Handicraft and self production design

The master includes a pathway dealing with the study and the realization of manufactures with the support of teachers and artisans-designers coming from the most advanced area of the relevant areas.
Professionals working in the research field who are able to convey their know-how through practical activities. Such know-how will be contextualised through a contemporary analysis of the sector with the aim of putting the product on the market.

As a matter of fact, during the last step of the courses of Metal shopping and Wood design, each student will be asked to realize prototypes of a product.

At the end of the course the students will present an entrepreneurial project including the marketing of the manufactures they designed and realized, and for which they defined the sales and communication strategies as well as the realization of the web site for the on-line marketing. Actually, the objective is to give the student the proper competences and experiences in order to introduce them to the entrepreneurship.

Didactic method
The didactic pathway of the master alternates theoretical modules and design realizations aiming at giving the students a professional approach to the project. The subjects concerning the product working and production - Metal shaping and Wood design - include lab activities during which the students will be supported in the selection of the materials, tools and machineries required to realize the manufactures.

For this purpose, we found partner places and institutions able to supply the laboratories, the technologies and the competences required to properly train the students. Instead, the theoretical modules will include the areas concerning Product management, Patent, Licence and copyrights, Public speaking, and Online web store design.