Istituto Europeo di Design
| Istituto Europeo di Design | |
| Established | 1966 |
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| President | Fancesco Morelli |
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Administrative staff
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1200 (freelance) 300 (in-house) |
| Students | 8000 |
| Location | Turin, Milan, Rome, Venice, Cagliari, Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Shanghai |
| Website | http://www.ied.it/ http://www.ieddesign.com/ http://www.ied.it/triennali |
The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) is a design school in Italy.
The school is organized into four disciplines: Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management.
It is spread over nine cities—Milan, Turin, Venice, Cagliari, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid and São Paulo—and thirteen locations which occupy more than 50,000 square meters of space. It offers 29 different courses of three-year duration, in several languages: English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. These courses are attended by about 10,000 students every year, totaling to more than 90,000 students, for the Institute's forty-year history. It boasts that ninety percent of its graduates find work within six months of graduation.
The Istituto Europeo di Design, located in Italy, allows students to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree. Those who successfully complete the three-year course, obtain the 'Diploma Accademico di primo Livello' (i.e., Academic Diploma, First Level) which is legally recognized by the MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research) in the category of High Artistic Training (Ministerial Decree 10 December 2010 n. 292).
In Spain, the Institute offers the Bachelor of Arts with Honours. Students who complete the four-year course obtain a Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree, that is legally recognized by the Ministry of Education nationally and internationally.
In Brazil, the IED offers the Diploma Universitário, which can be obtained after a three-year course in Fashion, Design and Visual Arts that is legally recognized by the MEC (Ministério da Educação e Cultura), through Decree n º 885, of 18/09/2009.
In China, the institute offers the Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fashion, Visual Arts, Industrial Design and project management.
In collaboration with Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the IED launched a social project focused on sustainable design business. Seven of the IED's best students are allowed to travel for a month with Professor Yunus in Haiti, Albania and Colombia with the goal of improving the lives of the poor, by using local materials and labor to create products and services at fair prices.
The school was first founded in 1966 in Milan by Francesco Morelli.
"We founded the Istituto Europeo di Design in 1966 under a guiding idea that ever since has inspired didactic methods and educational pathways: the philosophies of "knowing" and "knowing-how to" must grow and mature together. Directly tackling the process of knowledge acquisition enabled us to understand its innermost meaning. Respecting the mindsets of the market and of the academic thinking, we opted for a more authentic, up-to-date culture of design. We conceived and built the school of projects: an authentic and modern culture. Over decades of practice, we have dug into knowledge, analyzed all processes of doing and verified theories.
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