Art and Design - BA (Hons)

Birmingham City University

Our hybrid BA (Hons) is a course for the future, where you will explore the intersection of art and design, developing your practice based on your interests to create your career in the evolving creative industries.Many innovative creative studios now define themselves as interdisciplinary, a word which defines the fluid movement across the fields of art, design and technology. Rather than specialising in a particular creative discipline, our cutting-edge course reflects how these studios work in practice by exploring the intersection between art and design, with the implementation of new creative digital technologies. As a result, our course brings together people with a range of interests and backgrounds as makers, thinkers, coders, performers, technologists and designers.### **What's covered in this course?**Our course will help prepare you for employment within the creative industries by supporting you to develop the long-term creative skills needed to map out your creative future. You will develop the necessary self-awareness to question, make, play and create with others.Our experimental studio environment is versatile, enabling you to explore the necessary collisions that innovative ideas creation now requires, while enhancing a range of core skills including design thinking, creative problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and making. We encourage collaborative practice and offer a cross-level learning approach, meaning you can work with students across all years of the course to create projects and share ideas.Whether you choose to combine creative coding with sensors, interactive design with projection mapping, 3D scanning and VR or interactive live performance with sound and light, you will respond to live briefs set by real-life clients. Students have worked on local, national and global creative briefs, from working on immersive installations at Boomtown Festival, to virtual portals with Chicago and Kyiv in the Metaverse.Our flexible approach to the curriculum is informed by professional practitioners and places you as the student at the centre, enabling you to be imaginative, confident and convincing in designing and shaping the roles you’re able to play in the creative industries both now and in the future.

Birmingham School of Art