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Edition 18 19 18 The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s leading university-level institutions for the visual creative disciplines. A studio-based approach to research and teaching brings disciplines together to explore problems in new ways to find new innovative solutions. The studio creates the environment for inter-disciplinarity, peer learning, critical enquiry, experimentation and prototyping, helping to address many of the grand challenges confronting society and contemporary business. Since the School was founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Design, as a centre of creativity promoting good design for the manufacturing industries, the role of the School has continually evolved and redefined to reflect the needs of the communities it is part of, embracing in the late 19th century fine art and architecture education and today, digital technology. Then as now the purpose of the GSA remains the same – to contribute to a better world through developing creative approaches with new audiences. www.gsa.ac.uk ART SCHOOL IN THE 21ST CENTURY Collaboration and Community page 14 GENERATIONS Glasgow’s Creative Institutions page 24 IN FASHION WE TRUST 70 Years of Fashion + Textiles page 28 INNOVATION FROM TRADITION Back to the Mack page 38 ON SHOW Degree Show Gallery page 48 POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE Glasgow: Music City page 66 MODES OF PRODUCTION Innovation in Glasgow + Forres page 72 Edition 18 19 18 The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s leading university-level institutions for the visual creative disciplines. A studio-based approach to research and teaching brings disciplines together to explore problems in new ways to find new innovative solutions. The studio creates the environment for inter-disciplinarity, peer learning, critical enquiry, experimentation and prototyping, helping to address many of the grand challenges confronting society and contemporary business. Since the School was founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Design, as a centre of creativity promoting good design for the manufacturing industries, the role of the School has continually evolved and redefined to reflect the needs of the communities it is part of, embracing in the late 19th century fine art and architecture education and today, digital technology. Then as now the purpose of the GSA remains the same – to contribute to a better world through developing creative approaches with new audiences. www.gsa.ac.uk ART SCHOOL IN THE 21ST CENTURY Collaboration and Community page 14 GENERATIONS Glasgow’s Creative Institutions page 24 IN FASHION WE TRUST 70 Years of Fashion + Textiles page 28 INNOVATION FROM TRADITION Back to the Mack page 38 ON SHOW Degree Show Gallery page 48 POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE Glasgow: Music City page 66 MODES OF PRODUCTION Innovation in Glasgow + Forres page 72 1 This book provides an overview Edition Terms and Conditions Vimeo of studying at the GSA and in On the cover of GSA Edition you This book is a general guide. 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Discover the is to, through studio-based it was followed in 1845 by the To find detailed information on full range of programmes at learning and research, collaborate opening of the Glasgow the range of programmes on offer www.gsa.ac.uk/study and transform thinking by Government School of Design you should visit the website at developing creative approaches at a time when Glasgow was an www.gsa.ac.uk. In the study Graduate Studie s with new audiences. international industrial pages online you’ll find detailed Our taught masters programmes The ability to transform power-house. programme specifications, courses offer a range of study areas thinking, generate new knowledge and electives, useful information including fine art, sound, and give shape and form to things Today we are The on making your application as well architecture, fashion and design that currently do not exist, are all Glasgow School of Art. as a host of content to discover innovation. Our research the characteristics of the creative Today, the city of Glasgow is from student and departmental programme brings to life the practitioner. Through your art recognised as a European cultural blogs, video and social media. very latest in creative thinking, school education, we hone capital and one of the UK’s most By visiting these pages you’ll get with MPhil and PhD students these inherent skills through successful city-economies. the most up to date information supervised by staff who are studio-based learning and Central to this success is the role and can contact departments themselves active practitioners research that is discipline specific. of The Glasgow School of Art, directly with any other questions. and theorists, and internationally- The studio creates the with over 61% of its staff engaged All GSA degree programmes recognised researchers. environment for collaboration, in research of international and are validated by the University In recent years the graduate within and across disciplines, national significance (source: REF of Glasgow, with whom we community has grown for critical inquiry, experimentation 2014), and its graduates, many of also jointly offer some of considerably, reflecting our and prototyping, and is the whom choose to stay in the city our programmes – BDes/MEng/ success in research across our environment in which we that has become home over the MSc Product Design Engineering; research themes: Architecture, collectively generate new ideas course of their studies. Together, MSc Medical Visualisation and Urbanism + the Public Sphere; and solutions and where through collaboration, innovation Human Anatomy; MLitt Curatorial Design Innovation; Digital innovation thrives. Studio, be it and their international networks, Practice (Contemporary Art); and Visualisation; Education in Art literal or figurative, is the space they contribute to Glasgow’s MSc International Management and Design; Fine Art + Curating; where a shared visual language cultural, creative and economic and Design Innovation. Health + Wellbeing; Material can transcend barriers and vibrancy and opportunity. Culture; and Sustainability. boundaries and where ambition Within these pages you will and imagination can find solutions find a glimpse of our community. The Hub to the global challenges facing Join us for a moment for a series Join our community across social the world today. of Reflections on the learning, media – visit the GSA Hub, The global role of creativity and teaching, spirit, and ethos of an aggregator of online content culture cannot be underestimated.