Teaching partners
Industrialists, institutions, design manufacturers and retailers have played a vital role in the school’s history, contributing to the quality of its teaching by proposing pedagogical subjects rooted in their professional reality.
Essential components of the curriculum are on-site visits, the active participation of technical, commercial, marketing, logistic, communication and design professionals, lectures by experts, professional evaluation distinct from that of the teaching staff, and occasionally construction of prototypes and production of prize-winning projects.
The compulsory group work during the subject’s analytical phases prompts students to familiarise themselves with professional practice.

2000-2008, eight years of partnership with:
ARC International - Luminarc, Les Arts Décoratifs - musée de la Publicité, Bouygues Immobilier, Hôpital Cochin, Comité Colbert, Compagnie des Entrepôts et Magasins Généraux de Paris, Le domaine de Courson, Fédération Française des Dentelles et Broderies, Interface, Jacob Delafon, Jardiland et l’Observatoire des Tendances du Jardin, Fournier (Mobalpa), Nespresso, L’Oréal Professionnel, Louis Vuitton Malletier, ProBono, Procédés Chénel International, la RATP, Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris, la SANEF, le Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL), SIGG, Sikkens, Théâtre de la Ville, TRANSDEV, le VIA

Examples of subjects:

 a drop paper partition (Procédés Chénel International, 2^nd year)
 a drop paper wall lamp (Procédés Chénel International, 4^th year)
 a motorway service area (SANEF, 3^rd year)
 reception spaces for two hospital services (Hôpital Cochin, 4^th year)
 client reception in a hair salon and presentation of L’Oréal Professionnel products, 4^th year