DASL03 – SECOND LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN DECORATION

Learning objectives

The aim of the two-year course II level in Decoration is the training of professionals able to work in the field of decoration and related disciplines.

The pedagogical and didactic aims will be pursued through an academic path that aims to combine decoration, understood in its classical sense, with plastic arts, installations and, at the same time, proposing the optimal placement of the works in the territory, thus in appropriate landscape and architectural contexts.

The skills will have to be acquired through the analysis of works, the study of authors and the deepening of related historical-artistic themes, up to the transformation of art making itself into a multidisciplinary approach increasingly attentive to contemporary ways of artistic production.

The lessons develop comparisons between the history of Decoration and its contemporary applications and analyse, from time to time, authors that can be traced back to the works proposed by the individual students; this will allow the adoption of solutions and technical experiments of various kinds, including through individual in-depth studies of students’ elaborations with relative contextualization to international artistic scenarios: this participatory approach will give life to a set of works that differ from each other in terms of language, techniques and intentions, guaranteeing students a versatile didactics.

The course also includes courses aimed at the elaboration and experimentation of multimedia and contemporary graphics, in harmony, indeed as a natural evolution, of the didactics implemented in the corresponding and preparatory three-year course.

The didactics will be programmed alongside workshops and theoretical lectures, seminars, exercises, training placements at companies, artists, art galleries, museums, institutions or research institutes.

Graduates of the School’s diploma courses must have:

• Advanced knowledge and skills related to different artistic, behavioural, performative, relational practices;
• In-depth skills in the disciplines covered by the training offer, to be acquired with techniques to be used and experimented in the laboratories, such as: drawing, painting, photographic processing, modelling, “accrochage”, sculpture, video, installation, performance, visual poetry, antique techniques (fresco, graffiti, encaustic, self-production of colours and pigments), video mapping, projections, installations, lighting and lamps, tapestries and wallpapers, interior installations, artist’s book, artist’s dress;
• Advanced knowledge, also in the context of the organization of artistic events such as exhibitions, seminars, happenings, performances;
• advanced knowledge of the theory and history of art, obtained through a didactic course aimed at the in-depth analysis of the theories, materials and technological apparatus of art, but also of the museum sector, to which the didactic intends to pay appropriate attention;
• adequate knowledge and skills to enable the use of a language of the European Community and to make the trained figures competitive at European level.

Employment prospects

The Second level graduates of the school will be able to pursue professional activities in various fields, from the field of visual arts to that of creative activities, even interactive ones, seen in contiguity with the different fields of application; employment opportunities also include freelance artistic activities, which can be developed in the field of visual arts and creative activities, in relation to the different possibilities of applying the acquired skills. The latter will allow the graduates of the II level to enter the work market concerning interior and exterior decoration, through conventional and experimental artistic practices, in the fields of interior design, landscape design, set-up, prototyping and consequent production of objects and furnishing accessories…

To this end, the educational path includes the promotion of training internships or internships, to be carried out in companies, ateliers, highly qualified professional studios or study canters, which, in concrete terms, introduce students into the world of work and promote their subsequent integration into the profession market. The internships take the form of educational experiences of integrating the student into the world of artistic production and allow the further development and application of the acquired skills.

The promotion of international teaching experiences, which is also one of the objectives of the course, will favour the insertion in the extra-national context.

Employment opportunities include education, provided that the conditions laid down by the legislation in force are met.

Access requirements

To enrol in the academic diploma of II level of the School of Decoration, it is necessary to have an academic diploma of I level of the same School, or a degree of study recognized as equivalent, or a diploma of I level, academic or university, for which the recognition of an appropriate number of Training Credits is possible.

In the case of foreign qualifications, international agreements and current legislation lay down the time limits for the definition of equivalences.

Type of final test

The final test consists of:

• Presentation of papers produced during the course of the studies, selected in agreement with a lecturer of the subject disciplines, suitable to make clear the maturity and originality achieved by the student during the training course;
• A thesis of historical-theoretical, methodological, or technical-artistic character, in the form of an essay, in one of the disciplines included in the academic curriculum or in the personal plan of studies.

DASL03 – SECOND LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN DECORATION