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Relax at Rotunda

We welcome you to unwind and relax in a new space - Relax at Rotunda - this is a space for you to enjoy some quiet time, without the noise and distraction of mobile phones, a space where you can unwind and enjoy the peace and tranquility visible outside the windows of this beautiful building and observe the park, water and life passing by.

1st May—8th June 2024
09:00—17:00

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Conceptualizing Queer Embodiments in Fashion Studies Between Visual Analysis and Ethnography

This seminar wants to address and explore some of the challenges and possibilities of moving the study of queer embodiments from the analysis of high fashion critical practices to everyday dress practices, and thus, methodologically, from the widespread archival and visual approaches to an ethnographic understanding of the dressed body.

22nd May 2024
13:00—14:30

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Design Dialogues: Anthony Burrill

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Anthony Burrill. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

8th May 2024
10:00—11:00

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Film Screening: Land of My Dreams (2023)

Filmscreening of Land of My Dreams (2023) by award-winning filmmaker Nausheen Khan +Conversation with Assoc.Prof. in Arts & Cultural Leadership, Dr Kai Syng Tan.

5th June 2024
11:30—13:30

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Design Dialogues: Studio Kunze

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Studio Kunze. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

1st May 2024
10:00—11:00

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Dr. Sterling MacKinnon: Digital Objects in Heritage Science

The MA Global Media Management Programme is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Sterling MacKinnon. Dr. MacKinnon is a researcher with the Oxford Resilient Buildings and Landscapes Laboratory, a sound artist, and the project manager for Kickstarting Heritage Innovation.

23rd April 2024
13:30—14:00

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Design Dialogues: Can Yan

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Can Yan. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

24th April 2024
10:00—11:00

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Evolving Languages

Join us for a challenging and engaging seminar event on exploring issues related to evolving contemporary language and terminologies used within equality, diversity and inclusion. 

23rd April 2024
10:00—15:00

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Material Interests: Toy Stories … How ‘not’ to make a living as an artist.

Part stand-up comedy, part performance lecture, TOY STORIES takes the audience on an irreverent, powerful and hilarious storytelling adventure through art, contemporary politics, twentieth-century history and toys. A dazzling journey from Scalextric to Nazis!

7th May 2024
16:00—18:00

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Speculative and critical design practices for engaging with AI

The first in a new series of The Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Group Webinars: Dave Murray-Rust (TU Delft) will showcase how design approaches can be used to inform the creation of AI technology, with the hope of creating more resonant and humane technologies.

26th April 2024
13:00—14:00

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Material Interests: EMPTYNESS NOT NOTHINGNESS, co-creating with community

Liz Gre and Julia Vogl in conversation about temporality, making spaces within spaces, using sensorial materials and means with groups to share individual stories collectively. Sharing on their recent projects and show Moving Colour at The Winchester Gallery and Embodied Cacophonies at Lindisfarne Castle (still on view).

24th April 2024
11:30—12:30

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World Earth Day and The Living Library

We invite you and your students to attend an afternoon event for World Earth Day. Winchester School of Art, Department of Design in conjunction with the Royal Society for Arts and the Future Cities Community Hub.

22nd April 2024
13:00—21:00

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WSA Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Nicholas Daley

Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.

25th April 2024
17:30—18:40

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F&T Spring Research Seminar Series: Dr Birgitta Huse

You are invited to the next F&T Spring Research Seminar Series: Dressing “Mexican”: A Balancing Act between Indigenous Cultural Expression and Fashion, Dr Birgitta Huse.

20th March 2024
14:00—15:15

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GMM Screen Practices Talk | Chloe Abrahams: The Taste of Mango

The MA Global Media Management Programme is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by artist and filmmaker Chloe Abrahams in Lecture Theatre A.

19th March 2024
13:30—14:30

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Design Dialogues: Ruth Potts

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Ruth Potts. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

20th March 2024
10:00—11:00

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WSA Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Oriole Cullen

Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.

19th March 2024
17:30—18:40

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Design Dialogues: Patrick Thomas

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Patrick Thomas. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Westside Lecture Theatre on Wednesday at 10am.

13th March 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Studio Blup

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Studio Blup. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 2pm.

6th March 2024
14:00—15:00

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WSA Exchange x Tods: Industry Live Brief

Tods is collaborating with the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, to introduce an exciting knowledge exchange project for WSA students in 2024. This opportunity is available to students at both Masters and Undergraduate levels. This is an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams to produce a series of outcomes for the client that encompasses marketing, business, art, gaming, communication and design. 

