- Hard cover concertina book
Becky Price, Paul Dewis
Printmaking Technicians
“We collaboratively made this book – Paul made the screenprints and Becky the book – to demonstrate to students both concertina binding and the creative potential of hand drawn marks in screenprint.”
- Head, heart, hand
Charlie Lewis
Kirsti McLean
Lisa Keating-Best
Mandy McEvoy
Theresa Jones:
Fashion Technicians
Noor Khazem, Sophie Reynolds:
Surface Design Lab technicians
Denise Lewis, Julia Banks, Lucy Deverell, Sanam Nassiri: Knit technicians
Eujean Ko:
BA Fashion Print student
“Our submission was inspired by the 2024 UAL Technical Conference, when Rathna Ramanathan, Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of the Arts, described creative education as involving the hand, the heart and the head.
We represented this through a head with a patchwork brain and embroidered skills and attributes (made in colleboration with Surface Design Lab technicians), a heart pin cushion (made in collaboration with Knit technicians) and a hand, created by Eujean KO, with students’ comments about technicians suspended from it.”
Jet
Photography technician
“This is a camera that every student that is interested in photography, in particular analogue photography, would have used at some point to get a good understanding of the fundamentals of photography in a technical way. But it is also so much more than a technical tool, it's where students get the "magic" of photography, by taking photos, developing the film and making a print. It's the start of that magical journey.”
- Three kimonos
- Florence Hawkins
- Gemma Windass,
- June Fish
- Tansy Hamley
- Rita Kumari
Print & Dye technicians
1 x long kimono: procion “reactive” print paste, pigment and FF binder print pastes and direct dye on cotton
1 x medium kimono: natural print pastes, natural dyes and indigo dye on bamboo/silk
1 x short kimono: acid print paste and acid dye on silk
“These kimonos demonstrate the processes we offer in our workshop. From repeat and placement silk-screen printing with different print pastes, to dyeing with various dyes and techniques on different natural fibre fabrics.”
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Modified 3D ceramic printer
Barbara Paes, Charlie Sekers, Karsten Goodwin, Matthew Edwards
Grow Lab Technician, 3D Make Digital Technician, Physical Computing Technician,
Digital Labs technical coordinator -
“We modified this DIY printer to explore various use cases, from printing in ceramics to biomaterials. It represents the collaboration of 3D Make, Physical Computing, & Grow Lab technicians.”
Paola Moglia
Rosa Pearks
Weave technicians
Two warps, one tangled and messy after being dyed, hanging above one that is neat and tidy, stretched on a table loom.
“The installation shows a warp before and after a technician's intervention. Being a technician is about 'problem solving' most of the time; whether it involves fixing mistakes, trying to find 'ways to' or demonstrating a variety of techniques. The idea behind this piece is to show visually the journey a student takes starting from a muddle-up, undecided, not-working object (the warp) to a final, sorted, neat and working object (the warp stretched on a loom).”
Michael Breakey
Performance technician
“The performance technical team have a very wide brief. Such is the nature of performance creation that we need to be able to support students with their ideas connected to lighting, sound, costume, projection, puppetry, installation, masks and millinery, scenic painting, virtual reality, and pretty much anything else that they can come up with. The first step in finding out about a students' needs is getting them to sit down and present their idea and their plans. This stool is where students sit when they are telling me their plans and asking questions. The stool is a sort of focal point, where loads of ideas come in and perhaps a solution or next step comes out. When I think of what it means to me to be a technician it comes down to the connections with students. Helping them to navigate the infinite possibilities presented to them and to achieve their creative goals.”
- Surface design samples
- Noor Khazem, Sophie Reynolds
- Surface Design Lab technicians
- “While students create their
- designs digitally, these samples
- help them to understand how
- these designs will translate into
- final physical pieces.”
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Sense of the small
- Shem Johnson
- Grow Lab technician
CNC'd hardwood Speakers
Controller / amp
London Bacillus
Tree bacteria
Fractal colony
“This piece combines biology, microscopy, exploration of soil, connecting with beings of a different scale, additive manufacturing... all techniques and discussions available to students in the Grow Lab and CSM workshops.”
Laser cut & 3D printed items
Kazuya Tsuji, Lachlan Tomlin
Digital Fabrication Bureau technicians
“These samples are used within the space as a starting point for students’ decision making, exploration, material knowledge, and understanding of the characteristics and capabilities within digital fabrication processes.”