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With support from the school’s springboard programme, PROMESSE, designed to prepare students for the working world, these 140 graduates have their sights set on the future: not to fit in with it, but to transform it. Off-campus post-master’s courses provide real-life training in local problems that design can help resolve. The Rural Environment Design programme originately running in Nontron is being replicated in four other areas using a site-specific approach: Mountain Environment Design, Coastal Environment Design, Forest Environment Design and Island Environment Design.

The Artists Working in Schools post-master’s course involves a year’s residence in educational establishments: graduates are fully immersed in the daily life of our youngest generations, transmitting to them the liberating potential of the arts and design. La Renverse is a new type of school, founded in the Paris suburbs in partnership with Ateliers Médicis. Its goal is to open the door to equality and diversity. Young people aged between 18 and 25 living in Seine-Saint-Denis and other nearby areas with a passion or talent for artistic creation spend a year at the school. They are given support to help them develop their artistic potential, from putting together a career plan to going back into education.

EnsadLab is France’s first art and design laboratory. Created in 2007, it trains a new generation of artists and designers using a research-led approach. It offers a practice-based PhD at the intersection of art, design, the humanities and the sciences centring on three cross-cutting research areas: biodesign and new active materials; spatial interfaces and human and non-human interactions, and environment, health and care.

The École des Arts Décoratifs - PSL - PSL is a higher education public institution under the authority of the French Ministry of Culture and partner to ²ÝÁñÂÛ̳ (Paris Sciences & Lettres).

Since 2022 it has supported the Campus d’Excellence de la Mode, des Métiers d’Art et du Design, located in the historic Manufactures des Gobelins in Paris and comprising a unique network of establishments in Ile-de-France as well as institutional partners.

With its unique, multi-site educational model, exceptionally outward-looking approach thanks to an international network of 140 leading art and design school partners, ambitious transdisciplinary programme and first-class research center, the École des Arts Décoratifs - PSL - PSL is part of the select circle of top art, design and fashion schools embracing the transformation process needed to tackle the upheavals that mark our era.