Cardiff School of Art & Design - New Building Leaflet
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CSAD to open Wales’
first official MIT Fab Lab
CSAD’s new building will house Wales’ first Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) accredited Fab Lab at its core. We will be full
members of the global Fab Lab network and this will be the first official
UK Fab Lab attached to a university.
The term ‘Fab Lab’ is short hand for fabrication laboratory. Fab Labs are a
global network of local labs, linked through video conferencing technology.
They enable invention and innovation by providing easy access to tools for
digital fabrication and prototyping.
The lab will extend the School’s existing digital prototyping facilities to offer
computer controlled circuit board manufacture, a large CNC router capable of
dealing with 2.4 metre X 1.2 metre sheets, a large and powerful laser cutter
as well as numerous CNC machines, various 3D printers, large format digital
printers, a CNC vinyl cutter, 3D scanners and so on. Flexible provision will
ensure that our students have access to world class facilities which we will
also be able to offer to members of the public when our students don’t
need them.
The new facilities will house a
suite of modern, well-designed
and safety-conscious workshop
areas. These will be provided
on one whole floor of the new
build and a remodelled floor of
our existing accommodation.
Wood Area
New and traditional machines are
supported by highly skilled and
motivated practitioners. The
workshop will provide students
from all courses with the
opportunity to work with one of
the most elemental of all materials
in either self-directed or guided
sessions.
Metals
The centre of our metals
workshop is our new foundry and
hot metal space, run by our RCA
trained Technician Demonstrator.
Pieces, both large and small, will
be cast and used by a variety of
different artists and makers. The
workshop will also house a range
of Mig & Tig welders, plus plasma
cutters along with drilling, bending
and milling facilities.
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CSAD’s strategy of linking enterprise, research and learning & teaching
missions will mean that the new Fab Lab will be at the core of exciting
activities. It will, for example be used as a base from which students can
study optional modules in robotics, musical instrument design or computer
embedded product prototyping. At the same time, it will serve as a base from
which many of the School’s research staff and PhD students can operate and
will be a rich public resource for access to the latest digital fabrication
techniques. Continual Professional Development courses will be available and
the Fab Lab’s facilities will also be available to provide direct access to the
machines themselves.
A key part of CSAD’s Fab Lab strategy is that we will be able to offer our own
graduates access to the best possible base from which to start their own
businesses, giving them continued access to the machines they used during
their time with us. Thus the university’s facilities will become the base from
which our graduates can begin their professional lives. We aim to make that
partnership a long and fruitful one.
Ceramics
The ceramics workshops will
house well equipped kiln, plaster,
clay and glaze areas. The
workshop will also house glass
slumping kilns, clay and plaster
preparation facilities. Externally,
students will have access to soda
kilns and Raku firing facilities. This
forward-looking facility reinforces
CSAD’s commitment to this, the
largest ceramics centre in Europe.
Textiles
Our facilities in this area employ
traditional techniques alongside
up-to-date digital printing and
laser cutting equipment.
Professional sewing machines,
over-lockers and digital
embroiders are employed by a
wide range of CSAD courses.
Printing workshop
Students have access to a range
of printing techniques including
screen-printing, intaglio, etching,
engraving and stone litho facilities.
The workshop will continue to
have a complete high pressure
screen cleaning washing area with
adjacent equipment for drying and
developing the largest of screens.
Photo-media
This area will house a darkroom
with production of RC and fibre
based silver gelatin prints;
Photograms; Cyanotypes and
Liquid Light. In the film developing
room, you can process black and
white film 35mm 120 or 5X4.
Colour is handled via our Colour
Machine for production of colour
RA4 Prints from negatives. Digital
Printing is carried out on Epson
9500 large format and Canon 950
A3 printers.
In our studios you can expect to
find continuous lighting and
portable flash equipment, our
copystand can be used to
document all types of artwork
using a digital camera. Also
available is an infinity background
for documenting small to medium
sized objects plus a large flash
unit for studio photographs.
Our stores contain a large
selection of 35mm film cameras
and compact digital cameras for
student loan, including 5X4 Film
cameras, 120 film camera, DV
tape video cameras and HD video
camera equipment.
Audio and Video
For video work we have
camcorders, lighting, microphones
and audio recorders available for
use. There is bookable studio
space, where we also do basic
green screen work. We currently
have four Mac based Video Edit
Suites running Final Cut Pro
Studio. In our Audio suite we have
a Mac based recording studio
utilising Pro-Tools. We have a
selection of instruments,
amplifiers, microphones and
outboard gear.
Our Macs run Pro-tools, Logic and
Reason, 3D workshops and
Fablab. This facility will continue to
develop, in line with technology.
Here you will find a suite of CNC
milling machines, laser cutters,
routers, and 3D printers. Add to
this our area for developing
electronic control systems and you
have an area where concepts can
become reality in a short time.
Facilities in the new building
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The move will come in the third
year of delivering the School’s
new undergraduate curriculum,
designed to enable students to
work across the disciplines, whilst
increasing their depth of
engagement with their own.
“Our students will be able to
choose a period studying abroad
with partners in India, Zambia,
Venice, America or Korea, the
Dean says. “They will also be able
to choose to undertake a
management module or
experience a work placement or
work with one of our research
professors or principals. We will
also have a much larger masters
and research degree community,
with many more students
studying for MFA, MDes and
Professional Doctorates in Art or
Design.”
Moving to a new location also
allows the School to take new
steps towards providing the
energy and momentum for
innovation in teaching with a host
of exciting plans being made to
provide facilities that will mark it
as a truly modern faculty. Most
notably, a partnership with the
Samsung Art and Design Institute
in Seoul will allow students to
transcend international borders
engagement with art, design,
making and architecture from
perspectives other than those that
are western, white and frequently
male,” Kavanagh continues to
confirm the School’s commitment
to providing education in art and
design to a wide audience.
