Guide for Applicants 2021 EDITION - Industrial Design Textile Design Double courses / Double degrees - ENSCI
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En jouer, Emma Lelong, 2020 ©Véronique Huyghe /ENSCI
2021 EDITION
Guide for Applicants
Industrial Design
Textile Design
Double courses / Double degreesCOMPETITIVE SELECTION process to English-speaking students with a basic knowl-
edge of French and a Bachelor’s degree (three years or
CONTACTS
PROCESS: ENTRY DETAILS more of further education). Successful applicants will
be offered a 3½ year course, the first semester of which INDUSTRIAL
is devoted to a design project in an English-speaking & TEXTILE DESIGN
project workshop, combined with an intensive French Antoine Durot
Applicants may apply for only one course of study per language programme at their own expense. Head of Admissions
competitive selection period. No applicant may enter & Course Requirements
Please note that this course is not offered in textile design.
the competitive selection process more than three times, antoine.durot@ensci.com
regardless of category and course. Sarah Aubry
CATEGORY IV / 3-YEAR STUDY PROGRAMME
Admission to ENSCI-Les Ateliers is via a competitive se- Those with at least 4 years’ professional practice, regard- Coordinator of Admissions
lection process that is not age limited, and is open to all & Course Requirements
less of their previous level of education and qualification.
applicants who have a sound knowledge of the French sarah.aubry@ensci.com
The minimum course duration for this category of student
language and meet the following level criteria: Marion Lévy
will be 3 years.
Head of the Textile Design Course
marion.levy@ensci.com
INDUSTRIAL & TEXTILE DESIGN COURSE SCIENCE & DESIGN DOUBLE COURSE
ENSCI - SORBONNE UNIVERSITY
CATEGORY I / 5-YEAR COURSE
CATEGORY I / SORBONNE UNIVERSITY / ENSCI SCIENCE & DESIGN
Those with a Baccalaureate qualification, regardless of
Those with a Baccalaureate qualification awarded on com- Elodie Duprat
stream and specialist subject, and holders of the French
pletion of the science specialist option of the 2021 Bac, elodie.duprat@sorbonne.universite.fr
Brevet de Technicien (BT) qualification or equivalent
or those with an S-stream Baccalaureate awarded in the Véronique Eicher
French or foreign qualifications.
year preceding the year of the ENSCI competitive selection Head of Double Courses
The course duration for this category of student will process. Please click this link for more information about veronique.eicher@ensci.com
be 5 years. Applicants in their final year of secondary secondary school specialist options:
education may be admitted, subject to gaining their https://sciences.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/ DOUBLE DEGREES
Baccalaureate qualification. quels-choix-de-specialites-au-lycee
ENSAM / Marc Le Coq
CATEGORY II / 4-YEAR COURSE marc.lecoq@ensam.eu
Those with a qualification gained on completion of 2 years DOUBLE DEGREES ENSAPB / Murièle Fréchède
in a French or foreign further education institution (DUT, muriele.frechede@paris-belleville.archi.fr
ENSAM
BTS, DMA, CPGE Art & Design or equivalent)
First and second year students at ENSAM. CentraleSupélec
The course duration for this category of student will be 4 years. Guillemette Breysse
ENSAPB guillemette.breysse@centralesupelec.fr
CATEGORY III / 3-YEAR COURSE First and second year students at ENSAPB.
Those with a French or foreign Bachelor’s degree qualifica- CELSA / Caroline Marti de Montety
CentraleSupélec caroline.marti@celsa.paris-sorbonne.fr
tion in any subject. (Bac +3 or more years of further education)
First year students at CentraleSupélec. ENSCI / Véronique Eicher
The course duration for this category of student will be 3 years. veronique.eicher@ensci.com
CELSA
CATEGORY III ENGLISH LANGUAGE / 3½-YEAR INDUSTRIAL Open to students who have completed one semester of
DESIGN COURSE immersion at ENSCI-Les Ateliers during their Master’s I
Since 2010, ENSCI has opened its competitive selection course.REGISTRATION PROCESS of admission will be sent only to the e-mail address you
give us at the time of registration.
OPEN DAYS
If you’d like to take a look around
Having created your account, please follow these steps: the design school, chat with
Candidates must first register using the ENSCI website our staff and students and get
Step 1 | Administration form
online registration portal (registration is not possible via advice on how to put together your
Complete the online administration form. Submit all the application package, we suggest
Parcoursup).
documents requested. Pay the €116 competitive selec- taking advantage of one of our
Registration to be considered for admission in September tion process entry fee online via our secure platform. online open days: Friday 29 January
2021 opens on Monday 11 January 2021 and closes at Don’t overlook any of the administrative items request- and Saturday 30 January 2021.
