Head of Project Unit: Christophe Gaubert
Administrative and academic assistant: Margot Casimir

Design Standpoint

The programme consists of both group and individual work. Teaching alternates with personal initiatives. These personal initiatives are essential in learning to become independent and in developing one’s own approach. This unit therefore proposes a place in which to experiment with independence, a place for individual expression where each project is a “wild card ” and students have a free hand.

Teaching content

The unit provides a framework, a setting, which actively supports all types of initiatives which give priority to a personal approach. The origins of the student’s project can be of several types. It can be a freely chosen theme which will enable a broadening or an assertion of a personal approach, or will tackle new problems or fields of application for design (research into concepts, aesthetics, techniques). The work needs to have a real life context either by a search for specialists in the field concerned (from both inside and outside the school), or by integrating a subject from a competition or developing a partnership as a field for applied experimentation. The projects take the form of an individual contract, where objectives and means are defined between students and teachers.

Open to: the unit is open to students enrolled for a full semester (Stage 2 students), but will respond to requests from students enrolled in other projects studios who wish to be monitored for subsidiary personal projects (students in stages 1 and 2).