Opening night: Thursday, 30th May, 6:00 – 10:00pm

Opens daily: 31st May – 8th June, 10:00am – 5:00pm (Closed: Sunday 2nd June and will re-Open: Bank Holiday Monday 3rd June)

We are delighted to welcome you to GradX, the Graduate Exhibition of the TU Dublin School of Art and Design, School of Media and the TU Dublin Conservatoire. Full details can be found at www.gradx.ie

This is the third year that we host our exhibition at the East Quad, the creative and cultural hub in the heart of TU Dublin’s Grangegorman Campus, that is home to our state-of-the-art new studios, workshops and practice and performance spaces.

The exhibition is the highlight of the academic year for students and staff, and features an exciting, innovative range of work from over 200 degree students from our programmes in Fine Art, Product Design (in partnership with the School of Mechanical Engineering), Interior and Furniture Design, Visual Merchandising, Visual Communication Design, Creative Industries and Visual Culture, Film and Broadcasting, Game Design, Photography, and Journalism. This year, we are also joined by the TU Dublin Conservatoire who will host a number of performances from graduates in Music, as well as screenings representing Drama and Opera.

The work presented in this exhibition, print publication and on our GradX website represents the culmination of many years of full-time study, and affords our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imaginations, hard work and significant creative skills.

The TU Dublin School of Art and Design will host the fourth annual Fontstand International Typography Conference on the 8th and 9th of September 2023.

The event includes a series of practical workshops focused on type design, scripting, type usage and a rich program of talks and presentations about various aspects of typography in print, motion design, and branding.

Speakers include Jon Barnbrook, Annie Atkins, Liza Enebeis, Max Phillips and TU Dublin's Clare Bell and Mary Ann Bolger.

For further information and tickets see https://fontstand.com/conference/

The Open Day to the TU Dublin School of Art and Design will take place in the Grangegorman campus on Saturday, 22^nd April between 10am and 12.30pm.  

Presented in partnership with IMMA and The Project Arts Centre, the TU Dublin School of Art and Design is hosting a one day programme featuring talks, film, and discussion with international collectives and participants, exploring endangered film, video archives & imagined futures.

Tapes Under the Bed is a curated selection of screenings and talks that draws from current research and practical concerns about the material legacies of various art and film collectives from the 1980s in the UK and Ireland, each of whom worked from anti-imperialist, anti-racist, queer and/or feminist positions. The materials that remain include video tapes, recordings, posters, documents and other ephemera and may not yet have found an appropriate archive or collection for their preservation however are now increasingly part of contemporary discourse. We ask how we can work effectively, sustainably, appropriately and ethically with material that has been stored by artists or others over the years in private attics, drawers, or under the bed.

Contributions include:
Derry Film and Video Workshop: Response by Margo Harkin
Cinenova Feminist Film and Video & Sheffield Feminist Film Co-op: Response by Ash Reid
Mayday Rooms: Response by Rosemary Grennan
Poster Collective: Contribution by Christine Halsall
AIDS Video Activism: Response by Ed Webb-Ingall.
Retake: Response by Aditi Jaganathan and Suman Bhuchar.
Channel Four Workshops: Response by Rod Stoneman

Book tickets here.

TU Dublin School of Art and Design Visual Merchandising and Display students present Urban Studio.

This annual pop-up thrift shop is open to the public and will run from 23rd-25th of November 2022 in the foyer of the East Quad building on the Grangegorman Campus.

You can follow Urban Studio on instagram.

The TU Dublin School of Art and Design open day is taking place on Saturday, 12^th November from 10am to 2pm. 

Studio locations for programme presentations/demonstrations are as follows-

EQ212 – Interior Design

EQ402 – Visual Merchandising

EQ405 – Creative Industries and Visual Culture

EQ406 – Visual Communication

EQ502 – Fine Art

A School stand will also be set up on the ground floor. 

Portfolio submissions will be online and will close at 5pm on Monday, 27^th February 2023.  Further details regarding portfolio submissions can be found at https://www.tudublin.ie/study/undergraduate/cao/entry-requirements/portfolio-submission/

The TUDublin School of Art and Design, will once again, host the 2022 IDI Graduate Design Awards.

The awards night will take place on Thursday 20th October.

The school has a number of graduates shortlisted at this year's awards, click here to see their details.

For further information of the awards night see the Institute of Designers in Ireland.

Cinema premières of Peter Maybury’s film On being there.
Pálás Cinema, Galway; Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin

On being there is a filmic encounter with the material and outputs of the office of Tom dePaor. The earliest project represented here is from 1991, and the film spans 30 years to include a project at Dysart, Co. Wicklow.

There is the place itself. There are notebooks, drawings, prints, scale models, 35mm slides, photographs, films, files, books, writing. A diversity of materials and media, evidencing significant technological changes in production and reproduction. This is the raw material.

The film is a rerecording, or sampling of this material, where scale, media, and modes of presentation and realisation merge. The linear transition from drawing to model to built landscape and documentation is disrupted. The film explores the permeability of the image. Animated or activated through movement and operation, everything can be superimposed, overlaid, or cut into. An audio-visual encounter with place, within the space of the screen and the loudspeaker.

On being there was originally made for the Tom dePaor exhibition i see Earth: Building and Ground 1991–2021 at VISUAL Carlow, 2022. It will be screening in Pálás Cinema, Galway, Thursday 6 October, as part of the  Architecture at the Edge Festival, and in the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin, Thursday 13 October as part of Open House Dublin 2022

More information here: https://architecturefoundation.ie/event/on-being-there/

FAST 45, a pan European research project TU Dublin partners in, will present a lecture on the future of digitalisation in education with  Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, senior analyst with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in conversation with Orla McDonagh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. 

Friday 23 September 11.30- 1.00, online 

Registration at  

https://elia-artschools.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=1672709 

In 2021, in the wake of Covid-19 global school shutdowns and an unprecedented shift to online teaching, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), released their Digital Education Outlook, a major policy document that examined the potential for the emerging digital technologies of AI, blockchain, robots to transform education in the same way they are transforming society.  

Digitalisation opens up new possibilities for education. While education has always been rich in data such as grades or administrative information on students’ absenteeism, the use of data to help students learn better and teachers to teach better, and to inform decision-making in educational administrations is recent. Education stakeholders have had a difficult relationship with technology, alternating between strong enthusiasm and scepticism. Might digital technology, and, notably, smart, technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), learning analytics, robotics, and others, transform education in the same way they are transforming the rest of society? If so, how might this look? 

FAST 45 is pleased to present Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, editor of the report and senior analyst leading OECD work on digitalization in education, who will explore this question through an overview of the opportunities and challenges of smart technologies in the classroom and at organisational level and outline some policy pointers for the successful deployment of smart technologies in education. 

After his talk,  Dr Vincent-Lancrin will be joined in conversation with  Dr. Orla McDonagh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities TU Dublin. 

BA Visual Merchandising & Display Year 3 Studi0y2k Pop--up-shop launched 25/11/021 in EQ403 by Iain Kimmins and Barbara Chapman of the British Display Society. Open until Friday 26/11/21.