THE FACULTY OF ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE. The Design School Andy Haslam & Phil Davies

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1 THE FACULTY OF ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE The Design School Andy Haslam & Phil Davies

2 THE FACULTY OF ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE The Design School The School of Art & Design History The School of Architecture & Landscape The School of Fine Art Our art school heritage - Kingston School of Art was founded in the 1890s and is the founding institution of the University.

3 WHAT WE DO Learning through making with the extensive digital and analogue workshops Industry linked and supported Disciplinary focus, which allows interdisciplinarity Cross-disciplinary learning results from being a single campus Dedicated studio culture International focus External programme of shows & exhibitions, e.g. Graduate Fashion Week London Design Festival New Designers D&AD New Blod Our own gallery space

4 WHO WE ARE The Faculty is ranked amongst the highest in the UK for art and design in the Guardian s 2015 league table The Design School is named 14th worldwide in the recent Red Dot design rankings as one of the most innovative schools across the USA & Europe The Fashion dept. was named as fifth best in the world by influential fashion blog Refinery 29 and fourth by fashionista.com and has fourth position in the Guardian s 2015 league table. The School of Architecture & Landscape features in Domus magazine s 50 top schools and is

5 THE DESIGN SCHOOL UNDERGRADUATE BA(Hons) Fashion BA(Hons) Product & Furniture Design BA(Hons) Interior Design BA(Hons) Graphic Design BA(Hons) Illustration Animation POSTGRADUATE MA Communication Design: Illustration MA Communication Design: Graphic Design MA Sustainable Design MA Design: Product & Space MA Fashion MA Fashion: Knit

6 THE DESIGN SCHOOL OUR PHILOSOPHY Tomorrow s designers need to be able to think critically and act practically; they are required to be contextually insightful & creative and therefore well placed to meet new challenges in a strategic, ambitious and perhaps entrepreneurial manner. The School is concerned with creative rigour in the context of Design education, practice, research and enterprise. It is a critically engaged community of Design practitioners, educators, researchers and entrepreneurs. It is a school which is discipline focused and in which making is central to its practice. OUR INDUSTRY CONTACTS Industry contacts are extensive and there is much engagement with

7 THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE COURSES: UNDERGRADUATE BA(Hons) Architecture (Part 1 ARB/RIBA) BSc Historic Building Conservation ARCHITECTURE COURSES: POSTGRADUATE MArch Architecture Prof. Practice (Part 2 ARB/RIBA) Postgraduate Diploma (Part 3 ARB/RIBA) MA Architecture

8 OUR INDUSTRY CONTACTS Teaching takes place through a studio system into which there is much industry input. ARCHITECTURE OUR PHILOSOPHY Thinking through making: we encourage you to unravel theory, explore places, materials and technology, and delight in the poetry of craft and making. OUR TEACHING Staff are drawn from across London s best architectural practices, combining intellectual rigour with practical experience. LIVE PROJECTS The School engages with the real world working on live projects with industry and other organisations.

9 THE SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE BA(Hons) Art History with Fine Art BA(Hons) Art & Design: History, Communication, Curation POSTGRADUATE MA Art & Design History MA Arts Market Appraisal (Professional Practice) MA Museum & Gallery Studies MA Museum & Gallery Studies and the Creative Economy

10 THE SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN HISTORY OUR PHILOSOPHY Our approach is broad: you can explore a range of subjects including modern and contemporary art and design. OUR TEACHING Staff are practising art and design historians with extensive knowledge and expertise. OUR RESEARCH Staff contribute to a number of research centres and groups and are widely published.

11 THE SCHOOL OF FINE ART UNDERGRADUATE BA(Hons) Fine Art BA(Hons) Fine Art and Art History BA(Hons) Photography BA(Hons) Filmmaking FdA Art and Design [with Kingston College] POSTGRADUATE MA Art & Space MA Photography MFA Fine Art MA Experimental Film

12 THE SCHOOL OF FINE ART OUR PHILOSOPHY Priority is given to individual artistic practice, the making of work, and the understanding of this within the context of contemporary art. There is also an emphasis on exhibiting work both individually and collectively. OUR TEACHING You will be taught by specialists whose collective experience offers a broad teaching platform and a range of practical and conceptual inputs. OUR RESEARCH Research in the School aims to provide an intellectual and creative milieu for innovation in contemporary

13 OUR FACILITIES We have retained the traditional facilities and craft focus from our art school heritage and we still make things at Kingston! However we recognize the importance of new technologies and so the focus is that of joining the traditional with the cutting edge. To support this focus we have invested 12 million over the last 5 years and now have some of the best facilities in the UK: Industry-standard filming studio for Moving Image Extensive 3D Workshop: ranging from traditional to cutting-edge technology Fashion workshops including digital knitting machines Professional-level Photography

14 FACILITIES CONTINUED The new Esteve-Coll Learning Resource Centre CAD, 2D+3D design software in Digital Media Workshop Retaining traditional printmaking workshop and foundry Our own Gallery space: Platform The Stanley Picker Gallery: an Arts Council funded, on-campus gallery, which has a diverse programme of exhibitions and events.

15 INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONS Banana Republic, BBC, Brooks Bros, Canary Wharf Group, Creative Review, Dewhirst, Dreamworks, French Connection, Graduate Fashion Week, Hannah Barry Gallery, Lawn Tennis Association, L Oreal, New Balance, Rimmel London, Seat, Sony, Samsung, Transport for London, Vauxhall Fashion Scout CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS Architecture Foundation, Arts Council, BBC, BFI, British Council, Design Museum, Demos, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Geffrye Museum, Historic Royal Palaces, ICA, Kingston Museum, London Remade, London Waterways, Museum of Domestic Architecture, National Maritime Museum, Natural History Museum, Tate Galleries, V&A Museum, Wellcome Trust, Whitechapel Gallery

16 STANLEY PICKER GALLERY Founded and supported by the Stanley Picker Trust and KU. Recently re-launched. A University gallery managed by the Faculty One of a handful of London arts organisations to receive Arts Council England funding in the latest funding programme. Stanley Picker fellow and former School of Fine Art Reader Elizabeth Price wins 2012 Turner Prize Roberto Feo, and Kingston alumna Rosario Hurtado, the duo behind El Ultimo Grito, the first Stanley Picker Design Fellows, were awarded the prestigious London Design Medal (2012).

17 RESEARCH GROUPS AND CENTRES Research Excellence Framework (REF) % Kingston s submission world leading and internationally excellent 4* and 3* Kingston s University s strongest performing unit of assessment was the Faculty s History of Art, Architecture and Design AHRC Studentships + Kingston University Studentships Contemporary Art Research Centre Centre of Research Through Design Visual and Material Culture Modern Interiors Research Centre

18 DESIGN RESEARCH Research is developed through four distinct areas of excellence within the Centre for Research Through Design Through Curating Through Making Through Social Innovation Through Economies

19 VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE RESEARCH CENTRE The Research Centre provides the focus for energetic interdisciplinary research in modern and contemporary visual and material culture and in the histories of art, film, design and architecture. Historical and critical studies Place, space, global futures Gender, technology and the human image

20 MODERN INTERIORS RESEARCH CENTRE Based at Dorich House Museum, the Modern Interiors Research Centre provides a dynamic focus for interdisciplinary research on the design of the modern interior. Its researchers work in the fields of design history, architectural history, art history, cultural history, and visual, material and spatial culture.

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