of students as a studio team;
helping them to develop the soft skills and mindset that are required to work as a Transdisciplinary design team
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Phase 1 – Framing the context
Familiarize with the target city/neighbourhood, identify the interlocutors, identify the challenges, define the brief
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Phase 2 – Design Research
Develop the knowledge that is required to meet the brief;
identify and explore the target group
2nd YEAR TURIN
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Phase 3 – Ideation
Explore possible initiatives to meet the brief and identify the one to be developed;
start to create the executive summary
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Phase 4 – Development
Develop the initiative;
define and plan all the project streams
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Phase 5 – Test
Test the initiative with the target group and adjust the initiative according to the feedback
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Phase 6 – Executive summary and final exam
Finalize the executive summary, a document designed to convince the investors and the municipality to fund the initiative
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 20200.00 EUR for international students
In order to enrol to a Second Level Academic Diploma an additional regional tax of € 140,00 will be charged
Requirements for applicants
Entry requirements
The application can be sent by anyone who holds a First Level Academic Diploma, a BA Degree or other equivalent qualification (graduates of private schools at University level) or with an equivalent professional experience in the disciplinary area of the course.
Grad students may also participate, provided that they get their degree by the date of discussion of the Master’s Final Project.
Language requirements
To ensure course contents are fully understood, IED demands applicants a B2 level - Vantage or upper intermediate - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - of the language in which the course is taught.
In order to demonstrate the required language proficiency, non-native speakers have to submit a language certificate or undergo a language test run by IED.
Admission and enrolment procedure
After you meet your Admission Advisor for an informative interview and check the entry and language requirements, you will be able to access your reserved area on the admission platform by using the credentials provided by your Advisor, and upload the following documents:
- updated CV;
- portfolio if requested;
- a letter of motivation in the language of the course;
- pre-enrollment form, available in the personal area;
- a copy of the Bachelor’s degree if available;
- transcripts of university exams;
- ID or passport;
- self-certification of residence;
- tax code.
Once you complete the upload of all the documents, you will be invited to a motivational interview aimed at deepening and evaluating the skills acquired during previous studies, the qualifications and marks obtained, any professional experience made, individual aptitudes and motivation to attend the course
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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