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Car Design - An introduction.
Summer and Winter Courses - Turin.
Turin, a city with a unique charm, a world-class benchmark for a new culture of food and research into environmental sustainability, is the centre of excellence and innovation in the automotive field.
In this context, in line with the themes that characterize the knowledge and research of the territory, IED Turin offers you an education path, lasting three weeks, which is designed to make your curriculum more competitive, enriching it with new skills.
Therefore, our course provides you with an introduction to the basic elements and tools for a future car designer. Also, you will have an overview of contemporary trends, industrial challenges and a deep focus on the car designer’s professional role. The course will furthermore give you the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and intellectual abilities to design new vehicles based on a clear understanding of proportion, volume and surface design principles. Through visits to companies and museums you will have the opportunity to talk with professionals in the field and experience this career path through practical training and guided tours at Pininfarina, Ferrari, Automobile Museum, Cecomp and Sabelt.
Duration: 3 weeks
Attendance: full-time
Language: English
Description:
Schedule: From Monday to Thursday during the 1st and 2nd week and from Monday to Friday during the 3rd week, on a full time basis (morning and afternoon) the course has a duration of 75 hours spread over 3 weeks.
Target : This is an introductory level program, designed for creative, flexible, open-minded students or professionals from other fields who want to learn and take on challenges. People who are interested in the world of automotive design and have no prior knowledge or experience in the discipline. Skills such as drawing or sketching can be useful even if not mandatory. Applicants need to show strong motivation and the ability to work in groups.
Methodology and structure: This course is intended to stimulate creative thinking while allowing you to develop technical skills in the car design field.
Following an introduction to the automobile industry from an historical point of view, you will acquire the technical skills to correctly visualize a concept and to explore an object from different points of observation.
You will understand and learn the techniques of volume and perspective in design which will allow you to develop ‘creative concepts’ and translate your own ideas in car design projects. After a general overview of the automotive engineering, you will move forward into modelling lab and, together with your classmates, you will produce your car design model. Projects will be subject to groups and teachers’ critiques.
The course is a synergy between theoretical lessons, visits to companies and meetings with specialised professionals of the automotive environment. Visits are not passive learning experiences. You will be tasked with diverse assignments for each visit and you are expected to engage with the speakers and tutors as part of your classwork and overall experience.
Study Plan:
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSION AND INDUSTRY.
Gives an overview both to industry and profession, especially from the historical Italian perspective.
SKETCHING
The main focus of the program is to develop and refine your capacity for freehand sketching and drawing. The car designer is between the sculptor and the engineer, he tackles the challenge of fitting together all the
components of the car while maintaining its aesthetics and comfort. In terms of sketching and rendering, car design has the final word in industrial design process, and is placed at the top of the design pyramid. By starting from basic elements (parallelepiped, cylinder, etc.), the course provides you with a prospective drawing model for the car sketch. This requires a great deal of time and dedication both in and outside of the classroom.
CAR ENGINEERING: DESIGN & HISTORY
Focusing on automotive architecture in history, the course is targeted to describe the main steps of the chassis frame and the platform development, stepping into automotive mechanic components innovations.
DIGITAL CAR DESIGN
Introduction to digital bidimensional automotive development using Adobe PS, and a first general overview of Autodesk Alias Studio 3D Digital.
MODELLING
This course introduces the theoretical and technical elements necessary to produce car design models at different stages of project development. The real 3D view allows you to examine the shapes and volumes and to check its coherence with reference to the physical laws and the processing techniques. Modelling is a key phase of the design process as allows you to verify ideas and refine them, checking volumes, proportions and connections between the various parts of a vehicle. You will create basic clay models as final part of this module of the program.
About IED:
IED forms a truly unique network of encounters, experiences, people and cultures. The students develop a deep sense of belonging and their drive to innovate and share resources, ideas and contacts forges a tight-knit community.
IED is also part of CUMULUS (International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media), ELIA (The European League of the Institute of Arts) as well as a member of ERASMUS+ (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014-2020 award and Erasmus Policy Statement). It also maintains links with various international Universities and Academic Associations, including: ADI (Association for Industrial Design), NAFSA (Association of International Educators), and EAIE (European Association for International Education): a large group of institutions based in different parts of the world that completes and expands upon the possibility of academic exchange open to IED students.
This wide-ranging group of international organizations grants IED students even more extensive possibilities for academic exchange. Numerous bilateral agreements with prestigious foreign universities provide the chance for our students to take part in the Exchange Study Program and in the Erasmus + Program and spend a semester abroad at one of our partner universities or another IED location.
The enormous heritage of international creative ideas, words and deeds is a worldwide acknowledged IED value, demonstrating that respect for cultural diverity and multidisciplinarity and the resulting ‘culture of jointness’ approach to education are an unquestionable key to success.
