The Design Research Master's degree sets out to train designer-researchers to be able to examine contemporary ways of life through the design project and research.

The objective of the first year of the Design Master's is to educate students through research and in research, via learning by doing, helping to train them in the fundamental tools and concepts of the discipline.

This first year of the Master's course offers different scenarios to help improve practice (such as workshops and internships), based on essential skills for a future designer-researcher, such as gathering information, modelling, experimenting, coding, depicting, and publishing.

The entry profiles for this course are as follows:

• Ecole Normale students who have completed their first year at the ENS Paris-Saclay;
• Students educated at National Ministry of Education Schools of Applied Arts or at Ministry of Culture Schools of Art and Design, reaching a level of at least L3
• Students educated to undergraduate degree level in design or other creative/design disciplines.