15th February—31st March 2024

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WSA Exchange x The Dorchester: Industry Live Brief

The Dorchester Collection is collaborating with the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, to introduce an exciting knowledge exchange project for WSA students in 2024. This opportunity is available to students at both Masters and Undergraduate levels. This is an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams to produce a series of outcomes for the client that encompasses marketing, business, art, gaming, communication and design. 

15th February—31st March 2024

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WSA Exchange x FENDI: Industry Live Brief

Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton is to introduce an exciting knowledge exchange project for WSA students in 2024. This opportunity is available to students at both Masters and Undergraduate levels. This is an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams to produce a series of outcomes for Fendi that encompasses marketing, business, art, gaming, communication and design. 

15th February—31st March 2024

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Fashion & Sustainability Forum 2024 – Colour & Sustainability

WSA Fashion & Sustainability Forum, including presentations, panel discussion, networking and exhibitions. Meet the speakers and join the conversation at Winchester School of Art.

13th March 2024
10:00—19:00

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Design Dialogues: Anagram

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Anagram. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

28th February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Tracey Bush

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Tracey Bush. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

21st February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Reimagined

The MA Fashion Design and MA Textile Design programmes invites you to Reimagined. A vibrant intersection of creativity, diversity and cultural exploration. This exhibition showcases students' boundary-pushing journey through African heritage, where tradition meets contemporary cutting-edge practice.

7th—22nd March 2024

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Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Charles Jeffrey, LOVERBOY

Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged. 

22nd February 2024
17:00—18:30

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Film Fridays

All students and staff are welcome to come along to Graphic Communication’s afternoon film sessions in the Graphics Social Space (3003). Each week we will be showcasing a lecture from a practitioner that supports your learning.

9th February—3rd May 2024
15:00—16:00

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Design Dialogues: Wolfe Hall

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Wolfe Hall. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.

14th February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Craig Oldham

We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Craig Oldham. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.

7th February 2024
10:00—11:00

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Design Dialogues: Eileen White

We are pleased to launch Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Eileen White. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A, West Building on Wednesday at 10am.

31st January 2024
10:00—11:00

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‘The Child in Videogames’ – Book Launch

24th January 2024
16:00—17:30

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Design For Future

16th—20th January 2024
12:00—17:00

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Arjan Guerrero – A World is an Object is a World: Navigating Space Technologies

The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you all to a guest lecture by artist Arjan Guerrero who works with automating, augmenting, and interactive media.

5th December 2023
14:00—15:00

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Professor Gabriele Budach – Moving Encounters: Engaging with materiality that speaks

In this talk, Prof Gabriele Budach proposes stop motion animation and the cooperative creation of short animated films as a starting point for addressing the question of how we can overcome divisions created by language, language policies, and linguistic imperialism, while continuing to use these very same means of communication.

12th December 2023
11:30—12:30

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Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research Group Launch: Federating Research

This inaugural event marks the launch of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research (CIIP) research group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and is the first event in the collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI, London South Bank University) and Digital Aesthetics Research Group (DARC, Aarhus University).

1st December 2023
10:00—12:00

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WSA Careers Fair

Join us at Winchester School of Art, Westside Foyer and Lecture Theatre A, for our Careers Fair on Wednesday 22nd November at our Winchester Campus.

22nd November 2023
12:00—15:00

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Wesley Goatley: Artificial Intelligence Does Not Exist

The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you all to a guest lecture by artist and researcher Wesley Goatley, whose work examines Artificial Intelligence technologies and their relations to society, geopolitics, and the climate crisis, and how art practice can intervene and explore these tools and topics.

7th November 2023
14:00—15:00

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UKFT x WSA Programme 2023/2024

UKFT’s MADE IT programme has been developed to enrich the production and sourcing knowledge of fashion design and textile design graduates and to illustrate the wealth of technical and creative roles available throughout the UK supply chain. This is a unique programme only available to the handful of UKFT member universities.

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In conversation with Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart asks questions about place, identity, archives and film, in the context of recent Irish history. Over the past 25 years, this had led to a body of work in video, two artist’s books, and a new feature film project, Children of the North. Taking a deep- dive into the media archives of the conflict in N Ireland, a conflict within which Stewart was embedded for most of his life.

18th October 2023
11:00—12:00

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Department of Design: Guest Lecture Series

Winchester School of Art's Department of Design is pleased to announce the Guest Lecture Series lineup for 2023! Featuring Happening Studio, Open Practice and Shirley Wang on Microsoft Teams every Wednesday. Follow us on Instagram for the latest news (@wsa_design).

