IED is the largest Higher Education Network in the creative field to have maintained a global outlook and a deeply Italian cultural matrix, since 1966. Our educational experience has changed over time but continues to be based on a simple and effective model: we combine theory with practice and knowledge brought into the classroom by professionals from the world of work. We teach our students to be one step ahead, in the present.
We are an inclusive, transdisciplinary school that uses design as a universal language for change. We have partnerships with universities and academies and are members of major international academic networks such as, for example, Cumulus, Elia and WDO.
IED was born in Milano in 1966 and now it’s an international Group with a proudly local outlook and 11 campuses in 3 countries, Italy, Spain and Brazil (Milano, Como trough Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli, Firenze, Torino, Roma, Cagliari, Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, through Kunsthal, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro).
We are a community of designers inspired and guided by a shared vision.
We stimulate potential agents of change: competent, aware, talented designers who interpret design creativity with ethics, technical skills and an innovative vision. Our campus communities are the places to carry out our mission, and spread it.
Our courses are aggregation opportunities for shared interests. We continuously reflect on the importance of learning and its ability to respond to the needs of new generations.
