EASD CASTELLO

The Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de Castelló (EASD) is a public centre for plastic arts and design teaching, integrated into the Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas de la Comunidad Valenciana and dependent on the Generalitat Valenciana. Founded in 1984, it occupies a building on Plaça Fadrell, on the site of the former Dominican convent, shared with the city’s music conservatories.

Design degrees run over four years of compulsory attendance, in semesters at 60 ECTS a year for 240 in total, in graphic, fashion, product and interior design. Two-year higher training cycles add photography, illustration, graphic design, artistic ceramics and ephemeral architecture, each closing with an integrated project and placements in companies and workshops.

Postgraduate teaching centres on the official master’s degree in engraving and screen printing, alongside a short course in functional ceramics. It keeps a portfolio archive and a library, and runs an Erasmus programme with its own dedicated site.

Since its foundation the school has been tied to the social, economic and cultural life of Castellón, working with the province’s cultural, educational and business organisations through conferences and exhibitions. It presents itself as a provincial reference point for art, culture and design, with coexistence, plurality and participation set as the basis of its learning model.