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Talking and walking through Trentham Gardens
Posted: 26/06/23 12:36 |
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Online studying can be a lonely experience. The Garden Design Students have an amazing WhatsApp group with advice and encouragement a plenty, but nothing beats getting together and meeting in person. A Student meet up was organised for the last May Bank Holiday, somewhere in the middle of everyone’s home towns.
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OCA News: Creative Arts – A review of our programme
Posted: 21/03/23 02:41 |
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The online department has produced more communities of practice and allowed us to meet and communicate more readily with students as a group of engaged, diverse creatives, which has been a great move forward.
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OCA News: Illustration
Posted: 02/03/23 10:16 |
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Earlier this year we contacted attendees to our ‘group work’ sessions to obtain feedback from them, responding to previous student feedback last year. We asked the questions below and would love to share the feedback we received.
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Student stories: Luke Shephard
Posted: 22/02/23 01:15 |
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Photography What is The Food Bank Photo Project? Times are tough and what started out as an assignment for my photography degree has grown into a project that I have continued to pursue. Taking pictures of the locations of food banks around the UK. These are not pretty pictures, but they are important pictures of […]
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Goodbye to Drawing Programme Tutor Charlie Duck
Posted: 15/02/23 03:19 |
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As Programme Leader for Drawing I have been privileged to work with Drawing Programme Tutor Charlie Duck over the last year.
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Inspiration vs Precedent Analysis
Posted: 13/10/22 11:19 |
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A big part of any spatial design study will be researching the designs that have come before. This could be as far-reaching as researching classical architecture or as close to home as exploring a new space that just opened around the corner.
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