Master International Design Strategy / Africa Studio

1st year

Semester 1

Students spend this semester abroad in an internship as a junior designer (13 weeks minimum).

The goal of this semester for students is to highlight and expand professional knowledge in the context of another culture.

Semester 2

During this semester, students learn how to manage complex design projects, deepen their knowledge of the economic, social, and cultural aspects of the field covered in their program, build and apply a methodology and support their end-of-term project. studies, the subject of which they define.

Teaching, delivered in the form of projects in partnership with industry, workshops, lectures, conferences, and professional meetings includes the following compulsory credits:

• Design and complexity project
• Workshop to define the end of the studies project
• Prospective design project
• Seminar methodologies
• Innovation seminar
• Intellectual property
• Seminar specific to the theme of the program
• Introduction to research workshop
• Professionalisation / lab
• Contests
• TOEIC preparation
• Preparation for the end of studies project, complementary seminar
• Memory preparation workshop

2nd year

Semester 3

Continuation and finalization of the end-of-studies project summarizing all the professional skills acquired. It can be conducted in collaboration with a company and/or research laboratory of a partner university. This personal end-of-studies project must be related to the program in which students are enrolled. Supervision is ensured in the form of workshops under the direction of a referent designer, to which punctual speakers are associated. Writing a thesis on the theme of the project.

Courses:

• Initiation to law
• Introduction to management
• End of studies project workshop
• Memory Workshop
• Professionalization & lab
• Competitions

Semester 4

The study program ends with a minimum of sixteen weeks (and a maximum of six months) internship within a company, in France or abroad.

Trainees work as junior designers and support all or part of a project.

The student must demonstrate his ability to integrate into a team, manage a project, and develop all the sequences for its smooth running. It allows the student to articulate all of his studies with what will be his first professional experience.

Depending on the student's professional project, this internship can also take place within a company that the student will create, or even within a research laboratory.

Diplôme de design Bac +5 : master’s level degree

This MDes program leads to the master’s level degree (Diplôme de design) certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education.

The Master’s level degree confers the "Grade de master", and you can pursue your education at a PhD level.

Job prospects and further education

International career prospects

This program trains students to become global players who can converse fluently in English and possibly even Portuguese, understanding the Brasilian context better, and most of all, improve the ability to design for clients and employers from other cultures. It is a living experience that will change its participants, often opening up unexpected, exciting international career opportunities.