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List of Officers Front Cover Inside Cover Kirsty L. Barr Susan Mansfield Stewart Smith Editor and Art Director Writer Writer And You Get Tough – Callum Raymond Young, Patron Hippocampus-less – Anita Rozentale, HRH the Prince Charles, MLitt Fine Art Practice 2017 Sculpture & Environmental Art 2017 Leading on communications for The Glasgow School Susan Mansfield is a journalist and writer who Stewart Smith is an academic and music journalist. Navigating the Space – Alina Baimamadova, Duke of Rothesay MARCH ON – Celebrating the power of collective of Art since 2008, Kirsty has 21 years’ experience has been covering the arts in Scotland for more His PhD on the poetry and art of Ian Hamilton Finlay voice – Anna Tudos, MLitt Curatorial Practice Sculpture & Environmental Art 2017 in Marketing and Communications roles across than 20 years. She is one of the art critics on and Alec Finlay was shortlisted for the Ross Roy (Contemporary Art) loch_carrorn_001 – Pablo Llopis, a variety of sectors. Kirsty has written for a The Scotsman. Medal in Scottish Literature. He is a regular Honorary President Faslane Peace Camp Poster – Cathal Burke, Fine Art Photography 2017 Stewart Grimshaw number of publications, and began her career contributor to The Wire, The Quietus and The List. Graphics Illustration Photography 2017 Untitled – Lucie Holzer, in broadcast journalism. The Beginning – Fureum Kim, Painting & Printmaking 2017 Tony Naylor @stewfsmith Honorary Vice President USA Graphics Illustration Photography 2017 Untitled – Paisley Diamond, Writer Untitled – Joanne Mearns, Fashion Design 2017 Fine Art Photography 2017 Claudine Brownlie Prof. Tony Jones CBE Vivienne Vine The day and the night side – Maren Nordheim, The moment – Miki Asai, Designer Tony Naylor is a Manchester-based journalist Silversmithing & Jewellery 2017 who writes regularly for olive as well as Writer Chair of Board of Governors Fine Art Photography 2017 The Other Gaze – Iida Aino Viljanen, Claudine is a Senior Designer at Stand Agency, Restaurant magazine and The Guardian. Dr Muriel Gray Untitled – Eleni Bismpiki, MDes Interior Design 2017 MDes Sound for the Moving Image 2017 Glasgow and is the design lead for Edition. A GSA @naylor_tony Vivienne joined The Glasgow School of Art in 2015 A Subterranean City of Water – Teresa Erskine 2017 Untitled – Emma Strathdee, alumnus (Communication Design), Claudine as Senior Communications Officer and works across Director New Ambassadors To Old Problems – Silversmithing & Jewellery 2017 followed her love of magazines, fashion and a range of areas within the School, including student Prof. Tom Inns Alannah Clamp, Master of Fine Art 2017 Untitled – Hannah Lornie, warmer weather and started her career in London Jan Patience recruitment and campus development. Prior to this, BEng(Hons) DIC MDes (RCA) PhD FRSA Mouth Covering Hand – Aman Sandhu, Silversmithing & Jewellery 2017 working in the demanding world of editorial design. Writer she worked in the Marketing and Communications Master of Fine Art 2017 Graduate Collection – Laura Szulska, team at the University of Brighton, where she also Design Colour Emotion – Natascia Forte, MDes Fashion + Textiles 2017 Claire Biddles Jan Patience writes a regular column on the visual studied MDes Fashion Design and Business Studies. Designed by graduates of Textile Design 2017 Terra Cognita: Autopoietic Observatory – Writer arts for The Herald newspaper. She is a respected The Glasgow School of Art at Stand, Identity Vessels – Grace Ong, Robert Colvin, Stage 5 Architecture 2017 commentator on the visual arts scene in Scotland Marco Federici Glasgow and Amsterdam. Communication Design 2017 George Square – Tabitha Zito, Claire Biddles is an artist and writer based in Glasgow, in print as well as on radio, television and online. Film www.stand.agency Hiding – Sarah Murray, Fine Art Photography 2017 whose work primarily focuses on pop music and Her first book, a biography of renowned Scottish Painting & Printmaking 2017 Sleeping Place – Ka Ki Wong, fandom culture. She is the editor of pop crushes artist, George Wyllie, was published in 2016. Dr. Marco Federici is a Glasgow based filmmaker Graduate Collection – Kan Chandratip, MDes Graphics Illustration Photography 2017 zine FWYL, and a regular contributor to The Line and has made over 400 short films for the national Photography The Urban Impluvium – Jennifer Mallon, Alan McAteer MDes Fashion + Textiles 2017 of Best Fit and The Singles Jukebox. Her long-form Marianne Taylor broadcaster STV and their digital channels. He holds Stage 5 Architecture 2017 (unless otherwise stated) Filtered – Ane Lopez, writing has featured in publications such as Dazed Writer a PhD in Audio Visual Science and is an Associate MDes Communication Design 2017 SALINAS – Mara Bragagnolo, Interior Design 2017 and Little White Lies, and she is currently working Lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland. Becoming Aware of Tacit Knowing – Nicola Manley, The floral and the feminine – Sophie Chen, on a fanzine about Harry Styles. Claire is an MLitt Fine Art Practice Textile Design 2017 Marianne Taylor is an award-winning writer, alumnus (Environmental Art) and works at GSA columnist and broadcaster with a particular interest ALBUM familia – Kathryn Polley, Untitled – Shandee Christensen, as Communications Officer. Communication Design Sculpture & Environmental Art 2017 in the arts, who has worked across the media in Tranlocal Beauty – Finn Arschavir, Untitled – Eunjoo Lee, Scotland, London and Berlin. She writes mostly Malcolm Jack Communication Design MDes Communication Design 2017 for The Herald but has also worked extensively The Myth of Kim Kardashian – Iona Letby, Writer for The Guardian, BBC and German newspaper Plaster casts – A selection of plaster casts from the Communication Design 2017 Die Welt. Mackintosh Building’s famous 200+ piece collection SAW’WAN – Marcus Masterson, Malcolm Jack is a music, culture & travel journalist for titles including Guardian Music, The Scotsman Contributors have been temporarily relocated to the Reid Building Painting & Printmaking 2017 while the restoration project takes place. Pacific Queue – Alex Close, Arts and The List. MLitt Fine Art Practice 2017 @MBJack Edition supplement 1/ The Flowing, the Fleeting, the Spectral – Cover artist – Lana Ferguson, Katja Oberlintner, Sculpture & Environmental Art Auchenharvie Academy That time immediately before the green light is when it becomes a bit more serious – Daisy Chetwin, Sculpture & Environmental Art Edition 7

48 On Show Degree Show work across Architecture, Design, Fine Art, Innovation, Simulation Contents and Visualisation 10 66 Glasgow Postcard from the Edge Where avant-garde culture meets down-to-earth attitude Exploring Glasgow’s music heritage and cutting-edge grassroots scene 14 Art School in the 21st Century 70 Collaboration and GSA Exhibitions community across the A year-round public programme creative disciplines of exhibitions, performances, 18 talks and more GSASA: The Art School 20 An innovative, inclusive and supportive Students’ Shaping the Association Future of Creative 24 72 Production Generations Modes of Production Postgraduate alumni Glasgow’s new canon Innovation School projects in take on contemporary of creative institutions Glasgow and the Highlands challenges reach milestone & Islands anniversaries 76 28 A Borderless Discipline? Grounded in Glasgow with In Fashion We Trust: an international outlook Celebrating 70 years of Fashion + Textiles at the GSA

38 44 78 Contents Innovation from Pavilions, Mixtapes Tradition & Landscapes Campus Update First year students to return Award-winning final Restoring the Mack with to the Mackintosh Building year students traditional techniques 9 Studio overlooking Driven Void, Reid Building

Edition Edition 11 tenements, Glasgow Right: Right: T raditional red sandstone Glasgow Devils in the Making, GoMA Population (metropolitan): 1,817,870 Far left: View West from the city Left: Glasgow Green Glasgow Language: English, Scots, Gaelic Left: Winter Gardens, Festivals include: Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow International Jazz Festival, Celtic Connections, Tectonics, TRNSMT, Aye Write!, Glasgow Mela, Sonica, Counterflows, Glasgow Ballroom, Barrowland Film Festival, West End Festival, Merchant City Venue Music iconic Below: Festival, World Pipe Band Championships.

Glasgow 'gla:zou, gla:s-, glæz-, glæs-/; Scots: Glesga / glezge/; Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu ['Kl ̪ˠas ̪əxu]

by Malcolm Jack

Glasgow combines the achingly hip with genuine warmth, making a trip to the city’s coolest corners feel as welcoming as your own neighbourhood.

“The first thing I always suggest for people to makeup, and people such as Duncan – who is avant-garde culture that Glasgow and Berlin do when they come to Glasgow is to go to the as comfortable working with a paintbrush have in common. The two cities will host the top of the Lighthouse and get an idea of what as he is a synthesiser – are the proof. inaugural European Championships in 2018 the city looks like from above,” says Mercury Descend to street level and you won’t find – an exciting new multi-sport event including Prize-nominated musician and visual artist a much more down-to-earth creative scene athletics, aquatics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, C Duncan, when asked about his recommended anywhere else in Europe. Glasgow’s rowing and triathlon. starting point for exploring his city and its restaurants, bars and cafes offer a mixture More than anything, the unique Glaswegian thriving cultural scene. of traditional cuisine done with contemporary attitude gives it an edge on any city – a warmth, Duncan refers to the rooftop viewing flair, and spirited cosmopolitan culinary a friendliness, a self-deprecating sense of platform of Scotland’s Centre for Design and adventure and experimentation at often humour, a natural suspicion of pretension and Architecture, from which you can enjoy remarkable value for money. a willingness to strike up conversation with Glasgow panoramic views over everything from elegant It's cultural institutions – from venues and a stranger as if they were an old friend. If you’re

Project Name Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed buildings clubs to theatres and galleries – are cool and a kindred spirit visiting the city, go to the right to the gothic spire of Glasgow Cathedral. Its inventive enough to put Glasgow on a par with places and you can expect to be made to feel Left: Extra info creative scene is as mixed as its architectural forward-thinking Berlin. In fact, it’s not just not just welcome but at home. 13

The Glasgow School of Art Renfrew Street Campus There are myriad routes in to study at

GSA. In May 2017, we spoke to students ] who had arrived at GSA through a variety

of these paths about how they found the » vimeo.com/219069984 Video transition, and about differences between [ reality and expectations.

