Teacher, Technician, and Adviser Day 2026

You will learn how to code MIDI hardware to control an algorithmic drawing process. You will decide how the touch of a button or movement of a slider should influence the program’s visual output.

This workshop is relevant across a number of our different subject areas, including Computer Science and Creative Computing.

Tour the Grad Fest exhibition to see the amazing work of the 2026 Norwich University of the Arts graduating cohort.

In this creative sculpture workshop, participants will use the current exhibition of sculptures by Olivia Bax to make sculptures using some of the artist’s creative techniques

Using ‘wet’ materials such as plaster, paper, and paint, participants will explore the relationships between material, form, line, surface, and colour to make unique, tactile, and vibrant sculptures.

This workshop is relevant across a number of our different subject areas Fine Art and Illustration.

Explore the basic building blocks of Modernist typography through a hands-on Mac Lab session using InDesign.

The session will serve both as a basic introduction to using this key piece of graphic design software and will also introduce you to grids, typographic hierarchy, layout, composition, abstract pattern, and the basics of Modernist type-setting.

You will complete the session by designing a poster for a cultural event that Joseph Muller-Brockmann would have been proud of.

This workshop is relevant across a number of our different subject areas, including Design for Publishing, Graphic Communication, Graphic Design, and Illustration.

Get hands on with some of the fundamental building blocks of audio synthesis using both hardware modular synthesisers and VCV Rack – a freely available online modular synthesiser emulator.

Create your own musical and non-musical sounds and build your own bespoke electronic instruments.

This workshop is relevant across a number of our different subject areas, including Electronic Music and Sound Production & Film and Moving Image Production.

This workshop will explore a variety of pattern generation methods that can be used for fashion and interiors contexts. The practical session will explore colour, texture and material to develop confidence in play.

This workshop is relevant across a number of our different subject areas, including Textile Design, Interior Design, and Fashion.

Get to grips with a set of historic teaching exercises from the past, from the Academy in Rome to the Bauhaus and Kala Bhavana.

Only by experiencing these experimental and innovative practices can we understand the evolution of art and design education over the last 100 years. How different ideas about beauty and perfection lead to different ways of making, and the way we work today.

This workshop will take you through a journey, detailing the many faces of psychology with an aim to show its diverse approaches and relevance in our ever changing world.
 

This workshop is relevant across a number of our different subject areas, including Psychology.

An introduction to digital painting skills. We will give an introduction to digital drawing and painting, connecting traditional methods to digital techniques and setting exercises to habitually practice.

These skills are appropriate to all artists, with a focus on how this is utilised within the Animation, Visual Effects, Illustration, and Games specialisms. 

This workshop is relevant across a number of different subject areas, including Animation, Animation and Visual Effects, Illustration, Games Art and Design & Games Development.

This workshop introduces the power of trend forecasting in shaping fashion, brands, and consumer culture. we will explore how trends are discovered, analysed, predicted, and translated into meaningful communication and marketing strategies.

The session highlights the importance of trend forecasting in understanding consumer behaviour, cultural change, and brand relevance.

This workshop is relevant across a number of different subject areas, including Fashion Communication and Promotion & Fashion Marketing and Business.

Experiment with the BBC micro:bit mini buggy and code to race and draw unexpected shapes. In this workshop you’ll learn to use the coding language scratch to make a robot move!

This workshop is relevant across a number of our different subject areas, including Computer Science and Creative Computing.

Explore fast, effective ways to build an ensemble and help student actors move beyond endless discussion, using somatic approaches to stimuli.

Actor, director, and voice artist Louise Amos shares practical techniques from her programme Ways In: Devising & Your Creative Voice. These approaches cut through the common challenges faced by disparate groups of student devisers, offering fresh, embodied ways to respond to and develop stimuli.

You’ll leave with a toolkit of ensemble-building techniques that work from day one, along with strategies that genuinely unlock creative freedom for students during the devising components of GCSE Drama, A Level Drama, and BTEC Performing Arts. 

This workshop is relevant across a number of different subject areas, including Acting.