Specializing Master in Lighting Design & Technology

The Master takes place in Laboratorio LUCE (research laboratory on lighting www.luce.polimi.it) of Politecnico di Milano in the north west area of Milan and lasts for a year.

How to get to Laboratorio LUCE: Departure from Stazione Centrale, Milan main station, to via Candiani.
Goals

Lighting Design intended as a service to enhance wellness, personal, social and productive activities, relationship and communication in all human activities. Artificial lighting is in fact a primal asset of modern society, and one of the factors that mainly contributed to economical, commercial and social evolution of the most advanced nations on earth. The energetic and expressive potential of light lead to the definition of a new profession and an adequate design methodology that will be treated in to the master.

Didactic Plan
The Specializing Master will be held in English.

The specializing master has a duration of one year and issues 60 credits, equivalent to 60 ECTS.

Employment Opportunities
The result of the master is an innovative professional profile with advanced competences in the main lighting design activities, indoor and outdoor, from residential spaces and retail areas to museum and temporary exhibitions and lighting shows. These professionals will be able to insert both in the lighting companies and professional offices, as well as in the technical departments of the civil service. In the lighting companies they will be able to carry design, realisation and control of the lighting installations. In the professional offices – architecture, industrial and lighting design – they will support the architectural planning (retail environments, entertainment and sport areas, residential spaces, museum, exhibit design) to develop stage-managing abilities in lighting installations. Also, they will be able to support and coordinate the whole process of lighting design: from the planning to the realisation and from the test step to the light control management systems, within the norms in force both in civil service sphere and in private and professional fields.

High placement rate: Over 80% of participants, within one year, find a job in design firms and leading companies.

The teaching activity can be held in person or with distance learning. The educational program is divided into 10 thematic modules plus an 11th module which is the internship. The teaching of the didactic modules will be in English. The first 4 didactic modules develop the basic skills in the field of theories, methods and tools for lighting Design; from the technical, methodological and cultural basics of the project to permanent innovation in the sector:

Didactic unit 1
Theory of lightighting

Didactic unit 2
Lighting engineering

Didactic unit 3
Connected lighting

Didactic unit 4
Introduction to Lighting Design

Didactic unit 5
Project work: lighting design with CAD and BIM

Didactic unit 6
Project work: lighting for the hospitality

Didactic unit 7
Project work: lighting in exteriors

Didactic unit 8
Project work: lighting for the cultural heritage

Didactic unit 9
Project work: lighting in commercial interiors

Didactic unit 10
Professional empowerment

The 10th educational module develops empowerment skills for entering the world of working for corporate and professional training.

Requirements
The Specializing Master is open to applicants who have a university degree (Laurea, equivalent to a Bachelor of Science) under the old or the new educational system or a Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to a Master of Science) under the new educational system in Architecture, Engineering and Design, and to applicants with equivalent qualifications.

Training objectives
Lighting Design intended as a service to enhance wellness, personal, social and productive activities, relationship and communication in all human activities. Artificial lighting is in fact a primal asset of modern society, and one of the factors that mainly contributed to economical, commercial and social evolution of the most advanced nations on earth. The energetic and expressive potential of light lead to the definition of a new profession and an adequate design methodology that will be treated in to the master.