Studio+ Creative Futures Electives selection 2025, Term 2
30 Jan 2026
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17 Apr 2026
CFAD+002
Term 2
ECTS Points
5 ECTS
Term 2
5 ECTS
Studio+ students are required to earn 60 credits (30 per term) in the course of the academic year.
Fine Art and Design student who have not chosen ERASMUS, Visual Culture or internship/self-arranged placements in T2 will need a 5-credit CFA Studio+ elective to earn 30 credits in combination with other chosen modules (Field, D8, Design Bureau, VideoLab, etc).
You are now asked to select your Studio+ Creative Futures elective option for Trimester 2 by filling out a form at the bottom of this page.
You will find start times, start dates and all useful details in the descriptions below.
Morning at NCAD
Narrative Environments
Design for Climate Action
Design for Transformation
Circular by Design
Afternoon at NCAD
Creative Entrepreneurship
Digital Making
IADT
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Delivered by: Claire Healy
Time: 10:00 – 1:00
Every environment has the potential to tell a story; they are spatial platforms, scenarios, and interfaces for sharing information, hosting events, making installations, and staging experiences. Curating and designing environments to communicate and encompass stories, rhetoric, and discourse in a specific way, and to convey a particularly distinct narrative, has always been a core challenge of creative practice. Learners will be supported to use a variety of media to map, curate, and interpret a designated creative space, to tell stories and engage with the cultural contexts that frame the practices of creating spaces and built environments.
Delivered by: Neasa Horrigan
Time: 10:00 – 1:00
This course looks to equip emerging learners with an awareness and understanding of climate change issues and the urgency for meaningful action, while also providing tools, methods, and platforms to influence behavioural, personal, professional, and sectoral change.
Supporting a culture that promotes agency and a shared community ethos that substantively transforms perspective and behaviour towards climate action and responsibility. Learners will undertake a topical, thematic design project with colleagues and creative peers, developed through teamwork, negotiation and collaboration, which leads them to an understanding of how they might shape sustainable collaboration cultures.
This programme enables learners to explore the capacity of design as a critical and collaborative agent of social, cultural and economic change.
It asks the learner to consider the potential impact of design on a range of contemporary commercial, social and cultural issues.
Equal emphasis is placed on critical thinking. Learners explore speculative, fictional, discursive, and impact-led design methodologies, equipping them with the skills required to provoke meaningful change.
Delivered by: Hugh Finnerty
Time 2:00 – 4:30
If you’re looking to establish yourself as an artist, media producer or designer now or in the future, and are looking to create your own products/portfolio in order to sell your work, then this Module could be perfect for you.
The Module will be very focused on developing the tools and mindsets that will be helpful when transforming a creative practice into an enterprise. We work on the basics such as defining creative enterprise and building business marketing and sales plans while building your confidence and business pitching skills. This module will include a series of conversations and field trips to engage with successful entrepreneurs.
Delivered by: Hugh Finnerty
Time: 2:00 – 4:30
How Might I Reimagine My Practice through Circular Principles?
The current modus operandi of creative industries is a linear one, largely following a ‘take-make-use-waste’ model. It is crucial that we as artists & designers radically reimagine our practices to be more circular, whereby work is made sustainably, used longer and then re-used or recycled at end-of-use. This Circular by Design (CbD) elective will equip students with the knowledge base and practical, adaptable skills required to apply circular principles & strategies to their design and art production and processes.
Delivered by: John Beattie
Location: Walsh Workshop, Grace Gifford House NCAD
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Through a series of practice-based workshops and lectures, you will have the opportunity to individually and collectively find new possibilities for digital applications.A wide range digital techniques will be explored that draw on the inherent qualities of the making process to support contemporary creative practice. the module is designed as a series of digital-making activities.
If you have questions, please email Joanna Crawley, crawleyj@staff.ncad.ie
