Using Illustration and Design to Disseminate Complex Subject Matter with Simone Williamson

Are you an artist passionate about the technical subjects of our world (like science, research, law, politics) and want to integrate these subjects into your creative practice? Or maybe you’re an academic interested in learning how art can help bring your research to a wider audience? This workshop is for you - a space where the right (creative) and left (analytical) hemispheres of the brain merge.

Discover the art and science of black and white reversal film processing in this hands-on online workshop using common household items.

During this session, you will get a theoretical masterclass on what makes a great short story, and try your hand at crafting one through a rich series of creative activities.

By the end of the workshop, you will gain a comfortable understanding of how to craft short stories, and how to read critically.

In this workshop you’ll explore how to share your creative voice in a way that feels authentic and exciting. Over 90 minutes, your tutor Claire will walk you through the fundamentals of Substack in a clear, friendly and highly practical way.

Fashion is more than just an industry, it is a cultural system shaped by images, narratives, power structures and the everyday choices we make as creators and consumers. This workshop invites you to slow down from the digital overload, observe, and question the aesthetic, social and material forces that define what fashion is and what it could be, and the relationship we have with clothes.

This workshop is an invitation to disrupt the aesthetic status quo, looking at Glitch Art as a method of thinking and making. Starting from classical subjects such as the human body and portraiture, you will explore how fractured and anomalous digital systems behaviours can become opportunities to question standards of beauty, representation and control.

This 90-minute workshop will take you inside the full editing journey, breaking the process down into simple, understandable steps. You’ll explore light and tones, building depth through curves, shaping colours with intention, refining details, managing colour science and using masks to guide the viewer’s eye.

Join Burçak Desombre, DipWSET and CMS-certified sommelier, for a 90-minute interactive online workshop that makes wine approachable, enjoyable, and easy to understand. Sip, Smell, Learn is designed for anyone curious about wine, from beginners to enthusiasts looking to sharpen their tasting skills.

O.O.P.S. is a simple and gentle drawing session where the hand takes the lead and the mind follows. No need to know how to draw. It is a way to think through the smallest possible gesture.

This workshop helps you overcome creative blocks and shift out of overthinking into a calmer and clearer mindset. We’ll turn to our natural instincts through a simple method that regains clarity and confidence to help us guide our hand on paper.

Ever wondered how translators manage to turn messy sentences into clear meaning? Or how interpreters listen, think, and talk all at once? This workshop is a not-so-boring dive into the real techniques, shortcuts and thought processes behind effective translation and interpretation.

As we stand at a new era of the built environment, the role of the architect and designer is shifting from drafter to curator as we stand at a new era in the built environment. This workshop contextualizes the history of Generative AI, examines current AI-driven workflows in professional practice, and projects the visionary future applications for architecture and design.