The course introduces the students to the world of virtual reality and simulation and mainly those of architectural spaces, objects, their geometric components, materials and virtual lighting. Walks and animation in real time allow students to monitor the implementation and impact of the project.

The objective of this course is to specify research methodologies in order to provide students with the knowledge to develop and analyze a research object, by examining several disciplinary fields and different approaches related to the nature of the specific research area and subject of study.

Capture, interpret and project: theories and thoughts at work in architecture and design. Given in the form of a seminar, this course attempts to capture current news in architecture and design by relating it to past history, in order to understand how design is displaced, transposed, reversed or rewritten in present and future projects.

The seminar develops research related themes: the students must choose their problem and then decide their solutions, creating an end ­of ­study supervised personal project. They are also required to create a bibliography related to their investigations and attempt to answer all questions arising from the chosen subject. Thus, the seminar has both theoretical and experimental dimensions, allowing the students to build analyticals and research their own methodological tools.

The supervised student project represents the development of the proposals given in the thematic design studio III, in the fields of interior design, product design or scenic design. At the end of the semester the students defend their project in front of a jury.

A comprehensive description by trades accompanies tender documents allowing for quicker acquisition of anticipated prices. This covers: tenders, comparative analysis, the creation of a preliminary schedule of work, coordination and monitoring of projects, the organization of meetings (as requested by the client and/or companies), informing clients and creating business reports related to specific sites, followed by delivery of the site to the client and the community.

This course is related to components of landscaping. It is organized around three themes: the concept of the ecosystem, history of gardens and the organization of circulation.

This course covers the three related themes of conditions for sustainable development, the interaction of the object and its environment (private, public or urban), and the semantics of forms, in public space.

The objective of this course is to explore ways of enhancing the skills of local craftsmen in order to renew craft traditions by establishing a dialogue between traditional practices and current uses.

The workshop is related to the local and regional socio­ economic context, taking into account specific conditions of production, the labor market and the needs of the local society. Teaching emphasizes technology and computer­ based tools in order to provide creative design instruments and production methods with a positive impact on business, society and the environment. The course takes into account the users’ market with its fluctuations, one where the emergence of new meanings and the permanence of traditional values coexist, and the mode of production of local craft industries which have adapted to mass production through a variety of means.

Stage costumes are defined as sets of clothes and accessories allowing the actor to embody characters on stage. A costume designer is involved in the creation of historical and contemporary costume for theater, opera, dance and film. As an integral element of stagecraft, a designer must possess an understanding of the meaning and the intentions of the piece.

The purpose of staging is to create a necessary and conducive context to the performance of a theatrical scene, through the shaping of space and time and always in relation to a text.

The workshop, while providing a rigorous research methodology, seeks to analyze the art of designing places and exhibition spaces and applying the art of establishing a classifiable and editable inventory.