7 weeks part-time | 1 evening per week | Online

Start Date: Wed 1st Oct

End Date: Wed 19th Nov

Time: 6:30 – 9pm

Dates: Wed 1st Oct, Wed 8th Oct, Wed 15th Oct, Wed 22nd Oct, Wed 5th Nov, Wed 12th Nov, Wed 19th Nov

This course is designed for creative professionals and designers eager to expand their practice and embrace emerging AI tools and methods.

• Understand key concepts in artificial intelligence and their relevance to design
  
• Explore tools and methods for designing with and for AI technologies
• Evaluate and critique AI-generated outputs within different design contexts
  
• Investigate ethical, professional, and practical issues in AI-driven design
  
• Apply principles and frameworks for integrating AI into design processes, identify opportunities and limitations of AI
  
• Recognize how AI can enhance innovation and impact within organizations, considering future trends and possibilities

Graduates will be equipped to advance in design innovation roles, or emerging AI–design hybrid careers.

The programme seeks to provide the transversal and specialist skills to equip creative practitioners to work within existing career paths, while also forging new career and creative pathways as creative educators and facilitators.

Q: Are there any prerequisites?

Applicants should have a background in design, visual communication, UX/UI, digital media, or a related creative field. Prior experience with AI tools is not required — just curiosity, creativity, and an openness to new ways of thinking and working. – Check with Bernie & Joanna on this

Q: How will I be assessed?

Assessment is practice-based. You’ll complete a project that demonstrates your understanding of AI tools and their application in a design context, supported by reflective and research-led components. There are no formal written exams.

Q: What’s the weekly timetable like?
This is a part-time programme running one evening per week over seven weeks, delivered online:

• Live online sessions (lectures, seminars, tutorials, discussions)
• Online workshops (hands-on learning, critique sessions)
• Self-directed study (research and project work)

A detailed timetable will be shared before the course starts.

Applications are currently open HERE

Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet Partnership Rate

Creative Futures Academy is delighted to collaborate with Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet to offer a special partnership rate of €350 for qualifying candidates, which includes those resident in the Republic of Ireland and not already in receipt of a bursary, grant aid or a scholarship for this course and not participating in a CE scheme or in receipt of Unemployment Benefit. Find out more HERE

This Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet programme is co-funded by the Government of Ireland & the European Union. www.eufunds.ie

Fees for those who do not meet the Skillnet criteria are €600.

CFA Scholarship

A CFA scholarship encourages the participation of learners from sections of society that are significantly under-represented in higher education by offering one free place on all of our CFA short courses.

Find out if you are eligible to apply HERE

Fill in the CFA@NCAD scholarship application form HERE