About

École Camondo aims to provide its interior architecture and design students with the tools to express their unique creativity and vision. But it also entertains a purpose that is eminently political. The school, its team and its teachers have set themselves the collective ambition to embrace a more forward-looking and socially-conscious identity within our profession, marked by notions of the user, usage scenarios and therefore the central role of the human, where the interaction between object and space allows us to create a world and spheres of life that are fairer and more intelligent. If they design a fine-dining restaurant as part of their set topic, they must achieve a carbon-neutral footprint. If they design urban or rural living spaces, they base their ideas around reusing, using what there already is and sharing. If they create new objects, they commit to using recyclable materials and responsible craftsmanship. The scope of their thinking is anchored at the intersection between the considerations of designer and architect. It is based on the inner character of spaces and beings, to then achieve greater freedom towards the outer world and others.

A degree in interior design is achieved through the special relationship that is established between teachers and students. A relationship of collaboration, trust and discussion that builds from one session to the next in the unique setting of tutorials: guidance provided by eight set-subject teachers, five free-subject teachers and five dissertation teachers. Some are architects, designers, scenographers or interior designers; others are theoreticians, writers or historians of architecture and design; and some work in the grey areas between definitions and cannot be categorised. All of them share a passion for passing on knowledge; they do everything in their power to guide their future peers through to completion of a course, with the award of a degree, the result of everyone’s dedication and efforts. In addition, there are professionals, experts, specialists, those you might call externally qualified figures, who are just as involved when it comes time for oral presentations. They provide a discerning, fresh perspective, on the results of long months of work. They are professionals of architecture and design, teacher-researchers, experts involved in the world of creation or members of the institution chosen for the purposes of exploration for the 2018 set subject: journalists and management in the Le Monde group. This great team makes up the board of examiners. Drawing on the diversity and complementarity of its members, the board receives, assesses and approves the work, not of one year, but of an entire five year-long course. And as each board has its own personality, you might say that this one was demanding and critical; in short, it was an excellent board. We thank all its members.