Master of Arts - Food Design
- 1 year
- Duration
- 15,600 EUR
- Price
- Jan 2025
- Start
- Oct 2024
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Milan / Italy
- Location
- Scuola Politecnica di Design
- School
Program description
This Master's program in Food Design provides you a path of study that is both unique and different from other programs that are often based in gastronomy or food engineering.
It has its roots in design and challenges you to rethink the future of food via the prism of design. This involves developing an inventive mindset, working with experts, and applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills to the nature of food and its surroundings, including natural resources, edible objects, utensils, locations, communication and packaging, experiences, and events.
Program structure
- Food and Design
- Intertwined Investigate the crucial relationship between food and design, examining the entire food chain from its production to consumption.
- Object Food and Food Objects
- First part: Design the food as an object.
- Second part: Design a food tool.
- Food Contextualized and Displayed
- Delve into the crucial aspects of food promotion, communication and representation. First part: food communication and marketing. Second part: design food-related spaces.
- Food Experience
- Learn to design a temporary or pop-up environments to offer unique and tailored food experiences within a specified timeframe.
- Major Project
- Develop your own design research under the guidance of the Course Leader.
You can choose a two-year program that includes an internship with external institutions and companies, an internal research internship, or a period of study abroad.
Price
The tuition fee is 15,600 EUR.
If you choose a two-year program with an internship - the cost for the second year is 11,600 EUR.
Requirements for applicants
- To be admitted into the MA course, students must have a second class (2.2) honours or higher in art, design, or other creative disciplines from any recognised ISCED level 6 programme. Graduates in scientific disciplines, social sciences, and humanities can also be selected, as well as candidates who have previously gained significant professional experience in the field of the Master selected.
- SPD also considers other relevant experience and/or the attendance of SPD Preparatory Courses. In addition, international students need an IELTS score of 6.0, with no component below 5.5.
About the university
Founded in Milan in 1954, SPD Scuola Politecnica di Design is the first school in Italy dedicated to design disciplines.
Thanks to the mix of its Italian roots and strong international orientation, SPD is now an international laboratory for sharing experiences and creating initiatives by maintaining a balance between function and expression, production and experimentation. This immensely fulfilling conversation with businesses, manufacturers, and the other players along the design chain is also demonstrated by the innovative work produced each year and the young professionals the school is able to give to the market.
Mission
At SPD, being creative is a daily task. It has accepted an amazing community of students from all nations and backgrounds ever since its founding in 1954. Everyone has an unparalleled opportunity: they collaborate with top-notch professionals, converse with numerous academic partners, and exchange experiences with emerging talent from across the globe.
All of this occurs in Milan, a city with a rich and easily accessible legacy of design and architecture, business and industry, communication, and the arts.
Awards
The school has had a very successful history, marked by remarkable recognition. It can be proud of its exhibitions at the Carrousel du Louvre, the Biennale di Venezia in 1986, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Medaglia d'Oro at the tenth Triennale in Milan, and even the Compasso d'Oro awarded by the ADI - Associazione Disegno Industriale in 1994. Not to mention the honor of receiving the SMAU prize for Industrial Design twice.
