Interior Architecture & Design / 5-year course

This specialization trains students to become experts in innovation through design. It develops a strategic approach linking user needs, technologies and business models to transform ideas into concrete solutions.

Students learn to design, lead and support innovation projects while coordinating multidisciplinary teams with a responsible and forward-looking vision.

This specialization focuses on designing products, services and spaces dedicated to healthcare environments and medical devices. Students learn to address the specific needs of patients, healthcare professionals and institutions, contributing to medical innovation through ergonomic spatial design and connected objects promoting well-being.

This pathway prepares students to design projects with strong social and environmental impact. It addresses sustainability, inclusion and social responsibility in collaboration with public institutions, NGOs and mission-driven companies.

Students develop a critical and engaged approach, integrating eco-design and social design principles.

This specialization prepares students to work within the luxury sector, connected to craftsmanship and customer experience.

Students design high-end objects, spaces and scenographies, enhancing brand identity and mastering noble materials to create refined and distinctive projects.

This specialization explores branding and brand strategy.

Students learn to design environments, objects and experiences aligned with brand identity, integrating storytelling, innovation and narrative coherence to translate brand vision into creative concepts.

This specialization immerses students in design and maker culture.

It is designed for creative minds eager to explore digital fabrication and emerging technologies, encouraging students not only to design but also to produce, deliver and share functional and sustainable solutions.

This pathway focuses on culinary, food and gastronomic experiences, combining arts, culture, science and technique.

Students explore every dimension of the culinary experience, from ingredient selection to spatial staging, product packaging and consumption rituals.

This specialization covers live performance scenography (theatre, opera), exhibition design and retail/event environments.

Students learn to design coherent and effective visitor or customer journeys.

Through the European Track, LISAA Strasbourg partners with NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan to offer an international academic experience.

Students complete Year 4 at LISAA Strasbourg and Year 5 at NABA, earning a double diploma and developing a global professional perspective.

After three years of general training, this pathway offers specialization in product design, addressing object conception and sustainable design practices. The program may be studied in French or English.

This specialization prepares students to design products, furniture, individual and collective living spaces, commercial and event spaces, through a global approach linking interior architecture, service design and product design.

The Interior Architecture & Design program at LISAA aims to train well-rounded and responsible professionals capable of designing and delivering meaningful projects in a constantly evolving world. It does not simply transmit technical skills; it builds a way of thinking, creating and acting.

This unique dual curriculum combines Interior Architecture and Design, enabling students to develop a broad, systemic and transversal vision of the project. They learn to think simultaneously about space, object, use and experience. This hybrid approach is a major strength: it fosters analytical flexibility, creative agility and the ability to operate across multiple scales, from furniture to built environments, from spatial planning to service design.

Throughout the five years, students develop a strong visual and critical culture, sensitivity to materiality and light, methodological rigor and creative inventiveness. They learn to observe uses carefully, question needs, formulate a clear intention and construct a coherent and inspiring project narrative. Through studios, research and experimentation, they also develop a personal expression and a distinctive creative identity.

Over time, students engage in collaborative design processes, learn to interact with various stakeholders, structure their approach and defend their ideas. They become capable of transforming intuition into structured solutions, reconciling constraints with creativity and translating reflection into concrete, engaging proposals.

Campus-specific pathways : 

• Paris: Students choose a specialization among five areas — Global Design, Impact, Health, Luxury & Craftsmanship, and Brand Strategy. Year 5 may be completed as a work-study program.
• Rennes: Specialization begins in Year 4 through workshop formats in Culinary Design, Design Maker or Scenography, extended into Year 5. Work-study is available in Year 5.
• Strasbourg: Students specialize from Year 4 in Product Design or Scenography Design, with work-study also available from Year 4 onward. A European Track is offered in Year 5 (year at NABA, Milan).
• Nantes: The pathway remains intentionally transversal, without specialization, to develop a global vision of the profession. Work-study is offered in Year 5.
• Bordeaux: The curriculum follows a transversal approach without specialization, with work-study possible from Year 3 of the Bachelor.
• Toulouse: No specialization is offered in Year 4; work-study is accessible from Year 3 of the Bachelor.
• Montpellier: The pathway is based on progressive professionalization, with work-study possible from Year 3 of the Bachelor (three-year contract).

Regardless of the campus, the objective is to train Interior Architects and Designers capable of understanding their environment and proposing sensitive, relevant and sustainable forms and uses. At once creator, designer, thinker and maker, the student becomes a complete, autonomous, inventive and committed professional.

Students are assessed continuously throughout the program.

Continuous assessment takes place throughout the academic year. All subjects are evaluated through project submissions, oral presentations, written assignments, multiple-choice tests and other forms of assessment.

End-of-semester evaluations allow for a review of student progression and validation of the semester and progression to the next academic year.

Certification assessment

Assessment for the RNCP Level 7 certification includes:

• A real or simulated Interior Architecture and/or Design project involving: analysis of the brief, monitoring report, site and user needs analysis and service proposal
• A professional simulation involving the facilitation of an ideation workshop in response to an Interior Architecture and/or Design issue
• A case study involving supplier or service provider selection, preliminary budget estimation, project planning and completion of associated administrative procedures
• A reflective analysis focusing on the coordination of an Interior Architecture or Design project
• A professional simulation involving business creation, communication strategy definition, professional network development strategy, and the presentation and promotion of a project and professional identity

Validation of Individual Competency Blocks

Certification is awarded upon validation of all competency blocks.

If you do not obtain the full RNCP qualification but have validated all competencies related to a specific block, that competency block remains acquired.

LISAA’s pedagogy is designed to support your progression toward successful professional integration. It relies on a variety of methods:

• A project-based pedagogy: professional simulations conducted individually or in groups based on real cases proposed by partner companies or representative case studies. Students present their projects orally and in writing, supported by visuals and models. Presentations are evaluated by faculty members and, in some cases, industry professionals.
• Courses delivered by active professionals who are experts in their field.
• Individual academic follow-up enabling each student to assess their progression toward competency acquisition and to refine their professional project.
• Within the work-study format, dedicated support modules to assist students in securing an apprenticeship or professional training contract.
• Professional talks and conferences led by alumni and industry professionals.
• Internship periods integrated into the program to allow students to develop their skills in real-world professional environments.