Lessons Learned:
The concept of constellation is to allow you to converse with people from multiple disciplines so that you can generate more ideas; through lectures by staff, you will be taught how to move away from having the same ideas and expanding your methods to create more unique work
What makes this course special?
- To be able to work with each other, throughout the year you will be sitting next to people in different areas allowing you to generate more ideas; you will also be able to access more members of staff and their ways of teaching
- Quotes
- The standard of teaching has been really high
- Learning to research and write essays was fun!
- Good opportunity to meet students from other disciplines
- We want to do more writing
- I really enjoyed the year and I’m so glad I came to CSAD
- We don’t expect you to know anything beforehand
- Introduced to Ideas
- Finding ideas of your own
- Applying them
- Open minded/autonomous students
- We expect you to find information out, i.e. Blackboard and Cardiff Met email
Student Autonomy
At the start of the course we expect you to be similar to a terracotta army, were you are all close-knitted individuals looking towards with same direction with similar ideas, but by the end you will all be more individual and have developed more with your own skills and ideas unique to you.
“The problem with an open mind is that sooner or later people will come along and try to put things in it” – All we want is for you to come along an listen and think about it; you don’t have to like it, it doesn’t have to be the best thing ever, but just come to experience it
- Look at handbook to find dates for constellation
There is a project for constellation that starts today, you will give this in on the last session before the end of the semester
Meet the Staff:
- Maker – Alexandos
- Ceramics – Mahnaz
- Textiles – Morag
- Product Design – Theo
- Illustration – Cath
- Fine Art – Jon
- Graphics – Ashley
Wincing The Days Away 