2 pm (Paris time) on 15 February 2021. ed, because the absence of any one of these will result in
your application being rejected as incomplete.
DEGREE PRESENTATIONS
KEY DATES Step 2 | Letter of motivation
Prepare your letter of motivation in accordance with Attending the public degree
Deadline for registration and submission the instructions given in the ‘Preparing Your Application presentation sessions will give
of application packages: Package’ section on page 4 of this guide. you a clear understanding of what
2 pm (Paris time) on Monday 15 February 2021 our industrial and textile design
Step 3 | Personal portfolio course students can achieve.
Notification of eligibility: We recommend that you prepare your personal portfolio These sessions are usually held
Published on the ENSCI website from 3 pm (Paris time) by following the advice given in the ‘Preparing Your in October, December, March
on Friday 2 April 2021 Application Package’ section on page 4 of this guide. and July.
Date of the online creativity test for admission: Step 4 | Submitting your completed application package The current health crisis means
Between 9 am and 12 pm on Monday 12 April 2021 Use only WeTransfer to send us your letter of motivation that these presentations are
now being made via Zoom.
in PDF format and personal portfolio in accordance with
Admission interviews: Please refer to the ‘News’ section
the instructions given in the ‘Preparing Your Application
Between Monday 19 April and Friday 30 April 2021 of our website.
Package’ section on page 4 of this guide.
Notification of admission: Incomplete application packages and/or those received
Published on the ENSCI website from 3 pm (Paris time) after the cut-off time and date of 2 pm on Monday
on Monday 10 May 2021 15 February will not be accepted.
Please check that your application package is complete
Deadline for taking up your offer of admission:
before sending it to us via WeTransfer.
Tuesday 1 June 2021
It is not possible to submit your application package more
than once. Any duplicates submitted will be deleted auto-
matically.
SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION PACKAGE
We strongly recommend that you do not wait until the
You must first create an account at the registration portal last few days to submit your application package.
of our website. Make sure you use an e-mail address that You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt from
you check regularly, and do not use a Free e-mail address, WeTransfer. If you don’t receive a receipt, please check
because our system rejects bulk e-mails. Important mes- your spam folder.
sages about the competitive selection process and offersPREPARING YOUR To ensure that the assessment panel can gain
a clear understanding of who you are and what
SUBMISSION VIA WETRANSFER
APPLICATION PACKAGE you offer, be sure to include:
• Details of your educational and/or professional
Your letter of motivation and personal portfolio
must be submitted as 2 separate PDF files, and
background submitted only via WeTransfer.
The following instructions and advice are provided
to help you put together your application package, • The reasons why you would like to study at ENSCI The e-mail address to be entered into WeTransfer is:
which must include your administrative docu- • How you became interested in industrial and/ concours.admissibilite@ensci.com
ments, letter of motivation and personal portfolio. or textile design
Your 2 PDFs should be named in accordance with
• Any experience you may have in this field of design the following conventions:
• Your creative process and practice.
ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENT PACKAGE - Your letter of motivation should be named as
follows: surname.first name.lettre
All the administrative items required must be sub- Your letter of motivation should not be longer than
- Your personal portfolio:
mitted via our online registration platform. one typewritten page.
surname.first name.dossier
These items are: Both filenames must be in lower case only, with-
• A copy of your national identity card PERSONAL PORTFOLIO out accents, and follow the order indicated (do
not use first name.surname.dossier or first name.
• A copy of your census certificate (applies only You are required to submit a portfolio of work, surname.lettre).
to applicants with French nationality aged which must by definition be personal and demon-
between 18 and 25). Failing to comply strictly with this file naming
strate your creative potential.
convention may result in your PDF files not
• Copies of your quarterly school reports and In assessing your work, the sincerity, originality being recognised. Filenames for hyphenated
qualifications for the last two academic years. and richness of your practice and the personal surnames and/or first names, such as Anne-Lise
• Copies of your certificates of employment vision of your design are just as important as the for example, should be structured as follows:
(for Category 4 course applicants only). choice of work presented. durand.anne-lise.dossier.
• Applicants who have studied abroad must We would strongly advise you to avoid submitting Non-hyphenated compound surnames and/or first
provide their school reports and qualifications work ‘in bulk’. You should structure your portfolio names, such as Le Floch, for example, should be
in the form of certified translations into French. in such a way as to guide the assessment panel structured as follows: lefloch.jean.dossier.
