The launch is taking place at Room01 today, Thursday, the10th of September and results will be presented and assessed during the last week of November.

Man created the wheel, Pirelli perfected it is one of the seven master project briefs for the 2009 Design Master Program at Domus Academy.

Launched by Pirelli and led by Renato Montagner this brief invites students to see rubber as extended material. By taking the essence of a wheel, adding the human need to move from one place to another proposes to create new things.

The launch is taking place at Room01 today, Thursday, the10th of September and results will be presented and assessed during the last week of November.

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Chindia’s Kitchen is one of the seven master project briefs for the 2009 Design Master Program at Domus Academy.

Launched by Veneta Cucine and led by Niko Koronis Chindia’s Kitchen invites students to ‘synthesize the specific with the general, the local with the global, the past with the present as well as the future, the introduction of alien paradigms to the indigenous genius loci’ to come out with the proposals of the third edition of this collaboration with the Company.

The launch is taking place at Room01 today, Wednesday, the 9th of September and results will be presented and assessed during the last week of November.

This technology would permit to ‘live with the Sun’ in a near future by applying it into our lives.

The Leader for this research is Setsu Ito.

Results will be presented and assessed during the last week of November.

Skin, When the Light meets the Matter is one of the seven master project briefs for the 2009 Design Master Program at Domus Academy.

After last year success leading a light related Master, architect De Ponte proposes this time a brief combining ceramic materials and LED together with Ceramiche Coem Fioranese and Martinelli Luce.

The launch is taking place at Room01 today, Wednesday, the 9h of September and results will be presented and assessed during the last week of November.

Hager is the second company and the second brief on be presented for Master in Design, and the first for Master in I-Design 2009.

Each master follows two different briefs and students are followed by two different Leaders.

Domenico Pisaturo and Rodrigo Torres led the interaction group with the brief On the Grid and Philippe Casens, leader for Master in Design, proposes the brief Homenergy.

Both groups will work on domotics proposing new scenarios of use and injecting higher awareness about energy and its use inside the domestic landscape.

The launch is taking place at Room01 today, Tuesday, the 8th of September and results will be presented and assessed during the last week of November.

The number of briefs is seven and the first on be presented is Free standing cooking appliance: what’s next? in collaboration with Candy.

Mr. Pasquali, Candy’s Business Manager, introduced the business model of the company inviting students to develop new concepts for new free standing cooking appliances to the growing markets.

Mr. Marco Bonetto from Studio Bonetto is the Leader for this group of research.

Results will be presented and assessed during the last week of November.

Friday July the 10th, the final results of the fifth seminar –Via di Terra- were presented in Room 01 at Domus Academy, eliciting a remarkably positive response.

More than 20 different proposals were showcased during an all-day-long presentations session.

The projects developed under Paolo Cesaretti’s supervision opened the day. The projects explored urban and social issues, investigating the potential of interactive and navigation systems to be applied to ‘Via di Terra’ pathway. The groups led by Setsu Ito followed. These projects dealt mainly with the theme of resting areas and location-based information navigation systems.

In the early afternoon, project leader Luca Buttafava introduced the proposals he supervised. These projects explored the ‘parasite’ quality of unobtrusive systems conceived for the urban environment. The session was, then, closed by the groups led by Robert Le Quesne and Domenico Pisaturo. This last group of projects worked to wave into the urban fabric all the threads of information that are surrounding contemporary city dwellers.

This last seminar marked also the conclusion of the first part of the year. Part 2, starting in September with the Final Master Projects, will see the Master in Design & in Interaction Design students start to work individually led by different Project Leaders following to the proposals and requirements of a number of Companies.

The meeting is for September the 7th, when the first Brief will be launched.

Meanwhile Domus Academy wishes to everybody a nice & refreshing summer break!

Monday June the 15th the Master in Design and Interaction Design at Domus Academy Launched their 5th yearly workshop. For the last Seminar of the year the two classes will be working together facing the challenge of designing innovative urban information infrastructures for the 2015 Expo in Milan.

The work will be informed by a collaboration with the Master in Urban Management and Architectural Design, which has been developing several proposals for the set up and management of the ‘Via di Terra’ one of the two major paths that the city of Milan Administration has thought as the main links between the Expo Area and the City Centre.

The students of the two Masters will be led in this intriguing last work by project leaders: Luca Buttafava; Paolo Cesaretti; Setsu Ito; Robert Le Quesne & Domenico Pisaturo.
Presentations of the workshop results will be publicly presented on Friday July the 10 in Room 001 at Domus Academy.

Friday June the 12th the students of the Master Course in Design presented to the Faculty and to the Course Director the results of the Changing Workshop.

Presentations begun with the groups that worked under Claudia Raimondo’s direction. The projects, taking inspiration on Owen Jones’ work, focused on developing the surface of new materials.

