Hotel Experience Design
Designing Hotel Common Spaces
Today hotel common spaces– the Lounge, Bar, Lobby & Garden – are undergoing a radical change: in fact more and more often they host new functions with respect to the traditional ones, becoming versatile spaces open to city life.
This new conception of the common areas has determined a total rethinking of the hotel’s entire organisation, the features of the spaces and furnishings.

Becoming specialists in Hotel Entertainment
This evolution leads to a new way to design the spaces of sociality inside hotels, what is called hotel entertainment, and consequently designers and architects must acquire new specialised competences and the new aesthetic languages of this great expanding market.

The new course by Poli.Design
Consortium of Politecnico di Milano
Poli.Design-Consortium of Politecnico di Milano has established the first course of high standard training in "Hotel Experience Design", the new specialisation for architects and designers interested in planning the new hotel common spaces, and spaces of Hotel Entertainment.

Specialised lecturers and vanguard professionals
The teaching staff includes renowned Italian designers of the hospitality sector, high-profile lecturers of Politecnico di Milano, who will be in charge of developing design topics related to space planning and furniture, and specialised professionals who will focus on entrepreneurial, technical and sociological topics, for a complete view over the sector.

Professional opportunities
Participants will acquire professional skills and receive a certificate of attendance by Poli.Design-Consortium of Politecnico di Milano.
They will be able to cooperate with companies of the design, planning, host, furniture, technical sectors, and clients of the hospitality industry.

Structure of the course
The course develops through theoretic-practical modules for a total of 224 hours of frontal lessons, practical exercises and a final project work that will assess the acquired creative and planning skills.

In contact with the industry,
the market and professional operators
The cooperation with specialised companies will offer participants a constant contact with the realities active in the sector.
The research and application results developed in the final project work will be presented in advance at SIA Guest ’09, the Academic Partner of the course. It is the annual RiminiFiera expo dedicated to the operators of the hospitality industry.

Educational tours
Teachers will lead participants on visits to hotels, innovative spaces and new entertainment premises of Milan, in order to study in depth their features, functions and planning solutions.
Other tours will be suggested to the students to be done autonomously.

Candidates
The course is reserved to graduates of first and second degree, preferably in architecture, design or engineering, and professionals of the sector interested in specialising in design and planning of innovative hospitality spaces.

Duration and venue
The course is scheduled from 4th May to 24th June, 2009, with 28 days of attendance, 8 hours a day.
Lessons take place at:
Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa
POLI.Design, Via Durando 38/a, Milan.

Admission
The admission to the course, for a maximum of 30 students, will be subject to a selection process.
Before the interview candidates must send their CV describing in brief their studies and the possible professional experience.
Students are expressly suggested to bring their own computer for the final Project Work.

Fee and Study Grants
Euro 5,000 + VAT (€ 4,000 + € 1,000 of entrance fee).
The Academic Partner SIA Guest ’09 and the sponsoring companies offer many study grants to deserving candidates.

Innovation-oriented
professional updating
The Course in "Hotel Experience Design" expands and completes Poli.Design’s educational offer, which is aimed at a permanent updating of professional competences and a continuous scientific confrontation with the main innovation, product and system issues.

A course of high standard specialisation and professional profile
The course of High Standard training in “Hotel Experience Design” is at its fourth edition and reserved to 30 Italian and foreign participants.
It will be a critical and formative course and will focus on all aspects concerning planning: interior design, furniture, new materials, use of colour, role of lighting and sound devices, the evolution of the market and new trends.