Elisava School of Design
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Established | 1961 |
| Students | 1,868 |
| Location |
Barcelona, Spain Coordinates: 41°22′43.46″N 2°10′32.91″E / 41.3787389°N 2.1758083°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.elisava.net [1] |
ELISAVA is first school of design, an internationally oriented educational and research institution affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University The school is situated in Barcelona and is home to around 2,200 students and more than 800 teachers.
ELISAVA has been merged with Pompeu Fabra University since 1995. In 2000, ELISAVA won a National Innovation and Design Award. In 2013, the magazine Domus ranked it among the top design and architecture schools in Europe.
Founded in Barcelona in 1961, ELISAVA was launched to create a new venue for teaching design, as part of the CIC’s Cultural Institution Foundation. The school gradually came to oriented itself theoretical and practical training when tackling and resolving design problems, as opposed to repeating problems that have already been solved (as in artisan education). In 1997 the school added a programme in Industrial Design Engineering, and in 1998 it launched its Architecture programme.
ELISAVA’s postgraduate workshops got underway in 1990 with the aid of such outstanding designers as Francesco Binfarré, Achile Castiglioni, Isao Hosoe, Santiago Miranda, Jonathan de Pas and Denis Santachiara. The postgraduate workshops continued until they became postgraduate and Master’s programmes in academic year 1991-1992 as part of the cooperation agreement that ELISAVA signed with the University of Barcelona. Through ELISAVA’s affiliation with the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), today, it offers around 20 Master’s and 40 postgraduate programmes related professional practice in all areas of design and engineering in conjunction with the UPF’s IDEC (Institute of Continuing Education).
To promote the school and making it more autonomous, in 2003 the CIC’s Cultural Foundation set up the private foundation, ELISAVA University School. Its original mission was: to promote education, knowledge, research, development, innovation and the use of new technologies in the fields of science, technology, business and the arts; to boost and consolidate the quality of the degree programmes and services offered; to increase the range of continuing education programmes and to enhance student job placement; to adapt the range of programmes and services to the needs of an ever-changing society and business world; to attain international outreach; to contribute to the social, cultural and economic progress of society; and to foster the personal development of the members of the ELISAVA community.
In 2009, ELISAVA’s educational programme became fully integrated into the European Higher Education Area by offering its Bachelor’s Degree in Design, its Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and its Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering for the first time. Prior to that, it had been offering a University Master’s in Communication and Design since 2008.
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