Degree in Industrial Creation
Degree in Science and Technology – dual science degree
Degree in Textile Design
Design doctorate

Design doctorate

Since 2010 it has been possible for experienced designers or students coming from design schools and university education who have a research project that places design at the heart of an issue, a terrain, of an experimentation, to write a thesis. The ENSCI is part of the Pres Hésam. Theses in the ENSCI are supported by university doctoral schools. Registered under the titles of recognized disciplines, in the field of art and technology, the social sciences and computing, they contribute to the field of research in design. They innovate through chosen themes and methods of monitoring (accompanied by designers, immersion in the school).
The thesis is geared towards designers that have already completed a Master’s 2 in research. Exceptions can be made, according to the experience, the history, the creations that can be taken into account in terms of research skills. Students follow conferences on methodology and participate in the scientific activities of the Pres and of the Labex CAP (Creation, arts et heritage). They are involved in the Paris Design Lab. Cifre contracts and doctoral allocations are also possible.

Specialized Master’s degree in creation and contemporary technology

Proposed by the ENSCI-Les Ateliers, it is a postgraduate programme certified by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles that welcomes French and foreign applicants coming from schools of higher education of creation (graphic design, design, architecture, visual arts, fashion design…). This formation with its professional orientation has the objective of allowing creators to drive a project at the intersection of contemporary artistic and technological thinking. When we speak of contemporary technology we mean new processes of design and manufacture, information and communication technologies, new materials and bio and nano technologies.
The Master’s programme has the vocation of training professionals in the field of creation who, in their particular fields of activity, will carry a project that integrates confirmed or emerging, innovative techniques and technology.

Specialized Master’s in innovation by design

Faced with changes in technology, with upheavals in the schemes of production, in the changes in economic paradigms and in the modifications in consumer behavior, businesses are more than ever confronted with the issue of differentiation. Today, “the obligation to innovate” to which economic actors are faced, tends to place design as an intrinsic value of business and an essential lever in enhancing its competitiveness. Innovation through design, it is through this assertion that the ENSCI contributes to shaping actors in companies by proposing a specialized Master’s degree that provides them with all of the elements for understanding, for ownership, so as to install design in a sustainable and sensible manner at the heart of business strategy.

Ongoing training programmes of the ENSCI

We offer businesses a unique environment to enhance, transform and accompany the changes in their professional practices. Contemporary industry must take into account evolving technology and social transformation. It must call upon new skills, mobilizing its resources in new approaches, and to that end invest in training. The designer, through his creativity, his capacity to anticipate and integrate contemporary challenges, is a wholly separate partner in a position to propose new concepts and give them form.
The ENSCI proposes programmes that are adapted to specific needs, in the form of conferences and workshops; sessions aiming to render participants sensitive to design through the domains of the product, services, urban spaces, digital design…but equally the 3 postgraduate programmes in the form of ongoing training. The ENSCI proposes two specialized Master’s programmes, Contemporary Creation and Technology and Innovation by Design. The third postgraduate programme, Nouveau Design, proposes to graduate designers to acquire an “enhanced profile”.

The ENSCI-Les Ateliers publishes articles and texts on its web site including reports, interviews, points of view, dissertations and degrees. It publishes articles, as with the annual degree year book and exhibition catalogues. Under the Paris Design Lab brand it also publishes its research and experimentation notes.

The regular presence of national and international events in the establishment.
Lectures, debates, conferences, performances on a monthly basis, initiated by the video-photo-sound studio.
Participation in international student design competitions (students from the ENSCI are regularly among the prize winners).

Each student has a mandatory professional internship lasting one term, in France or, for over half of them, abroad, and a large number of students travel to Europe or abroad for a university exchange.
The establishment currently has almost 80 partner schools and universities throughout the world. Three of them are considered to be footholds: Chiba University in Japan, The National University of Singapore in Singapore and Parsons, The New School for Design in New-York.
The MEDs (Master of European Design), organized with six other European institutes, allows a wide opening on Europe for students following this curriculum.

Workshops: wood, metal, plastic, CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, digital design, nude model, technical imaging module, 3D modeling, visual and digital arts workshop.
Studios: material resources, photo, video, sound, graphic communication…

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