As part of the BA Honours Degree in Visual Communication, students participate in a Creative Exchange where they engage in a short-term collaboration with other young creatives from a different city. The intention of the project is to enable creative networking and cross-disciplinary collaboration as part of the creative process and to link our students and institution to other creative hubs, workshops and educational programmes in the region. Collaboration is often presented as a seamless and fun creative process. The Creative Exchanges enable students to have real experience of a deadline driven collaboration with someone they have never worked with before. Over the years students have found the learnings and insights gained from this experience both enriching and rewarding.
Previous exchanges have taken place in Harare (Zimbabwe) and Maputo (Mozambique). This year the group travelled to Durban and worked closely with a cohort of young creatives based at ArtLab who were in the final weeks of a three-month incubator programme. As part of the outcomes of the Creative Exchange, students need to present tangible creative outputs to an audience in the host city and on their return to the Academy. The projects range across disciplines and can be experimental in nature. The Creative Exchange provides students with a space to play and produce work collaboratively outside of the classroom.
You can see some of the outputs from our students below. Here’s to more collaboration and more creativity!
Aidan Murgatroyd
Isabella George
Nina Formanek
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