Edition Glasgow Edition MARCH ON - Celebrating the power 15 of collective voice Taking the occupation of the Kinning Park Complex Collaboration building in 1996 as a starting point, MARCH ON invited the centre's users to think about civic mobilisation, sustainable structures and their and Community: influence on the development of future society. A parade was held with banners and props, which were then featured in an exhibition alongside objects and archival material relating to local history. Key artworks included the All Welcome banner Art School in produced in 1996 at KPC, a 1950's banner belonging to the first women's guild in Scotland and a newly commissioned banner by visual artist Greer Pester. st Blog www.kinningparkcomplex.org/blog the 21 Century

WHAT does it mean to be an art school in the 21st century? What benefits and opportunities can an art school education bring? How important is place to artistic practice? These are just some of the questions facing institutions By Marianne and students alike as technology and new ways of Taylor thinking continue to change the way in which art and design are practised and perceived.

The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has a long And with renovations on the Mackintosh and proud tradition of being in the vanguard Building now well advanced, attention is of global art education and embraces both turning to how interdisciplinary collaboration the challenges and opportunities offered will be encouraged in students from day by the digital world. We can see this in the one, as first-year undergraduates from all recent expansion of the learning opportunities disciplines learn together in the “Mack”, just offered at GSA (at both undergraduate and as its architect and designer, Charles Rennie graduate level) with the creation of two new Mackintosh, intended. specialist schools – Innovation, and Simulation This will give new focus to the cross- and Visualisation join Fine Art, Design and fertilisation that has long strengthened GSA’s the Mackintosh School of Architecture, taking reputation as an innovative and visionary the number of specialist schools from three place to study, as fine artists, designers and to five - and the way in which new and existing architects from all over the world share ideas accommodation is used to give students and collaborate in practice. “When I was at a unique approach to practice that promotes university studying computer science, all my creative crossover at every juncture. peers were computer scientists and I was This idea of interdisciplinarity is at the taught by a computer scientist,” says Paul centre of the experience offered to both Chapman, Head of School of Simulation and staff and students as they find new ways Visualisation. “It was very one-dimensional. to share ideas and collaborate between the “But here at GSA it’s a breath of fresh different schools. air - you have so many different disciplines “GSA is about constructing communities of and you’re collaborating with people from learning or communities of practice,” explains very different backgrounds, and are able Alastair Payne, Head of School of Fine Art. to do innovative things across all areas.” “These communities are things that we set Chapman highlights the MSc in Medical Art School in the 21st Century 21st the in School Art up, but also things that the students set up. Visualisation and Human Anatomy, one While learning they’ll collaborate with others, of several programmes run in collaboration and they might also find colleagues in halls with the University of Glasgow, as an example of residence doing a project, someone that of this. (Contemporary Art) 2017 MLitt Curatorial Practice Curatorial Practice MLitt might lead them into their future career in “In semester one the students focus on an unexpected way. understanding graphics and 3D modelling, “The students we produce have an which is very much the vocabulary associated Left: Anna Tudos, Tudos, Anna Left: incredibly broad knowledge but with particular with computer graphics,” he explains. relevance to the creative industries, and can “In semester two, however, they’re doing access multiple different roles, jobs, types of hands-on human dissection which is, of course, profession, collaborate and work in different another discipline entirely. But the students types of community, way beyond Glasgow, who come out the other end can converse in

and on an international scale.” both these different fields.” Edition Studies 2017 17 Natasha Devries MArch Architectural Right: Right: Urban Attitudes for Mural Makers, Makers, Mural for Attitudes Urban , MDes Design Left: Collaborative civic game-play Zoulinaki Isavella Below: Innovation International & Management against global risks and Citizenship 2017 2017 Callum Nash, MDes Design Innovation

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This willingness to cross boundaries relates “One thing that I think has changed university and says ‘do you want to see a rough “This is such an accessible city and there is require students to be more career-focused to the wider value the GSA community puts on quite fundamentally at GSA is the idea that draft of my essay?’” always something happening,” says Barbara than in previous generations. its studio-based art education, which tends to practice is not something that happens when Following on from this is the unique Ridley, Head of the School of Design. “Our graduates see Glasgow as a good be very different to the traditional university you finish and have a degree, it’s what you are sense of place that studying at GSA gives “There’s such diversity in the way students place to work professionally and that’s model. Indeed, according to Sally Stewart, doing now. It’s trying to work out what your to all its students and staff. This is evident develop these networks across so many brilliant because they get purchase with Head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, practice means and there are many students in the unbelievably vibrant arts and culture different platforms, through curriculum-designed communities that already exist in the city this approach is one of the institution’s major here who are already undertaking their scene that has long thrived throughout live projects, presentations to industry, and that’s not the same or always the case strengths, one that both encourages creativity professional practice.” the city, creating the wider landscape that, or extra-curricular projects like those we with other cities and institutions,” he says. and industry, and prepares students for the Gordon Hush, Head of the Innovation in collaboration with GSA, has allowed have with the likes of the Royal Conservatoire “That connects to the fact that our next stage of their lives. School, agrees that the demands of the so many of the graduates to find such of Scotland and the BBC. students are creative “makers” from day “Studio practice at GSA is not a rehearsal curriculum at GSA differ from expectations success at home and abroad, across the “As is the case in the other GSA schools, one and stands them in good stead.” Art School in the 21st Century 21st the in School Art for life in the outside world, it’s actually the elsewhere, enabling students to gain new creative industries. in design many of our staff are themselves This sense of place also extends to GSA’s practice itself,” she says. “Sometimes it’s insights into their practice. Glasgow’s dominance of the coveted practice-based, working in studios, and that campus in Singapore, which underlines not about how we talk to each other, sometimes “You’re not producing work to task or Turner Prize over many years – five of its feeds into the curriculum.” only the international reach of the school it’s the things we make to have those previously established criteria,” he says. winners, and nine other nominees are GSA According to Ken Neil, GSA’s Deputy and its students, but the artistic community conversations. And this behaviour cuts right “It’s not like writing an essay, where the format graduates, while others are either from or Director (Academic), these wide cultural it succeeds in creating, that is reflected across all our disciplines; we all have to show for that submission is previously determined. associated with the city – is only part of this. networks often come into their own on thousands of miles away. and, to some extent, tell, and argue about “As someone who went to university but GSA has always viewed itself as part of this graduation, especially as Glasgow remains So, what does it mean to be an art school work. “But it’s not just about the exposure works in an art school I’m quite conscious wider cultural community that encompasses relatively affordable in comparison to other in the 21st century? There is no definitive of work to other people, it’s also about of the difference in the freedom the students music, film, literature and theatre, as well as cultural hubs such as London and Paris. answer, of course, but GSA is confident that showing work in progress. The majority of here are granted and the form their learning a host of other renowned educational and This has arguably never been more important, the distinctive and innovative opportunities our discussions are about work that’s not takes. It’s very much a process of that takes national institutions. And these links are of course, in the current financial and it offers students across all disciplines is complete, that’s half-formed, might be very place individually, in groups, and also relative increasingly important as the lines between educational climate, where the costs forging the way both at home and on the nascent, might be problematic. to other people. No one ever sits down in a art mediums are blurred in terms of practice. associated with higher education often international stage. Edition 19 GSASA 'The Art School' Supporting and developing co-curricular activities remains an ongoing priority for the Students’ Association. We’re really fortunate to have a range of societies that address a wide range of interests and activities. What’s particularly unique about the majority of the student societies at GSA is that their interests and concerns are not tethered to the concerns of specific studio disciplines. Rather, the societies at GSA tend to address interests, concepts and ideas for which there is no dedicated, formal provision for within the current academic structure of GSA. As such, the groups are inherently interdisciplinary.

Student societies and groups provide an invaluable perspective and their activities present the opportunity to extend the current GSA ethos of ‘studio based learning’ to be inclusive of the notion of learning as a space shaped by its contributors; exploring learning as a place, a space, or a temporary community of shared interests. ‘An Investigation of Chinese Typography’ by Joanna Yang Project Space 2, 1st November 2016

An investigation of Chinese typography is a sculptural and typographical response to the history and anatomy of Chinese typography. Due to the sheer volume of characters, the development of web fonts and the design of contemporary typography in the Chinese

language remains rudimentary compare to other western languages. Phonetic languages GSASA 'The Art School' Art 'The GSASA that utilise alphabets, such as English, have the ability to quickly develop new typefaces within weeks; whereas a logographic language such as Chinese, with over 50,000 characters, the design process is laborious and often requires years to complete. Joanna Yang undertook a Summer Residency at The Art School in August 2016, with this exhibition forming one of her People and Place, Hannah Logan, Project Space Exhibtion Sept 2017 Sept Exhibtion Space Project Communication Design 2017 final outcomes. Longbin Li 2017 Li Longbin Closer, Move Below: Li Longbin Portrait, Right: Edition Sim Jun Quan, 201 Quan, Jun Sim Left:Portrait, Left:Portrait, 21 Far left: Simulacra of Space, Space, of Simulacra left: Far Sim Jun Quan Jun Sim 7

