Students have accessto traditional, modern, and innovative tools, labs, libraries, and workspacesfosters our students' creative and intellectual growth.. IED facilities helpstudents nurture their academic, and intellectual growth, expanding theirchance for deep research and practice.
IED has a total of 20campuses. Surroundings can be inspiring and great opportunities for students toconnect with the environment. That’s why every IED building is based in aconcurrent yet creative neighborhood, where students can interact with itspopulation and find solutions that can create a positive impact in theireveryday life thanks to design.
These facilities aredesigned to offer hands-on experience that is relevant and inspiring. Theclassrooms are equipped with the tools required for training and research inmultidisciplinary teams; and all labs feature high-tech equipment to supportthe education courses and individual training. Students are encouraged to usethe common areas and open spaces to study or socialize.
Design is a disciplinethat students must learn hands-on. For this reason IED offers a wide range oflabs for students to practice and develop their ideas into the final prototype:
- Fashion labs with all kind of sewing machines, cutand sew areas, cutting leather spaces, ironing stations;
- Jewelry Labs are dedicated to the development ofprototypes and models equipped with portable power tools and fixed machines(presses, drills and milling cutters, etc.);
- Video and Media Lab s with portable production equipmentreservations, including digital still, video, and audio equipment;
- Fab labs with all kind of tools and equipmentssuch as 3D Printers, laser cutters, woodworking… guided with technicians andfacility managers that helps and assist students to produce their best work;
- Sound labs , studies wit equipments for recording,listening and production sound;
- Interactive Labs are environments where students caninvestigate new media formats with different kind of video, spaces and soundformats, as well as new technologies such as Virtual Reality, Extended Realityor Augmented Reality;
- RenderingLab are spaces where students can work with softwares that allow them toenvision their designs in a digital space in order to create solutions even forthe metaverse;
- Photostudio where photography professionals can usefor digital and analogue shoots with the different light effects assets. Thereis also a high-quality dark room allowing students to gain experience indeveloping and printing their own analogue photographies in Fine-Art quality.
- Modeling Lab allow students to check their project hypothesisand use the technical tools required for the experimentation, representationand communication of projects. In this lab there are different areas: thetraditional area (band saw, lathe, sander and boring machine for wood), fastmodeling area (with machines for manufacturing polyurethane and Styrofoam), theprototyping area (with a CNC – numerical control machine, laser cutter and avacuum machine), 3D prototyping area, mechatronics area (Arduino platform) andpainting area. Machines and equipment are used under the supervision of labtechnicians and assistants.
Each school has itsown Library and Archive providingaccess to collections, services, and spaces up do date in quality, depth,diversity, format, and currency to support the research and teaching missions.