“Our students love Cardiff, many
choosing once graduated to stay
to set up businesses and their
own practices here. Our staff
contribute to the vibrancy of the
creative environments of both
Cardiff and Wales as a whole.
Collectively, we will remain part of
the very fabric of what makes this
city and this country special,” she
says as if to sum up. “We are
ready for anything the future
throws at us, and we’ll be
addressing it from a wonderfully
designed and created new base in
Llandaff. We can’t wait.”
and still cycle home from the
campus in the evening.
“We plan to develop video-linked
teaching facilities with Samsung
Art and Design Institute,
enhancing our joint delivery of
our MDes, with particular
emphasis on product design,”
Kavanagh says. “We’re also
looking forward to being able to
integrate high-end prefabrication
facilities into our workshops,
linked to the global FabLab
network, to meet the proven
needs of industry. This will also
be deployed to enable local school
children with an interest in design
and technology to connect with
classes as far flung as Boston,
Barcelona and Tehran.”
The cross-disciplinary aspect of
the new curriculum is very much
enabled with the new shared
studios that are being designed.
These will be able to
accommodate the School’s
growing interest in the way that
science, art
and design relate to one another
with debates and engagement.
“We will be able to action our
developing plans for part-time
degrees, where the emphasis will
be on multi-culturalism and
Our newhomeIn 2015, the Cardiff School of Artand Design will be celebrating its150th anniversary. At the heartof the city since its opening in1865, the School which is one ofthe oldest in the UK has had manyhomes.
Beginning life in the oak rooms above the
Royal and Morgan Arcades, it is the oldest
part of Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Since its first site, it has also been housed
in The Friary building, near Cardiff’s New
Theatre, and in the purpose built Howard
Gardens Campus, opened by the Earl of
Snowdon on 13 May 1970.
“Each location has marked a step forward and a turning point. No less a
turning point is Cardiff Metropolitan University’s decision to consolidate the
School on one site, the Llandaff Campus, through an investment of £14m in
the provision of a new building and the refurbishment of existing
accommodation,” says Dean of Cardiff School of Art and Design, Professor
Gaynor Kavanagh. “The planned development means a tremendous amount
to the School. Above all else, it represents to us the faith and confidence
placed in CSAD by the University’s Governors, who recognise the School as a
centre of excellence and high performance in both research and teaching. We
are hugely grateful to them for this and for their continued interest and
engagement with the School.”
In 2014, the School will move to the new campus designed by award winning
architects Austin-Smith:Lord, who also designed the Riverfront Theatre,
Newport as well as the Cardiff School of Management - one of the most
pleasing and useful spaces in Cardiff. Consolidating the split site campus
allows the School to facilitate a better experience for students as well as staff.
“The development has been designed around the research and teaching
requirements of CSAD. As a result, it is sensitive to the ways we work through
making and critical thinking,” Kavanagh explains,
“The design fully recognizes that CSAD represents higher education at its
most unconventional, intellectually challenging and creatively dynamic. The
design allows for the fact that we are messy, noisy, technology-driven,
talkative, hugely hard working, and resource-intensive: not to mention,
inventive, pragmatic, constantly developing and generally maverick.”
But the move doesn’t just mark the physical progression of the School of Art
& Design’s history. It also indicates a renewed commitment to progression in
research, teaching and innovation.
A lead partner in the Wales Institute of Research in Art and Design, the School
will deliver a strong submission to the Research Excellence Framework in late
2014 to follow the success of its ranking of 11th in Research Power in art and
design in the UK in the REF’s predecessor, the Research Assessment Exercise
in 2008. On this last point, Kavanagh says, “The allocation of space in the
new accommodation will enable the continuation of our varied and
groundbreaking research work, especially that where we are in partnership
with other universities including Lancaster, Birmingham, and Cardiff, in
particular Cardiff Medical School. Our commitment to science in the context of
our disciplines remains strong and hopefully will be well evident at the
Science Pavilion of the next National Eisteddfod.”
Taught Postgraduate
► Postgraduate Certificate in
Professional & Research Skills:
Art & Design
► MA Ceramics
► MSc Advanced Product Design
► Master of Fine Art (MFA)
► Master of Design (MDes)
► MA (Art & Design) Fine Art
► MA (Art & Design) Communication
► MA (Art & Design) Textiles
► MA (Art & Design) Art & Science
► MA (Art & Design) Philosophy
► MA (Art & Design) Ecologies
Research Degrees
► MPhil
► PhD
► Professional Doctorate: Art
► Professional Doctorate: Design
► Professional Doctorate:
Ecological Building Practices
Undergraduate
► Cardiff Diploma in Foundation
Studies (Art & Design) (Bridgend)
► Foundation Degree in Contemporary
Furniture Design (Bridgend)
► Foundation Degree in Ceramics
(Barry)
► Foundation Degree in Textiles
(Barry)
► Foundation Degree in Graphic
Communication (Barry)
► HND Architectural Design
& Technology (CSAD)
► HND Design for Interactive Media
(Bridgend)
► BSc (hons) Architectural Design
& Technology
► BA (hons) Artist Designer: Maker
► BA (hons) Fine Art
► BA (hons) Ceramics
► BA (hons) Textiles
► BA (hons) Graphic Communication
► BA (hons) Illustration
► BA (hons) Product Design
► BSc (hons) Product Design
► BA (hons) Photographic Practice
(Bridgend College)
Gaynor KavanaghDean of CSAD
Project Team Cardiff Metropolitan
University Estates Department
Austin Smith: Lord
Wilmott Dixon
Davies Langdon
Ove-Arup
Silcock Dawson
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