4th October—6th December 2023
10:00—11:30

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In conversation with Pascal Matthias

Join Pascal Matthias, our new Associate Vice-President EDI and Social Justice, to continue the discussion through a series of open, informal, semi-structured conversations. This series provides a space to listen and to talk, as we come together to reflect on how we are making progress in becoming a more diverse and inclusive community, and where more still needs to be done.

12th October 2023
15:00—16:00

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PhD Seminar Series

The Winchester School of Art PhD Seminar Series will take place every week during term time, same time same place (2-4pm on Wednesdays during term time, in person in the WSA PGR Room and online on MS Teams). The series consists of (guest) speakers, workshops, trainings, and other research- and practice-led events.

11th October—13th December 2023
14:00—15:00

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WSA Painting Prize 2023

The new WSA Painting Prize celebrates outstanding painting practice at undergraduate level, culminating in an exhibition at the Winchester Gallery, University of Southampton in Autumn 2023.

25th September—21st October 2023
09:00—17:00

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WSA Green Week 2023

Join us for an exciting event at Winchester School of Art as we celebrate Green Week! These in-person events promise an unforgettable experience. For more information and to book your place on any workshops or presentations, please search here on Eventbrite for WSA Green Week listings.

25th—30th September 2023
09:00—17:00

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MA Degree Show 2023

Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our MA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our postgraduate programmes: MA Contemporary Curating, MA Fashion Design, MA Fine Art, and MA Textile Design.

7th—10th September 2023
12:00—18:00

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The Winchester Gallery

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More than a Thesis: Different Approaches to PGR Study

A collective group exhibition organised by Winchester School of Art (WSA) postgraduate research students was held in The Winchester Gallery between 29 June – 26 July 2023.

29th June—26th July 2023
11:00—17:00

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Beyond The Frame – Tate Britain Workshop

Work with creative facilitators to use new AI and digital imaging technologies to produce new works of art and collaborate with others to build a virtual visualisation of Tate Britain as an inclusive, accessible, and non-hierarchical space.

10th June 2023
10:00—17:00

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BA Degree Show 2023

Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our BA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our six undergraduate programmes: BA Fashion Marketing with Management, BA Fashion Design, BA Fine Art, BA Games Design & Art, BA Graphic Arts & BA Textile Design

16th—18th June 2023
10:00—18:00

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In conversation: Dr Emma Reay & Dr Alexandra Anikina

In this session, Dr Emma Reay and Dr Alexandra Anikina will share their recent work, followed by a conversation bridging these projects. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.

3rd May 2023
11:00—12:30

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In conversation: Kwame Phillips & Anna Angelhardt

On Wednesday, Kwame Phillips will be in conversation with Anna Angelhardt regarding their recent research. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.

10th May 2023
11:00—13:00

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Playing with the Climate Crisis

Playing with the Climate crisis is a 3 day table top gaming event in which you will hear talks, have a chance to participate in a climate game making workshop and be the first people in the world to play a pre-production copy of Daybreak.

13th—15th April 2023

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Wastework

The Winchester Gallery presents WASTEWORK, a showcase of reusing & sustainable thinking. Featuring: John Walter, Donna Mitchell, Jasone Miranda Bilbao, Compound 13 Lab, Ian Dawson, Aqui Thami, Louisa Minkin, Sharmila Samant, Migueltzinta Solis, Andrea Mason, Ben Parry, Amanda Jobson, Marie-Louise Jones, Erika Trotzig Jefford Horrigan, Mario Rossi, Mia Taylor, Stephen Cornford, Ali Eales & Trinity Art Group.

6th March—15th April 2023
10:00—17:00

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Studio 3015: New Website

Studio 3015 is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, an archival system that has been designed & developed by Studio Harris Blondman. Featuring a multidimensional spreadsheet and interchangeable grid views, the studio worked closely together to emphasise our involvement in a wide variety of education, research and social projects for activities across Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton and external partners from a range of professional and civic domains.

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AMT Material Interests: Guest Lecture Series

The Materials Lab presents the Art and Media Technology Autumn speaker series, starting on October 1st until December 14th 2022. To join online, email: j.n.ghazi@soton.ac.uk

26th October—14th December 2022
11:00—12:30

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WSA Green Week 2022

WSA Green Week, in association with Winchester Green Week, provides a series of events and activities delivered by Winchester School of Art, aimed to highlight more sustainable ways of living.

26th September—7th October 2022
11:00—17:00

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MA Degree Show 2022

Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our MA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our five postgraduate studio programmes.

8th—11th September 2022
11:00—18:00

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BA Degree Show 2022

Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our Summer Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our six undergraduate programmes.

17th—19th June 2022
11:00—18:00