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Vertical Studio
Vertical Studio is the public name of a 2-week intensive and creative organisation, the orchestration of a number of very diverse studio units that support the development and exhibition of a wide range of design activities/outcomes.
Students’ involvement in Vertical Studio is not formally assessed. These design units are designed and treated as an opportunity to experiment and speculate, and to develop design thinking in new directions. By engaging with activities that go beyond the core learning criteria of our BSc programme, Vertical Studio provides opportunities to enrich and diversify WSA students’ skills and experience. The work that students produce within their selected studio can also be used to broaden their design portfolio. It also helps our students to build and expand an interdisciplinary network of reference and practice, and to establish collaborations with various stakeholders, professionals and institutions outside the WSA. Above all, Vertical Studio is fun and stimulating.
This year’s Vertical Studio exhibition was hosted in Shift Cardiff, a multi-disciplinary research & development arts space at the heart of Cardiff City.
Academic leadership: Aikaterini Chatzivasileiadi, Dimitra Ntzani, Hiral Patel
Host: http://shiftcardiff.org
Making the Vertical Studio exhibition, led by Hiral Patel
Exhibitions are a unique mode of learning, research and engagement. Exhibitions enable the…
The Business of Architecture, led by Claire Parry-Witchell of the Centre for Skills, Enterprise and Volunteering
In the interest of embedding enterprise education into learning for students studying at…
The City Comes to you, led by Selim Halulu
Expect the unexpected! Cinematic architecture. Speculative responses that seek new definitions for: moving-city,…
Treherbert, what to do with all this wealth, led by Richard Powell
Our host and client was; ‘Welcome to our Woods’ (WTOW), a not-for-profit social…
The Courts Garden: designing for spirit of place, led by Claire Reed of the National Trust
The garden at The Courts is a creative response to the remains of…
The Sidewalk: Photography Perception Place, led by Sarah Hayton
In the words of Jane Jacobs, the Sidewalk is “an intricate ballet in…
Studio Furniture with FINSA, led by Sam Parsons & Rob Stiles
In light of the planned improvements to Bute, this VS gave students the…
Printing the mundane; a day in Cardiff, led by Caroline Esclapez & Georgia Habützel
This unit investigated the book as a site for exploration and the recording…
Paper Party, led by Alt Architecture
This studio explored and celebrated the properties of one material – paper. Students…
Futuremakers, led by Alessandro Columbano and Anna Parker
Futuremakers was a design initiative with an aim to highlight the value of…
Material Matters, led by Antonio Capelao and Mark Zudini
The Cork House and the Cork Studio Responding to the Cork House and…
Expanded Practice, led by Andrew O’Murchu and Kate Rushe
The realisation of human geophysical force means everything has become an ecological question….
Brea(x)thing, led by Graziella Corti and Gianpiero Latorre
Nowadays people use to rush incessantly. Always more often our busy agenda leaves…
Beyond Meanwhile Space, led by Stephanie Bolt and Stephen Pritchard
Meanwhile spaces pop-up and disappear across cities at such a pace that mapping…
Bake my wall, led by Alexandros Kallegias
Bake My Wall (BMW) Studio revisited the notion of a wall through the…
Access and inclusion; barrier or creative tool for performance space design? , led by Amalia Banteli and Jon Dafydd-Kidd
Students explored the needs of performers with physical and/or learning disabilities and how…
Eastville Park Lido, led by Shanks Raj
How do we design an outdoor swimming pool for a community? Offering more…
Make yourself at home, led by Chris Williams and Mhairi McVicar (WSA and academic lead of Community Gateway)
Make Yourself at Home was a collaboration between artist Chris Williams, http://www.furniture4stargazers.co.uk/ Mhairi McVicar…
Connecting the City and the Human, led by Arjun Rajah
The COMSC/MATHS building have got in touch with the WSA and tasked students…
Rural Works, led by Zoe Berman of Studio Berman
A rural design and community participation workshop. As per previous years the Rural…