Arts and Humanities
Undergraduate Degree in Design and Innovation
The Undergraduate Degree in Design and Innovation provides you with the necessary tools, knowledge and resources to maximise your abilities and to learn how to use design as a reflection and personal positioning tool.
Presentation and objectives
Branch of knowledge
Degree
Graduate in Design and Innovation, accredited degree awarded by Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC)
Mentions
Graphic design
Product design
Space design
Interactive Experiences design
Duration
4 years
Schedule
Course 1 and 2 - from 9am to 2:30 pm
Course 3 and 4 - morning or afternoon (depending on electives)
Start date
September
Idioma
Catalan / Spanish
Some subjects in English
Places of new access
170
Credits
240 ECTS
(60 ECTS per academic year)
Price
157 €/ECTS
Financing and grants
Minimum grade 2020-21
5
At Elisava we want to train designers with a creative profile, with critical thoughts, with an exploratory vision of the world, who are capable of questioning and talking with other agents of the social, productive, scientific or cultural environment crosswise. We also want them to have a great decision-making capacity and influence in the strategy definition to create, develop and implement new elements of communication, services, products or environments for the society.
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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 and Innovation 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.
Degree in Design and Innovation objectives
The Degree in Design and Innovation 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.
Recommended admission profile
Do you want to study design? If you want to enrol in this programme, it's important that you have a great intellectual curiosity and an interest in understanding the complexity of the world. We also consider personal attitudes related to the capacities of representation, analysis, synthesis and communication, and we believe it is essential to have technical-artistic skills, as well as willingness and desire to work as a team. Are the disciplines that fit you best the ones related to arts and humanities? We value the interest in arts, humanities and social sciences, as well as creativity, imagination, innovation and interest in continuous learning. If you feel identified, you only need to have a good command of your own language and a good base in a foreign language.
Competencies
At the end of the Undergraduate Degree in Design and Innovation you will have the necessary knowledge and competences to develop your working activity in a wide-range of sectors and to participate in all phases of the design process:
- You will define your personal positioning of design from a social, environmental, political, ethical and aesthetic vision.
- You will design scenarios to foresee future needs.
- You will talk with professionals of other fields (Technicians, Artists, Scientifics…), and manage your own knowledge of other fields in a resolutive way.
- You will experiment with materials, processes and techniques to give value to the design project.
- You will develop design projects in different working fields, as a freelance or in any business or institutional model.
- You will effectively inform in each one of the design project phases.
- You will apply the knowledge of the different design fields adapted to the evolution and the needs of the professional context.
Mentions
Product Design
If you study this specialty of the Degree in Design and Innovation, you will obtain extensive knowledge in product design and/or industrial design. You will delve into fields such as furniture, lighting, automotive, packaging and object and accessory design. Also in the design of products, systems and services.
Graphic Design
This specialty of the Degree in Design and Innovation will train you as a competent professional and will allow you to acquire the necessary knowledge and experience in the field of graphic design and visual communication. You will be able to delve into areas such as art direction, corporate image, editorial design, web and application design, data and information design, packaging, illustration, typography or signage.
Interactive Experiences Design
Choose this specialty of the Degree in Design and Innovation if you want to become an expert in the design of interaction and interactive experiences (web design, audiovisual design, multimedia design, user experience design, digital interface design, product design and interactive environments ).
Space Design
This is the specialty of the Degree in Design and Innovation that you must choose if you want to become an expert professional and competent in the design of interior spaces -houses, bars, restaurants-, but also in the design of stands, exhibitions, interventions in the public space, scenography of events and shows, ephemeral montages or shop window design.
You must choose your mention of the Degree in Design and Innovation before starting the second year. During the third year you will be able to delve into the discipline you have chosen or create a more versatile profile by taking subjects of other mentions.
Career Opportunities
Upon completion of the Undergraduate Degree in Design and Innovation 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, 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. In addition, almost 80% would take the degree again*. *Source: estudis.aqu.cat/dades/web/inici
Some Alumni of the Undergraduate Degree in Design you may know:
- Verónica Fuerte from Hey Studio
- Gerard Sanmartí from Lagranja Design
- Ana Zelich from Mediapro Exhibitions
- Pau Garcia from Domestic Data Streamers
- Raúl Arribas and Gonzalo Sánchez from Kiwi Bravo
- Marta Vargas from Spotify (Suecia)
- Salustià Álvarez from Prada (Italia)
- Irene Fiol from Applus
- Albert Soler from H&M
- Alex Trochut (owned Studio – New York)
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 and Innovation, 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
Undergraduate Degree in Design and Innovation (UVic-UCC, from the 2021-22 academic year)
The Degree in Design and Innovation takes four years. The first course is made up of basic training subjects where the different disciplines of design are introduced and where you will discover the expression and communication tools that will make up your own language.
In the second year you will have to choose the mention in which you want to specialize. During this year, you will acquire the tools, you will know the materials and you will 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 continue delving into the chosen mention or develop a more global profile taking subjects from other mentions. Also in this course, you will be able to participate in transversal projects, carry out curricular internships or take a semester at a foreign university through the Erasmus program.
In the last year, you will have to develop two global projects of a multidisciplinary nature in addition to the Final Degree Project (TFG) where you will demonstrate your personal positioning towards design through a project that integrates and demonstrates all the skills that you will have acquired throughout the Degree in Design.
*Study plan in the process of verification by AQU Catalunya.
Semester 1
Discover
Fundamentals of Product Design
Fundamentals of Space Design
Design processes
Introduction to Design
Semester 2
Build
Fundamentals of Graphic Design
Fundamentals of Interactive Experience Design
Introduction to the Transversal Project
Design History
Semester 3
Context and User
Mention in Graphic Design
Workshop I. Typography and Technical Processes
Communication I. Formats
Project I. Graphic Design
Contemporary Art and Graphic Design
Mention in Product Design
Workshop I. Craft Materials and Processes
Communication I. Product Drawing and Representation
Project I. Product Design
Contemporary Art and Product Design
Mention in Space Design
Workshop I. Construction Materials and Components
Communication I. Representing Space
Project I. Space Design
Contemporary Art and Space Design
Mention in Design of Interactive Experiences
Workshop I. Creative Code
Communication I. Audiovisual Narratives
Project I. Interaction Design
Contemporary Interactive Art and Design
Semester 4
Design and Technology
New Social and Economic Models
Mention in Graphic Design
Workshop II. Typesetting and Materials
Communication II. Strategies
Project II. Graphic design
Mention in Product Design
Workshop II. Industrial Processes and Digital Manufacturing
Communication II. Product Photography and Art Direction
Project II. Product Design
Mention in Space Design
Workshop II. Construction Details and Systems
Communication II. Narrate the Space
Project II. Space Design
Mention in Design of Interactive Experiences
Workshop II. Tangible Interface Design
Communication II. Interactive Environments
Project II. Interaction Design
Semester 5
Material Experimentation
Personal Identity
Personal project
Critical Theories
Semester 6
Visual experimentation
Crossover Project
Context Project
Semester 7
Transversal Project
Research and Design
New Trends
Design Management
Semester 8
External Internships
End of Degree Project
Communication and Academic Writing
Management and teaching staff
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