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

Gra­duates are des­ti­ned to work in the dif­ferent fields of spa­tial design, from urban to fur­ni­ture design. Their wor­king methods com­ple­ment those of other envi­ron­ment desi­gners. In the case of citys­cape and land­scape, spa­tial desi­gners work on details, mate­rials, atmos­pheres and ligh­ting rather than on global issues. In the case of archi­tec­ture, they focus on inter­ior design and ways of life rather than on infra­struc­tures. They apply fur­ni­ture design to pre­cise places rather than follow the rules of mass pro­duc­tion.

Course content

Pro­fes­sio­nal part­ners fre­quently take part in the course. Exer­cises give stu­dents the oppor­tu­nity to include socio­logy, ethics, culture, eco­no­mics etc. in their thin­king pro­cess. They are struc­tu­red accor­ding to the dif­ferent stages of the design pro­cess.
They enable stu­dents to expe­riment with dif­ferent research and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools such as sket­ching, com­pu­ter gra­phics, video, wri­ting.
Seve­ral short and pre­cise pro­jects are car­ried out during the first year
A long pro­ject is car­ried through to com­ple­tion in the second year. It is com­ple­ted with the wri­ting of a dis­ser­ta­tion. Pro­ject and dis­ser­ta­tion are defen­ded in front of a panel of pro­fes­sio­nals who award the diploma.

Career pros­pects

Career pros­pects are as wide as the range of approaches. Gra­duates can work in envi­ron­ment and inter­ior design agen­cies as well as in wider struc­tures that hire dif­ferent spe­cia­lists such as urban design, land­scape design and archi­tec­ture stu­dios. They can also work for public ins­ti­tu­tions.