ISIA - Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (''Higher Institute for Artistic Industries''), is the name of four

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, which train students in the field of

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. The ISIAs are in

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, Faenza and

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. They are public institutions under the umbrella of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, AFAM (''Artistic and Musical Higher Education'',

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: ''Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale'') division. ISIA

The Institutions

Rome

Rome ISIA is Italy's oldest institution in the field of industrial design. It was founded in 1965 as ''Industrial Design and Visual Communication Course'' for architects and engineers, and changed its name in 1973. It follows the European tradition of the

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 20 ...

and the Hochschule für Gestaltung of Ulm, grafting their methodologies onto Italian creative culture. Rome ISIA has received many prizes and acknowledgements, and is the only European institution to have won the Compasso D'Oro by

Associazione per il Disegno Industriale ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) is an association of about 1.100 designers, manufacturer Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological p ...

ADI (''Industrial Design Association'') twice (1979 and 1987). Rome ISIA is a member of the Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Media and Design. Rome ISIA offers a three-year

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

program leading to a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...

in Industrial Design (180 ECTS-credits), a two-year Master's program in Systems Design (120 ECTS-credits), and a two-year

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

in Interaction Design. Thirty new students are admitted to the BA and MA programs each year.

Subsidiaries

Rome ISIA has two subsidiaries, in

Pescara Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...

(since 2009) and Pordenone (since 2011). Both of them offer a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design.

Florence

Florence ISIA was founded in 1975 is a member of the Cumulus as well. Florence ISIA offers a three-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design, and two two-year Master's programs: an MA in Product Design and an MA in Communication Design.

Faenza

Faenza ISIA was founded in 1980. The structure of its course was formerly different from the other ISIAs as the experimentation was mainly focused on

ceramic A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain ...

products. By the end of the 1990s, its attention moved towards product design in general. Faenza ISIA offers a three-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Product Design and Design with Advanced Ceramic Materials, and two two-year Master's programs: an MA in Product Design and Design with Advanced Materials and an MA in Communication Design.

Urbino

Urbino ISIA was founded in 1974 and trains students in the field of graphic and editorial design. Urbino ISIA offers a three-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Visual Communication, and three two-year Master's programs: an MA in Communication, Design and Publishing and an MA in Illustration and an MA in

Photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

References

External links

ISIA Faenza

ISIA Firenze

ISIA Roma

ISIA UrbinoMinistero dell'Università e della Ricerca, AFAM division
{{DEFAULTSORT:Istituto Superiore Per Le Industrie Artistiche (Isia) Design schools in Italy Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche 1965 establishments in Italy Educational institutions established in 1965