The Arts, Crafts and Computation programme offers a unique approach to digital design, combining digital fabrication with traditional craftsmanship. It trains designers and artists to transform data into objects by blending traditional craft practices with contemporary technologies.
Over three years, the programme provides teaching in digital design and fabrication, as well as interaction design. An understanding of the process of creating forms, based on a reflection on materials and data, lies at the heart of the programme, characterised as much by experimentation as by the creation of objects in the broadest sense. It also provides an introduction to coding and the use of software for parametric modelling, CNC machining and the creation of interactive objects. Training in the history of design, critical theory and the design of the commons helps to ground the student’s approach.
The specialisation explores the place of the object and space within digital environments, inviting students to imagine new materialities and possible futures.
Keywords: Digital design, Manufacturing, Materials, Data, Interaction, Objects
Course outline and ECTS credits
Teaching Team
Coordination
Claire Dumont and Sébastien Pons
Compulsory Joint Long-Term Project Courses:
Olivier Bouton and Claire Dumont (processes et forms), Florent Deloison (interactive design), Emmanuel Hugnot, Sonia Laugier (design and digital manufacturing).
Other project-based courses: Olivier Bouton (furniture), Louise Cotte et Vincent Dalbera (photography), Data Paulette (e-textile design), Julien Gachadoat (digital drawing), Nicolas Girard (graphic design), Emmanuel Hugnot and Stéphane Detrez (object design and digital manufacturing), Sonia Laugier et Stéphane Detrez (object design and digital manufacturing Réjane Lhote (drawing), Sébastien Pons (scenography), Léandre Porte-Agbogba (plans, models), Olivier Soulerin (colour), Philippe Tarral (drawing), Marek Zaroslinski (3D modeling).
Theoretical courses: Emmanuel Cyriaque (digital writing), Sylvia Fredriksson (lectures), Andree Furey (English), Marie Lechner (technology and environment), Christophe Leclercq (history of design), Gunther Ludwig (art theory), Sophie Monville (history of art).
Practical information
Language of instruction
French
Annual tuition fees
€830 (€475 for scholarship holders)
Admission
En première année
En cours de cursus
Contact
Student Affairs