01 Jan 1-3/2017 – Seminars of the Design Research Laboratory, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Documentation
The Interior Design and Architecture Research Laboratory organizes a Lifelong Education Program with the subject of Tourism and Cultural Environment: Design and Spatial Identity. The program aims to highlight modern methods of approaching and creating a recognizable identity of tourist accommodations, which will consequently contribute to the qualitative upgrade of their spatial and visual characteristics. Space designers (interior designers, decorators, architects, furniture designers, building renovation and restoration designers, applied arts and installation artists) are active in this growing field who will update their knowledge and acquire skills that will allow them the dynamic presence, participation and response to the needs of these processes of quality upgrading of the interior spaces of tourist facilities.
The teaching modules that will be covered in the seminar refer to the following thematic areas:
1. The two-way relationship between culture and tourism development: the concepts of production and consumption.
2. Cultural tourism and sustainable development: the balance of local resources and experiential experience.
3. The image: new means of promoting cultural tourism.
4. Project: the identity of a city hotel.
The seminar has a duration of 74 teaching hours and will be held over a period of 7 weeks from January 30, 2017 to March 15, 2017, according to a SCHEDULE of three weekly meetings, which will be announced. Upon successful completion and assessment of trainees, they will be awarded a CERTIFICATE of lifelong learning, equivalent to 15 credits (ECTS). These can also be used in other qualification programmes. The seminar will be taught by professors from the Departments of Interior Architecture, Decoration and Design of Objects, members of the Sxediasmos Laboratory, and the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, as well as collaborating researchers.
The cost of the seminar is 180 Euros, while for the percentage of unemployed participants stipulated by the regulation, the cost amounts to 90 Euros. Lab equipment, supplies and digital learning materials are included. The training will take place in TEI Athens laboratories but also with on-site study in a selected hotel area in Athens.