Cycle 1 design

In this way, the specificity of the training program is partly based on practical experience in the field. Confronted with diverse project contexts rooted in reality, students are introduced to observing, analyzing and probing the contexts they approach, to get as close as possible to the protagonists and the specific features of the territories*. On the other hand, it is defined by workshop practice, a place where a spirit of ingenuity and inventiveness is cultivated to think and make operative forms likely to make the world more habitable on a daily basis, whether by designing signs, objects or spaces.

*This investigative approach is as much a methodological contribution as a strategy for integration into the economic and social fabric.

In the first cycle, the “spaces and objects” design option trains designers to conceive and lead projects in the field of design, with particular attention to resources and production methods, and to implement them through the design of objects and/or fittings for social spaces (from the private to the public sphere).

Based on the analysis of real-life specifications, students learn to mobilize knowledge and techniques specific to space and object project methodology, as well as to produce technical documents enabling production and reproduction in various manufacturing locations.

Acquisition

• Mastery of project management stages (analyze, design, manufacture, represent).
• Mastery of design tools, from 2D drawings to traditional models, 3D models, digital printing, etc.
• Mastery of representation tools from coded drawing to 2D and 3D software, animation, 3D rendering, etc.
• Identify fields of practice and associated issues, build up a critical corpus.
• Learn how to present a project orally and put it into space in response to a specific request.
• Initiate a personal approach.
• Develop a critical sense.

Objectives

• Train multi-skilled designers capable of articulating several scales of intervention according to given situations (how a proposal for spatial organization relates to a proposal for signage, for example).
• Train designers capable of adjusting production tools, materials and gestures to the context in question.
• Introduce them to different manufacturing methods, and to the experience of different modes of production, so as to be able to envisage singular articulations.
• Train designers to pay attention to resources.
• Raise awareness of reparability, maintenance and care.

Careers and employment opportunities

Designer, assistant designer, prototypist, artisan designer.
Students need to master the tools of the trade before they can join a design studio, or an architecture or interior design agency.
Practical experience in various workshops will also give them a knowledge of factories, enabling them to design and sometimes manufacture their own creations.
The methodological skills, tools and know-how acquired also enable them to enter related fields: exhibition scenography, urban landscape design, mediation tools.

This program trains designers capable of integrating fields such as interior architecture, product design, furniture design, space design, architecture, scenography and craftsmanship, with particular sensitivity to the issues of re-use and short circuits, and experience of various production methods: local know-how, crafts, fablabs, factories. The target region is primarily Occitanie, given its proximity and the networks of partners developed by isdaT.