Esdi, Escola Superior de Disseny
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The School of Design ESDI (called in Spain
Escola Superior de Disseny ESDi) is a college located in Sabadell
(Barcelona
). It offers the Official Undergraduate University Degree
in Design in the following specialisations: Graphic Design
, Fashion Design
, Product Design
, Interior Design
and Audiovisual Design. They also teach Management Design which is part of an own specialisation called Integrated Multidisciplinary Design. The Textile Design Foundation (FUNDIT), whose CEO is Antoni Garrell i Guiu
, is the founding institution of ESDI.
The School of Design ESDI is a center affiliated to the Ramon Llull University
, the first private university in Spain with a wide presence in Catalonia
and all their studies are adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)
. ESDI has over twenty years of history. It was the first school that introduced Spanish university studies in design, as a title owned by URL, and was one of the first colleges to provide the Spanish Official Undergraduate University Degree in Design in 2008. Its mission is to research, which can be proved as ESDi was the organizer of the First International Congress of Design and Innovation in Catalonia in 2010.
(called in Spain Gremi de Fabricants de Sabadell). They pointed out design
as a key element in improving competitiveness and growth of the industry.
They realized they needed to compete "with value" in its products instead of competing for price and that the challenge was going to happen for the textile industry was to have textile designers
capable to use analytical skills and with the ability to work in the creation process with all the people involved in the generation of product value, so that competition was not only a matter of using the best technology. The initiative to create ESDi had the support of Catalan and Spanish authorities.
This way, the Foundation created The School of Design ESDi, placing it in the old Docks de Sabadell, who were serving a large industrial warehouse for the deposit of the batches of raw wool and textile. The building was then remodeled in 1991 by architect Ignasi Veciana. Today, that place is a campus with a main building of 9,000 m2, distributed over four floors and numerous scientific, technical and artistic equipment necessary to ensure the full development of academic activity.
Three years after its birth, in 1992, the School of Design ESDi got associated with the Ramon Llull University (URL), so that the ESDI fit their education system to the academic requirements and quality assurance from university, and signed an agreement with the Ramon Llull University. This allowed thereafter ESDi undergraduate students would receive from the Ramon Llull University and own title by the university according the different specialisations. This was the first step, the first boost to fit design to a model of official university degree which would not come until some years later. By then ESDI became already the first center in Spain to teach university studies in design.
Reaffirming the commitment to creativity and the evolution of technology and society, the School of Design (ESDI) created the Media Center of Art and Design (MECAD) in 1998 and began teaching a new specialisation: Electronic Art and Digital Design, nowadays called Audiovisual Design.
In 2000 The Textile Design Foundation (FUNDIT) acquired and joined the Arts and Fashion Techniques School of Barcelona
(EATM), the first school in Spain in the teaching of Fashion. Born in Barcelona in 1968, it is a prestigious Spanish school of design in the teaching of this specialty. The EATM has over 40 years. It offers a wide range of master's and postgraduate degrees. It is important to point out the Official Master in New Media Art Curatorship: one the first studies with a Ph.D design research in Spain.
The academic year 2001-2002 the School of Design added a new specialisation to their programme: Interior Design, an itinerary that includes the new requirements for mobility, teleworking and multiculturalism, among other things, that characterize the organizing of the new society. The period 2005-2006 ESDi incorporates to their academic programme a new specialisation: Integrated Multidisciplinary Design. This is because an effort made to suit the design studies to socio-cultural changes and the new requirements coming from developments in society.
The labor market requires a design manager, a professional with knowledge and a wide perspective of this discipline that, being part of a company, must be able to add them value by the implementation of design in their different areas (product, communication, Human Resources).
, through the Order IUE/9/2009, officially recognized the ESDi's affiliation with the Ramon Llull University (URL) in Barcelona and, in turn, recognizes the implementation of the official university studies in design. So, the 2008-2009 academic year was the first in which ESDi started offering the Official Undergraduate University Degree in Design. The design was finally an official university degree.
