Relive the spirit of Winter School Our new film gives you a flavour of our recent Winter School, which brought together around 100 leading international design experts, researchers and students to the GSA’s Highlands and Islands Creative Campus in Moray. It shows all the sights and sounds – and the people – who took part in […]
Sharing our students work Here the InDI blog showcases two of the student projects started at Winter School 2017. The projects are now ongoing as part of the curriculum within the GSA’s Masters of Design Innovation Programmes. This year’s theme is Innovation from Tradition, which explores how past tradition can inspire future ways of working, […]
Dancing into the wee hours… One of the highlights was definitely the ceilidh on the final night. With the presentations completed, everyone’s minds turned to the meal and dancing. With the marquee transformed into a dancefloor, things were a little slow to kick off. But soon students from all institutions were throwing themselves into the […]
Winter School is a highlight of the GSA’s annual calendar. This year, it has brought together around 100 leading design academics and students from all over the world to research and study at the GSA’s new Highlands and Islands Creative Campus. Over two activity-filled weeks, students took part in lectures, workshops and joint research projects with local businesses […]
Research and Teaching on location at the GSA Highlands and Islands InDI is proud of its teaching and research activities that support postgraduate students, researchers and academics. They offer an excellent chance to meet others in your field and learn about their experiences. With the deadline for applications for Summer School 2017 in Lancaster extended until […]
Sharing the results of our work Winter School 2017 may have drawn to a close, but it is only the beginning of the journey for many of the students who took part. Student projects, which were developed at the Winter School, have now launched as part of the curriculum within the GSA’s Masters of Design […]
Catherine Morel is Professor of Marketing in the Culture and Communication Department at Audencia Business School in France. Catherine has collaborated with InDI over the last two years to develop an exciting MSc programme in Management and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy. Led by Audencia in France, the programme and has been co-designed with InDI. […]
Winter School: An international teaching innovation Bringing together people from all over the world, Winter School is an exciting opportunity to investigate and develop the role of design in responding to contemporary social and economic challenges. The event is hosted at the GSA’s stunning Highlands and Islands Campus. Winter School sees GSA continue to build […]
Businesses and community organisations looking forward to hearing progress after Winter School The Glasgow School of Art’s Design Innovation Masters students will present their end of semester projects at the GSA’s new Highlands and Islands Creative Campus later this month. The projects address a range of issues relating to Moray businesses and communities. People from […]
GSA Highlands and Islands: before and after Earlier this week (28/06/17) we heard the great news that Blairs Steading, which is home to the GSA’s Highlands and Islands Creative Campus is up for a top national award. The campus located at Blairs Steading on the Altyre Estate near Forres provides high-quality research and teaching space and an […]
An insight into learning and teaching on our MDES programmes It was always part of the plan for the Creative Campus in the Highlands and Islands to bring postgraduate students to the region for Design Innovation programmes. There are currently three Master of Design Innovation programmes based in the north: Transformation Design, Collaborative Creativity, and […]
New additions to our Creative Campus cohort InDI recently welcomed a new group of students onto our Master of Research programme. They follow in the footsteps of the first four students from 2016. The five-strong group are all multidisciplinary creative practitioners, based in Moray at the Creative Campus and in Cowal. The group is supported […]
Our teaching team You will find a wealth of experience and backgrounds within the teaching team of The Innovation School. While our lecturers of post-graduate programmes all specialise in Design Innovation, they come from very different academic and industry backgrounds bringing both diverse and specialist expertise to enhance the learning experience across our Design Innovation Masters’ programmes. Here, we […]
Master of Research: Design, Health & Care The Glasgow School of Art and the Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI) are offering Master of Research studentships for those who wish to build research skills in health and care contexts. The programme seeks to develop world-class researchers who wish to enhance their professional practice or pursue […]
Looking back at Spring School 2017 GSA Highlands & Islands recently hosted the annual Spring School at the Creative Campus. The seasonal schools for postgraduate research students – Winter, Spring and Autumn – are an important part of our innovative modes of distributed delivery. InDI’s Master of Research and PhD students make up the Creative […]
Return of the Winter School projects The spirit of Winter School returned to the GSA’s Highlands and Islands Creative Campus this week with. Glasgow-based MDES Design Innovation students travelled north to join their Forres counterparts for a special session to present the outcomes of their group projects. The projects started at Winter School in January […]
Our adventures at Scotland’s creative industries festival Everyone at InDI is getting excited about Scotland’s ‘leading creative industries festival’, XpoNorth held in Inverness next week. The Glasgow School of Art has a packed schedule of panels this year – covering heritage, design, branding and virtual reality. It’s a great event for the north and everyone had a […]
An update on the Forres students’ project Our pioneering MDES Design Innovation students in Forres have reached another milestone in their studies – completion and presentation of their Stage 2 project. This is the project that has its roots in Winter School, when Masters students from GSA worked with local businesses and community organisations. The […]
Deputy First Minister John Swinney tours Altyre studios The GSA Highlands and Islands Creative Campus had a special visitor yesterday as the Deputy First Minister John Swinney toured the facilities outside Forres. He was accompanied by Moray MSP Richard Lochhead and the pair were shown round the complex by Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam OBE, Deputy Director (Innovation) […]
