Set Design
Production designer, set designer, lighting designer, digital creator live events and performances
Characteristics of the course of study
The course aims to assure skills and knowledges addressed at training experts that can work in the fields of set designing, able to design a stage space for the opera theater, drama theater and for dance sets. Acquiring a rigorous and effective method of set designing, will enable the graduate to possess all the tools and basic technical knowledges required for dealing with the creation of a space for the show, to be aware of his role and specific responsibilities in relation to other artistic figures and techniques that rotate around staging and with which he will necessarily have to collaborate. In addition, the acquisition of the ability for critical analysis will allow, in the creative process, to formulate a meaningful aesthetic world capable of sustaining a constructive dialogue with the concepts and interpretation given by the director, the playwright or by the choreographer.
I Year
- Scenography I (12 CFA)
- Set design technology (8 CFA)
- History of ancient art (6 CFA)
- Medieval Art History (6 CFA)
- Fundamentals of computer design (Autocad) (5 CFA)
- History of costume I (6 CFA)
- History of Show Business I (6 CFA)
- Digital image processing (Photoshop) (5 CFA)
- English (4 CFA)
II Year
- Scenography II (12 CFA)
- Modeling (8 CFA)
- History of costume II (6 CFA)
- History of modern art (6 CFA)
- History of Show Business II (6 CFA)
- History of music and musical theater (8 CFA)
- Photography (6 CFA)
- Practice and Culture of the show (2 CFA)
- Body expression laboratory and performative techniques (2 CFA)
III Year
- Scenography III (12 CFA)
- Lighting technology (5 CFA)
- Performance techniques for visual arts (3 CFA)
- History of Show Business III (6 CFA)
- History of cinema and video (6 CFA)
- Contemporary art History (6 CFA)
- Sound-space design (6 CFA)
- Practice and Culture of the Television and Film Show (SC3) (2 CFA)
- History of contemporary music (3 CFA)
- Directing (2 CFA)
- Final test (4 CFA)
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Professors
- Beatrice Zanotti
- Carlo Susa
- Chiara Canova
- Elena Rossi
- Emanuele Massari
- Enrico Dusi
- Enzo Mologni
- Fabrizio Saiu
- Fausto Ghirardini
- Giorgio Azzoni
- MariaChiara Pezzotti
- Massimo Tantardini
- Matteo Asti
- Mauro Montalbetti
- Michela Andreis
- Nicoletta Rossini
- Paolo Bonini
- Paolo Sacchini
- Stefano Mazzanti
- Tiziana Arici
- Virtus Maria Zallot
Job perspectives
production designer, set designer, lighting designer, digital creator live events and performances
The outgoing professionl figure can start to create his own professional career, checking out the direct collaboration with directors, coreographers, art directors, suggesting himself to the production and theater institutions in the show ambit as assistant or collaborator for the technical management staff, for the scenographers building all the setting phases in the laboratories, for the stage technician during the show assembly phases or as assistant during the creative and planning show phase. The abstract-technical acquired method, will give the possibility to the graduates to operate as well in different ambits such as the interior design, photo and video sets, exhibition setting up, shop windows, stands, events setting up, concerts, contemporary art performances and all the ambits in which the “emotional” space becomes fundamental expressive element for artistic and economic purposes.
