Grado en Diseño

Undergraduate Degree in Design (UPF)

In this University Degree we will rethink together the limits of design so that you have at your disposal all the tools, knowledge and resources necessary to make the most of your time at the School.

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Presentation and objectives

At Elisava we believe that you must decide your own path. In our Degree in Design we will rethink together the limits of design and all its disciplines so that you have all the necessary tools, knowledge and resources to make the most of your time at the School. We want you to boost your abilities and build the profile of designer or designer you want to be step by step.

We believe in “doing” as an engine for change and innovation. Therefore, our educational model is based on project work, where all disciplines coexist and combine to obtain the most original and disruptive results possible. In the Elisava’s Degree in Design you will learn to generate ideas and overcome challenges that shape new paradigms and realities. We think of the School as a hub of connections and, therefore, we encourage and strengthen relationships with the business and institutional fabric, the design and engineering professionals and our alumni. Thus, you will have at your disposal a network of national and international contacts of first line, whether are taking an internship, participating in projects or doing an Erasmus programme.

Are you one of those who spend the day drawing on the margins of napkins? Are you interested in the analysis of color, light and shape? Do you like to rethink spaces and their functionalities? The Degree in Design of Elisava is made to your needs.

The Degree in Design puts at your disposal all the tools for you to become a designer or designer capable of solving problems and meet the needs of the individual’s relationship with their environment, as well as using design as a tool for reflection and personal positioning. During the four years of training, you will develop your skills and aptitudes to be a design professional with the ability to decide and create new communication elements, products, services and social environments that improve people’s daily lives, as well as the ability to dialogue with experts from other disciplines and to face current and future challenges.


Competencies and specialisations

These are the main competences that you will develop during your four years of training at the Undergraduate Degree in Design:

  • Developing a creative attitude of experimentation (drawing, building, expressing, testing, prototyping …) with the aim of drawing conclusions and exploring relevant and innovative contributions.
  • Knowing how to detect and question the needs of users and interpret the historical, social, cultural, economic and technological context to obtain a personal and creative vision of design, with which to configure new realities that anticipate future problems.
  • Preparing a design project that is consistent with a personal positioning to express concerns (social, environmental, political, ethical and aesthetic).
  • Identifying the potential to value it and also detect the shortcomings to improve them, in addition to learning to work autonomously and in teams, in an organised manner and optimising the available resources.
  • Resolving complex design projects dialoguing with professionals from other fields (engineers, architects, artists, anthropologists, sociologists, etc.) and managing their own knowledge of other disciplines in a decisive way.

The Undergraduate Degree in Design specialisation will be chosen before the beginning of the second year. During the third course you will be able to delve into the discipline that you have chosen or create a more polyvalent profile by taking subjects from other specialisations.


Career Opportunities

Upon completion of the Undergraduate Degree in Design you will have the necessary knowledge and skills to develop your work activity in a wide range of sectors and areas, participating in all phases of the design process:

  • Spatial Design (interior spaces – bars, restaurants, homes … -, design of stands, exhibitions, interventions in public space, scenography, ephemeral assemblies, window dressing).
  • Product design and/or industrial design (furniture, lighting, automotive, packaging, objects and accessories, as well as all types of products, systems and services).
  • Graphic design and communication (art direction, corporate image, editorial design, web design, application design, information design, packaging, illustration, typography, signage).
  • Design of interactive experiences and interaction (web design, audio-visual design, multimedia, user experience, design of digital interfaces, product design and interactive environments).
  • Education and research in design (criticism, research, theoretical and pedagogical design development).

90% of the students find work in the months following the end of the Degree and most are satisfied with their current job (score: 8/10). In addition, almost 80% would take the degree again*. (*AQU)


Internships and projects

The collaboration with the business and institutional sector is part of the day to day of the School. That is why, during the four years of the Undergraduate Degree in Design, you will have the opportunity to participate in academic projects, workshops and other activities carried out in collaboration with companies and institutions such as Hard Rock Café, Sony, Swarovski, HP, Desigual, Danone, SEAT, Santa & Cole , Sónar, Mira, MACBA, Fundació Arrels, Desis Network and Victoria & Albert Museum. In addition, from the 3rd course (or when you have 120 credits), you will have the opportunity to take curricular and/or extracurricular internships in frontline companies so that you can enter the labour market with all the necessary knowledge and resources.


International mobility

At Elisava we believe that the exchange and mobility of students and professors enrich university education and, therefore, we promote the international relations of the School with other educational centres, universities and research centres around the world. Currently, we have agreements with more than 70 of the most recognised and influential universities in the world of design and engineering worldwide.


Study plan

The Undergraduate Degree in Design takes place in four years. The first course consists of basic training subjects where the different disciplines of design are introduced and where you will discover the tools of expression and communication that will shape your own language.

In the second course you will have to choose a specialisation. During this year, you will acquire the tools, know the materials and integrate the techniques of your specialty, as well as the design methodologies applied in disciplinary projects.

