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Enterprising CSAD

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Cardiff School of Art and Design means business and we strive to build our links with industry to share our expertise and creativity. We’ve outlined how we are working with a wide range of organisations so that you can see how we could also be working with you to help you gain the competitive edge through innovation, design and research expertise.

" We can provide you with the opportunity to use the talents of Cardiff School of Art and Design graduates and staff "

Cardiff School of Art and Design at UWIC is a centre of information, expertise and resources to help you achieve real success and growth by putting design at the heart of your business. You don't have to have a brief written and finalised to talk to us. We have expertise in helping you form the brief and think creatively about your own and your customers' needs. We can offer guidance and support in applying for funding from a variety of schemes and funding bodies.

Following the links below to find about more about how we could work with you.

• Consultancy and knowledge transfer

• Continuous Professional Development & Short Courses

• Cardiff Open Art School

• ffotogallery short courses

• The Courtyard Press

• Cardiff Design Festival

• Hire of music production facilities

Latest Cardiff School of Art and Design Means Business news.

Consultancy and Knowledge transfer

We have a wide range of industry experts that provide businesses with consultancy advice and support, sometimes through secondments or commercial projects and sometimes through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships or the Strategic Insight Programme.

Consultancy

Many of our staff work directly with organisations to help address a specific challenges faced. For example, Dr John R Littlewood, from the Architectural Technology team, is seconded part time to United Welsh Housing Association, as a Sustainable Development Consultant. He advises their managers on sustainability, monitoring of projects and investigating grant sources. Team members have also recently worked with a design practice and their solicitors to investigate copyright infringement.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

We are about to begin a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Bristol Zoo to create a 3D digital building information Model. Building performance simulation of the model in Design Builder software will help determine best strategies to regulate and reduce energy and water use and calibrate the building performance simulation against actual measured energy uses.

For more information about KTP projects contact Olwen Moseley (020 20 416632 or omoseley@uwic.ac.uk) or visit www.ktponline.org.uk

Strategic Insight Programme projects

Through the WAG Strategic Insight Programme our staff have been able to work in partnership with many organisations to enable them to initiate or progress projects that they could not have done without an injection of our staff’s expertise. We would be delighted to talk to you about how our staff can work with you and share their expertise to your company’s benefit.

• Leonard Cheshire Homes have worked with staff from our Product Design and Architectural Technology teams to generate ideas about improving accessibility within their homes.

• Wendy Keay-Bright, an expert on using interactive software to develop education programmes for children with autism has been working with Autism Cymru.

• Members of our Product Design team have been working in the A&E unit at Bridgend’s Princess of Wales Hospital to identify products that could be improved upon that would ease the pressure in a busy emergency room.

• John Counsell, the Head of the Architectural Technology Department, is working with the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) to develop a register of architects with sustainable design skills and knowledge.

• Alexi Marmot Associates, the London based building design and space utilisation consultants have been working with our Head of Material Art, Richard Morris, to develop their understanding of how building space is used in the education context.

• Keep Wales Tidy has recruited our Director of Enterprise, Olwen Moseley, to its management board to utilise her branding and graphic design skills to enhance public awareness of their campaigns.

• Newport Museum & Art Gallery brought in printmaking lecturer Sue Hunt to curate an exhibition of rare and valuable prints, produce the exhibition catalogue and organise a symposium on the show.

• Emrys Lawrence has recently had a SIP approved to help him learn more about the art of building musical instruments. This will enable him to develop a wide range of skills, including guitar making and he is going to launch some COAS Summer School courses next year as a result of this.

Specialist advice

CSAD’s staff can provide expert advice and support in a very wide range of areas ranging from providing expert witnesses in legal cases in topics such as intellectual property to working with manufacturers and designers on product and packaging designs. Please contact Olwen Moseley, our Director of Enterprise, to discuss your needs and possible projects omoseley@uwic.ac.uk or 029 20416632.

Bringing in expertise into the School

We can also source funding through initiatives such as the Reverse Strategic Insight Programme to bring experts into the School to share their skills and knowledge with us.

Continuous Professional Development & Short Courses

We run a range of continuous professional development and short courses aimed at businesses, artists and design, architectural technology and music professionals and those wishing to enhance their skills and knowledge in these areas, and can also design bespoke courses as needed. Please contact Olwen Moseley, our Director of Enterprise to discuss your needs (020 20 416632 or omoseley@uwic.ac.uk).

Courses organised include:-

Life drawing class for sixth formers - we regularly arrange life drawing classes for six formers both during the week and during the holidays. Please contact our Enterprise Co-ordinators, Angie Dutton (029 20416628 or adutton@uwic.ac.uk) for further information about how we can meet your classes’ and school’s needs. We can also organise portfolio building workshops for students wanting to apply for places on art and design degree programmes.

