Dezeen promotion: École des Ponts ParisTech is now accepting applications for its Design by Data masters programme, where architects, designers and engineers push the bounds of new technologies.
The French university's advanced masters course is open to full- and part-time students who want to train in the fields of computational design, robotics and digital manufacturing in the construction industry.
Since launching the programme in 2016, its director Francesco Cingolani, an architect and entrepreneur, has worked to reinforce the position of École des Ponts ParisTech as a hub of Paris's innovation scene, and to foster a healthy ecosystem of makers and industrial partners around it.
The École des Ponts ParisTech has also added a makerspace for digital fabrication, boosting its experimental research and design facilities further. Design by Data's new makerspace expands the facilities on offer for R&D"When we opened the programme almost three years ago, we wanted to create a learning experience of a new kind, mixing experimental design with research and blending professional activity and education," said Cingolani. "The feedback given by students joining the programme from different cultures and backgrounds was enthusiastic."
"We decided to move on to better integrate research and education at school, as we strongly believe that one can feed the other," said Olivier Baverel professor at Ecole des Ponts and scientific hea...