Call for applications: join the winter school team

Du 02.02.2026
au 06.02.2026
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Winter school

Every year, the school organizes a week-long Winter School, bringing together over 400 students to tackle a common problem. Open to students from within the school, as well as to French and international students from outside, this inter-year intensive aims to experiment with new pedagogies and work collectively on transversal reflections on the city, the territory and architecture.

The next edition will be curated by Vanessa Pointet and Thibaut Pierron, architects and co-founders of the Sub agency, who have chosen as their theme: *The Arts of the Environment

How can we define the relational qualities of architecture? How can we reinforce its capacity to resonate with its surroundings?

The notion of art in the plural places Winter School 2026 at the crossroads of the liberal arts, the mechanical arts and the fine arts. The invitation is twofold: to question the place and role of architecture in the acclimatization, cultivation and domestication of what surrounds us; and to reflect collectively on what happens when architecture takes its place among the environmental arts. By interweaving imagination and measurement, the proposals submitted by supervisors or pairs of supervisors should enable students to experimentally explore a singular aspect of the notion of environmental architecture. The participation of actors, thinkers and experts in the field of art, ideas and techniques is encouraged in the supervision of the workshops.

Procedure

Eligibility
This call for applications is open to teachers and alumni, as well as to all architects, designers, scenographers, artists, graphic artists, photographers, illustrators, researchers, journalists, visual artists, textile designers, thinkers...

Deadline
The deadline for submitting a workshop proposal is Monday, October 13, 2025.

How to apply
Application to be entered on simplified procedures

Team
The supervising team can be made up of 1 to 3 people max.
Supervision ratio: 15 to 18 students per supervisor.
Each team appoints a representative responsible for transmitting information before, during and after the Winter School.

Functioning
Each team must succinctly describe the type of productions, renderings, exhibition principles, locations used during the week and material resources required.

Calendar

Call for entries opens
July 15, 2025

Closing date for submission of applications
Monday October 13, 2025 at midnight

Announcement of prize-winners
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Face-to-face coordination meeting with prizewinners
Publication of the winners
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Winter School
Monday February 2 to Friday February 6, 2026

Limit date for returning images and text content
Friday, February 21, 2026

Budget

Each workshop has a budget that depends on the number of students in the group, up to a maximum of €85 per student. This budget includes the purchase of materials, printing, invitations to speakers and visits (travel, etc.).

Orders for materials and supplies must be placed exclusively with the School's financial department and with the School's suppliers.

Ensa Paris-Est is committed to sustainable development and social responsibility. Supervisors are invited to take this into account in their purchases and in the recycling of waste generated by the workshop.

Download here the guidelines and the list of suppliers.

Travel, accommodation and meal expenses are not covered - including for speakers who do not normally live in the Paris region.

Compensation

Teaching assistants on contract
Supervision for the week is 20 hours paid at the gross hourly rate of 41.41 euros for staff from outside the school.

Tenured and associate teachers
These hours are not paid in addition, but are included in teaching expenses.

Payment is made on the basis of a letter of engagement. Payment is made once the service has been rendered, i.e. after the workshop has been supervised during the Winter School and all the required texts and images have been submitted.

Travel and meal expenses are not covered.

Additional information

Participants
The school's participating students are those in the Bachelor's (L1, L2, L3) and Master's (M1) programs, i.e. around 400 students.

The Winter School is open to French and foreign participants from outside the school, subject to registration (90 euros / pers.).

Safety rules
The subjects proposed may not include work at height, a fire point or food preparation.

Dismantling and recycling at the end of the Winter School Safety rules
At the end of the jury, each supervisor is responsible for dismantling and sorting the materials used for recycling, as indicated by the instructors.

Communication
The name of our school is Ensa Paris-Est. The participant undertakes to use this name in full to designate the school in his communications and to tag @ensaparisest and the curator's account on his Instagram/Linkedin publications.