DNMA­DE1
Natio­nal Diploma in Fine Craft and Design

The DNMADE (Diplôme Natio­nal des Métiers d’Art et du Design) is the new Natio­nal Diploma of higher edu­ca­tion in Contem­po­rary Craft and Design that will confer on its holder a Bache­lor of Arts degree. DNMA­DE1 will replace the foun­da­tion year in 2018 – 2019 (see course struc­ture). In 2019 – 2020, DNMA­DE2 will replace BTS1, and BTS2 will be repla­ced by DNMA­DE3 in 2020 – 2021. The first DNMADE stu­dents to gra­duate will be in 2021.

Over a 3-year study period, the DNMADE stu­dents will gra­dually spe­cia­lise and become more and more inde­pendent and pro­fes­sio­nal. Ensaama offers 17 courses ope­ning up to a wide range of fields in Crafts and Design. Our cur­ri­cu­lum shows that not only do we aim to form spe­cia­lists in a par­ti­cu­lar field of study, but we also fami­lia­rise future prac­ti­tio­ners with the various aspects of contem­po­rary craft and design.

Courses offe­red to Eras­mus + stu­dents :

Course	ECTS
STUDIO (crea­tion)	12
Art & Design Culture	5
Metho­do­lo­gies and tech­niques	6
DESIGN for SUS­TAI­NA­BI­LITY (D4S)	4
FRENCH as a FOREIGN LAN­GUAGE (FFL)	3

Spa­tial Design

Space – archi­tec­ture, ser­vices and urban mobi­lity

Major course of study: Spa­tial Design
Minor course of study: Social inno­va­tion

The course focuses mainly on archi­tec­ture in pro­grammes that deal with inter­ior and exte­rior urban spaces: work places, retail spaces, ser­vice acti­vi­ties, shared spaces, as well as design and archi­tec­tu­ral issues rela­ted to the field of trans­port and equip­ment.
Career pros­pects: archi­tect, inter­ior archi­tect, desi­gner, urban plan­ner.

Space – hou­sing, fur­ni­ture and envi­ron­ment

Major course of study: Spa­tial Design
Minor course of study: ​“Object” Design

Focu­sing on archi­tec­ture, the cur­ri­cu­lum covers the global notion of hou­sing: microar­chi­tec­ture and fur­ni­ture design. This includes indi­vi­dual and col­lec­tive hou­sing, micro-archi­tec­ture, archi­tec­tu­ral exten­sions, fur­ni­ture and equip­ment invol­ved in land­scape design or urban plan­ning.
Career pros­pects: archi­tect, inter­ior archi­tect, desi­gner, urban plan­ner, land­scape desi­gner.

Space – archi­tec­ture, culture, natio­nal heri­tage and media­tion

Major course of study: Space
Minor course of study: Gra­phic Design

This course deals with public and pri­vate archi­tec­tu­ral pro­grammes in the field of culture: foun­da­tions, museums, per­for­mance halls, media libra­ries, exhi­bi­tion sce­no­gra­phy. It involves the natio­nal heri­tage pro­gramme inclu­ding natu­ral and urban land­scapes with archi­tec­tu­ral reha­bi­li­ta­tion issues.
Career pros­pects: archi­tect, inter­ior archi­tect, museo­gra­pher or exhi­bi­tion sce­no­gra­pher.

Pro­duct Design

Pro­duct Design, usage, inno­va­tion and pro­duc­tion

Major course of study: Pro­duct Design
Minor course of study: Mate­rials

The course teaches indus­trial desi­gners to create inno­va­tive pro­ducts trea­ting tech­ni­cal, eco­no­mic, social, cultu­ral or aes­the­tic topics. Stu­dents adapt to emer­ging life­styles and the requi­re­ments of com­pa­nies or ins­ti­tu­tions. Dif­ferent mate­rials are inves­ti­ga­ted based on today’s tech­no­logy invol­ving all the design agents ran­ging from exter­nal public or pri­vate part­ners to research labo­ra­to­ries.

Pro­duct – social and digi­tal inno­va­tion

Major course of study: Pro­duct Design
Minor course of study: Digi­tal and social inno­va­tion

The aim of the course is to teach pro­duct and ser­vice desi­gners how to inves­ti­gate the changes in today’s society and how to treat contem­po­rary envi­ron­men­tal and digi­tal issues using ser­vice and inter­ac­tion design. The stu­dents are trai­ned to design tomorrow’s user expe­riences, explo­ring pro­duct types and sys­tems, inter­faces and connec­ted objects or spaces by iden­ti­fying, crea­ting, deve­lo­ping, and tes­ting out inno­va­tive and explo­ra­tory devices.

