Courses offe­red to Eras­mus + stu­dents

Courses	ECTS
Studio (crea­tion)	16
Artis­tic Expe­ri­men­ta­tion & Media­tion	7
Design for Sus­tai­na­bi­lity (D4S)	4
French as a Forein Lan­guage (FFL)	3
TOTAL	30

Semes­ters: 4 (7 to 10)
ECTS cre­dits: 30/​sem

Com­pul­sory work
pla­ce­ment: yes, end of semes­ter 8, mini­mum six weeks, usually longer.

Aims and out­comes

Whe­ther it is refer­red to as « Indus­trial crea­tion » or « indus­trial design » or « pro­duct design », this path­way concerns the study of objects, sys­tems or equip­ment meant to be manu­fac­tu­red. Pro­jects can excep­tio­nally consist in desi­gning unique objects or set­tings such as ephe­me­ral or expe­ri­men­tal living spaces, event spaces…

Course content

Thus the first aim of the course is to equip future desi­gners so that they can answer dif­ferent demands. They have to col­la­bo­rate with the seve­ral desi­gners that take part in the ela­bo­ra­tion of pro­jects. They also syn­the­size infor­ma­tion so as to be able to make deci­sions. This implies :

• Unders­tan­ding what is at stake in the brief and being able to grab and clas­sify the tech­ni­cal and eco­no­mic cri­te­ria contai­ned in it; iden­ti­fying the company’s or institution’s stra­te­gies whe­ther they be clearly expres­sed or not. 
• Being able to col­lect all the com­ple­men­tary infor­ma­tion that is neces­sary for the ela­bo­ra­tion of the pro­ject, mee­ting and sha­ring with all the project’s part­ners as well as with the future users of the pro­duct that is to be modi­fied or desi­gned.
• Qua­li­fying and enhan­cing human fac­tors such as cultu­ral and emo­tio­nal ele­ments, direct or indi­rect usage cha­rac­te­ris­tics .
• Using means and methods spe­ci­fic to design, mas­te­ring the artis­tic dimen­sion of pro­jects.
• Using dra­wing and model­ling as spe­ci­fic research tools; repre­sen­ting ideas and concepts with images, sketches and models to com­mu­ni­cate the pro­ject to the dif­ferent part­ners.

Career pros­pects

Most gra­duates are des­ti­ned to become design mana­gers for natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal cor­po­ra­tions (PSA, Renault, Thom­son, Delsey, Mit­su­bi­shi, Decath­lon, etc) esta­bli­shed in France or abroad. Stu­dents can also choose to com­plete their stu­dies with a mar­ke­ting (Master Mana­ge­ment Stra­té­gique Inter­na­tio­nal) or engi­nee­ring degree (ENSAM Paris).