This profession, directly linked with sculpture and physical materials (clay, rubber foam, wood), is growing thanks to the creation of high-performance software. Thus, the volume, the modeller’s main interest, develops as much in virtual as in real space. History of the department The first graduation, in June 2006, has launched a background work around this evolving profession of modeller, which is singular on many aspects. Traditional and digital modelling, model making are three inseparable facets. The professionals have wished the matter’s physical dimension to integrate the modeller’s work process. Thus at Strate, the techniques of traditional modelling and model making are combined with the digital techniques. A new profile In this new context, the redefinition of the modeller’s post has therefore become indispensable. Modellers are multidisciplinary. They know as well the materials (clay, rubber foam, wood), the manufacturing tools, the technical plans, as the necessarysoftware to virtually display the products and to put them in situation (computer graphics, animation). Modellers are cross-disciplinary. They accompany the designers upstream, suggesting concrete solutions for they have good interpretation skills. They are intermediaries between the study office and the production to give the object a final shape meeting the real world’s constraints. This is why they are influenced by the history of design, so the young modellers can draw from the past the foundations of tomorrow. A new profession Modellers are thus active agents in the designing and production team. Thanks to their methodologicalknowledge, they have become a true force of proposition to the designers and their interventions in the various steps of the process make them structuring agents at a true junction post. A singular academic staff It is in this way that the staff of the modelling department, constituted of professionals coming from diverse universes. Polyvalent, it corresponds well to Strate Collège Designers’ continuous wish to teach open-mindedness, condition to the renewal of yesterday’s knowledge and know-how.