Project realization workshops
Many of our teachings and research-creation projects are supported by several specialized workshops. A team of dedicated technicians, the infrastructures and the school equipment allow students to carry out their projects.
Multi technical workshop
This complex of workshops allows students to make prototypes and models of design and architecture related to the courses taught at the School. Wood, aluminum, steel, styrenes, acrylics, ceramics and some plastics and composites are used. There is molding, turning, machining and welding. There is a vacuum press that can roll objects such as furniture. Sandblasting surfaces can be worked on and the necessary equipment is available for serigraphy printing.
Digital equipments
The multi technical workshop also has a digital section. It includes, among other things, a rapid prototyping printer for producing 3D models in ABS from digital files (STL); a 3D scanning system for objects or spaces without size limits; and a laser cutting machine for quickly etching and / or cutting patterns and surfaces in a variety of materials such as acrylic, styrene, wood or metal.
The 24 hours workshop
A 24-hour workshop section dedicated to the assembly of prototypes and the production of models. It also allows students to work beyond the opening hours of the multi technical workshop, only if they have been previously authorized.
DESS Transportation Design Workshop
A workshop with tables especially dedicated to the students of the DESS to settle down and realize the practical projects. The workshop becomes an interactive place in which students and teachers can discuss the different projects.
Publishing laboratory and digital image
This laboratory equipped with powerful computers and printers that allows creating graphic images such as posters, logo, web page, etc., from the software of Adobe Master edition, Finalcut pro, Motion, After FX, Fontographer, Open Office, Toonboom, Pro Studio DVD, Premier Pro and Soundtrack Pro. It also has a photo studio equipped with digital photographic and video (HD) equipment with lighting, flash, seamless, tripods, LED lighting.
Computer lab
Located on the 6th floor of the School of Design, the laboratory is divided into five rooms, three of which are mainly used for teaching, a room used for individual work with 15 workstations and a room with four assembly stations. Many software is available to students: Solid Work, Rhino, Maya, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Design, Microsoft Office, Antidote, and others.
The lab also has two standard black and white printers and a 12 "x 18" color printer. All computers are networked.
The lab is open from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm Monday to Friday and from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm on weekends during the semesters.
The Design Center
The UQAM's Center of design is one of the few places in Canada to present exhibitions that illustrate historical and current trends in graphic, industrial, urban, architecture and fashion design.
Founded in 1981 by the initiative of the professors of the UQAM School of Design, the Center has produced more than 250 exhibitions, addressed to professional design circles as well as students and the public. For more than 31 years, he has contributed to the development of an innovative culture of design. Its local and international influence and the prestigious exhibitions it hosts has contributed to give an international recognition for the school and also for Quebec’s design industry.
Located in downtown Montreal, in the heart of the Quartier Latin and the Quartier des Spectacles, it welcomes visitors for free in its 400 square meters of exhibition, offers conferences and organizes special events from September to June.