The Skills for Planet Map by the Design Council is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license We are looking for individuals and groups to present their work on Skills for Planet for our Innovations in Practice event on 22 October 2025. This could be how you are developing and delivering sustainability and critical green design skills in your practice and, ideally, adopting and aligning with the Design Council Skills for Planet Blueprint. This could be a short, ten minute presentation on - Creating a Green Design Skills Mindset and Influencing Green Behaviour Circular Design and Embedding a Circular Economy Learning from Nature, Biodiversity...

Last year the Design Council launched its Skills for Planet Mission: to upskill 1 million designers with green design skills by 2030. Given that students are the designers of tomorrow, as HE agenda setters we have a key role to play in providing them with the critical green skills they need to design responsibly.These skills are outlined in the Skills for Planet Blueprint. Whether you have started on your journey to embed green design skills into your curricula or not, the Blueprint is a resource that can help you get started or validate your existing work. We are...

The education landscape across level 3 qualifications that lead into Higher Education is being reformed. UAL are hosting a webinar specifically for Higher Education Institutions to share: Details of these reforms. Actions being undertaken by UALAB. How Higher Education Institutions can prepare for these changes. The webinar is aimed at HEIs that take learners with UAL Level 3 qualifications onto their undergraduate programmes. The information will be particularly relevant for staff members involved in the recruitment of, and entry requirements for, learners joining their courses. The webinar will be hosted remotely via Zoom and is entirely free of charge. We...

Cultures of Place, a new festival programme from the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. Working in collaboration with Temporary Contemporary and Kirklees Council to deliver a range of events drawing on research from across the school including: art, architecture, creative writing, cultural studies, design, English literature, fashion, film, history, media, music, performance and textiles. This will run from 24 June – 4 July. Everything is free to attend, and projects range from music made with the light from stars and workshops showing you how to build an electrical circuit into fabric to exploring the canal...

20th Anniversary Edition The Journal of Visual Art Practice marked its 20th anniversary in 2021, and its current issue (Vol. 20, Issue 4) offers both reflection on the journal’s rich history, but also its forward going vision and commitment to an international and diverse approach. The issue includes, for example, reflections from the founding editor Iain Biggs, and a survey article on contemporary drawing pedagogy by Howard Riley. Looking ahead, the issue also includes a review of Lauren Fournier’s book on autotheory as feminist practice, and an essay by artist and Nahem Shoa, whose exhibition, Face of Britain, brought together...

Blog kindly provided by Sarah Waterman Project Manager, Design & Make Learning & Participation - ROH Bridge Programme Manager Essex Royal Opera House. In 2010 the Royal Opera House moved its set production facilities from east London to the new Bob and Tamar Manoukian Production workshop at High House in Purfleet, on the north side of the Thames Estuary. Every original set design for The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet is now built and painted in this workshop space by our expert team of craftspeople, before being transported to ROH HQ for construction on the huge stage. Once the...

CHEAD is delighted to announce a new partnership with Fashion Academics Creating Equality (FACE) which will facilitate a two-way exchange of resources. Recently, FACE took part in a CHEAD members event Creative Resilience: Art Adapts and have posted a blog piece reflecting on the event and the aims and future plans of FACE which we have reproduced here: Power and Privilege 1st December 2020 One of the outstanding themes of 2020 has been the recognition that education has a responsibility to prioritise race equality and anti-racist action. Once we accept (and stop denying) that inherent in our socialisation around identity...