Shaping the Future of Creative Longbin Li MDes Communication Production Design 2017 is their vast resource of academic references for each student. It takes a very high level Sim Jun Quan of criticality and exposure to do that. In addition, the staff team inform a theoretical (Jayden) methodology towards interior design – a MDes Interior Design 2017 method that is unique to The Glasgow School of Art. Their ability to adopt a theoretical approach towards a practical field was something I learned and looked up to”. Jayden’s research project, The Simulacra of Space, looks at thermal comfort, being the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment. Thermal comfort has been an important building regulation, silently yet surely directing interior behaviours. By taking readings of a physical space, Jayden’s project uses the four ontological realities of existence as stages of transcendences and Jean Baudrillard’s 4 Stages of Sign Order of Simulacra as executions of actions to recognise Thermal Comfort conditions as the simulacra of a space. The simulacrum represents the simulation of the concrete reality to the Longbin Li is a professional graphic designer to the community and collected family stories state of abstract possible reality, allowing from China who is currently based in the that he feels we seldom encounter. Move How can an art school education transform production, the perception of Thermal Comfort’s UK. He started his design career in 2011 Closer is an interactive installation that allows drive innovation, business models, sustainability and potentialities, possibilities or narrative. and eventually secured the role of senior people to better understand this condition The intention is to better understand how graphic designer in Shanghai. His expertise by looking beyond the stereotypes and employment? We believe that in the age of a new the fundamental laws of maths, geometry and covers an array of graphic design including discovering the facts and true stories of people Shaping the Future of Creative Production Creative of Future the Shaping industrial revolution and a confluence of emerging physics (prescribed as signs and symbolism) motion graphics, branding, editorial, and with the condition. affect human spatial perception. data visualisation. A strong curiosity for Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, in an interview technology breakthroughs, an art school education and design encourages him to push boundaries with Vox said “…I’m interested in the things its associated networks creates practitioners equipped Jayden had previously completed two years One Year On? and incorporate new design languages and that don’t work very well, and the things that to create innovative solutions that can benefit all society. of Bachelor’s study at The Glasgow School of The completion of the masters revealed techniques to each project. He recently you can impact society with”. “It’s designers Art’s sister campus in Singapore. After working interests to explore further in the field of pursued further education at the GSA and like Tim who motivate me” says Longbin Join us as we take a look at four recent postgraduate for a couple of years, his interest expanded interior design. “At the same time, I figure graduated with distinction. “to focus more on social issues and be much alumni, their Degree Show projects and their hopes for from practice to research, “looking to challenge that I am still lacking in practical experience”. Move Closer, Longbin’s final project in his more aware of the problems that need to the territories of the field”. Jayden was given “I have an ambition of understanding interior master’s programme, looks to tackle current be solved”. the future. These alumni will be blogging about their the opportunity to further his research during a design further through practice and research – issues existing in social attitudes towards experiences (uncensored, unedited) on their own social Masters of Design in Interior Design. practice through working experience and people with Down’s Syndrome. In a world One Year On? media over the next 12 months and GSA will follow their “The lecturers of the MDes Interior Design research through either academic or that advocates equality and giving each Longbin hopes to approach Down’s syndrome course are people that I could really look up self-reading. In my final project my thesis individual the same rights regardless of their organisations to create a platform where this stories as they work, research, utilise GSA networks to - Patrick Macklin, Thomai Pnevmonidou project was a critical take on virtualisation and backgrounds, Li suggests that people with project can be exposed to broader audiences (both local and global) and forge startups. We invite you and Pamela Flanagan. In our tutorials/ technology’s effects on the interior of Down’s Syndrome are still struggling to find and increase impact. He will also attempt to presentations they could quickly understand workplace. I intend to validate or further my their place - largely because, he considers, revisit the families that he interviewed and to follow them too, and see how our graduates fare in what was lacking and provide suggestions for argument with industry experience society has limited exposure to information to find out potential development of this real life after graduation. improvements. What is even more amazing and further research”. about the condition. Longbin has reached out awareness-raising project. Edition 23 Ryan Murdoch Below: A Narrative A Narrative Below: Pooja Katera, 2017 Katera, Pooja MSc Serious Games and Glasgow, Tool for Virtual Reality 2017 «

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Ryan is fascinated by emergent and “My academic mentor and friend Sandy Pooja Katera developing technology and the ways in which Louchart at the School of SimVis. Those in www.poojakatara.com it can be used to improve our learning not enterprise that have helped me start my pooja.katara.16 only about the world, but also ourselves; business - Alasdair Mackay, Veronica Ferguson and how new technologies can be harnessed and Libby Anson. Most of all, from my to become more mindful and self-aware. girlfriend Ksenia, who encouraged me to A narrative tool for Glasgow One Year On? Ryan’s study – an M.Sc Serious Games pursue what I love”. Urban fictions have the possibility to impact Pooja is currently pursuing the and Virtual Reality at the GSA’s School of His thesis project Aurora: Mind Over Pooja Katera the evolution of urbanism, where each city entrepreneurship path through this project. Simulation and Visualisation (programme run Digital Matter allowed players to use their MArch Architectural Studies in has its everyday narratives that play and Her aim for the next 12 months is to work in conjunction with University of Glasgow) meditation to control video games, utilising apply its forces in the functioning of the city. towards further research and prototyping Shaping the Future of Creative Production Creative of Future the Shaping Creative Urban Practices, 2017 looked at educational games and virtual brain-computer interfacing. Players could The intention for the project is to capture this to launch the project in Glasgow with the reality, and how the two can work together relax to slow time in the game or transport Pooja Katara is an architect from India. She playful interaction between the human and support of local institutions. Top: Pitching Neurotech, 2017 Neurotech, Top: Pitching Above: Still from Aurora: Mind Over Over Mind Aurora: from Still Above: to develop new ways of learning. themselves to a more peaceful environment – Matter,Digital Ryan Murdoch, 2017 graduated in 2014 from Mumbai and completed the city by partially putting aside the tyranny “My tutors Robert Mantho and Jo Crotch For the last three years, Ryan has exploring the potential of cutting-edge her Master’s in Architectural Studies in Creative of the ‘reality’ and create an ‘urban narrative’. have been immensely supportive and researched brain-computer interfacing; that technology in helping people learn about Urban Practices from the Mackintosh School My interest lies in exploring the city with encouraging throughout my course and is, allowing people to interact with technology their own minds through video games. of Architecture. Her master’s thesis project has its motions, emotions, realities, experiences Professor Johnny Rodger has also contributed with their thoughts. Specifically his research recently been selected as MSA’s nominee for the and stories. There is an attempt to understand towards the development of the project. looks at the potential for this technology to One Year On? Foulis Medal, the new annual top postgraduate the relationship of the daily narrative that runs Researchers or enthusiasts who have an help teach meditation and combat mental In a year’s time I would like to have developed prize. She is currently pursuing the project within a city and the idea for this mapping is interest in heritage, culture and alternative illness. “During my year at GSA I have given my business and be making applications to alongside researchers to realise it in Glasgow. to encapsulate the living stories. The project tours of the city are welcome to get in touch”. a TEDx talk, founded my own business: LUCID let users control games with their minds, As an artistically inclined architect, her is developed as a unique self-guided, city-tour (Learning Using Computer Interface Design) learning about themselves as they do so. interest lies in socially-engaging urban experience that runs through an augmented and reached the finals of the Converge projects. Her interactive work aims to be used reality app and a pop up book of illustrations Challenge1.” Says Ryan, who has also recently 1 Converge Challenge is a high profile pan-Scotland as an investigative tool to speculate about around a route in Glasgow. It approaches the secured a job at Eventual - a VR startup based company creation competition and entrepreneurship our perception of spaces and places in cities. city from the perspective of distinct age groups development programme for staff, students, and recent in Glasgow. graduates of Scottish Universities and Research Institutes Through this, communities can engage with – Baby Boomers, Gen Xs and Millennials and “Throughout the year I have had support aimed at creating a new generation of entrepreneurs in the history and social construct of their cities offers their tactile journeys to the reader. from some amazing people”, says Ryan. Scotland. www.convergechallenge.com in a more interactive manner. ‘The Archipelago of Contented Peoples: Edition 22nd April – 9th July 2017 July – 9th April 22nd Photo: Photo: view installation Exhibition Endurance Groups’ Left: Steven Claydon Steven Left: The past year has seen institutions set up in 25

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1O YE The Common AR S Generations Guild ON Walk down leafy Woodland’s Terrace in space. So it was objects you would find in the Glasgow’s West End and you might not realise home – like plants and tables – arranged in that one of the grand tenements overlooking order of size; and instead of the gallery lights Kelvingrove Park houses one of the city’s going on and off – like at his Turner Prize exhibit most consistently exciting arts organisations. at the Tate Britain – there was a standing lamp. Nestled between the street’s high-end flats I remember him saying at the time that the is The Common Guild, a gallery founded by gallery space was more like the one he worked curator Katrina Brown in 2007, which has in at home, that it was a bridge between the housed works by artists including Wolfgang studio and the gallery.” Tillmans, Olafur Eliasson and Tacita Dean in The gallery is sometimes utilised as a its unique domestic setting. durational, archival space to support an offsite But the house is just half of the story – project. Last summer, The Common Guild The Common Guild also commissions off-site produced At Twilight, a performance devised by projects across Glasgow and further afield, Simon Starling based on the work of WB Yeats, connecting the public with undiscovered spaces and held in the stunning Greek Thomson- in the city through site-specific screenings designed Holmwood House, a site that Brown and performances. These have included is “amazed that not many people know about”. Tomorrow is Always Too Long, a film screening In the run up to the performance, the gallery by the artist Phil Collins in Queens Park, opened up all three of its floors to Starling’s evoking the park’s great tradition of public research and preparatory material, including gatherings; and DOUG, a musical composition archival photographs, collages, and costumes by Janice Kerbel commissioned for the Mitchell and masks used in the performance. It worked Library, which went on to be nominated for both as a supplementary experience to the the 2015 Turner Prize. performance, and as a fascinating and rich “I started the Common Guild to make exhibition in its own right. projects connecting artists with spaces in The Common Guild celebrates its 10th the city,” explains Brown from the basement anniversary in 2017. “We thought for a long of the gallery, dotted with framed posters time about how we could mark it, and decided of previous exhibitions. “At first we didn’t that it didn’t feel right to have a retrospective- have permanent premises, then in 2008 my style show in the gallery,” explains Brown. friend Douglas [Gordon; GSA alumnus and “The Hunterian Gallery has a show opening

collaboration with the Japan Society, New York. Turner Prize winner] offered us space to set at the end of the year with a lot of the artists up a gallery in the house. Obviously it’s a very we have worked with over the ten years, so it’s

three musicians, one dancer, eight masks different space to the usual white cube, like someone else is hosting our retrospective Commissioned by The Common Guild in