One year later, 2010, ESDi celebrates their 20 years old with the organization of a Congress that was the first in Catalonia related to Design and Innovation. Many renowned professionals from several countries attended and presented papers related to research design and business competitiveness.
The last step concluding with the integration of the discipline of design for all purposes at the university occurs in 2011. ESDI begins to teach the Master in New Media Art Curatorship: one the first studies with a Ph.D design research in Spain, which incorporates a research path that opens the doors to access the a PH.D programme in design. After a long road design has fully recognized in Catalan universities. University degree in design is officially recognized by the European Union
and it is widely seen as a crucial factor for improving competitiveness in the world of business.
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Escola Superior de Disseny ESDi) is a college located in Sabadell
Sabadell
Sabadell is the second largest city in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the comarca, on the River Ripoll, 20 km north-west of Barcelona...
(Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
). It offers the Official Undergraduate University Degree
University Degree Program
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in Design in the following specialisations: Graphic Design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
, Fashion Design
Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....
, Product Design
Product design
-Introduction:Product design is the process of creating a new product to be sold by a business or enterprise to its customers. It is concerned with the efficient and effective generation and development of ideas through a process that leads to new products.Product designers conceptualize and...
, Interior Design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
and Audiovisual Design. They also teach Management Design which is part of an own specialisation called Integrated Multidisciplinary Design. The Textile Design Foundation (FUNDIT), whose CEO is Antoni Garrell i Guiu
Antoni Garrell i Guiu
]Antoni Garrell i Guiu is a Spanish industrial engineer, a specialist in innovation management and in the knowledge economy. He was founder of Cercle per al Coneixement and promoter of Fundació Indicis, which focuses on sustainability issues and climate...
, is the founding institution of ESDI.
The School of Design ESDI is a center affiliated to the Ramon Llull University
Ramon Llull University
Ramon Llull University is a private university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain founded in 1990. Currently it is formed by several different colleges specialized in different topics, most of which are located in downtown Barcelona...
, the first private university in Spain with a wide presence in Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
and all their studies are adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)
European Higher Education Area
The European Higher Education Area was launched along with the Bologna Process' decade anniversary, in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference....
. ESDI has over twenty years of history. It was the first school that introduced Spanish university studies in design, as a title owned by URL, and was one of the first colleges to provide the Spanish Official Undergraduate University Degree in Design in 2008. Its mission is to research, which can be proved as ESDi was the organizer of the First International Congress of Design and Innovation in Catalonia in 2010.
Birth
The School of Design ESDi has its origins in The Textile Design Foundation (FUNDIT) that was born in 1989 on the initiative of a group a companies associated with the Union of Manufacturers from SabadellSabadell
Sabadell is the second largest city in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the comarca, on the River Ripoll, 20 km north-west of Barcelona...
(called in Spain Gremi de Fabricants de Sabadell). They pointed out design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
as a key element in improving competitiveness and growth of the industry.
They realized they needed to compete "with value" in its products instead of competing for price and that the challenge was going to happen for the textile industry was to have textile designers
capable to use analytical skills and with the ability to work in the creation process with all the people involved in the generation of product value, so that competition was not only a matter of using the best technology. The initiative to create ESDi had the support of Catalan and Spanish authorities.
This way, the Foundation created The School of Design ESDi, placing it in the old Docks de Sabadell, who were serving a large industrial warehouse for the deposit of the batches of raw wool and textile. The building was then remodeled in 1991 by architect Ignasi Veciana. Today, that place is a campus with a main building of 9,000 m2, distributed over four floors and numerous scientific, technical and artistic equipment necessary to ensure the full development of academic activity.
