Design Facilities

Studios
Our Design students have access to two dedicated, purpose-built studio spaces in our award-winning building, Broadcasting Place based at the City Campus. The light and airy studios provide a creative hub and flexible learning space for our students to design, draw, make and socialise.

The studios provide facilities for all the design pathways (Design, Applied Textiles, Digital, Furniture, Product and Play). The studios are based on the creative and practical nature of our courses, emphasising personal exploration and development, and recognising the value of peer learning.

The studios provide a flexible and vibrant working space where most of the teaching and learning takes place, as well as providing an impressive venue for exhibitions including our end of year show.

Students are encouraged to see the studios as a professional workplace. They can work on individual projects as well as using the space to meet and work collaboratively. Staff offices are located nearby, with offices just down the corridor.
The studios have a combination of:

• Ceiling data projector with full AV facilities
• PC and Apple Mac desktops with up-to-date specialist software, including 3D rendering packages
• Equipment and machinery for Applied Textiles students
• Wi-Fi access
• Printers with the ability to print from sizes A4 to A3
• Screens and exhibition areas for displaying work
• Work tops and seating

Workshops
There are a number of practical workshops available to our students. On the ground floor of Broadcasting Place there is an impressive multi-functional workshop with a 3D Printer for the output of small scale digital models and a laser cutter. A complete list of the processes and materials that the workshop supports is below.

• Woodworking
• Metalworking
• Fabrication
• Plastic forming
• Vinyl moulding
• Glass reinforced plastics
• Welding
• Plasma cutting
• Model making
• Laser cutting (with Epilog Laser Cutter. Helix)
• 3D printing
• Sculptural processes

Students are provided with heath and safety induction training prior to using the machinery. Staff offices are within the workshop area where they are available to provide support and supervision as necessary to students.