Simon Starling and Graham Eatough and from the start I was interested in how for us!” Instead of looking back, Brown is keen artists would respond to such a specific space.” to keep working on projects bringing new and ‘At Twilight: The gallery’s previous life as a domestic space exciting work to Scotland. “Our next show, is unmistakable – in the tenement’s traditional Slow Objects, brings the work of three really Holmwood House, Glasgow, fireplaces and high windows, the curve of the interesting women artists to show in Glasgow (and a donkey costume)’ a donkey (and staircase and the atypical layout of the rooms. for the first time – Edith Dekyndt, Vanessa Billy A play for two actors, actors, two for A play Photo: Photo: “Obviously it’s a very different space to and Erin Shirreff. Our focus has always been 26th 2016 August the usual white cube, and from the start about bringing international artists to Scotland, Generations Alan Dimmick I was interested in how artists would respond and I think that is especially important at the to such a specific space.” Says Brown. “A good moment.” As well as a continuing exhibition example of this was Martin Creed’s exhibition programme, visitors can expect more Things in 2010. He was showing similar works ambitious projects off-site in the future too: to those he had shown in more traditional “I don’t think we’ve exhausted the potential

galleries before, reconfigured for a domestic of the spaces in the city yet.” Edition Aberdeen (© (© (© (© Photography 27 Below: Elevator, Elevator, Below: Exhibition, Exhibition, Left: Ambiente Renzo Mazzolini Mazzolini Renzo Messe Frankfurt Glasgow 25

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3O S ON YEAR Graven Today, Glasgow’s Merchant City is home to in the city and beyond – even down to the dozens of design agencies, architecture firms cash we carry in our wallets, thanks to a recent and artists’ studios, but it wasn’t that way when project designing bank notes for Royal Bank by by book Top: Belvidere Above: Sex Between the the Between Sex Above: 2016 Covers Covers Rachele Dunn Designer in Residence Herland event, September event, Herland at Audience right: Below Powerful exhibition Far right: Sisterhood is Herland event Right: Audience at photography by Alice Gordon multi-disciplinary design studio Graven moved of Scotland. in Residence McBride, Kirsty into its premises on Albion Street – the site Whilst keeping their roots in Glasgow of the old Herald and Times printing press – and Scotland, their client base is international, publication by Designer bypublication Designer in the 1980s. One of the first international and by Hunter’s estimate they have worked design studios in Scotland, Graven has paved in 32 countries: “We’ve got a hotel on site in the way for design in almost all of its forms in the Ivory Coast, and we did a chicken shop and

the city since it was founded 30 years ago by a nightclub in Ghana quite recently! Even from

GSA alumni Janice Kirkpatrick and Ross Hunter, our first year we were pretty clear that who continue to run the company, alongside we wanted a business that would allow us to fellow alumna Adele Patrick. go to other places and work overseas, and make “We set up when Adele [Patrick, co-founder those connections.” of Graven and later Glasgow Women’s Library] As one of the longest-standing agencies in and I were doing our Masters of Design at the city, Graven has often been a catalyst for Walk east from the Merchant City towards involved and the spaces we’ve been in, and it’s Patrick has chosen to take the whole year to the GSA, and Ross had just graduated from its employees to go start their own companies Bridgeton and you’ll find the grand Victorian amazing to see how many art school people celebrate and reflect, with exhibitions including Architecture,” explains Kirkpatrick. “We were – the founders of well-established agencies such façade of Glasgow Women’s Library, set up are involved right from the outset.” a show of poster works from the collection, encouraged to do an industrial placement but as Graphical House and Stand both started off 25 years ago by GSA graduate – and Graven It was an exhibition at the GSA that first and a photographic history of the institution, we had already done that, so we looked into at Graven. There’s also scope for collaboration co-founder – Adele Patrick. Home to a prompted Patrick to reflect on the changing with written interpretations added by women what support was available to set up a business. with others: “We work on projects with a lot of lending library, extensive archives, and an nature of the institution. “The first milestone who have memories of the Library. That was at a time when the miners were on other people,” says Kirkpatrick. “Other design exhibition space, the library is also a hub for where we thought we were being historicised Going forward, Patrick is keen to continue strike, unemployment was at a record high… agencies like Brazen and Timorous Beasties, community learning, and holds a multitude was the exhibition Studio 58, curated by centering creative practitioners. “One of the Ross has been offered a job in LA and I’d been and architecture companies like Page\Park, of events throughout the year: Since moving [ex-GSA researcher] Sarah Lowndes in 2012. most exciting things that has happened over offered a job in London, but we thought, why JM Architects… we know them all, they’re all to its current premises in 2014, it has hosted She positioned us in a trajectory of significant the past couple of years has been the founding couldn’t we have an international design studio contemporaries. It’s one of the things about guests as diverse as Lindy West and Carrie women making art in Glasgow, and it felt like a of the Designer in Residence position,” explains in Glasgow?” the design community that is particularly Brownstein, staged a recreation of a suffragette really critical moment, when we changed from Patrick. “A new graduate from the GSA comes “We were interested in groups like [Italian to Glasgow – you would never get that level march starring hundreds of local women, an institution that was working day by day to to work with us each year. It’s brilliant for us design studio] Memphis, who could design of collaboration in London.” and spearheaded a regular themed creative an institution that was regarded as significant.” because we get to work with someone who’s ceramics and textiles and furniture and “It’s very common to come together salon called Herland. This was followed in 2014 by 21 Revolutions, newly graduated and full of energy, and they architecture,” adds Hunter. “At the time in and work on projects together,” continues The past 25 years has seen the library a project that saw Glasgow-based artists get an opportunity to connect with this wider Scotland there were only a few graphic design Hunter. “Sure, we’re in competition with grow from a grassroots organisation to the and writers making new works inspired by world that we’re at the pivot of. I’m a real companies, one product design company, them sometimes – like for public tender – but only accredited museum of women’s history the GWL collections. “We chose to work evangelist – as are lots of other members of the a few architecture firms… We wanted to be Glasgow’s community is a genuine community.” in the UK – and Adele Patrick has always kept with lots of art school graduates, including team – for the agency of design and creative able to do everything.” And at the heart of this community is the the influence of the GSA close. “I feel like the people we have worked with throughout our work in institutions like ours.” This passion It’s difficult to find an area of design that GSA: “It’s hard to express just how important weaving connection between the Women’s history – Sam Ainsley, Christina McBride, Claire extends to educating other institutions – in

Generations Graven hasn’t worked in over the past three the art school is as a focal point of the Library and The Glasgow School of Art has Barclay – mixed with people who hadn’t even the museum sector, the volunteer section, decades – their work ranges from high-end creative community in Glasgow,” concludes been happening organically over the whole graduated yet, like [Sculpture & Environmental and beyond – about the importance of design. interior design for football clubs and boutique Kirkpatrick. “It goes back to the 1700s – it’s the 25 years,” says Patrick over coffee close to Art alumna] Delphine Dallison. I love that idea “What can we speak about to other institutions hotels, to branding for food companies and first institution of its kind. This is where design the library’s premises. “At the library at the of established and emerging talent coming and the way they develop their work? I would Harris Tweed, to bespoke furniture and textile as we know it today came from, right here, moment we have an exhibition of photographs together, that sorority of women.” This year always say you need creatives, you need artists, design. Their design can be found everywhere on the back of the industrial revolution.” of the organisation, the people that have been sees the 25th anniversary of the Library, and you need designers.” Edition Promenade 2017 Promenade + Textiles Fashion MDes Right: Right: 29 Laura Szulska,Laura In Fashion We Trust: 70 Years of Fashion and Textiles Suh Kim, Yeon 2017 has offered staff and Left: Below: Kyeong Jung Kyeong at GSA MDes Fashion Promenade 2017 students even more reason than usual to examine the past, and to look forwards. From the celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the School’s own fashion show, through to exhibiting at Graduate Fashion Week, and on to massive success at New Designers, the appeal of becoming part of the future of Fashion and Textile The Fashion and Textiles department at GSA include woven and knitted textiles, where the potential and can see how their specialisms design at GSA is clear. is an international community of around 150 structure and pattern of the cloth is formed have become clearer as they progress through undergraduate and postgraduate students. from and by using yarn or thread. Surface the programme”. The two specialist undergraduate programmes textiles include printed and embroidered “At postgraduate level” he says, “the within, Fashion Design and Textile Design, textiles where pattern and interest is applied emphasis is on advanced skills and honing a share studio space, allowing for relationships to the surface of an existing cloth using a personal design signature. Masters level work between students to grow and knowledge to variety of methods and processes. might either be textile led or silhouette led”. be shared. The two programmes are tutored Undergraduate textile students explore Between the students, there is a wide separately, there are specialist workshops each specialism in the first two years of their breadth of perspectives and work, and with and spaces too, for fashion to cut and sew, for respective four year programmes, learning so many activities throughout the year, textiles to print, dye, knit, weave or embroider. about their own strengths and preferences the department never stops. Within the Whilst closely related, the two disciplines along the way. Fashion students have studios, the process of producing collections

In Fashion We Trust Fashion In are distinct. Fashion design is concerned with the opportunity to explore womenswear - researching, planning, testing, sampling, the design of clothing, fashion designers menswear and gender-neutrality. Textile tweaking, making, adjusting, presenting, consider the shape, cut, silhouette and students gain experience working in print, exhibiting, and much more besides - lends construction of clothing, and tend to think knit, weave and embroidery. At the end of year itself to offer many natural opportunities more three dimensionally when designing. two students choose one of these specialisms for reflecting upon and celebrating progress Textile design is concerned with the design to focus on for the remainder of their studies. and achievements along the way. All the of cloth for interiors and fashion. There are Jimmy Stephen-Cran, Head of Department while, among the every day busyness of Norman Sutton-Hibbert,Norman model, two broad areas within this, known as said “Students are supported through these practice, careers are taking shape. Left: Photo: Naomi Sussex Naomi Photo: GSA 70th anniversary Fashion Show. anniversary Fashion 70th GSA ‘structure’ and ‘surface’. Structural textiles choices, we consider their aptitude and Edition GSA Fashion 31 Show 1947 – 2017 the art school Anniversary Exhibition Anniversary of Art Fashion Show 70th 70th Show Fashion Art of Right: Right: 21 march 7pm & 9pm