Evolution
ESDI began teaching in the specialisation of the textile design, a studies that were then specially requested by the Spanish textile sector. The Textile Design Foundation (FUNDIT) has always believed that industry requires highly skilled designers proficient in the creative process and having the ability to work symbiotically with all actors involved in the progress and value creation in a context of global competition. ESDi has also been committed since their origins with the culture of entrepreneurship and the continuous birth of new companies, because they understand that there is no progress coming with risk, and this is a value that is communicated to all students from first day the academic activity begins.Three years after its birth, in 1992, the School of Design ESDi got associated with the Ramon Llull University (URL), so that the ESDI fit their education system to the academic requirements and quality assurance from university, and signed an agreement with the Ramon Llull University. This allowed thereafter ESDi undergraduate students would receive from the Ramon Llull University and own title by the university according the different specialisations. This was the first step, the first boost to fit design to a model of official university degree which would not come until some years later. By then ESDI became already the first center in Spain to teach university studies in design.
Reaffirming the commitment to creativity and the evolution of technology and society, the School of Design (ESDI) created the Media Center of Art and Design (MECAD) in 1998 and began teaching a new specialisation: Electronic Art and Digital Design, nowadays called Audiovisual Design.
In 2000 The Textile Design Foundation (FUNDIT) acquired and joined the Arts and Fashion Techniques School of Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
(EATM), the first school in Spain in the teaching of Fashion. Born in Barcelona in 1968, it is a prestigious Spanish school of design in the teaching of this specialty. The EATM has over 40 years. It offers a wide range of master's and postgraduate degrees. It is important to point out the Official Master in New Media Art Curatorship: one the first studies with a Ph.D design research in Spain.
The academic year 2001-2002 the School of Design added a new specialisation to their programme: Interior Design, an itinerary that includes the new requirements for mobility, teleworking and multiculturalism, among other things, that characterize the organizing of the new society. The period 2005-2006 ESDi incorporates to their academic programme a new specialisation: Integrated Multidisciplinary Design. This is because an effort made to suit the design studies to socio-cultural changes and the new requirements coming from developments in society.
The labor market requires a design manager, a professional with knowledge and a wide perspective of this discipline that, being part of a company, must be able to add them value by the implementation of design in their different areas (product, communication, Human Resources).
Consolidation and recognition
On 9 January 2009 is the date on which the Government of CataloniaGovernment of Catalonia
The Government of Catalonia is the executive branch of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It is responsible for the political action, reglamentation and administration of the Generalitat....
, through the Order IUE/9/2009, officially recognized the ESDi's affiliation with the Ramon Llull University (URL) in Barcelona and, in turn, recognizes the implementation of the official university studies in design. So, the 2008-2009 academic year was the first in which ESDi started offering the Official Undergraduate University Degree in Design. The design was finally an official university degree.
One year later, 2010, ESDi celebrates their 20 years old with the organization of a Congress that was the first in Catalonia related to Design and Innovation. Many renowned professionals from several countries attended and presented papers related to research design and business competitiveness.
The last step concluding with the integration of the discipline of design for all purposes at the university occurs in 2011. ESDI begins to teach the Master in New Media Art Curatorship: one the first studies with a Ph.D design research in Spain, which incorporates a research path that opens the doors to access the a PH.D programme in design. After a long road design has fully recognized in Catalan universities. University degree in design is officially recognized by the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
and it is widely seen as a crucial factor for improving competitiveness in the world of business.
External links
- Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi) School of Design (ESDi)
- Fundació del Disseny Tèxtil (FUNDIT) Textile Design Foundation (FUNDIT)
- 1r Congrés Internacional de Disseny i Innovació de Catalunya First International Congress of Design and Innovation in Catalonia
- Gremi de Fabricants de Sabadell Union of Manufacturers from Sabadell
- Media Centre d'Art i Disseny (MECAD) Media Center of Art and Design (MECAD)
- Escola d'Arts i Tècniques de la Moda (EATM) Arts and Fashion Techniques School (EATM)
- Màster Oficial en Comissariat d'Art en Nous Mitjans Official Master in New Media Art Curatorship