TRVL204 Italy: Ferraris to Footwear 3cr

See Italy from a design perspective - footwear, automotive and fashion. Italy 2020 promises to enhance each student’s creative process using the artistic culture of Northern Italy as our “Muse”. Through lectures and coursework, insights to Italy’s cultivated design lens of footwear design foundation and historical automobile carrozzieri (coachbuilders), the semester will then culminate
into a three-week travel program to Italy: Turin, Bologna, Florence, and San Miniato. Students will learn design and manufacturing processes of luxury automotive, fashion and footwear professionals to inspire, incorporate and discover methods for designing; translatable into any discipline.

Prerequisites: By permission.

Travel course