The Glasgow School 22 march 5.30pm, 7pm & 9pm £7 / £10 tickets-scotland.com gsa shop Fashion Show flyer 1955 Below: GSA Archives & Collections

Drawing upon photographs, film, press event (1982), and the shows appear to engage cuttings and ephemera, the exhibition with topical, social and political themes. Celebrating 70 years of the Fashion Show 1947 Throughout its history, the fashion show had – 2017 illustrated the evolving yet enduring involved students from across departments celebrating 70 years event. Introduced in 1947 as part of Charities at the GSA. In the 90s, it became more Week, the show provided an opportunity to integrated into the undergraduate curriculum, present student designs and fundraise around and in the early 2000s, the shows themselves the City of Glasgow. Over the years, the became larger. For the 70th Anniversary format, location and emphasis of the event show, students selected a period between have changed, although collaboration, team 1947-2017 for inspiration. working and GSA’s Students’ Association Now, the undergraduate show is entirely remain central to its organisation. organised by Fashion and Textiles students, FASHION The very first show was a mannequin from event design, to promotion, and the 1947 parade of specially made outfits. The emphasis creation of a Pop Up Boutique selling their changed through the decades reflecting at own accessory designs. This year, even the Above: Above: GSA Archives & Collections Archives GSA times wider trends and industry developments. models, cast by students, were inspired by

In Fashion We Trust Fashion In Unusual materials and accessories, including the anniversary, and included staff, students 2 017 headwear, featured in the 1950s and early and graduates, among them recent MLitt 1954 flyer Show Fashion SHOW

1960s, more wearable garments, including Fine Art alumnus, 70-year old Norman 70 Celebrating geometric patterns were displayed in the later Sutton-Hibbert. half of the decade. As they begin their final year of study, The 1970s ushered in large-scale placement some of the students involved in the 70th prints, embroidered motifs, oversized anniversary show share their experiences garments and costumes. The 80s offer the and work. Right: GSA Fashion and Textiles students present first known audio-visual recording of the 1947-2017 Show Fashion Years, Edition 33 Naomi Sussex Textile Design: Weave

My work is process led, often with a narrative context and explores sculptural forms, using playful and unconventional materials in combination with traditional craft practice. For my final year project I plan to explore this further to use my love of theatre and storytelling as a starting point. Morag Seaton Working on the fashion show was an invaluable experience. It challenged me both Fashion Design creatively and technically. I really enjoyed moragseaton.com working as part of team, there was a real buzz backstage, and real pride in what we My work involves elements of functional had produced. design, sustainability and abstract qualities. I think clothing should be worn and loved, Follow Naomi on Instagram shared around friends and passed down @naomiisussex.studio generations, so I’m researching timeless clothing, garment treasures and family hand-me-downs, and considering the reasons Kyeong Jung why we become attached to certain things. With this in mind, it is important to me that my Fashion Design final collection embraces this personal aspect, but also combines it with contemporary design. As we prepared for the fashion show, I realised The excitement that the 70th anniversary just what team work can achieve - and how Fashion Show brought us all was a highlight. amazing it is to be part of a group effort in It is amazing to be surrounded by people a project like this. I truly enjoyed the whole equally as enthusiastic about what you do, process of designing garments and showing and seeing all of the wonderful things created. them. There were a few groups who managed The show has definitely developed our aspects the fashion show, and I was in the relationship as a year group. stage design team. In my own work, I’ve I was part of the visual design and marketing been focusing on developing design ideas team, which involved creating the marketing and exploiting pattern techniques. materials for the show, ticketing and social media. I love graphic design I enjoy working on the presentation aspects of my own work, such as creating portfolio books, campaign posters and book-binding. I created visuals for the show, boutique and fundraising events, and worked with printing companies on producing the programme too. Nothing quite prepares you for the amount of work Rory and organisation needed to run an event like this though. It was actually a perfect way to Strudwick prepare for the workload of our final year. Textile Design: Print Although it is daunting, it is also really exciting.

I am printed textile designer from Margate with a keen interest in all things colour. My project plans for this year are to explore and experiment with the relationship coloured lights have on pigmented colours, and how they react and change under different circumstances. I plan to translate these ideas into print.

In Fashion We Trust Fashion In I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere and excitement which came with the fashion show, as my work and myself walked down the catwalk. I learnt a lot about working with others and professionally coordinating a live project as large as the fashion show.

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Nina Butler Textile Design – Knit 2017 Awarded: New Designer of the Year at New Designers, London, in June. Nina’s Degree Show collection, Offset, featured tactile, reversible, innovative sports textile designs, inspired by Olympic architecture, including Zaha Hadid's Aquatics Centre in London and the Estadi Olímpic in Barcelona. Using bonding techniques and padded foam channels, which are more usually seen in sports footwear, created distinctive modern fabrics. Nina said “I’d love to work for the knit innovation section of a sports footwear company. This award will enable me to move to London and find a placement that will help me on that path. I love to learn, so look forward to the various consulting sessions that come with the award.” Nina was also selected, along with Kate Connell (Textile Design, Print) to exhibit at Premiere Vision Paris. Nina’s success marked the second time in three years that the New Designer of the Year Award has been won by a GSA Textile Design graduate, which was also won by Olivia Qi in 2015.

Emma Boyd- Kimberley « Madsen Read more about the history of the GSA Fashion Show and see more Tam Textile Design – Knit 2017, images from the exhibition on the Textile Design: Embroidery Awarded: New Designers GSA Archives & Collections blog in John Lewis Award for Design articles written by Dr Helena Britt, Subject Leader, Textiles. My own design work is focused on traditional and Innovation, also part of hand embroidery techniques used in a modern New Designers, London. GSA Fashion Shows way, often luxurious and unusual materials. 1940s – 1960s I joined the event design team for the show tinyurl.com/gsashow1 working on set design, music and the design Emma’s Degree Show collection Cirkel GSA Fashion Shows of the boutique. This project was a valuable features sculptural knitted pieces inspired 1970s – 2017

In Fashion We Trust Fashion In experience, it taught me a lot about the by a summer spent in Copenhagen, and by tinyurl.com/gsashow2 importance of collaborative practice and how organic contemporary architecture. Circular to organise a successful event. Since the show shapes were produced using unusual objects GSA Fashion and Textiles I’ve had the opportunity to loan my clothes such as hair rings, curtain rings and copper students present the for a few editorial photography sessions, tubing. Emma said the award “gives me 70th GSA Fashion Show: which has given me such a boost of confidence. a head start in producing my fabrics and gsafashionshow17.tumblr.com getting a footing in the design world. I want Follow Kimberley on instagram to start making contacts and learning about Instagram @kiimberleytam manufacturing my pieces.” @gsafashionshow17 Edition Communication Design Studio,Communication Reid Building Reid 39

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“better than ever”, ready to receive its first intake of students in September 2019. Meanwhile, across the road in her office in the Reid Building, Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam, GSA’s Deputy Director (Innovation), is working on an equally important set of plans: how, in practice, the Grade-A listed building will resume its place at the heart of art school life. Always clear about the fact that the building would reopen as a working art school, GSA has taken the decision that the Mackintosh will be the home of first year students across all disciplines, a hub where those new to the art As the restoration of the Tall wooden hoarding still surrounds The school will work and learn under a single roof. Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building. “It’s a very ambitious thing, but it feels iconic Mackintosh Building Through the scaffolding that cloaks both wings really timely and really good to be doing this,” is nearing completion, of the building, a visitor on the street might Prof McAra-McWilliam said. “It’s a good way catch a glimpse of the spacious studio windows to open the building: it’s not just the opening Innovation from Tradition first year students can look on the upper floors, or a detail of Mackintosh- of a building, it’s an opening of the GSA to forward to collaborative designed ironwork. From inside, there is the a renewed educational experience within working like the architect constant sound of tools and machines - that building. That’s a good way to inhabit sounds of a building being brought back to life. the building and have it work for us in the himself had first imagined. Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece 21st century.” has been under protective wrapping since When Mackintosh completed his the fire in May 2014, which destroyed the masterpiece in 1909, it was to house The Mackintosh Library and left parts of the west Glasgow School of Art in its entirety: painters, wing severely damaged. The Glasgow School architects and designers all. As GSA grew, the Above: Mackintosh of Art’s multi-million-pound restoration campus expanded and now has bases all over Library Lights project promises to bring back the Mack the city; only the School of Fine Art remained Edition 41 Mackintosh Building Mackintosh 2008 Building, Mackintosh Left: Left: Below: Left: Detail, Directors Office door, door, Office Directors Detail, 2017 Show Degree Studio floor,

