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    Professor Claudia Rankine to become Visiting Professor for Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts

    Professor Claudia Rankine to become Visiting Professor for Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts The Fine Art department at Chelsea College of Arts has welcomed award-winning author, poet, artist and Yale Professor Claudia Rankine once again to UAL. Dean of Art, Sophia Phoca first met Professor Rankine when she had travelled to London in 2018 to deliver her ‘sold-out’ TrAIN lecture. A highlight of this year’s visit was ‘The Space of the Conversation’, her public lecture presented with the support of the Chelsea Research team.

    Recipient of the Claudia Rankine Prize Hsi-Nong Huang with Claudia Rankine and Mary Evans (BA Fine Art Course Leader, Chelsea)
    Recipient of the Claudia Rankine Prize Hsi-Nong Huang with Claudia Rankine and Mary Evans (BA Fine Art Course Leader, Chelsea)

    UAL Summer Shows 2019

    Join us for this year’s UAL’s Summer Shows – our prestigious series of final year degree shows that reveal the most exciting new names in art, design fashion, communication, media and performing arts. Free and open to the public, UAL’s shows will showcase work across our six world-class Colleges including Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

    Model in costume posing in front of museum portrait (left) display featuring a person submerged under water (right)
    (left) Jenny Kan, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL (right) Giovanni Vetere, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL

    UK leads the world for creative education as UAL is named in global top two

    University of the Arts London has risen to 2nd place for art and design in the QS World University Rankings 2019, up from 6th place in 2018. UAL’s academic and employer reputation have risen year-on-year in the Rankings, which are the largest worldwide survey of academic and industry opinion.

    Young designer and royal pose with a group of models
    Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design 2019 winner, London College of Fashion, UAL alumna Bethany Williams with HRH Duchess of Cornwall. Credit Getty Images

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Get involved! Connect To: Creative Network
  • 17 January 2019 - 4 July 2019
  • Location: London College of Communication

Come along to a Connect To meeting and hear from industry professionals, get involved in collaborative 'Connect To' projects, meet other students from across UAL colleges, make things happen and more!

Get involved! Connect To: Creative Network
FASHION REVOLUTION WEEK

FASHION REVOLUTION WEEK
  • 22 April 2019 - 28 July 2019
  • Location: London College of Fashion

LCF & CSM have come together for a series of 3 events for Fashion Revolution week, to campaign for a fashion industry that conserves and restores our environment and gives people, especially women, a voice.

Break Factor

Break Factor
  • 24 May 2019 - 2 August 2019
  • Location: London College of Fashion

Break Factor is an immersive installation exploring textiles in performance.

Mephisto

Mephisto
  • 24 June 2019 - 29 June 2019
  • Location: Central Saint Martins

This year’s graduating class, ‘Group 55’ present Mephisto**, by Ariane Mnouchkine, adapted from the novel by Klaus Mann, translated from the French by Timberlake Wertenbaker. The production will be directed by Georgina Sowerby.

Sensing Place: Doing Ethnography

Sensing Place: Doing Ethnography
  • 26 June 2019
  • Location: Room T1107

Ethnography is a qualitative research methodology that uses observational methods to study a particular setting and group of people. 

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Industry Collaboration/ High-Profile event: Mini-Maker Fair; BA (Hons) Interaction Design Arts

UAL Creative Computing Institute

Discover our innovative new courses, research opportunities, partnerships and events - exploring computer science and creative practice.

VR and Computer Lab
Camberwell Facilities

BSc Creative Computing

Learn to code, build apps, craft digital experiences, explore machine intelligence and more.

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London College of Communication

MSc Creative Computing

Extend your coding skills and explore evolving areas such as advanced visualisation, physical computing and more.

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