Several of our post graduate programmes may also be appropriate to your professional development:-

Postgraduate Certificate in Professional and Research Skills: Art & Design programme (CPRS) (link to the paragraph below)

CSAD’s new Postgraduate Certificate in Professional and Research Skills: Art & Design programme (CPRS) started in October 2009. It offers a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the range of methods, strategies and debates which can apply to art and design professional practice and research. CPRS is included as part of Cardiff School of Art and Design’s MFA, MPhil and PhD programmes, but can also be taken as a stand-alone programme in preparation for writing a research application or a professional intervention project. The module options are: Professional Methods in Art and Design, Research Methods in Art and Design, Project Design (core), Critical Positions in Art and Critical Positions in Design. For further information contact Clive Cazeaux, Graduate Studies Co-ordinator, (029 20416680, ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk) or Simon Pope, MA programme leader (029 20416666 or spope@uwic.ac.uk).

Professional Doctorate in Ecological Building Practices (link to the paragraph below)

This professional doctoral research degree offers the opportunity to explore and develop practice in relation to environmental issues and is open to those working in the built environment professions of architecture, building and construction, planning, development, engineering, production industrial and manufacturing design, and others whose work can or could relate specifically to an ecological or sustainable built environment. For further information contact Dr John Littlewood (029 206676 or jlittlewood@uwic.ac.uk) and visit the link to the paragraph below on the WIRAD site.

Cardiff Open Art School

Going from strength to strength Cardiff Open Art School offers a wide range of courses to the public in the evenings, at weekends, and during the holidays. Courses run include life drawing, painting in oil and acrylic, printmaking including Screen Printing and relief Printmaking, Introduction to Adobe Photoshop, Introduction to Ceramics, Portrait Painting and Watercolour Painting. Newly introduced courses include Shibori: The ancient Japanese art of fabric manipulation, Transforming the everyday carrier bag and Paper Making.

We also regularly arrange life drawing classes for six formers both during the week and during the holidays and can also organise portfolio building workshops for those wanting to apply for places on art and design degree programmes. Please contact our Enterprise Co-ordinators, Angie Dutton (029 20416628 or adutton@uwic.ac.uk) for further information about how we can meet your classes’ and school’s needs.

ffotogallery short courses

Cardiff Open Art School and CSAD has also teamed up with ffotogallery and now manages its short course programme. This includes topics from Portrait Photography, to Web Design, with courses running from the gallery’s base at Chapter. All courses are accredited and students who submit their work at the end of each course will receive 20 credits. By obtaining 3 modules (60 credits) you will receive a Foundation Certificate. Students completing 6 modules (120 credits) will achieve a Certificate of Higher Education. From October 2009 we will be offering a Diploma of Higher Education module for students who have completed their Certificate.

The Courtyard Press

Our new Courtyard Press has just been launched that offer outside artist and designers the facilities to create high quality publications with mentoring from artist and printmaking expert Chris Lloyd. Short print making courses are also offered to including specialists teacher’s programme, master classes for established artists and printmakers and short course for the public. Bespoke classes can be organised for small groups on request.

Cardiff Design Festival

The School convenes and co-ordinates the highly successful annual Cardiff Design Festival. Recognised by Design Week as one of Europe’s leading design festival, it was launched five years ago to celebrate the breadth and depth of Welsh design talent through events that inform, inspire and provoke. It brings together design organisations working and shows businesses and the general public the value and impact that design has on our lives. For more information on the Festival visit its website at www.cardiffdesignfestival.org.

Each year the Festival includes a wide range of events to bring together design professional, students, academics, business representative sand the general public. Highlights of the October 2009 Festival included:-

• Launch at the Senedd by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Presiding Officer Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas.

• The Design Festival Award Evening at the Glee Club, hosted by comedian Chris Corcoran with the keynote speech by Andew Shoben of Greyworld.

• The Awards Showcase exhibition has been on show at the Senedd, the Wales Millennium Centre, Chapter, the Old Central Library and which is currently at Cardiff Airport.

• Launch of the Reflecting Wales 09:09, the RIBA Design Circle’s exhibition at the Howard Gardens Gallery by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Presiding Officer Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas.

• The Best of Welsh Design Graduate Show at the Radisson Blu Hotel, a collaborative show including the work of Design Graduates from CSAD, Glamorgan, Newport, Swansea and Coleg Sir Gar, launched by Rosemary Butler, the Welsh Government Assembly’s Deputy Presiding Officer.

• The Student Portfolio Clinic which we co-ordinated with D&AD. Students attended from Newport, Swansea, the University of the West of England and West Wales School of Art to talk to more than 20 local designers and four designers visiting from London.

• Leading font designer Bruno Maag’s Type Talk and the ‘Ignite’ 5 minute talks event both held at the Wales Millennium Centre.

Hire of music production facilities

The New Analogue Music Environment & New Digital Post Production Suite in the Department of Creative Communication is now available to HIRE if you wish to book these facilities please get in contact with Viv Lock (vlock@uwic.ac.uk) 02920 416705.

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.