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in the Mack. Now the iconic building will “And if we remember that the people “I would say that it’s only by talking to those “That’s part of creative practice now, it’s not Building itself. The Mack and its rich heritage the archive, the things that GSA alumni open its doors once again to welcome all new coming to GSA are from all over the world, in a different profession, or coming at the same just about being good at your own specific in art, design and architecture will form the have made in the wider world. It’s not only students from all disciplines, from sculptors then we can imagine the richness of that issue from a different perspective, that you discipline, it must include the ways in which basis of a new course which will be taught to a historical asset, it’s a teaching resource to jewellery designers, architects to those environment where everybody’s working really learn. It’s not about simplifying things we communicate and collaborate with others. all first-year students in their first semester. for the future. specialising in digital imaging. The restored on a shared topic. They’ll just be beginning down to some lowest common denominator. The graduates of tomorrow will need to be able Prof McAra-McWilliam said: “How exactly “Here at GSA we encourage ‘Innovation building will be equipped to house the different to learn the perspectives of their different Something that’s shared doesn’t mean to work with increasingly divergent groups of we do that is still being worked out. It could from Tradition’, so instead of throwing things specialisms, each in its own area, but it will also disciplines, but they’ll have all these different something that’s average. people as the world becomes even complex be about the building itself, it could be about out from the past and starting from a clean foster a greater degree of cross-disciplinary and fascinating personal histories and cultural “Collaboration makes us more aware of our than it is today. objects from our archive, it could the history sheet of paper, the interesting thing is to collaboration than has not been possible before. experiences, that’s a great resource for us.” own specialisms. For me as a designer, working “We see that in all our areas of practice of GSA in relation to the city or Charles innovate with or from the tradition. I see it as Innovation from Tradition “It’s quite a significant change for us,” said “In the wider world, politically, economically, with people from other disciplines makes me at GSA. In all our professional lives, we deal Rennie Mackintosh and the work that he did a process of layering: to the deep materiality Prof McAra-McWilliam. “The students being socially, culturally, technologically, however more clear about what my own role is, increasingly with different types of people, in the building. We might change our focus of the building we bring the teaching, which right next to one another in the same building you want to look at it, the kinds of issues it sharpens up the individual discipline as well as and it’s helpful to learn to have those kinds every time, or different groups might take a is also a creative practice. Then we have the changes everything. There will be a social that are with us need more than one type of having it contribute to something more general. of conversations early on. It’s quite an different topic. ways in which the building is equipped for context, a community context, all the first years expertise,” she said. “There’s no one person It really is the best of both worlds. We become innovation, to be embedding that in our “You can point at just about anything in the 21st century, and the visiting scholars will get to know one another across the whole who’s going to solve issues of healthcare or more aware of what our own role is, how it teaching from the beginning, putting it in at that building and talk about it in art, design and exhibitions and all that will happen in institution. People will make friendships and poverty or any of the big questions facing relates to others, how other people see their ground level rather than saying it as a thing or architecture terms so it lends itself to being the building. Those things layer up to make associations with people in other disciplines, us today. Our practice is about creative disciplines and the world around them.” you might do to round off your studies.” a creative tool for teaching. The phrase I use the richness that we are able to offer.” and they will take that with them when they collaboration, how you bring people together She said that, regardless of their specialist When inviting new GSA students into a is ‘deep materiality’. The building is a deep go into second year and move into more to look at how we might collectively address field, students needs to be prepared for working collaborative conversation, there can be few resource in and of itself; you can unpack it specialised studies. the issues of today and those of tomorrow. in an increasingly cross-disciplinary world. better places to start than the Mackintosh endlessly. It gives us access to the history,

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Foldability, Equi Collection, Gold Foldability is a London based studio that creates set design, window displays, lighting and interior products inspired by origami and geometry, founded in 2013 by Product Design alumna Kyla McCallum.

Previous clients include Burberry, Ted Baker, John Lewis, H&M, ELLE Decoration, Perrier Jouët, MADE.com, M&C Saatchi and L'Oreal. Kyla was coined, "London's new Queen of origami," by interiors writer Barbara Chandler (Homes & Property,

London Evening Standard). 43 Edition Pavilions,Mixtapes 45 & Landscapes Jerome Wren Highlights Newbery Medal 2017 Each year among the undergraduate Degree Show Diploma in Architecture 2017 exhibition and graduation celebrations at GSA, a range of prizes are awarded to graduating students in recognition of their final year work and projects.

The Newbery Medal — named after Fra Newbery, Director of GSA between 1885 and 1917 — is awarded to the top final year student; the Chairman’s Medals are awarded Palais des Machines, des Palais to a meritorious student from each GSA specialist school. Wren Jerome Selected students are invited to present their project to a panel and the medal winners chosen. Thirty or so other Prizes are also awarded by a group of selected staff, industry experts, and sponsors reviewing Degree Show before it opens to the public.

We caught up with some of 2017’s award recipients: graduates Jerome Wren (Newbery Medal), Ren Yu P’ng (Chairman’s Medal) Fred Wordie (Chairman’s Medal) and Hannah Mooney (Glasgow Print Studio Publication I only found out I had won the Newbery present and future in order to formulate any Medal on the day of graduation. It came as kind of meaningful contribution. I also believe Prize, Armour Prize for Still Life, The James Nicol McBroom a complete surprise - it was a great honour that an architect has a responsibility towards Memorial Prize for Fine Art, Landscape Drawing Prize). and I was very touched. I am thankful to have beauty as well as construction and must been considered and to have been given the find a means of conveying their own artistic opportunity to present my work. ambitions in response to the given context. I presented my final year project, which I have studied at the GSA since 2011 and is a vehicle to explore and celebrate the built completed my Part I and II in Architecture. reference, to retrace the now largely forgotten I learnt the importance of learning through Palais des Machines in Paris and offer it a new making and developing an informed intuition. life. Built alongside the Eiffel Tower for the This is something that I have carried with me 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle, the Palais into my final project and hope to continue was a pavilion designed to proclaim France’s to carry into the future. modernity and industrial strength. It was I enjoy using models and drawings to conceived, like the Eiffel Tower, as a temporary develop an idea and allow it to fully grow. structure, but unlike the famous Paris landmark I try not to be precious and never to disregard it is now long since demolished and has passed an idea until it has been thoroughly tested. into collective unconsciousness. I find that there is value in studying the least My proposal is for a grand exhibition hall, workable option, often to show why it is an

Pavilions,Mixtapes &Pavilions,Mixtapes Landscapes relocated to the Ile-aux-Cygnes on the river inadequate solution and sometimes to reveal Seine, in close proximity to the Palais des some unexpected qualities. Machines. Occupying a privileged location in In between my Parts I and II, I spent a year the city, it is first and foremost a marker of working in practice at Sauerbruch Hutton in difference, an island in the city. Berlin where I was able to work on a number As a building, it is synonymous with the of competitions and projects in Germany and notion of a vitrine, that is to say the showcase France. During my final year, I spent a semester of large objects and artefacts alike, as well as on exchange at the École Nationale Supérieure the enclosure of land and the definition of lost d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, which served space. It is an island of memory, homage to the as a foundation for my thesis project. Palais des Machines – remembering what once I am looking forward to what the future was and what is yet to come. holds for me. I believe that architecture should respond Jerome Wren has been selected to take part in first and foremost to context - place and RSA New Contemporaries 2018. time; that an architect must consider past, Edition 47 Ren YuRen P’Ng Ren YuRen P’Ng Hannah Mooney Hannah Mooney Fred Wordie Fred Wordie Fred Below: Below: Left: Below: Below: Below: Below: Right: Right: Below: The Inverted Street, Inverted The

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The James Nicol McBroom Memorial Prize for Fine Art, Landscape Drawing Prize Painting and Printmaking Fred Wordie Chairman’s Medal 2017 Product Design

The way I’m currently describing my work is attempts to change this by introducing a new research-based critical design, and it often quarterly bespoke music magazine based on involves collaborating with the people/ the music you listen to. It is your record of community I’m designing for. I’m interested in the music you listen to each month and gives design strategy and understanding a complete you a beautiful breakdown of the information problem, I like insight and research. behind the songs you value most. Each copy My final project, Liner-Notes, was about comes with a personal mixtape of your top how people discover music. It came from the songs. The magazine layout created by a mixtape idea, having a collection of music you different graphic designer each quarter and want to share. As I found myself using Spotify populated with ‘sleeve notes’ produced by more, I saw my personal music collection in Liner-Notes’ in-house AI, producing a physical terms of tangible artefacts dwindle. Digital artifact for discussion and sharing. Half of the streaming then has impacted on a sociable subscription fee goes to the artists you listen to or shared experience of music in favour of an most. These quarterly magazines will become individualised and isolated one, and given rise almanacs of your music life, so when a friend to an industry of underpaid artists. Liner-Notes comes over, and you’re discussing that road trip you took last June you can bring the summer’s I had presented my work to a panel a little is something that tends to be different back Liner-Notes from the shelf… earlier in the year and was delighted to have home, where so much architecture is new, I’ve come to realise that an interest point received a Commendation at the Glasgow or relatively so. And the art school itself is a for me is how to make more connections Institute of Architects (GIA) Student Awards. landmark too. between people, rather than being separated themes of landscape and still life painting. Getting an award at Graduation too then came I was afraid when I first arrived, being a by the digital screen in front of us. I think of it I am interested in the natural, organic forms as a big surprise. science student. But the art school did a very as social life technology. in painting, etching and drawing. I like to The award was for my thesis, which is about good job of developing our skills. The tutors One of my slightly earlier projects treat paintings as if they were observational Madrid, and the starting point for this work gave us all a chance to build on our own style, explored how people treat different forms of drawings. Although I work on a range of scales, came from a trip our programme took there in strengths and confidence. You can present your communication, and I conducted experiments I find the best work is done on the small size of September 2016. Working in teams, as studios work in architecture in a variety of ways. My own with users in order to create a new experience board that fits into my ‘plein-air’ painting box. with our own briefs, we sectioned Madrid into strength is model making, it is a useful way to using their online data. It ended with Pigeon, My landscape paintings principally draw a grid. Each person worked on a different area, understand which ideas will be successful. a concept product that allows a user to inspiration from one of the most passionate studied what was there already and proposed Working in the studio among a lot of experience Facebook through a more personal advocates of plein-air painting; John Constable. changes, all the while looking at how each different people is a great benefit. We have our analogue interaction, in an attempt to change His oil sketches abandoned the academic section linked back together. My area of the own desks and the environment is really friendly. how they value their online communication. way of painting and in doing so challenged city was really dense and crowded, the buildings Six of us worked on the same dissertation topic Pigeon works as a Facebook user’s answering barriers between sketch and finished piece. in that particular spot are all crammed into this year, which compared the city of Glasgow machine. As new Facebook messages or Like Constable, I try to work in an unfastidious narrow streets. In my project, I inverted the with Boston. It was so interesting, especially notifications arrive, Pigeon’s arm will raise way, painting the same view at different points city, the streets became the buildings and the because we had such different points of view, and users can then take delivery of their in the day, observing the differences light buildings became the streets. our experience and culture was so varied. printed mail. makes to the forms. My most recent work We were well prepared for the task of In the group with me was a student each from One of the key things I have learnt I’ve been really touched by the support I’ve had since my Degree Show. I’ve sold paintings, sensitively explores the climatic, atmospheric

