Program Overview

Program Details

The program in question is DISEGNO INDUSTRIALE APPLICATO ALLA NAUTICA 3, which translates to Industrial Design Applied to Nautics 3. This program is part of the university's offerings for the academic year 2025/2026.

Program Overview

• Code: Not specified
• Academic Year: 2025/2026
• CFU (University Credits): Not specified
• Sector: ICAR/13
• Language: Italian
• Location: La Spezia

Prerequisites

To take this exam, students must have passed the following exams:

• DESIGN DEL PRODOTTO NAUTICO 11431 (cohort 2023/2024)
• LABORATORIO DI DISEGNO INDUSTRIALE

Course Objectives

The educational objective of this module is to provide students with the basic tools to approach the design of a pleasure boat between 12 and 24 meters in length and to develop the design of the subsets that make it up (planes, dashboards, etc.).

Detailed Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The course consists of theoretical and laboratory parts with weekly checks and reviews. The objective is to give students the tools to design a pleasure boat, focusing on its technical parts, and to develop the ability to set up a project, inserting it into its relevant market segment, and to develop general plans that allow for an exhaustive description of the boat.

Teaching Methods

The course is taught through frontal lessons by the teacher, guided exercises, and project laboratory in the classroom.

Program/Content

The main topics covered can be summarized into two macro-thematic areas: the general principles of design and the specifics of the nautical project in its technical parts.

Bibliography

• Alessandro Valenti, Mario Zignego, Interior Design Multitasking, Sagep, 2017
• Massimo Musio Sale, Yacht Design. Dal concept alla rappresentazione, Tecniche Nuove, 2009
• Carlo Sciarrelli. Lo yacht. Origine ed evoluzione del veliero da diporto, Mursia, 1970
• Massino Paperini, Yacht design. Interni e sovrastrutture, Lupetti Editore, 2011
• Massimo Gregori, Francesca Lanz, Interior yacht design, Francoangeli, 2017
• Paolo Lodigiani, Capire e progettare le barche, Hoepli, 2016
• Industry magazines
• Nautical yards' websites
• Material provided on the TEAMS platform

Teachers and Commissions

• Umberto Tagliavini

Lessons

• Start of Lessons: As per the academic calendar
• Lesson Schedule: The schedule for this course can be found on the EasyAcademy portal

Exams

• Exam Method: Written, Oral
• Written Part: Consists of project documents, market research, sketches, collected in a book
• Oral Part: Consists of a dissertation of the project

Assessment Method

The evaluation of the project part consists of a comprehensive examination of the elaborations, the coherence between the initial requirements and the proposed project, the graphics of the construction plan drawings and general plans. The oral discussion of the project allows for the evaluation of the candidate's expressive and motivational abilities.

Exam Calendar

• Date: 15/01/2026, 05/02/2026, 11/06/2026, 02/07/2026
• Time: 09:00, 14:30
• Location: La Spezia
• Type: Written, Oral

Additional Information

Students with disabilities or DSA can request compensatory/dispensatory measures for the exam.