POSTGRADUATE IN DESIGN FOR WEARABLES

DESIGN FOR WEARABLES

1st edition Intensive Postgraduate

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Technical file Credits: 30 Lenguage: English Duration: from January 16th to July 24th 2020 The enrolment will be active from January 7th 2020, until the official submission of the student’s records, which will be executed on December 31st 2020.

Timetable: Tuesday, Thursday and alternate Fridays from 6.30pm to 10.40pm

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The educational planning of all IED Master courses is based on the criteria set by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). IED Master employs a system of credits that follows the structure of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). IED issues its own exclusively private Master’s degrees. Courses in English require an intermediate level, corresponding to TOEFL or IELTS 6.5.Please bear in mind that: Some sessions may take place outside these hours in the case of making up for missed classes or extra activities.

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Introduction We are moving towards an era of augmentation.

Wearables, smart devices, and e-textiles are new solutions for future hybrid generations of interconnected humans and devices.

This higher level of interaction is producing new paradigms, raising novel questions, impose different habits, shifting economies and politics.

Through technology, we are on the verge of a new perception of our habitats, ecosystems, bodies, social behaviours and interactions.

Wearable technology or fashionable tech refers to all smart devices that can be incorporated into clothes or worn as accessories, or implants on the body. These devices, such as trackers, electronics, software, sensors, are characterized by their ability to exchange data as part of a node system defined as the Internet of Things (IoT).

The concept of the IoT refers to the identification and interconnection of all objects through the Internet. This communication protocol bridges digital and physical realm, enhancing novel solutions to emerge in a new mixed scenario.

The growing popularity of mobile networks has been one of the most important factors in the development of wearable technology. Thanks to its technological improvement novel solutions from wearable tech are finding disruptive applications.

Wearable sensors market impact will reach $2.258 billion by 2022, more than 52.9% from 2016 to 2022. If 50 million wearable devices were shipped in 2015, 125 million units are projected to be by 2019. Same for Smart clothing, moving from 3.3 Million in 2017 to 21.6% more in 2021.

The future of technology resides in the discovery of new interactions.

In the next 30 years, anything that is not intensely interactive will be considered broken.

The impact of wearable technology is evident in education, entertainment, communication, navigation, fitness, and according to market trends will have even a larger impact in the healthcare sector, where could find the bigger potential in terms of applications. Emerging technologies will drive the rise of future solutions, combining increasing computing power of smaller and smaller devices to machine learning, artificial intelligence, programmable textiles, IoT.

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To define this future, it’s a Design Challenge.

#3 General course Learning objectives

outcomes

The Postgraduate in Wearables Design focuses on future applications of Wearable Technologies, inviting students to predict new trends, drive novel solutions, reshaping the existing market towards more sustainable models. Our goal is to redefine contemporary devices towards a new generation of cognitive nodes, connecting us to our habitats and ecosystems.

QUESTIONING

How an interconnected world will look like?

Which are the new paradigms that cognified devices will produce?

What will we sense in the future?

Students enrolling in this program learn how to combine data-driven strategies, blurring computational design, electronic devices, rapid prototyping, AR/VR and advanced interaction into the definition of a new creative workflow. This program trains students to master technology, questioning contemporary challenges and projecting novel solutions driven by environmental, social and economic forces reshaping our Society.

-- Question the role of technology in the definition of new paradigms for our Society

PROJECTING -- Predict new market trends from fixed products towards upgrading devices and services -- Envision emerging needs promoting new products -- Drive novel solutions matching challenges from our Industrial partners

DESIGNING -- Develop sustainable solutions to improve our lifestyle -- Define design strategies informed by emerging digital solutions -- Learn advanced computational design skills to define novel applications for wearables

MAKING -- Mass-scaling custom solutions towards a new distributed market model -- Adopt rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing to produce custom solutions -- Remixing and recombining existing products

CONNECTING -- Explore new protocols of communication among habitats, users and devices -- Cognifying devices implementing novel intelligence and hyperconnectivity -- Construct a planetary system connecting all humans and machines into a global matrix

There’s nothing as consequential as a dumb thing made smarter.

The advantages from cognifying inert things would be hundreds of times more disruptive than the transformations gained by industrialization.

INTERACTING -- Blur digital and physical through Augmented Realities tracking traces -- Invent novel ways of interaction -- Define new mixed realities, blurring physical and digital

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Partnership with Companies

Audience The course is aimed at designers, engineers, architects, and creatives willing to explore new tech applications in wearables and fashion tech, producing meaningful solutions for users, markets and habitats. A previous experience in product design, fashion design, digital fabrication is required.

RESHAPE is a platform promoting research, design and production of digital ideas, exploring implications and applications of technology in our Society. Representing an international community of designers, makers and Industries inspired by innovation, Reshape intends to establish a new worldwide network of ideas and creativity able to shift the production paradigm.

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INDUSTRY – From needs to Solutions is an international event focusing on Innovation organized by Fira de Barcelona. In this fair, several representatives of companies which are already applying AM to their production processes will explain their experiences, needs and challenges.

