Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) was born in Milan more than 50 years ago as an institution specializing in education and research on design and communication fields. IED is an international network with 12 seats in 3 countries: Milan , Rome , Florence , Turin , Como , Cagliari , Madrid , Barcelona , Bilbao , São Paulo , and Rio de Janeiro.
Throughout these years, it has become a global reference of quality in the education in design and culture at an international level. Around 10,000 people from about 100 different countries study at IED every year. The main aim is to train the new generation of designers providing them the skills to respond to the demands of the current professional world. To do so, the school has developed an innovative and diversified didactic methodology, which mixes aspects such as technology and experimentation, expressiveness in messages and integrated communication, along with market problems, trends, and new scenarios.
IED is the largest HigherEducation Network in the creative field to have maintained a global outlook and a deeply Italian cultural matrix, since 1966. Its educational experience has changed over time but continues to be based on a simple and effective model: it combines theory with practice and knowledge brought into the classroom by professionals working in the field. IED is an inclusive and transdisciplinary school that uses design as a universal language for change to be one step ahead in the present.
Nowadays IED - in its different locations - rises as a constellation: a global education network able to read, interpret and manage the complex nature of the current times. This competency doesn't consist in eye-catching gestures but in a careful observation of the present, paying attention to the continuous changes happening in the ways we think, communicate, and build.
This is why design education represents an opportunity to approach the future more consciously.
Reasons to study at IED:
Italian Heritage. An institution with more than 60 years of history
Multidisciplinary training. Work in projects with students from different disciplines of design.
Creativity leads to innovation. Understand creative tools to find meaningful solutions for your future.
Working with companies. Students work with real-life projects thanks to IED's more than 1000 agreements per year.
Cultural Diversity. Study in an international enviroment with more than 100 nationalities.
Global vision. IED is connected to ELIA, CUMULUS, ERASMUS + networks and offers a global perspective.
Professionals as teachers . The faculty is composed by teachers active on the industry.
Conscious Future . Define and work on the future trends that will change the future.
International projects . Participate in international projects, institutions and events such as CERN, Sonar, Dubai Design Week, etc.
Conceptual Innovation Hub . Let your ideas come true and develop them here.