Unique pro­duct of excep­tion, expe­ri­men­tal prac­tices and alter­na­tive pro­duc­tions

The aim is to encou­rage crea­tor-desi­gners to ques­tion the mea­ning and iden­tity of the object by stu­dying the codes, fields of inves­ti­ga­tion, savoir-faire and the mate­rials requi­red for luxury goods. Stu­dents learn to pro­duce excep­tio­nal objects and limi­ted-edi­tion fur­ni­ture, to design in situ ins­tal­la­tions. They also design in situ ins­tal­la­tions for cultu­ral or com­mer­cial events. An explo­ra­tory and expe­ri­men­tal approach to mate­rials and crafts is deve­lo­ped.

Gra­phic Design

Prin­ted and digi­tal edi­tion and typo­gra­phy

Major course of study: Gra­phic Design
Minor course of study: Digi­tal – Pro­duct
This course deals with inter­ac­ti­vity in rea­ding media: prin­ted and digi­tal edi­tion (book, poster, screen, inter­face).
The student-gra­phic desi­gner deve­lops ques­tions rela­ted to design (com­po­si­tion, texts, images, sound, ani­ma­tion) and making (prin­ting, fini­shing, pro­gram­ming, edi­ting).
Career pros­pects: Art direc­tor for the press, gra­phic desi­gner in a publi­shing house or in a gra­phic design studio, inter­face desi­gner, web desi­gner or motion desi­gner.

Linear and inter­ac­tive sto­ry­tel­ling

Major course of study: Digi­tal
Minor course of study: Gra­phic design – pro­duct

This course opens up to pro­fes­sio­nal careers in digi­tal crea­tion in the fields of gra­phic design, ani­ma­tion, events and per­for­ming arts: art direc­tor, inter­face desi­gner, inter­ac­tion desi­gner, web docu­men­tary desi­gner, data desi­gner. The student is taught how to explore the poten­tial of the digi­tal image, how to design seve­ral types of nar­ra­tives (both linear and inter­ac­tive), how to deve­lop the tech­no­logy of the video, of ani­ma­tion, 3D, pro­gram­ming, how to build user inter­faces.

Iden­tity design – cultu­ral, ins­ti­tu­tio­nal and adver­ti­sing com­mu­ni­ca­tion

Major course of study: Gra­phic Design
Minor course of study: Digi­tal –Event

This course leads to Art Direc­tor careers in multi-chan­nel com­mu­ni­ca­tions agen­cies (adver­ti­sing, event, inter­ac­ti­vity). It aims to design and make dif­ferent signs of com­mu­ni­ca­tion: gra­phic char­ters and signs, logo­types, pic­to­grams, etc and to apply them onto dif­ferent media: pos­ters, prin­ted mate­rial, packa­ging, films, inter­ac­ti­vity, street mar­ke­ting or events.
Career pros­pects: Art Direc­tor, pro­ject mana­ger, film or video maker.

Events Design

Events/​Spatial com­mu­ni­ca­tion, sce­no­gra­phy and Events pro­grammes

Major course of study: Events Design
Minor course of study: Digi­tal – Space

This course trains Events desi­gners. The cur­ri­cu­lum includes gra­phics, mul­ti­me­dia, archi­tec­ture and sce­no­gra­phy. It inves­ti­gates the design of com­mu­ni­ca­tion stra­te­gies and the crea­tion of brand iden­ti­ties applied to com­mu­ni­ca­tions spaces, dis­play or sales areas.
Career prop­sects: Crea­tive or Art Direc­tor in global com­mu­ni­ca­tions agen­cies, stand desi­gner, point-of-pur­chase adver­ti­sing, retail desi­gner, events sce­no­gra­phy.