Career outlook

Together, IED, RESHAPE AND INDUSTRY represent an incredible opportunity to foster research, empower creativity, explore new design and manufacturing solutions, in a multidisciplinary environment projected towards training the next generation of technology leaders.

Students enrolling in this program learn how to combine data-driven strategies, blurring computational design, electronic devices, rapid prototyping, AR/VR and advanced interaction into the definition of a new creative workflow.

This program is designed to question and reshape contemporary challenges driven by environmental, social and economic forces reshaping our society.

The postgraduate program provides students with the experience and skills for career positions as: -- Computational Designer -- Wearable Tech expert -- Fashion tech designer -- Product Developer -- Interaction Designer 5

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The Postgraduate in Design for Wearable is organized in partnership with RESHAPE and INDUSTRY-From Needs to Solutions. RESHAPE and INDUSTRY represent a multidisciplinary ecosystem of Industrial key-players, Research Institutions, Design and Market experts providing mentoring, career opportunities and inspiring students to tackle emerging challenges shaping future market needs and applications.

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Specific course methodology methodology IED Master school provides continuing training, qualifications, specialisations and the chance to keep up-to-date with all aspects of design, backed by the rich historic and cultural heritage of Italian design.

Our strategy for the future is always in tune with social, environmental and financial macrotrends, and we keep a watchful eye on the changes that our cities and surroundings will need to adapt to over the coming 30 years. We believe that we can provide answers and solutions through design.

Our teaching here at IED Master is based on the four scenarios we consider crucial to face the needs of the future: design for sustainable development, design for new business models, design for new media and design for people.

Our goal is to train professionals who are capable of harnessing cultural values and de-sign tools to not only overcome the challenges of the future, but create and drive innovation. We want our students to take responsibility for their training path and learn how to steer it with the support and tutoring of experts and professionals.

At IED Master, we see the School as a laboratory where students can be innovative, enterprising and a driving force; where they are free to experiment and create.

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Design for Wearables is a multidisciplinary accelerator of ideas and creativity. During this 6 months program, students attend several modules focused on computational design, digital fabrication, advanced interaction, market and dissemination, all organized around the development of one individual research topic.

Students develop one research project aligned to a series of challenges and needs proposed by Industrial partners, Research Institutions and wearables experts. Throughout this journey, students are mentored by cutting edge professionals, leveraging their creative and technical skills, forwards new applications and market opportunities.

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Teaching programme content

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QUESTIONING - RESEARCH STUDIO Transversal design studio to connect industries and designers multidisciplinary environment projects towards training the next generation of technology leaders.

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PROJECTING - MARKET STRATEGIES

Questioning - Research Studio Projecting - Market Strategies Designing - Computational Design I-Ii Making - Digital Fabrication Making - Material Technology Connecting - Embedded Electronics Connecting - Advanced Interaction

DESIGNING - COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN I-II Learn advanced computational design skills to deďŹ ne a new language informed by data-driven decisions.

Introduce parametric modelling and computational thinking to shape a programmable design language.

MAKING - DIGITAL FABRICATION Learning new fabrication protocols, digitally manipulating materials, projecting protocols of production in the definition of a new digital craft paradigm.

MAKING - MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY Producing novel materials, combining living organisms, mixing and programming matter, introducing alternative fabrication protocols and organic devices.

CONNECTING - EMBEDDED ELECTRONICS Cognifying devices implementing novel intelligence and hyper connectivity, to communicate sensors and implement intelligence into objects, garments and bodies.

CONNECTING - ADVANCED INTERACTION Build mixed realities, blurring digital and physical realms through VR and AR applications, digitizing spaces and magnifying information and interaction.

Please bear in mind that the management board of the Istituto Europeo di Design reserves the right to change the curriculum in accordance with any requirements that may arise as regards its educational objectives.

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Envision emerging needs promoting new products informed by alternative applications of emerging technology. Drive novel solutions matching challenges from Industrial partners and predict new market trends from ďŹ xed products towards upgrading devices and services.

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An area specialist coordinator is available for advice in each course and is actively engaged in designing its curriculum and content in collaboration with IED Barcelona’s teaching department.

The coordinator also helps to incorporate sector-specific teachers and is responsible for maintaining relationships with companies and institutions within the knowledge field of the course.

Coordinator Aldo Sollazzo - Noumena Is an architect and researcher. Master in Architectonic Design in 2007, Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC [Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya] in 2012, Fab Academy diploma in 2014 in the Fab Lab Barcelona, Aldo is an expert in computational design and digital fabrication. Since 2011, he is the director of Noumena, leading a multidisciplinary team towards the definition of new design strategies informed by tech-driven applications. He is also the Director of Reshape – digital craft community, a distributed platform promoting cutting-edge ideas merging design and manufacturing. Since 2015 he is Director of IaaC Global Summer School and faculty at Design by Data master in Paris. He is director of the IaaC Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction, focused on the emerging design and market opportunities arising from novel robotic and advanced manufacturing systems.

