LIBERAL COURSES: DESIGN

The liberal courses, organized by L.A.B.A. ONLY FOR EUROPEAN STUDENTS, are offered in three months or yearly (November-May) periods.
The courses are available in flexible hours; morning, afternoon and evening. All of them are conducted by qualified and professional professors.
At the end of each course, will be issued a certificate released by L.A.B.A. (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti legally recognized by ministerial decree ( D.M.) 27.04.2000).

1^ PHASE
design in all it's aspects, from the concept of a project, to the search of shape and form. Operating the choices in functional and formal way. Industry and its influence upon the choices made. Graphic and plastic presentation of the object. Choices of materials and colors. Analyzing the established product.
Technology as project input, fantasy as formal result.

2^ PHASE
- Redesign- planning, regarding the completed object and the project requirements
- Analyzing the established product and its production and industrial motivations
- Methods of representation, projections (orthogonal, axonometric, perspective), using the computer and graphic programs.
- Model-making as planning and assessment tool
- Technology and research as a planning tool, examples and results
- Formal elaboration as a tool to operate the project choices, applications and examples
- Practical project- study, development, elaboration and representation of a simple theme. From redesign to a complete experience in planning a theme on a primary level.

3^ PHASE
- Formal concept- planning, regarding the form and its main requirements
- Function- when the form is conditioned by the functional requirements
- Design in handmade production, constructive techniques and costs
- Practical project- complete planning stages, from analysis to function, planning choices' criterions and the formal elaboration. Simple comstructive systems- handmade and industrial

4^ PHASE PRACTICAL PROJECT
- Planning, based on the needs of a firm. Analyzing its product, customers and costs. Planning and materials, technical design. Model (prototype)