Product and Service Design

Sapienza University of Rome

Overview

Degree Program

The Product and Service Design program of the Sapienza University of Rome is entirely taught in English and is defined to welcome students from different geographical and educational backgrounds (design, architecture, engineering) creating a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment by integrating design skills, engineering skills, socio-critical skills necessary for the development and management of design-driven product, process and service innovations, operating internationally. Students will be engaged in an intense project activity, creatively thinking and critically investigating. The main didactic goals are:

• knowledge and understanding of the material culture of Design in relation to socio-cultural and economic repercussions; 

• control of the technical-productive, technical-functional and formal aspects of the artefacts (tangible or intangible) but also of all the processes that accompany the design-production-consumption path informed and guided by strategies of economic, social and environmental sustainability; 

• development of Design Thinking skills which, by grasping the potential and resources of a local system, connect it with critical capacity to the global dimension by developing products and / or services which, starting from the understanding of cultural, social and relationships between resources and activity, is capable of producing Design-driven Innovations that condition the material and immaterial culture of contemporary societies.

• Design Strategist, able to integrate and develop complex systems and design new products and services in an environment characterized by continuous technological advancements;

• Design Researcher, able to manage the growing information that comes from technological research and socio-cultural contexts at the end of product developments, services and innovative processes.