The programme is delivered across three terms and includes a combination of programme, School and College units. We invite you to join a conversation based on our shared belief in humankind and the power of art and design to empower and transform. Our open and inclusive vision of the practice of communication produces work that is every bit as divergent in form as in content, embracing multidisciplinary approaches including sound, type-design, performance, publishing, moving image, workshops, fieldwork, documentary, radio, virtual reality, comics, ceramics, happenings, drawing, walking and writing. Recent work has been as diverse as: the body in digital space, gentrification of communities, immigration rights, intangible cultural heritage, feminist and LGBTQ+ histories, media archaeology, the living archive, material labour, the privatisation of public space, protest, racial justice, visions of utopia and more. Referring to these exchanges as ‘conversations’ expands the possibilities for social accountability and creative consciousness.Īs a student on the programme you are given the creative agency to explore the ideas that drive your practice. Your role as a communicator of such experiences is to form a bridge to create forms of communication that can connect people and connect ideas. Through language, storytelling, tools & materiality you will learn to elicit new knowledge and in turn create new insights. You will become well practiced in interpreting ideas, events, complex data, knowledge and experiences, translating these into artefacts, narratives or connections that might manifest across or between the physical, digital or the virtual. Visit .uk to view graduate work by our students, .uk to view work from the class of 2021.Ĭatch the replays from our November 2021 virtual open day. Our Interdisciplinary environment will offer you a comprehensive understanding drawn from diverse geographies, rich cultural contexts and multiple intellectual and creative fields of study, enabling you to adapt to new subject areas and to situate your work in environments beyond the studio. In visual communication, you will develop the critical and conceptual tools to enable communication and connections across disciplinary boundaries. Whilst you may come to Visual Communication from one of the familiar disciplines, such as Graphic Design, Illustration, you might also have a more experimental and expanded approach or come from a less conventional background. By harnessing your creative and critical abilities, you will explore new vocabularies for our contemporary times, speculate on new realities and collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to create transformative movements that invite activism & change. Situated at the forefront of critical experimentation, you will seek to forge fresh connections between criticality, radical thinking and making. We welcome students to our programme who will challenge the order of things, consider the multiplicity of perspectives and embrace complexity. The dynamic nature of communication technologies continues to redefine not only how we make and consume information, but also how we connect to each other. Together, through a discursive inquiry and exchange, we will explore what it means to both speak and listen. You will be introduced to a rich dialogic learning experience, where the conversation takes place between us, you, your peers and your audiences. We have a long history of approaching the making of work through the collaborative, cooperative and compassionate ethos of listening, respecting and (un)learning. You will be joining our community of critical thinkers and makers, leading the way in social practices. We see communication as essentially, a conversation to form bridges, to connect people and to exchange ideas. By this we mean a practical and discursive approach to making. See the Key Dates webpage for round 4 details.Īt the heart of your experience with us in Visual Communication is the shared commitment to ‘conversational practice’. Still accepting applications for 2022 entry.