Applied Arts to the Wall

Title: Higher Technician in Plastic Arts and Design in Applied Arts to the Wall.

Level: Higher level of professional training in Plastic Arts and Design. Level 1 of the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education (MECES)

Total Duration of the Program: One thousand eight hundred hours spread over two academic years.

Professional Artistic Family: Applied Arts to the Wall.

European Reference: CINE-5b (International Standard Classification of Education).

The general competencies describe the combination of skills, motivations, and traits required to perform effectively in a wide range of job positions within the specialty.

• Creates advertising, decorative, informational, ornamental, didactic, and scenographic murals for stands, showcases, decoration, and performs their maintenance.
• Executes sgraffito finishes and decorative pavements.
• Collaborates on ornamentation, renovation, maintenance, and rehabilitation projects of the architectural environment.
• Participates in the creation of scenographic installations, props, and decoration elements for cinema, theater, television, and other ephemeral media, as well as for various representation and expression spaces.
• Carries out artistic and plastic interventions on walls in architectural facilities, road and urban spaces, parks, kindergartens, schools, amusement parks, hotels, and installations for fairs, congresses, socio-cultural activities, and public and private buildings, religious centers, department stores,
• etcetera.

Professional competencies are linked to the job, all those skills and aptitudes that help them perform their work successfully:

• Advises and participates in preliminary projects prepared under their responsibility, with a view to configuring the final project and the realization of the final product at real scale.
• Carries out projects related to the applied arts to the wall, solving artistic and technological problems that arise during the project: the process and realization.
• Acts at an intermediate technical level, as a possible direct interlocutor of other qualified professionals.
• Values the knowledge of appropriate materials and processes, as well as the basis and operational scope of the tools and materials under their direct responsibility, or that of their subordinates.
• Appropriately assesses the plastic, artistic, technical, organizational, and economic aspects of the work they carry out.
• Uses safety and hygiene standards.
• Researches materials and techniques rooted in artisanal tradition, as well as adapting to the demands of the sociocultural and technological advancement of today’s society.
• Analyzes with users and clients the needs converging in a proposal, to configure the project plans and dictate the appropriate plastic and technical specifications to achieve an optimal result.
• Collaborates in the planning and development of all types of productions and installations that are entrusted to their work team.
• Coordinates and advises work groups formed by specialists in those professions that integrate into their professional field and provides the appropriate information to achieve an optimal result, both in teamwork and in each of its partial aspects.
• Studies in detail the technical specifications of the equipment and machinery in their charge and organizes periodic preventive maintenance measures.
• Analyzes the technical documentation of the plastic and iconographic approaches of the projects to be carried out and establishes the necessary resources for their execution.
• Advises the personnel in charge of the execution of technical processes within their professional field to obtain maximum performance from the technical and human resources available.