Pavilions,Mixtapes &Pavilions,Mixtapes Landscapes surveying a city, having gained experience with Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Russia and Hong Kong. during my time at the GSA is to take and elemental changes of the Irish landscape. a test run the year before in Glasgow. We were We worked with a visiting Professor from criticism well, how to read criticism, and including some to other practitioners who are However most importantly, painting the given a selection of sites across the city to visit Harvard, and looked at what made the two make use of it. Learning how to tell when to interested in the techniques I’ve used, which landscape from life has brought me closer to and choose from. The experiences through the cities liveable, factors such as education, health keep going, and when a piece of work is done is wonderful, and I have been invited to show nature and respectful of its strength, energy programme all build cumulatively to give you and healthcare; Glasgow benefits from the is important. I give myself a rigid timetable my work at a range of exhibitions. I often paint and beauty. the skills you need. NHS of course. Boston has more snow and is to work to, I tell myself that you can do what the area around my home in Ireland, and I’ve In addition to the prizes received at I first heard about the GSA in 2011, when well prepared for it, the size and scale of the you want outside of that time, if you’ve got been invited to paint the areas around other graduation, Hannah Mooney has also recently I met a member of GSA staff in Malaysia two cities is similar. the job done which you have set yourself for people’s homes too. It’s given me freedom, been awarded the RSA John-Kinross Scholarship at a recruitment event. I came to Glasgow I’ve completed both my BA Architecture and that day. I would recommend that approach. independence and confidence. (a travel bursary to Florence), selected for the initially to experience the city – the change in my Diploma in Architecture at GSA, and I spent Being in the studio really helps me work, Being at GSA has been inspiring in so many Aon Art Community Award Exhibition, London, temperature from my hometown in Malaysia a year working in an architectural practice in the atmosphere, peer reviewing and feedback ways, the environment is good, driven by peers, the Royal Scottish Watercolours Society (as you can imagine) is a very different Malaysia in between. I’m heading back to GSA that goes on among friends during the and although my year group made diverse Exhibition, and RSA New Contemporaries 2018. experience - and from photographs of Glasgow this year to complete the programme MArch, process really makes a difference. work with diverse materials, it is a supportive www.hannahmooney.co.uk I could see that it has really beautiful buildings. Architecture by Conversion before hopefully www.fredwordie.com and encouraging environment to be part of. The city has preserved much of its history – this starting to work in a practice in the UK. My practice explores the self-renewing Edition 49

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The GSA has played a significant part in the by Stewart history of Glasgow pop and rock. As a venue, Smith it was where Orange Juice played their first the Edge Glasgow gig in 1979, and it has continued to host shows by cult bands and future stars, such as Chvrches, who made their live debut there in 2012. More significant still have been the contributions of GSA students and alumni to the music scene. From playing in bands and DJing, to booking shows, designing posters, and stage-sets, artists have been at the heart of the musical community. This fruitful exchange can be traced back to the early 1970s and the Third Eye Centre (now the Centre for Contemporary Arts), where playwright, poet and pianist Tom highlighted the importance of the GSA to the McGrath presided over a visionary programme city’s music scene. Although only bassist Bob of avant-garde jazz, folk music and sound Hardy had studied there, all the band members poetry, alongside theatre, readings, exhibitions had strong connections to the art community. and radical intermedia happenings. As punk As a result, they became the house band at bands were banned by the city council, it The Chateau, an art deco warehouse turned wasn’t until the post-punk era that Glasgow studio and performance space. would produce its own distinctive scene. The GSA is close to Sauchiehall Street’s hub Behold the Sound of Young Scotland: Postcard of venues and bars. On Renfrew Street, there’s Records. Home to the sighing pop reveries of the Art School bar itself, a student run gig, club Aztec Camera and Orange Juice, as well as and exhibition space which has an unparalleled the more angular sounds of Josef K, Postcard reputation for leftfield and inclusive LGBTQ+ Above: Above: at Counterflows 2017 Counterflows at would prove influential on several generations events such as the OH141 clubnight. Down the Photo: of Glasgow indie, providing a model for bands hill on Sauchiehall Street itself is Nice & Sleazy, and labels to carve out their own little corners famous for its scuzzy charm and Buckfast Jens Masimov of the music world. While some Glasgow cocktails. The Centre for Contemporary Arts Institute Modern The bands, such as The Jesus and Mary Chain and (CCA) offers an excellent performance and club Primal Scream, moved to London to further space, plus galleries and two cafe-bars. Like the MFA Degree Show 2017 their careers, others, such as The Pastels, The Art School, it’s a key hub for the intersection Vaselines and Teenage Fanclub stayed in the of the music and art scenes. For larger bands, Glasgow is a great music city. New students at The Glasgow School of city, helping run club nights such as Splash One, there’s the 02 ABC, and for emergent touring

Postcard from the Edge the from Postcard Art will find themselves at the heart of a vibrant and diverse community organising shows and keeping record stores acts, Broadcast. From the Art School, continue stocked with the latest underground sounds. east down Renfrew Street and you’ll come of musicians, DJs, promoters and fans. GSA alumni have gone on to As Britpop went into decline, Glasgow across the Flying Duck, a subterranean space great things as members of Franz Ferdinand and Golden Teacher, to emerged as a hotbed of post-rock, lo-fi and offering gigs, club nights and vegan food. name but two, but their development would have been impossible indie pop. From the Chemikal Underground Head down towards Central Station and you’ll label emerged Mogwai, Delgados, Arab Strap find its sister venues Stereo and the Old without the opportunities provided by the city’s rich infrastructure and Bis, each with their own distinctive sound Hairdressers in Renfield Lane. The former is of venues and art spaces. Beyond the grassroots scene lies a world of and attitude. Meanwhile, Belle & Sebastian’s a café bar with a medium sized basement wistful pop gems captured the mystery and venue, while the latter hosts an adventurous possibilities: large venues and arenas, plush concert halls and a musical magic of Glasgow. The runaway success of programme of music, art and film in its calendar packed with festivals and special events. Franz Ferdinand in the early noughties atmospheric mezzanine bar and versatile Edition 69 at Subclub 20 Below: Below: by by Niall M Walker Niall Optimo

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independent promoters such as Ideal Mexico, everything is less atomised and that leads Spite House and Freakender to thrive. These to interesting music being created." promoters boast an eclectic music policy Superstar curator Hans Ulrcih Obrist has that takes in everything from queer punk described the city’s explosion of and industrial electronics, to avant-jazz and award-winning art as ‘The Glasgow Miracle’. Saharan guitar wizardry. They also make an But Glasgow’s cultural renaissance did not effort to offer an alternative to the standard happen by accident. Thanks to the inspired gig experience, putting on dance parties efforts and sheer hard work of those that came and festivals in warehouses, art spaces before them, new GSA students will have and community centres, as well as more a fantastic opportunity to participate in this conventional venues. Artist collectives have hotbed of creativity, shaping the art of the embraced this approach, organising innovative future and its soundtrack. multi-media events in former industrial spaces such as the Glue Factory and The Whisky Bond. Such activities have had an influence on the city’s ‘official’ events, with pioneering festivals such as Arika, Counterflows and Tectonics presenting experimental music alongside installations, talks and radical ideas. Perhaps the greatest strength of the Glasgow music scene is its openness. As Michael Kasparis, the brains behind the agenda-setting Night School label notes, "I’d say that because Glasgow is geographically small and relatively underpopulated, people rely on each other more to survive. So punk shows will have people with a broad range of interests, different people go to clubs, Above: Above: Street Party 2017 Party Street Degree Show upstairs room. Down towards the Clyde on Gallowgate and you’ll find the famous Jamaica Street is the Sub Club. Currently Barrowlands ballroom and one of the more celebrating its 30th birthday, the Subby is recent additions to the Glasgow gig map, home to the famous Optimo, an eclectic club converted church venue St Luke’s. Over in the night that has played a major role in shaping West End the Hug & Pint is one of the best the city’s music culture, as well as the venues in which to see upcoming touring acts, bass-worshipping Numbers, and house while the SWG3 complex has mid-range gigs

Postcard from the Edge the from Postcard stalwarts Subculture. and clubs in the main warehouse space, Walk along Argyle Street towards the outdoor events in the new Galvaniser’s Yard, Trongate and you’ll reach the artists’ quarter of and more esoteric fare in Jim Lambie’s pop-art Above: Above: courtesy of SWG3. SWG3. of courtesy King Street, home to the Transmission Gallery space the Poetry Club. Two miles south of Photo: and Glasgow Print Studio, as well as the 13th the Clyde in Shawlands, the Glad Café lies at

Note Cafe, the site of innumerable loud and the centre of an increasingly vibrant Southside James Anderson Poetry Club, Poetry sweaty gigs. Kings Court, meanwhile, is home music community, while at the other end to vegan cafe-bar and venue Mono and its of Queens Park, the Rum Shack runs a lively fantastic in-house record store Monorail, programme of club nights and gigs. co-owned by Stephen McRobbie of local indie These spaces have been hugely supportive legends The Pastels. Carry on east along of the city’s creative community, allowing 71 Art Scrubber: 'Observing Women at Work' Reid Gallery, 20 April 2017 30 minute durational performance by artist Kate Clayton (aka Art Scrubber, Silver Swimmer). Exhibition ‘Observing Women at Work’ by Franki Raffles. Image credit: Ruudu Ulas GSA Exhibitions GSA The Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions public year-round a Department curates contemporary with works that programme the from architects and artists, designers UK and abroad, as well as interacting with teaching and research activities and developing creative opportunities with staff and students. exhibitions, programme of Our innovative projects, off-site talks, seminars, performance, publishing initiatives and outreach, aims to explore the creative, social and educational nature of contemporary practice.

