UAL supports a growing number of issue specific, cross-disciplinary interest groups led by postgraduate students and academics..
These groups connect creatives with shared research/practice interests across different subject areas.
A group focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to drawing.
An opportunity to meet artists and curators whose work evolve around the themes of migration, social sustainability and the environment.
What are subcultures?, what are their functions and meaning both historically and contemporarily, and how do subcultural properties survive and thrive?
An interdisciplinary group of MA students and alumni exploring ideas around textiles and memory.
Working across art, textiles and science, their sessions are part discussion, part practical.
Part of the Centre for Circular Design's activities, a discussion group for participants with interests in sustainability, circular economies and design as a tool for positive change.
An opportunity to read essays on modern and contemporary design and visual cultures in East Asia, discussing critical issues and methodologies specific to the region.
An opportunity to explore various discourses that relate to art, science and nature.
A design-for-good collective, visiting various exhibitions and critiquing current hospital wards with the aim of working on live projects in NHS hospitals around the UK.
An opportunity for PhD students to present papers on any aspect of their research in an informal and discursive setting.
An evening exploring paleolithic visual culture and links to contemporary practice with Professor Paul Pettitt (Durham University), Dr Kimathi Donkor (UAL) and MA students from Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL