Find out more about the d.schoolIn the course of a full-time academic year, three multidisciplinary teams of four students each, located at d.school and in an institution belonging to the international network headed by Stanford University (including HPI Potsdam in Germany and Aalto University’s Design Factory in Finland), innovate from a realworld brief, with high strategic stakes, brought by an industrial partner and entailing the reinvention of a product/service in a potential growth market.
Our ambition is to turn our ideas into reality.
Innovation expert
The d.school in Paris educates tomorrow’s innovation leaders.
Your career
Become a Human Centered Innovation evangelist in your future companies!
Everyone’s welcome
Engineers, designers, architects, business profiles… : you can all candidate.
Real-world impact
Our goal? To go beyond the “paper”project” and turn ideas into reality.
Our corporate partners
We offer you the opportunity to go beyond the “paper project” and have a real impact on major societal, industrial and environmental issues.
Since 2009, our students have reinvented a bathroom for seniors (Lapeyre/Saint Gobain), a camera for the fire services (Thales), a coffee machine at work (Nescafé), and more. You too will be able to reinvent an industry, by developing a proposal that users want, is technologically feasible and viable for the project partner, with the aim of generating maximum real-world impact!
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theory
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practice
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coach per team
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trips abroad including one in Stanford
A project from A to Z
Teams observe and interview users to better understand their needs, benchmark existing technologies and products to identify the design opportunities, extensively brainstorm to discover the obvious, crazy, and novel ideas, and iteratively prototype to quickly test their ideas and get a better understanding of their designs. The end result is a refined design concept backed with key insights.
Engineers
Business
Designers
Other field of study ?
Architects
Career change ?
You can apply too!
Real Companies. Real Projects. Real Designs.
The objective of d.school Paris is to educate tomorrow’s innovation leaders, whether entrepreneurs or project leaders in big companies. The culture of design thinking is acquired through a practical approach to pedagogy, the realization of an idea through a 3-stage design cycle. The first stage is inspiration, where the intention is filtered through the screen of the needs, dreams and constraints of potential users; the second is ideation, which gives shape to the ideas through fast prototyping, to enrich the experience through two-way interaction with users; and finally implementation, which converts the imaginative response into reality through storytelling, a pilot, and the generation of operations within the business model.
The d.school is located in the Coriolis building at famous engineering school École des Ponts on the Cité Descartes campus (20 kms East of Paris): 300 m² of spaces dedicated to creative design and innovation. Our studio is a dedicated space for students to eat, live, and have fun with their teams, classmates, and projects. In addition to the dedicated project spaces for each team, the rapid prototyping machine shop, a kitchen, brainstorming rooms, a library to get inspired, a zen space to rest, a fun space to chill are all available to the students 24/7. The space is the central hub of the ME310 community and the site for the weekly get together known as SUDS.
As an entity dedicated to innovation, d.school Paris bases its pedagogy on design thinking, an approach that was born and put down its theoretical roots at Stanford University in California. This concept is simultaneously a discipline, a process and a culture, a combination that has led to the reinvention of product and service design. Its aim? To find solutions that make sense for individuals, are technically feasible and economically viable, as summed up by Tim Brown, president of the IDEO design agency.
More information...
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Recruitment : resume & cover letter
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2 interviews (in French and English)
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Cost of the course : € 3200
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From the end of September to June
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Master level program
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2 trips included
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Submissions : 1st August
The program includes two trips abroad incl. one to the Stanford University d.school and San Francisco, where participants can discover, explore and immerse themselves in the Silicon Valley mindset and its community of entrepreneurs and innovators.
The ME310 international network
The setting up of d.school Paris in 2009 was part of an international movement initiated by the universities of Stanford (California) and Potsdam (Germany), and maintained by Finland’s University of Aalto. Our school is a member of the international SUGAR network of universities offering design thinking courses or programs.
