In person, 4 Saturdays, bi-weekly
10am - 4pm
Alan Gilsenan
25 Sep 2026
NCAD
5
AD488PC
4 weeks
€600 or €120*
Consider your creative practice as a space for strangers to connect.
You are the host to these strangers.
What do they need?
How can you maximise the potential for shared experience?
How can you make this connection authentic, impactful, fully immersive, complex?
How is the visitor welcomed?
What will they feel like when they leave?
How will your creative practice be impacted by these “guests”?
This programme allows you to create a point of hospitality using NCAD campus and environs as a site of enquiry. You will explore the process of welcoming others into our practice by carefully navigating the role of the host, the significance of guests, risk-taking, reciprocity, self-preservation, placemaking and care.
This Professional Certificate in Creative Hospitality introduces the learner to concepts of authenticity and shared experience in their work by adopting the fundamental principles and theories of hospitality, that is the practice of welcoming strangers.
This module explores the process of integrating others into the environment that surrounds their creative practice. The learner navigates the role of host to the community that forms around their work, considering carefully the exchange with guests while addressing elements such as risk taking, reciprocity, self-preservation, placemaking and care.
Themes discussed include:
Ritualising food memory
Collective self-publishing
Food and Resistance
The Creative Hospitality module would suit artists, designers, chefs, food entrepreneurs, architects, public-facing organisations, healthcare practitioners, event managers, those involved in the tourism industry, care workers, hoteliers and more.
The sessions run over 4 Saturdays, bi-weekly, 10am – 4pm in person.
Dates:
17th October
31st October
14th November
28th November
The exploration of this material provides an illuminating knowledge base for those interested in developing opportunities for interaction and shared connection in their professional practice. The working methodology has been designed with a celebratory emphasis on creative practice, that is artists, designers, cultural practitioners or indeed those who wish to explore new techniques and approaches to develop an idea. This module will provide professional development to individuals and organisations who wish to gain insight into the art of welcoming strangers.
Pre-requisites
All applicants are expected to present an approved Bachelor degree at minimum level of 2nd class honours (2.2)
As part of your application, you will be asked to upload the following supporting documentation:
You can see the full list of the English Language Qualifications NCAD recognises at this link.
All new and continuing students will receive information by email on how to register and pay fees. For information on Fee Payment and Grant Eligibility go to NCAD Fees & Grants.
NCAD Students Handbook
The Handbook is available for download here
Continuing students and new postgraduate students who accepted the offer will start receiving ‘Invitation to Register’ emails from the week beginning 19th August.
More on the NCAD website.
There is a fee of €600 for this programme (€120 with with LFS) for this programme.
100% payment is required upfront at registration from the LFS recipients.
Apply via Springboard
Joanna Crawley crawleyj@staff.ncad.ie
“I enjoyed this course very much. It was particularly useful to open and question a side of ourselves often left unexplored: the one that deals with the sense of community, the social aspect of our lives that is tremendously vital to us”.
“The course appeals to a variety of professionals working already in hospitality, but also to event coordinators, cultural professionals, arts and health practitioners, socially engaged artists and educators”.
“This is my first experience with NCAD and I will certainly be back”
“Coming from the corporate world, I worried I would feel a bit like a commercial passenger surrounded by astronauts on a mission to Mars. But Jennie made me feel very welcome and I quickly realised the diversity of the other participants’ backgrounds”.
“The highlight of the course is perceiving hospitality and conviviality as an artistic practice for not only participants of the course, but for socially engaged art and social justice approaches within community arts overall. I appreciated the sharing of food and the setting of the table as an art installation”.
In this episode, Jennie Moran talks about her craft, her career, and her advice to those seeking to enter the profession.
Jennie Moran is an artist who uses the philosophy, culture, and infrastructure of hospitality to create opportunities for shared connection. She started a nomadic hospitality project called Luncheonette in 2013 which operated as the canteen in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and was named Irish Café of the year at the 2019 Food and Wine Awards. In 2022 Luncheonette was invited to Artsadmin in London, to take part in a hospitality themed research residency and consultancy project called Say Yes to Who or What Turns Up, using an old café as a site of unconditional welcome. She has just completed a Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies at TUD and is publishing a book entitled How to Soften Corners about the impact of hospitality in institutions. She provides mentorship in holistic hospitality to creative organisations and lectures at NCAD, and occasionally UCD School of Architecture, Cork Centre for Architectural Education (UCC) and TUD.
Creative Futures Academy are delighted to be awarded significant Micro-credential Learner Fee Subsidy (LFS) to support learners attending our future-focused courses in both the National College of Art & Design and the Institute of Art Design + Technology, Dun Laoghaire.
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