About
IED is now the only international design training network.
It offers three-year post-secondary school courses, advanced courses and Masters.
Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and São Paulo house the four Schools of Design: IED Fashion, IED Design, IED Visual Arts and IED Communications.
In addition to the four Schools, the network also comprises theFrancesco Morelli Foundation and IED Research Centre, which has been providing consultancy to the business community since 1978.
Although all the schools and all the campuses apply the same training method and have the same underlying objectives, each one has its own strong, autonomous personality, deriving from roots that delve deep into its host city’s hinterland, production fabric and culture.
Students from all over the world
Altogether, some 9000 students from more than 90 different countries enrol in courses at IED every year. The school where they study is an international one, where the quality of the lecturers and the strong bonds with the business community that have always been at the focus of the IED training method enable creativity to blend with design culture.
Learning experience
The relationship between knowledge (know-what) and know-how is the indispensable foundation for the growth and development of the cultural, creative and design capabilities that are the ultimate objectives of training at IED.
Featuring significantly in all the courses, this principle is at the root of all the methodological decisions that give teaching at IED its inimitable quality: a close partnership with the business community and the constant planning of workshops, internships, exercises and seminars, all of which always keep in step with the academic lectures; the practice of measuring up to real corporate briefs and concrete projects to be brought to fruition, both in IED’s own workshops and on the premises of its partner firms.
The designers of the future must know how to combine creativity with organisation, individual awareness with community culture, creative intuition with the limitations set by available techniques. They must know how to seize the opportunities offered by contemporary society’s sudden accelerations, reinterpreting ideas and intuitions borrowed from other cultural, artistic or technological contexts.
That is why IED maintains an open door policy to the cultural, artistic and productive forces at work in the cities that host its campuses, so as to understand their transformations and capture their vanguard trends.
Made up exclusively of professionals actively practising in their respective sectors, the lecturing staff informs the school with a continuous flow of applied expertise and constant innovation.The result of this is a beneficial cross-fertilisation of expressive languages that generates a wealth of innovative viewpoints and ideas in harmony with societal changes.
The training method used by IED is far more than the transmission of information and contents, as it teaches creativity based on the synergy between technology and experimentation, strategy and integrated communications, the market and professional practice, flexibility and cultural cross-fertilisation.
For further information about us please visit www.ied.edu