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The Professional Master’s Degree in Design of Univille has the objective to consolidate the union between university and companies to produce applied scientific and technological knowledge. It promotes the high-level professional qualification, offering the same attributions, degree, and prerogatives of the academic master’s degree, making possible that the graduate teaches and applies for doctorate programs in Brazil and abroad.
The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) has certified the Professional Master’s Degree in Design of Univille, based on its high-level qualification, institutional expertise, and on the excellent facilities to develop research in the field of design. Therefore, the Master’s Degree is a relevant opportunity for the student’s qualification, who will be able to experience all the stages of project and construction of ideas immersed in the culture of innovation, technology and productive processes.
For companies, the Master’s Degree in Design is an opportunity of investment in innovation adn applied research, partnering with the university in all the areas of knowledge that are available in the institution. The university is a center for studies and development characterized by its creative potential and by its constant renovation.
This new space extends the universe of culture of the project and applied research, coming up with innovative solutions to the market.
The Master’s Degree in Design is the result of the 23-year-old experience of the Undergraduate Programme in Design of Univille, a programme known by its excellence in teaching, graduating qualified professionals to act in the Brazilian market.
Students’ profile
Professionals graduate in Design or in other fields that work professionally in research, creation and development of products and services.
Objectives of the program
To meet the demand for professionals with a substantial background, the objective of the Master’s Degree in Design is to contribute with the qualification of high-level professionals, who are compromised with the production of technical-scientific knowledge to solve problems towards design of products and services, focusing on the sustainability in urban, industrial and craft contexts.
COORDINATION
Coordinator
Profa. Dra. Marli Teresinha Everling
Secretary
Bruna Estéfani Dombrowicz
Curriculum
The curriculum has a minimum duration of 15 months and a maximum duration of 24 months and is divided in compulsory and elective subjects.
The subjects happen on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 7:00 to 10:30 p.m.
Concentration area - DESIGN AND SUSTAINABILITY
It comprehends issues and aspects toward design in urban environment and in companies of many industrial and craft segments, with analytical, market, of applied research and theoretical-reflexive coverage. It considers the social, cultural, and technological transformations, debating the role of professionals that act in this context. The programme tries to assist the professional qualification under the focus of sustainability.
Fields of research and technical-scientific practice
Production Process and Design
This field of activity investigates the relations between design and the social reality, considering the urban environment, the market, the consumer’s behavior, the society, the material culture, and the symbolic and aesthetical issues. It involves the influence, the actions, and the repercussions of design in the attribution of cultural and social values, aiming at the development of sustainable products and services.
Technological Production and Sustainability
This field of activity studies issues about the user-object relations and the environment, considering aspects of interface, physical interaction, and sustainability. It involves new possibilities toward aspects of development, production, and management of design process, as well as of development of products and services.