In the third year, you will be able to deepen the chosen mention or develop a more global profile by taking subjects from other mentions. Also, you will be able to take curricular internships or take a semester in a foreign university with the Erasmus programme.

In the last course, you will have to develop two global multidisciplinary projects in addition to the Bachelor Thesis (TFG, by its initials in Spanish), where you will demonstrate your personal positioning in front of the design through a project that integrates and demonstrates all the competences that you will have acquired throughout the year.

This programme is verified by the accrediting institution AQU Catalunya.
Study plan (from 2018-19 to 2020-21)
  • Course 1
  • Course 2
  • Course 3
  • Course 4
Study plan (prior to the 2018-19 academic year)
  • Course 1
  • Course 2
  • Course 3
  • Course 4
  • Electives
  • Mentions
Course 1

Trimestre 1

Descobrir
Principis bàsics del disseny I
Introducció al Disseny

Trimestre 2

Anàlisi
Principis bàsics del disseny II
Història del disseny

Trimestre 3

Forma
Principis bàsics del disseny III
Disseny contemporani

Course 2

Context

Contexto y usuario I
Noves Tendències
Tecnología y Diseño

Espai

Contexto y usuario I
Taller I
Taller II
Taller III
Proyecto I
Proyecto II

Experiències interactives

Taller I
Taller II
Taller III
Proyecto I
Proyecto II
Proyecto III

Course 3

Menció espai

Contexto y usuario II Espai
Experimentación I
Experimentación II
Experimentación III
Proyectos optativos de Mención I
Proyectos optativos de Mención II
Proyectos optativos de Mención III
Teorías Críticas I Espai
Teorías Críticas II Espai

Menció experiències interactivas

Contexto y usuario II Exp Interactivas
Experimentación I
Experimentación II
Experimentación III
Proyectos optativos de Mención I
Proyectos optativos de Mención II
Proyectos optativos de Mención III
Teorías Críticas I Exp Interactivas
Teorías Críticas II Exp Interactivas

Menció gràfic

Contexto y usuario II Gràfic
Experimentación I
Experimentación II
Experimentación III
Proyectos optativos de Mención I
Proyectos optativos de Mención II
Proyectos optativos de Mención III
Teorías Críticas I Gràfic
Teorías Críticas II Gràfic

Menció producte

Experimentación I
Experimentación II
Proyectos optativos de Mención I
Proyectos optativos de Mención II
Proyectos optativos de Mención III
Contexto y usuario II Producte
Teorías Críticas I Producte
Teorías Críticas II Producte

Prácticas Curriculares

Pràctiques curriculars 3ºGDIS

Projecte Transversal

Proyecto Transversal II

Subjects in PDF
Course 4

Difusión TFG
Gestión del diseño
Investigación TFG
Proyecto global I
Proyecto global II
Talleres transversales TFG
Tecnología y sociedad
Trabajo Fin de Grado

Subjects in PDF
Course 1 (in extinction)

Trimestre 1

Metodología del diseño
Matemáticas para el diseño
Fundamentos del proyecto I
Principios del dibujo

Trimestre 2

Geometría aplicada
Forma, materiales y técnicas
Fundamentos del proyecto II
Servicios y sociedad de consumo

Trimestre 3

Materia y ciencia
Fundamentos del proyecto III
Objetos, figuras y espacios
Arquitectura, diseño y modernidad

Course 2 (in extintion)

1 Trimestre

Arquitectura, Diseño y Contemporaneidad
Física para el Diseño
Proyectos I (Comunicación Gráfica)
Proyectos I (Producto y Espacio)

2 Trimestre

Laboratorio Digital
Proyectos II (Comunicación Gráfica)
Proyectos II (Producto y Espacio)
Técnicas y comunicación Gráfica
Técnicas I (Producto y Espacio)

3 Trimestre

Dibujo para el Diseño
Procesos y Productos Sostenibles
Proyectos III (Comunicación Gráfica)
Proyectos III (Producto y Espacio)
Técnicas II (Comunicación Gráfica)
Técnicas II (Producto y Espacio)

Course 3

Producto, contexto y usuario
Usos académicos en terminología específica en inglés I
Diseño, economía y empresa
Gestión del diseño
Proyecto Global I

Course 4

Proyecto global II
Nuevas tendencias en diseño
Usos académicos en terminología específica en inglés II
Tecnología, interacción y sociedad
Innovación
Trabajo Fin de Grado (TFG)

Electives

Diseño Gráfico

Editorial
Identidad y marca
Publicidad

Interacción Digital

Editorial
Narrativas visuales
Interacción
Experimentación digital

Diseño de Producto

Equipamiento del interior
Herramientas y complementos personales
Experimentación de producto
Movilidad y transporte
Packaging

Diseño de Espacio

Hábitat
Narrativas del espacio
Contract

Mentions

Diseño Gráfico

Comunicación gráfica III
Técnicas gráficas II

Interacción Digital

Comunicación de interacción digital III
Tecnología de interacción digital III

Diseño de Producto

Comunicación del producto III
Tecnología del producto III

Diseño de Espacio

Comunicación de espacio III
Técnicas para el diseño de espacio III