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Prof IreneProf McAra McWilliam, Below: Deputy Director (Innovation) Deputy Director Modes of Production It's early September on a balmy Friday By Jan Patience afternoon and I am sitting with Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam OBE, Deputy Director (Innovation) at GSA, in her retro-chic office in The Glasgow School of Art's Reid Building in Garnethill, Glasgow. Outside, the air feels unnaturally still. There's a feeling of calm-before-the-storm as graduate students make last minute tweaks to their Degree Shows downstairs and staff busy themselves preparing for a new intake of undergraduates. But it's not the GSA's Glasgow campuses which Professor McAra-McWilliam and I have our eyes trained on today. We are both staring at an old colour-tinted print of The Blairs Steading on the Altyre Estate near Forres in Moray which is sitting on a table between us. Professor McAra-McWilliam, who was born and raised in Moray, is telling me how these Grade ‘A’ listed Italianate buildings, built in the 1830s, have been transformed into a new GSA campus, providing studio, workshop and exhibition space as well as state-of-the-art areas for research, teaching, prototyping and flexible lab work. The refurbishment was supported by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Historic Environment Scotland. Modes of Production Her enthusiasm is infectious. "It's an inspiring setting," she tells me. "Beautiful too." We start to talk about a recent headline- grabbing project that has emerged from this hub of creative energy and innovation. The project, led by researcher Jeroen Blom, melds together Professor McAra-McWilliam's twin passions of creating valuable and significant change by designing real things for real people. Jeroen Blom Project Prosthetic Greaves Prosthetic Left and centre: and Left Edition 75 GSA Experience Lab Experience GSA willow Records Research Project, Below: Below: Left: Left: Prosthetic Greaves, DHI Nursing DHI

in partnership with NHS Scotland, Scottish a project led by Transformation Design Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. student Cong Tan. For his project, Craft: The DHI aims to bring people from different The Dissemination of Traditional Crafts, backgrounds together, be it business, academia, Cong co-designed a smart ring and app patient or families, so that everyone involved by collaborating with local makers in in a healthcare challenge is represented in the Highlands. designing the future of care. Keen to explore how to evoke knowledge Professor McAra-McWilliam and her team and learning around craft by combining have worked hard over the last ten years to traditional skills with digital technology, foster a holistic approach to design which he worked with basket maker Karren Collins; has come of age with the establishment of ceramicists Julia Smith and Sula Grigg, the GSA's new Innovation School. The new pottery maker John Christie and members kid on the specialist school block joins Fine of the Forres Crafters, a local craft association. Art, Architecture, Simulation and Visualisation One of the ways he measured their and Design to become the fifth school to be "making journey" was to use digital technology established within the GSA and is based in both to map the makers' heart rate as they created the Highlands and Islands campus and the their one-off pieces. Now, when a consumer Renfrew Street campus. purchases the craft object, they receive a link "Jeroen's project is the perfect example of to the app and the data is shared. Now, that what the new Innovation School is all about," really is art with heart… says Professor McAra-McWilliam. Working Innovation is built into the bricks of with local businesses, we give them a fresh pair The Glasgow School of Art. The word of eyes. If you get the right people in a room innovation stems from the Latin verb innovare, together; bring people into a shared space, meaning "to reform" or "to change". By this you start to ask, 'how should it be and could definition, innovation is – and always has it be better?' Once you establish how an idea been – part of the very fabric of the GSA, could be realised you 'roadmap' back to the which began life as the Glasgow Government present to work out how it can be achieved. School of Design in 1845. Another prime example of the GSA's Delve into the annals of the GSA and you'll integrated approach to innovation comes from discover they are packed with examples of names who have pushed back the boundaries design exists." in their chosen path to create new ways of Good design, Don maintains, can be making and creating. From pioneering directors invisible when it is done well. Citing examples such as Fra Newbery, to architects like Charles such as an Apple Store or the Citizen M chain Rennie Mackintosh, painters like Joan Eardley of hotels, it is, he insists, all about creating and designers like Ian Callum, who is design environments. "Nike don't sell shoes, director with Jaguar Cars, they have all made they sell fitness. You are buying into that." a huge impact in their chosen fields. Dr Gordon Hush, Head of the Innovation According to Don McIntyre, Programme School, has a clear vision of what innovation Director of the new Innovation School, the means within the art school setting. "What we roots of the GSA's contemporary approach are doing here is dealing with a digital, to innovation started to push to the surface connective, mobile world," he says. "There is following a UK-wide review of creativity in a radically changed cultural context at the business commissioned by then Chancellor heart of it all. For students in our school it's Jeroen's project saw local artisans, Karen good to think about the design of that, and of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown in 2005. a case of how are we going to look at how Collins, from Naturally Useful in Rafford, talk about how I think the design is disability- "The Cox Review of Creativity in Business was people are living today. It's about our ability Scott Gleed, from Gleed 3D in Relugas and awareness as well. I like having choice, I like chaired by Sir George Cox, Chairman of the to connect with others. The design process is Roger Milton, from Auldearn Antiques in changing what my prosthesis would look British Design Council," he explains. "With still taught but at the same time we ask our Auldearn, work with with Carol Sloan, Caitlin like. I don’t like to cover it up,” she adds manufacturing on the wane, he was asked students to explore the near future." McMullan and Chema Perez, who all use a “I don’t really see the point in trying to hide it. to look into the future of innovation and Innovation at the GSA in the second Modes of Production lower limb prosthesis. Earlier this year, they That’s what I like about this project. It’s making creativity in the UK." decade of the 21st century is all about taking started talking to Jeroen and the three makers something really nice out of a prosthesis.” Don adds: "The GSA was originally set up a long hard look at how existing structures in about what worked for them in practical terms. This ground-breaking development as a reaction to the demand for designers in a wide variety of settings – be it in health care, As a team, they then started to co-design epitomises GSA’s approach to fostering an the Victorian era when manufacturing lay at business or social enterprises – can be designed personalised prosthetic greaves. atmosphere which supports collaborative the heart of Glasgow's prosperity. Businesses to accommodate the rapidly changing Reflecting on the experience after completion, innovation. Healthcare is a particular area of had to re-skill and Glasgow became known as demands of a digital world. Caitlin McMullan explained: "We spoke about interest and the GSA is a founding partner in the a place where designers created products. my experience of being an amputee, and my Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI) Innovation The difference between then and now is that experience of before my amputation. It was Centre funded by the Scottish Funding Council, innovation is now the umbrella under which Interaction Design 2017 Design Interaction Lukas Vytautas Dagilis Vytautas Lukas Left: Home(less)Left: Edition 77 61% Of research recognised as world-leading or internationally recognised (REF 2014)

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International exchange programme with 75 partner institutions

Students from partner institutions study at GSA through study abroad programmes for periods 6-9 A Borderless MOnths GSA in Discipline? GLasgOW FOrres A creative community bound together through a shared SingapOre visual language. Beijing We are internationally recognised as one many of the global challenges confronting Students at GSA representing of Europe’s leading university-level society and contemporary business. institutions for the visual creative disciplines – Being international is embedded in our a reputation grounded in the international curriculum, aiming to offer all students, impact and standing of our academic staff, regardless of their cultural, social or economic our international student community drawn background, an intercultural experience which from over 80 countries and our shared visual values both the local and global and prepares 8O language brings us together as a truly global them for the global creative eco-system cOuntries community of visual creative practioners. beyond art school. Through international Being international is in our DNA. From projects, study trips, student engage, history the European style art education of the Foulis and theory with a global perspective and ERASMUS+ Academy in 1753 to our role supporting talks and events, you will be encouraged to Opportunities: regular staff Glasgow’s global manufacturing industries embrace the global nature of your discipline, and student exchanges with in the mid-19th century through good design the borderless nature of our shared visual and to Erasmus institutions and our involvement at the turn of the 20th language, understand the benefits of taking century to the European movements of art risk and challenging conventions and build Global Community nouveau, secessionism and beaux-arts and your own global networks by being part of our contribution to Glasgow’s post-industrial an international creative community.

A Borderless Discipline? renaissance as European Capital of Culture Culture, creativity and creative people can at the end of the century, we have recognised transcend national boundaries and because 25% and embraced the global role of culture, they share a common language create truly International students creativity and education. international communities. As future creative (outside Europe) Today, with staff and students from over leaders you will be drivers of the global 80 countries and over 75 international partners economy and catalysts for social wellbeing. across Europe, Asian and North America, our You will enrich lives, help us see things from specialist, practice-led, studio-based approach new perspectives and by engaging intellect, 1O% to research and teaching brings discipline and emotions and senses, you will build the European students people together to explore problems in new humane, tolerant and cultured society ways to find innovative solutions addressing to which we all aspire. Edition 79 chair, from GSA’s Mackintosh GSA’s Mackintosh from chair, Furniture Collection Mackintosh Below: Detail, Building Main image: Mackintosh The Two major projects are underway on the GSA’s Garnethill [»] campus. Work to transform the former Stow College building into a home for the School of Fine Art has started. Video Hand carving the Mackintosh Situated just a five minute walk from the ‘Mack’ and Reid Library pendants Building, the former Trades’ School will offer the opportunity Craftsman Martins Circulis carves the tulipwood pendants for all Fine Art programmes to be housed together for the which will form part of the first time in over 50 years. restored Mackintosh Library vimeo.com/232478706 The restoration of the Mackintosh Building continues apace, Video following a well-documented fire in 2014. This exemplary Scallops, Preparing and Painting. conservation and restoration project will see the ‘Mack’ Craftsman Angus Johnston returned to use at the heart of the GSA campus. prepares the Library balcony balustrade vimeo.com/232500537 The GSA Campus Update prototype Below & above: Library bay Glasgow The Mackintosh

Restoring the Mack Beneath the canopy of a temporary roof, placed research and testing. Noticeably different to there to protect the building from the elements those already familiar with the Library will be in 2014, construction specialists have been the colour, which is considerably lighter when working with great care and attention. Visible compared to how it appeared in 2014, after from the higher floors of the Reid Building the room had darkened throughout a century (opposite) now are the newly installed studio of use. When the Mackintosh Library re opens, windows, along with the completed, permanent it will be able to develop its own patina as roof, which allows the true, and famous, students use the space once again. shape of the Building to be seen once again. Among the team of crafts people involved Behind this lies the work of many trades in the Mackintosh Building Restoration Project The GSA Campus Update Campus GSA The and crafts people who have shaped materials are Martins Cirulis and Angus Johnston, who including stone, glass and wood, sensitively work for Edinburgh based specialist joinery firm blending the old with the new. Laurence McIntosh. See them at work in the The celebrated wooden interior of the two short films above. Mackintosh Library is being fully recreated using the techniques and finishes which match Find out more about the stories behind the as closely as possible those used originally. restoration project at The first full-size prototype of a library bay is gsa.ac.uk/mackrestoration complete, with each element - from sourcing @MackRestoration the wood, to the type of nails used, to the carving techniques - the result of extensive 81 GSA Caseroom, Reid Building

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