Guest school: ECAL

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The ECAL is one of inescapable schools on the world scene of the art and the design. Managed by Alexis Georgacopoulos, it offers six level Bachelor sectors (Visual Arts, Cinema, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Media & Interaction Design, Photography) and five Master programmes (Fine Arts, Film, Product Design Photography, Type Design). It also proposes one Year Foundation course which prepares for the entrance to its departments and two MAS in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship and in Digital Design Research for Innovation (with the EPFL+ECAL Lab).

At the beginning of the academic year on 2015-2016, the ECAL welcomes more than 583 students. The brilliance of the school at the European and world level is attested by the successes met by for old students, by uncountable press articles, regular quotations in the specialist or consumer magazines and the enviable number of exhibitions in prestigious spaces as the Swiss Cultural center (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Cooper Union (New York), Design Days Dubai, Design September Bruxelles, documenta (Kassel), Droog Design Hôtel (Amsterdam), International Festival of Fashion and Photography (Hyères), Gallery Libby Sellers (London), European House of the Photography (Paris), Museum of the Elysee (Lausanne), Design National Institute of Amdavad, Salone internazionale del Mobile (Milan), swissnex (Bangalore, Boston, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore), Victoria & Albert Museum (London) …

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