- Registration: 1.15pm
- Course experience session: 2.30pm–4pm
Course experience – Design, modify, fabricate: a CAD/CAM experience
This hands-on workshop will offer the opportunity for offer holders to experience CAD/CAM technologies in action. Participants will work with pre-set files in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, allowing them to modify parameters and create their own designs. These designs will then be fabricated using digital cutters, enabling them to see the tangible result of their digital work.
This course experience session will run twice. You can choose between the times below (the first session tends to be busier).
Session one:
- Registration: 9am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Session two:
- Registration: 10.45am
- Course experience session: 12.30pm–2pm
Course experience – Projections
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we take on the challenge of drawing architecturally at a scale of 1:1.
In groups, we'll draw an orthographic section of a notable architectural room at a life-sized scale to understand the relationship to one's own body and how we use space. We'll use measuring and masking tapes to map out and mark the section on the walls of the Architecture Department. We'll take a photo of the finished drawing featuring one of you to record how one may use the space.
What do you need to bring with you?
All materials will be provided but please be prepared to work in groups and bring a pencil or pen on the day!
- Registration: 9am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience – Insight + Idea = Visual Concept
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief.
We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.
- Registration: 9am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience – Insight + Idea = Visual Concept
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief.
We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.
- Registration: 9am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience – Insight + Idea = Visual Concept
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief.
We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.
- Registration: 10.45am
- Course experience session: 12 noon–1.30pm
Course experience – Fashion in context
Join a lively discussion on the context of fashion.
We'll challenge you to think about what fashion is and the broader issues surrounding fashion. We'll then participate in a series of short workshops which will help put these questions into perspective and begin your journey as a competent fashion professional.
- Registration: 12.15pm
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Communicating Fashion Stories
Storytelling is an important and creative method of fashion brand communication and can take many forms. Through this interactive session, you'll the opportunity to consider the role and purpose of storytelling in engaging audiences with a fashion brands products, values and brand proposition.
- Registration: 1.15pm
- Course experience session: 2.30pm–4pm
Course experience – Scene and heard
Join the Filmmaking team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to watch a scene from a film and recreate it to explore how visual language was used to deploy meaning.
This course experience session will run twice. You can choose between the times below (the first session always tends to be busier).
Session one
- Registration: 9am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Session two
- Registration: 12.15pm
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Course experience – This is Fine Art!
Join a lively discussion and workshop.
We'll challenge you through a sequence of drawing exercises to form personal responses to a dynamic environment of moving images and kinetic objects. We'll also discuss key areas of what to expect on the Fine Art course with a chance for you to ask any questions you may have.
Session one
- Registration: 10.45am
- Course experience session: 12 noon–1.30pm
Session two
- Registration: 1.15pm
- Course experience session: 2.30pm–4pm
Course experience – Put yourself in a designer's shoes
Join our course team, current students and your fellow offer holders for a discussion about the range of Graphic Design practice.
We'll challenge you to think and act like a designer in this lively chat prompted by a series of films and presentations from students developing work in: Social Design, Editorial Design, Typography, Photography, and Conceptual thinking.
This course experience session will run twice and you can choose between the times below (the first one always tends to be busier).
Session one
- Registration: 9am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Session two
- Registration: 12.15pm
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Course experience – What's your backstory?
Dare to think critically during this lively discussion on the process of drawing, character development and moving image techniques.
You and your future classmates will answer prompts about a given character, we'll then switch your answers around and you'll be challenged to design a character based on someone else's description. See how your interpretation compares to someone else's vision!
- Registration: 10.45am
- Course experience session: 12 noon–2pm
Course experience – Captured selves: experimental approaches to autoethnography
How do we translate personal experience into visual form? This workshop explores identity through experimental capture, merging creativity, technology and self-reflection. Through critical making and group discussion, you'll examine how different materials shape the stories we tell about ourselves – what is revealed, what is lost, and how perspective influences representation.
- Registration: 10.45am
- Course experience session: 12 noon–2pm
Course experience – The KID talks
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders for a series of presentations by current students, recent graduates and established alumni.
Together we'll review the entire student experience, from study to practice, and give you the opportunity to ask a range of individuals with varying experience any burning questions you may have.
- Registration: 12.15pm
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Course experience – Virtually Yours! With BA Photography.
We will share with you how the course is from the student perspective, viewing current students' coursework and photography, including an opportunity for a Q&A with students to ask those all-important questions that you need an answer for to cement your course choice! Staff are also on hand to showcase some alumni works and progress, and go into detail about the course and its structure.
We will also take you on an in-depth tour of the facilities and there may be an opportunity to also use our photo studio and the industry standard equipment, including high-end cameras and lights.
- Registration: 12.15pm
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Course experience – "Design Through Making"
Explore some of the different maker-based projects that have become the DNA of your course. We'll show you prototypes and processes we use including sand casting, ceramic slip casting and totally new manufacturing processes devised by our students!
