Escola Superior de Disseny Elisava

Summary

Mission

ELISAVA strongly promotes education, knowledge, research, development and innovation in the fields of Design, Engineering and Communications, giving university level training to prepare its students to achieve their professional goals at international level, boosting the relation of our community with the business world, institutions and society, and watching over our feasibility to transform and grow in an ever changing global scene.

International role

ELISAVA’s international presence has intensified throughout its history, in parallel to the consolidation of its academic prestige.

For this purpose, ELISAVA has established agreements with over 60 centres in Europe, the United States and Latin America, and it participates in several exchange, cooperation and research programmes with foreign academic institutions. Experience enables us to confirm that there is a two-fold benefit: it encourages the circulation of knowledge, and it improves the disciplines taught at the school.

ELISAVA’s international outlook is based on various associations and programmes. The school forms part of the Cumulus Network, which groups together over 100 renowned institutions worldwide to promote international cooperation. It is also a member of the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE). ELISAVA collaborates with the Council on International Educational Exchange, a non-profit organisation appointed by the US Department of State to manage international student exchange programmes. It also participates in the Lifelong Learning Programme / Erasmus, promoted by the European Union to make Europe more accessible to students, and vice versa.

Besides participating in LLP and Erasmus, ELISAVA has signed its own bilateral agreements which allow the school to increase its offering beyond the European framework. These agreements are under constant review, and work is ongoing to add more destinations.

National role

Founded in 1961, ELISAVA is the first School of Design to open in Spain, thus becoming the first to offer a design-specific curriculum. As a pioneer, it has set the methodological guidelines that have served as a starting point for other schools.
Throughout its history, ELISAVA’s role has been instrumental in shaping the culture of design in Catalonia and Spain. Thanks to its academic efforts many of the professionals now in the design business have received a solid education. But also, since its inception the school has been an open forum for all those who have something new, intelligent and thoughtful to say.
Fifty years with a multi-disciplinary academic and research approach, strongly geared to the professional world and promoting close collaboration with companies, institutions and universities around the world.
A history of pioneering in teaching design and engineering, which continues to help in the training of outstanding professionals.

Main focus

Design and Engineering programmes

Education

Bachelor level programs

Bachelor’s Degree in Design
Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design Engineering
Programme of Simultaneous Studies

Master level programs

MASTER’S UNIVERSITY DEGREE (OFFICIAL PROGRAMME)
Master’s Degree in Design and Communication

ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN
Master’s Degree in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture
Postgraduate Diploma in BioDesign Laboratory
Postgraduate Diploma in Computational Design Laboratory

Master’s Degree in Retail Space: Retail Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Retail Design. Design and Space: Shopping
Postgraduate Diploma in Retail Design. Design and Concept: Branding

Master’s Degree in Interior Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Interior Space. Private Perimeters
Postgraduate Diploma in Design of Work Space

Master’s Degree in Design and Architecture
Postgraduate Diploma in Design, Image and Architecture
Postgraduate Diploma in Design, Environment and Architecture

Master’s Degree in Design and Habitat
Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Habitat Design: Mobility and Temporality
Postgraduate in Eco-habitat. Designing Eco-efficient Housing

Master’s Degree in Design, Art and Public Space
Postgraduate Diploma in Exterior Design. Events and Ephemeral Spaces
Postgraduate Diploma in Design, Art and Society

Postgraduate Diploma in Set Design

Postgraduate Diploma in Interior Architectural Lighting

FASHION DESIGN
Master’s Degree in Fashion Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Fashion Design: Creativity and Trends
Postgraduate Diploma in Fashion Design: Collection and Context

Postgraduate Diploma in Alternative Jewelry Design

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION
Master’s Degree in Branding
Postgraduate Diploma in Brands, Core of Communication
Postgraduate Diploma in Innovating through Brands

Master’s Degree in Graphic Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Graphic Design Applied to Communication
Postgraduate Diploma in Graphic Design and Publishing Projects

Master’s Degree in Packaging Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Packaging Design and Strategy
Postgraduate Diploma in Graphic and Structural Packaging Design

Master’s Degree in Advertising Design and Communication
Postgraduate Diploma in Design and Communication Strategies
Postgraduate Diploma in Advertising Design and Creativity

Master’s Degree in Design and Art Direction
Postgraduate Diploma in Design and Communication Strategies
Postgraduate Diploma in Art Direction

Master’s Degree in Design and Internet Web Project Direction
Postgraduate Diploma in Web Project Management and Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Web Design of Network Applications and Services

Master’s Degree in Photography and Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Photography and Design: Image and Creation
Postgraduate Diploma in Photography and Design: Space, Media and Broadcasting

Master’s Degree in Visual Media Design: Design and Image
Postgraduate Diploma in Photography and Design: Image and Creation
Postgraduate Diploma in Design and Television

Postgraduate Diploma in Typography

PRODUCT DESIGN
Master’s Degree in Product Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Product Conceptualisation
Postgraduate Diploma in Product Development

Master’s Degree in Furniture Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Furniture Design for Communities, Contract and Urban
Postgraduate Diploma in Furniture Design for the Habitat

Master’s Degree in Direct Manufacturing and New Materials for Product Design
Postgraduate Diploma in New Materials
Postgraduate Diploma in New Production Processes

Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Modelling


STRATEGIES AND THOUGHT
Master’s Degree in Research for Design and Innovation
Postgraduate Diploma in Coolhunting. Design and Global Trends
Postgraduate Diploma in Innovation and Design Thinking

Summer Programmes
Core Training, the perfect preparation for ELISAVA’s Bachelor’s Degrees

Balloon Real Experience

How to Live from Illustrations and Comics

In-Edit, Design your Cultural Industry

Fashion and Jewellery, 3D Printing

Launch your product now

A-la-carte materials. The new products of the 21st century

Typography and Material. Interdisciplinary Typography and Additive Manufacturing Workshop

DECADES. From Modernity to the Future

BIM Yourself. Industrialise your projects


London Barcelona Dual City Summer Sessions

ELISAVA offers jointly with the Central Saint Martins College and Chelsea College of Art and Design the summer Art and Design programmes London Barcelona Dual City Summer Sessions.

List of programmes

Central Saint Martins College - ELISAVA
Advertising Now
Architectural History in London and Barcelona
Furniture Design for Inside and Outside Spaces
Photography and the City, Art and Architecture
Where Art Meets Design
Visual Merchandising From Heritage to Mass Market


Chelsea College of Art and Design- ELISAVA
Contemporany Typographic Design
Graphic Design – Visual Communication
Theatre Set Design for Stage

Research

Research activity and main areas

Social Innovation in Design
New materials and design
New platforms of communication
Urban studies
Habitat

Exchange

Application deadlines

1st term June 15
2nd term October 15
3rd term December 15

Teaching languages

Spanish, Catalan

Semester dates

1st term October-December
2nd term January-March
3rd term April-June

Cost of living per month (studying and living)

1000€ - 1200€