Program Overview

INTERIOR DESIGN

Overview

The Interior Design program aims to educate students on the current state of Interior Architecture as a discipline, focusing on the 'topic' of dwelling as the result of scalable and transferable thoughts and actions. The program explores the relationship between void and envelope, rethinking spatial habitability in line with new needs, desires, and a new (more sustainable) materiality.

Aims and Learning Outcomes

The program's goals include:

• Engaging with the current state and potential of Interior Architecture as a professional field
• Understanding how Interiors define a true modus operandi for the architect
• Proposing sustainable and meaningful actions and relationships between 'bodies', 'homes', and 'things'
• Responding to the new demands of living with originality, awareness, and appropriateness

Syllabus/Content

The program delves into:

• Cheapscape, alternative materials, and inhabitable furniture
• The ongoing transformation of domestic landscapes and domestic design
• Rethinking how we live today, addressing shifts in family structures, the climate crisis, post-human thought, and accelerating processes
• New modes of living, such as co-living, multitasking living, fluid, intergenerational, interspecies, and on-demand lifestyles
• The evolving role of furniture and objects as central architectural elements
• Themes like ultradomesticity and extradomesticity, exploring how homes accommodate unexpected indoor activities and how interiority expands into public space

Teaching Approach

The program involves:

• Lectures and group exercises
• Study of texts listed in the bibliography
• Design opportunities, such as intervening on an existing building and designing a fluid spatiality
• Exploring living as a series of continuous flows, where habits and daily practices evolve, adapt, and are reinterpreted

Teachers and Exam Board

• ALESSANDRO VALENTI

Academic Details

• Academic Year: 2025/2026
• Credits: 6 cfu
• Scientific Disciplinary Sector: ICAR/16
• Language: Italian
• Teaching Location: GENOVA
• Semester: 2° Semester
• Modules: THEORIES AND TECHNIQUES OF INTERIOR DESIGN