Aldo has been part of the Fab Academy program as a mentor of Fab Academy Paris and Frosinone from 2015 to 2017.

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IED Master academic offer

Masters 60 credits

Top quality courses to specialise in a certain field of design, communication or management. Students gain the know-how, tools and skills to provide professional solutions.

At IED Master, a whole range of courses are taught to cover all kinds of training needs: Masters, Postgraduate Courses and Continuing Study Programs.

Courses are organised in terms, and can last 3, 6, 9 or 12 months. This means that some courses can be combined within one academic year, while others may be divided depending on how demanding and specialised they are.

Postgraduates 30 credits

An opportunity for all kinds of design professionals to become better qualified.

Continuing Study Programs(CSP) 15 credits

These courses are a chance for professionals to update and broaden their knowledge of design and creative methodologies.

Summer Courses

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In July, IED Barcelona offers students the chance to live an intensive training experience thanks to its broad range of summer courses. Coming to our Summer School is an experimental journey through different courses in which to learn and have fun in an international, multicultural environment. The courses are divided into different levels depending on the student’s profile: Professional, Advanced and Introductory.

The opportunity To combine Courses

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Our Partners IED Barcelona has special relationships with institutions and small, medium and large companies, which take an active part in projects, workshops, talks and activities, with the aim of providing the students with knowledge, communicating experiences and sharing both creative and theoretical aspects with them.

All the final thesis are carried out as part of a collaboration with a company, giving the students training in their future profession and helping them develop relationships in the labour market.

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IED barcelona has collaborated with more than 100 national and international companies and institutions

IED community services STUDENT CENTER The aim of the Student Center is to offer a welcome and consultation service to students who need this. It pays particular attention to foreign students, helping them to adapt to their new environment.

The department wants to be a place that helps to improve and enrich the experience of being a student at the school in every way possible CAREER SERVICES This section offers students the possibility of course-related and extracurricular internships with companies in their sector.

It also facilitates contacts with the labour market for students who have completed their studies. It enters into direct contact with companies in the different sectors: fashion, design, communications, management, marketing, etc. in order to create collaborative links and offer opportunities of internships and jobs.

PERSONAL COACHING Possibility of personal and confidential assistance by an expert psychologist.

FACILITIES Practical work is essential in IED Barcelona training, so its premises have basically been divided into classrooms, workshops and laboratories adapted to each area.

The school’s facilities include: 26 classrooms, 6 multimedia labs equipped with PCs and Macs, 4 product, interior and transport design workshops, 9 fashion workshops, one printing centre and one photo and video studio.

IED TOOLS Exclusive tools for the IED Community.

School’s students can use the software included In the Adobe Creative Suite, without any additional cost, both in the school’s computers and their own laptops. Therefore, all throughout their years enrolled in the school, students can enjoy for free the following applications: Adobe Photoshop® CC, Adobe lllustrator® CC, Adobe lnDesign®

The whole IED Community, from computers in the Library, can freely access to WGSN, the leading online platform to analyse and forecast trends in current lifestyles and consumption.

Vogue Italia Harper’s Bazaar Digital records of famous magazines, including practically every edition from the very first issue to the most recent ones.

AII of the content has been indexed and can be accessed via the library computers.

All the students can also download the Microsoft Office 365 for free. lt includes the software Word, Excel and PowerPoint

The whole IED Community, from computers in the school, can freely access to Material Connexion, the world’s leader database in material innovation.

School’s students can use Autodesk, world leader in 3D design software for entertainment, manufacturing, engineering, etc. Therefore, the students can enjoy for free applications such as AutoCAD, Maya or 3ds Max, etc.

The whole IED Community has an unlimited Gmail account.

Emerald, enother tool currently used in the most outstanding universities in the fields of management, marketing and communication, is a worldwide editor that connects research and practice for the benefit of society. Students can access to more than 290 magazines and 2,000 books.

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General entry requirements Students must provide the following information:

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-- Copy of DNI (Spanish students) or passport (foreign students).

-- Copy of university degree (bachelor’s, degree or equivalent).

-- Letter of motivation in the language of the Master’s degree course.

-- CV in the language of the Master’s degree course specifying language and IT skills.

-- Language certificate: Courses in English require an intermediate level, corresponding to TOEFL or IELTS 6.5. Courses in Spanish require a B2 language level. If a prospective student has neither of these certificates, his or her language skills will be assessed in a face-to-face interview or via a Skype call.

-- Portfolio for creative Master’s degree courses and/or admission exercise if required.

-- Students with a university degree can be admitted into the programmes, while those without may be admitted into specific programmes on the basis of their professional merits. In the latter case, it will be at the discretion of IED Barcelona to determine what type of certification will be obtained.

Fees

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Enrolment fee: 2.000€ Tuition fee: 4.200€ Total: 6.200€ For information about reductions on the Tuition Fee amount for Anticipated Enrolment please contact the Orientation and Admissions Department.

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