Master International Design Strategy Studio China

Master International Design Strategy Studio China

Throughout the MDes International Design Strategy / China Studio students will learn to decipher the local behaviors and understand the Chinese market to offer a coherent project, adapted to users, with an anthropological approach to design.This program is a stepping stone to an international designer career.

Shanghai is a strategic location to develop an intercultural design because of its dynamism and its recent evolution. It also represents a great field of observation and experimentation for understanding and internalizing Chinese codes and uses.

Main themes

• Anthropology
• Design in a Chinese context
• Multicultural approach

Prerequisites

3 years of undergraduate studies in design

Academic requirements

This program is open to all applicants who either:

• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree in design, or
• Have completed three years of undergraduate studies in design, equating to at least 180 ECTS credits

Language requirements

If you are not a native English speaker, we ask that you provide proof of your English proficiency (minimum level of 700 points at the TOEIC test or equivalent).

The Master’s degree being subject to the validation of 800 points in the TOEIC, you will be required to take the TOEIC exam during the course.

French

While not mandatory for the programs taught in English, a certain command of French language is recommended for daily life in France and integration purposes.

For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.

1st year

Semester 1

Students spend this semester abroad in an internship as a junior designer (13 weeks minimum). They follow before this internship a module including a welcome seminar and methodology-transculturality (80h), language courses and local culture (30h).

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 themselves 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 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 in 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 of the project 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 professional project of the student, this internship can also take place within a company that the student will create, or even within a research laboratory.

Several scholarship options are available. Please visit the university website for more information.

• French students and European Union students: €8,900 per year
• Non-European Union students: €9,900 per year

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.

This program trains students to become global players who can converse fluently in English and possibly even local, Asian languages, understanding Chinese context better, and most of all, steep themselves in 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.