Domus Academy, Postgraduate School of Design

Domus Academy is an international postgraduate school of design based in Milan, Italy that share the eminence of the Royal College of Art and today represents what Bauhaus (1919-1933) and the Ulm School (1955-1968) meant in their time. Founded in 1983 by Maria Grazia Mazzocchi along with Pierre Restany, Alessandro Mendini, Alessandro Guerriero and Valerio Castelli.

An innovative institution as the paradox of Italian design was that it had become a dominant influence in the world, yet no one taught it, except in the studios of individual designers. Over the last twenty years, Domus Academy has taught industrial design, fashion design, urban management and interaction design to hundreds of young people, coming from universities in Japan, China, Korea, America, Australia, Turkey and Israel as well as countries all over Europe.

Students are involved in the activities of the Domus Academy Research Center, distinguished by its pioneering studies on the separation and recycling of materials like plastic and design projects for services and computer functionality. Domus Academy teaches how to arrive at a product through studies on eco-compatibility, service and function rather than simply teach how to design a product in a traditional way

See also

* Neil Poulton

Sources

* Il Design parla Italiano, Vent'anni di Domus Academy Design Speaks Italian, Domus Academy Story by Gian Luigi Falabrino published in 2004 by Libri Scheiwiller, Milano, Italy
* Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation by Ikujiro Nonaka, Toshihiro Nishiguchi
* [http://www.domusacademy.com/ domusacademy.com] official site (Flash animation) [http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=artifact5225]