Raffles Education Network - Italy

Raffles Milano is the Italian campus of the Raffles Education Network, operating as an international design institute in Milan under the legal entity Raffles Education Italy srl. The school presents itself as an institution built in response to what industry was asking for rather than to academic convention, and it structures its teaching around briefs set by real clients so that students work on live projects alongside practising designers, art directors and entrepreneurs who make up the faculty. Provision spans three-year undergraduate courses, master's programmes and short courses in fashion design, product and interior design, visual communication, branding and sustainability, with a declared emphasis on transdisciplinary method and on close, non-hierarchical mentoring between tutors and students. The campus sits on Via Felice Casati in the Porta Venezia design district, a location the institute describes as an architectural exercise in the osmosis between interior and exterior space. Facilities include a fashion laboratory for sartorial and haute-couture technique, a product laboratory for prototypes and installations, a photographic studio, an IT laboratory, a cafeteria serving seasonal food, and an internal courtyard and terrace. Raffles Milano positions itself as part of one of Europe's larger independent design education networks, with sister campuses across Asia, the Middle East and Europe, and promotes hybrid delivery, international collaboration and sustainability as recurring threads through its curriculum.