Although well consolidated in its vocational character, industrial design is rather young as an academic discipline and a field of research at university level. Moreover, it is just in the year 2004 that the reform of the Italian university system has been fully adopted. The five-year degree course in Design - which formerly represented the only possible path for secondary school leavers requiring a professional education - has today been revised in terms of organisation, subjects and aims. The recent reform has led to the introduction of a number of locally innovative elements, including the articulation of a degree and higher degree (with the traditional five-year course divided into two successive levels ( namely a three-year Degree and a Higher Degree of two years) giving rise to a structure by now referred to as 3+2. Three further years are required to proceed to the award of the Ph.D. degree. The Politecnico di Milano was among the first design schools to start a Ph.D. degree programme in industrial design (1990). Since its origins it has been intended as an intensive programme for advanced studies in design theory, methods, processes and practice.This contribution proposes a reflection on some critical issues stemming from the development of this programme.
Learning design research. Critical issues derived from the Politecnico di Milano Ph.D. curricula in industrial design.
PIZZOCARO, SILVIA LUISA
2005-01-01
Abstract
Although well consolidated in its vocational character, industrial design is rather young as an academic discipline and a field of research at university level. Moreover, it is just in the year 2004 that the reform of the Italian university system has been fully adopted. The five-year degree course in Design - which formerly represented the only possible path for secondary school leavers requiring a professional education - has today been revised in terms of organisation, subjects and aims. The recent reform has led to the introduction of a number of locally innovative elements, including the articulation of a degree and higher degree (with the traditional five-year course divided into two successive levels ( namely a three-year Degree and a Higher Degree of two years) giving rise to a structure by now referred to as 3+2. Three further years are required to proceed to the award of the Ph.D. degree. The Politecnico di Milano was among the first design schools to start a Ph.D. degree programme in industrial design (1990). Since its origins it has been intended as an intensive programme for advanced studies in design theory, methods, processes and practice.This contribution proposes a reflection on some critical issues stemming from the development of this programme.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
