Isia Roma Design

ISIA Roma Design, a state school of design under the aegis of the Ministry of Public Education, was founded in 1973 by Giulio Carlo Argan. It sprang from the need to train highly professional designers who would uphold the fine European intellectual and teaching tradition, following in the footsteps of the Bauhaus and the Hochschule fur Gestaltung of Ulm. From these schools it inherited and developed a methodological framework of excellence which it combined with Italians’ great talent for creativity and innovation. ISIA Roma Design has received a set of prizes: two ADI “Golden Compass” prize and nine ADI “Gold Plate”, a Medal and a Plaque of the President of the Republic, a postage stamp of the Poste Italiane, eleven SYDA Samsung awards and about another 230 national and international awards. ISIA Roma Design considers the act of designing as an essential moment in the dialectic exchange and interaction between the individual and society, in demand and sustainability, expression and reflection, considering Design as a configuration of excellence in every type of production of instruments and ideas. After forty-five years of activity, based on research and experimentation, the university today can boast of a rich cultural heritage as well as scientific and teaching experience practically unequalled in Italy. It is therefore in a position to provide students with the tools to understand the deep socio-economic and technological changes taking place and to translate them into their creative work, qualifying the designer as both bearer of a renewed material culture and as interpreter of the immateriality of our times.