• CV (for Category 3 and 4 course applicants only). through it.
Your full name should also be shown on the cover
Do not allow the fact that the portfolio is required page of your personal portfolio.
in digital form to restrict your personal expression.
LETTER OF MOTIVATION Take care to avoid confining the assessment panel
The maximum size of the 2 files combined must not
exceed 25 Mb (maximum of 20 Mb for the portfolio
Your letter of motivation should be well thought by creating a portfolio that is excessively ‘format-
and 5 Mb for the letter). Submissions exceeding
out, clear and properly structured. The style and ted and seamless’.
this size will be rejected automatically.
tone are entirely up to you. You may include other digital formats in your
portfolio, such as your personal website, a video
This letter should be a brief and sincere presenta- (no more than 3 minutes please) or social media
tion of the reasons for your application. It must be presence. These and similar types of additional
consistent with your application package and per- work may be submitted exclusively as web links
sonal portfolio. to hosting platforms.INTERVIEWS The time allowed for the test may potentially be allocated
as follows: SPECIAL NEEDS
AND ADMISSION TESTS - 10 minutes / choice of subject
- 1 hour, 20 minutes / production of the three-dimensional object
Please contact us if you are
an applicant with special needs,
- 1 hour writing for example:
The results of the eligibility assessment will be published - 30 minutes / preparation and submission of the project PDF - A motor, sensory or mental
on the ENSCI website from 3 pm (Paris time) on Friday impairment
The maximum size of PDF is 20 Mb. Submissions exceed-
2 April 2021. - Learning disabilities (dyslexia,
ing this size will be rejected. dysorthographia, dyscalculia, etc.)
There are two parts of the Zoom online admission Your file must be submitted via WeTransfer to the follow- - Communication issues
selection process: ing e-mail address: concours.admissibilite@ensci.com - A chronic disabling disease
- a creativity test The filename should follow this convention:
- Attention deficit disorder
- followed a few days later by an object analysis test surname.first name.crea To give you the best-possible
and a personal interview with the assessment panel.
chance of success during
The filename must be in lower case only, without accents,
ENSCI reserves the right to extend the period for discus- the admissions phase of
and follow the order indicated. the competitive selection process,
sion between assessment panel members and applicants
ENSCI implements measures
at the end of each admissions day. The procedure for this
group event will be decided at the beginning of 2021,
OBJECT ANALYSIS TEST designed to mitigate any
disadvantage that may result
and you will receive an invitation by e-mail. Applicants must analyse an object submitted to them in
from your condition. This may
the form of an uncaptioned photograph. This analysis must involve extending the period
CREATIVITY TEST consider its aesthetic, function, history, materials, manu-
facture, market value and other parameters.
of the competitive selection
process, providing appropriately
Date of the online creativity test for admission: adapted documents, etc.
This test is not intended as an exercise in erudition. It is
9am to 12pm on Monday 12 April 2021 via Zoom intended to offer applicants the opportunity to express Antoine Durot
their vision of the industrial society and the state of the Head of Admissions
This test requires each applicant to produce a three- world. Regardless of their feeling about the object analysed & Course Requirements
dimensional object based on a verb of his or her choice - indifferent, critical or favourable - applicant responses antoine.durot@ensci.com
taken from a list of five verbs. This three-dimensional must be logically constructed and argued. Sarah Aubry
proposal must embody its own formal logic. Applicants Coordinator of Admissions
may assign a use or uses to the object if they wish. PERSONAL INTERVIEW & Course Requirements
sarah.aubry@ensci.com
For the purposes of this test, applicants must have pre- Applicants are invited to present a summary of the work done
pared the following restrictive list of materials in advance: for the creativity test, including their creative approach and
white paper, coloured paper, tracing paper, cardboard, kraft the logic of their proposal. The assessment panel members
paper, post-it notes, adhesive tape, stapler, paper clips, will then discuss with applicants the nature of the work done
scissors, thread, fabric, wool, felt pens, craft or utility knife, for the creativity test and their overall response to the test.
eraser, adhesive, pliers and modelling clay.
Applicants are then invited to talk about their experience to
Applicants will be required to photograph their finished date, the reasons why they would like to study at ENSCI,
object, include evidence of their creative and research pro- and the vision they have of their future as professional de-
cess, and provide a written text not exceeding one page. signers. Assessment panel members will also ask questions
All these must be included in a single PDF file. about these aspects of the application.You can also read