Following were the students led by Eliana Lorena. The works presented explored the potential of bringing to the 3rd dimension methods and techniques that are traditionally bi-dimensional.

The session, then, was concluded by the projects proposed by Emmanuel Gallina’s groups. These last works concentrated on shifting the characteristics of objects by changing their finishing and their materials.

Particular emphasis was laid on finishings and the way they connect to emotions, therefore eliciting different reactions. Several interesting proposals were illustrated, outlining potential new objects typologies.

Today, May, the 26th, at Rho Fiera, Milan

Domus Academy wants to send sincerest congratulations to the LED contest winners; Rosanna Romano, Arim Kim, Aytek Jane, Ahn Hangwe, Jinwoo Han, and Alessio Santoro.

All staff and faculty want also to commend all the participants who entered the competition with their interesting projects.


Rosanna Romano, Arim Kim and Aytek Jane receiving the award for the project Metro Luminaria

Jinwoo Han, Alessio Santoro and Hangwe Ahn receiving the award for the project Meet&Blend

On the image; participants and winners from Master in Design, Domus Academy.

Project Leaders for this workshop are; Emmanuel Gallina, Eliana Lorena, and Claudia Raimondo.

Results will be presented on Friday June the 12 in Room 01 at Domus Academy.

Monday, May the 18th, students from Master in Design have presented the resulting projects for the third workshop, New Millennium Domesticity, during the academic year 2009.

Project Leaders and Master’s Director -Mark Anderson, Philippe Bestenheider, Taco Langius, and Dante Donegani- have given good feedbacks to all them.

From May, the 26th, to May, the 30th, selected projects from the jury of the LED contest - Light Exhibition Design - will be on show in ‘Fieramilano Rho’ on occasion of the event LIVINLUCE 2009.

Five of the most prestigious Design schools in Milan have been invited by ‘Comune di Milano’ to participate on the contest. One of them was Domus Academy from which the jury has selected 7 projects out of 22.

A total of 200 projects entered the contest and 60 of them were selected; 36 on the students category and 24 on the professionals category.

Selected projects submitted by Master in Design were; Sacred Drop, Metro Luminaria, Renovatio, Meet&Blend, and Firefly.

During the ceremony of May, the 26th, we will eventually know the winners.

Selected projects submitted by Master in Design:
Sacred Drop - Sergio Vergara, Mert Erarslan, Pelin Dumlu
Metro Luminaria - Rosanna Romano, Arim Kim, Aytek Jane
Renovatio - Arjun Chembath, Yannis Lofteros, Kerim Ozkan
Meet&Blend - Ahn Hangwe, Jinwoo Han, Alessio Santoro
Firefly - Angela Kim Faison, Cheng - Hsin Yen, Vasundhara Parakh

The Master Course in Interaction Design (I-Design) and the Master in Design at Domus Academy, are launching an international open competition with nine great final prizes for entering the 2010 classes: PayAttention Competition.

PayAttention Competition makes available three partial scholaships appointed by 3 separated juries, for the 2010 Master Course in Interaction Desing (I-Design) and for the Master in Design at Domus Academy. To enter the competition participants will have to submit their best project, or research work .

Deadline for entering the competition is June 30th 2009.
Download the PayAttention Flyer with all the deatils about the competition.

IF YOU BELIEVE that Design cannot be interpreted as a stylistic technique merely giving shape to objects, but it’s a complex, challenging activity which strategically contributes to direct the form and meaning of the industrial production and culturally outlines different aesthetic and social visions.
IF YOU WANT to delve into the project of cultural and aesthetic identity of new materials originated by technological innovations.
IF YOU WANT to experience a cross-disciplinary approach, interweaving the world of interaction and ICT to Design culture.
Domus Academy offers you a path of excellence: invest your future in developing and enhancing your design sensitivity, your artistic, cultural and sociological knowledge together with an interaction design culture. Send us your best project or research work on a product or object you consider innovative for its performance, aesthetics, quality of materials, or that embodies an interactive experience (web-site, interactive service, graphical interface, electronic device).

Chose one Jury:

I-Design: Massimo Banzi | Jozeph Forakis | Claudio Moderini

Design: Dante Donegani | Stefano Giovannoni | Alberto Bonisoli

Materials: Dante Donegani | Claudia Raimondo | Ralph Schneider

Each jury will assign three scholarships covering 70%, 50% and 30% of the tuition fee for the Master in Design 2010 or the Master in I-Design 2010.
The project must be developed and submitted in a digital format. You can send us sketches, images, short videos, together with your Curriculum Vitae and a Motivation Letter.
Please send all the materials to infodesign@domusacademy.it by June 30th 2009.

Thank you and good luck!