Tex­tile design

Tex­tile – colour, mate­rial, sur­face

Major course of study: Tex­tile design
Minor course of study: Mate­rials

The course explores clo­thing, object, hou­sing, public space or ser­vice design. It deve­lops crea­tive and unique approaches in pro­jects ran­ging from the excep­tio­nal piece to the indus­trial pro­to­type. Crea­tive metho­do­logy, design and studio prac­tices are com­bi­ned in the field of colour, gra­phic design, mate­rial and aspect, mate­rial pro­ces­sing, trend com­mu­ni­ca­tion, ancient know-how and inno­va­tive tech­no­logy in wea­ving, knit­ting, prin­ting and the tex­tile enno­bling pro­cess.

Per­for­ming Arts

Sculp­ture applied to the stage area

Major course of study: Per­for­ming Arts
Minor course of study: Space – Ani­ma­tion

This course aims to train artist-sculp­tors crea­ting tem­po­rary set desi­gns for the theatre, films, ani­ma­tion, adver­ti­sing and events. The stu­dents are taught how to design sets accor­ding to an adap­ted metho­do­logy. The crea­tion of the 3D pieces requires high pro­fi­ciency in tech­niques such as model­ling, direct car­ving, moul­ding, the use of com­po­site mate­rials, wood construc­tion, as well as colour sur­face treat­ment.

Orna­ment

Orna­ment, mosaic, concep­tion, crea­tion and inno­va­tion

Major course of study: Orna­ment and Mate­rials
Minor course of study: Space

This course includes dra­wing, colour and volume. It deals with the mani­pu­la­tion of las­ting mate­rials: glass, enamel, cera­mics, stone, or concrete. An expe­ri­men­tal and per­so­nal approach should be adop­ted in order to master the art of mosaics, the aim being to adapt to the contem­po­rary object and space.
Career pros­pects: mosaic crafts­man, contem­po­rary mosaic desi­gner, col­la­bo­ra­tor in inter­ior archi­tec­ture.

Orna­ment, wall art and sur­face treat­ment

Major course of study: Orna­ment and space
Minor course of study: Mate­rials

This course deve­lops crea­ti­vity and pro­jects in mural expres­sion connec­ted to the urban and archi­tec­tu­ral envi­ron­ment. Various tech­niques are taught: pain­ting, fresco, sgraf­fitto, aero­graph, bas relief and wall cera­mics. The aim of the course is for the student to be able to inno­vate as well as acqui­ring ver­sa­tile pro­fes­sio­nal skills.
Career pros­pects: fresco crafts­man, archi­tec­tu­ral deco­ra­tor, wall cera­mi­cist…

Stai­ned-glass, concep­tion, crea­tion, inno­va­tion, monu­men­tal appli­ca­tion

Major course of study: Orna­ment and space
Minor course of study: Gra­phic design

The course focu­sing on stai­ned-glass trains crafts­men spe­cia­li­sing in heri­tage monu­ments and glass-maker pain­ters, ran­ging from res­to­ra­tion to contem­po­rary crea­tion. The aim is to acquire spe­ci­fic savoir-faire thanks to age-old prac­tices in dra­wing, color, and trans­pa­rency, thus enabling the stu­dents to conceive inno­va­tive crea­tions based on research and expe­ri­men­ta­tion.

Mate­rials

Lac­quer concep­tion, crea­tion, inno­va­tion

Major course of study: Mate­rials
Minor course of study: Digi­tal

Ran­ging from luxury to deco­ra­tion, inclu­ding the crea­tion of excep­tio­nal pieces, this one-of-a-kind course offers to deve­lop the spe­ci­fic know-how of a lac­quer artist by favou­ring the diver­sity of mate­rials (2D and 3D Euro­pean and Asian lac­quer, gil­ding). It aims to train desi­gners, luxury and his­to­ri­cal heri­tage arti­sans, and lac­quer deco­ra­tors in design inno­va­tion, manu­fac­tu­ring digi­tal tech­no­logy and in using digi­tal com­mu­ni­ca­tion for their com­pany.

Metal concep­tion, crea­tion, inno­va­tion

Major course of study: Mate­rials
Minor course of study: Digi­tal

From one-off pieces to small series, from the pro­to­type to pieces of fur­ni­ture, this course of metal crea­tion (crea­tive metal­work) aims to train desi­gners, sculp­tors, jewel­lers or contem­po­rary sil­vers­miths. The course is very much focu­sed on acqui­ring spe­ci­fic know-how, nota­bly the for­ming of metal in sheaths (unique to France). Digi­tal tech­no­logy is taught with a pur­pose of inno­va­tion in Crafts as much as for pro­fes­sio­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tion (web­site, cata­logue).