Master's in Product and Service Design

With a rich history spanning over 700 years, Sapienza University of Rome has welcomed over 120,000 students and boasts a faculty of over 3,500 professors and 3,000 professional staff. As the largest university in Europe, it is dedicated to advancing society through research, quality education, and global partnerships. The university has earned high rankings for its research, educational quality, and international reach, and is highly regarded across many fields of study.

The M.Sc. in Product and Service Design is for students who want to deepen their design skills exploring new technologies, cultural context, social issues. Our students will face creative challenges in developing products and services to improve people's lives according to the Digital and Green Transition. They will design extensively, think creatively and reflect critically. During the first year, students will acquire innovative skills in Aesthetics and Social Communication, Design issues, Smart Technologies & Open Design, Digital Representation & A.I, Mechanics and New materials, Human Factors and Strategic Management; as well as, they will explore and practice the most recent Design Thinking methodologies as well as face of with the topic of In the second year, they will understand and develop sustainable, smart and innovative production and consumption processes facing 4 different areas of application: Design for Interaction, exploring and applying smart technologies with a critical and futuristic approach; Design for Service and Social Innovation, with a human-centred and UX approach; Design for Material, with a particular attention to the bio-mimesis and sustainability; Design for New Craft and Industry, considering the innovation of new typologies and new aesthetics. In the second year, the last semester is dedicated to the final work that is a research-based activity aimed to develop a functional prototype of an innovative product and service, in collaboration with international R&D company departments or universities labs or research centres. Our graduates can spend their skills as Design Strategist at the management level for companies or new start- ups, or as Design Researcher within Research Centres or successfully continuing their training in the Ph.D. course.