FUNDIT (The Textile Design Foundation) is established in 1989 as a reply to the needs of society and the industry, motivating the design culture and providing the pedagogical and research means necessary to achieve it.In accordance with these objectives, FUNDIT sets up ESDIT (Higher School of Textile Design and Dressmaking) in the same year and it begins activity in the academic year 1989-1990. Later, it develops new courses in Graphic Design and Industrial Design and it becomes ESDi (Design School ESDi). Three years since it was first established, FUNDIT signs an association agreement with Ramon Llull University, the first state private university.

To adjust design studies to the needs of society of the industry, the foundation is sensitive to the possibilities that new technologies provide.That is why in 1998, it founds MECAD \ Media Centre d'Art i Disseny (Media Centre of Art & Design) and the subjects Electronic Art and Digital Design begin in the academic year 1998-1999.In the same line, an academic alliance is signed in the year 2000 with l'Escola d'Arts i Tècniques de la Moda (The School of Arts and Techniques of Fashion) in Barcelona, thus consolidating the Textile & Fashion speciality as well as the other subjects given.In the year 2000, ESDi also begins to give classes in its 5th speciality subject: Interior Design, and so, continues with the multidisciplinary objective which defines the School.

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