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Featured news, opportunities and events for Arts, Design & Architecture students

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Logo design competition | Bush Tucker Trail

Do you want to promote awareness and engagement with Kensington Campus's Indigenous plants? Submit up to three designs for a new logo for the Bush Tucker Trail and you could win $500. 

Submissions are due by 9am, Wednesday 19 October. 

ATT: Art & Design students!

Considering Higher Degree Research, or already undertaking a HDR program? Apply for this Scholarship and you could receive a stipend of $10,000 per annum.

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UNSW Languages Week 2022

Join us for three days of events that celebrate the diverse languages taught and spoken in the School of Humanities and Languages UNSW. Visit open classrooms, learn to dance and share the food of diverse cultures, learn Tai chi and practice calligraphy. 

Learn more!

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Launch Your Career: Creative Industries

Interested in exploring careers in the Creative Industries? Join us to learn more about careers in Architecture and Design, Fine/Visual Arts and Theatre, Media, Journalism and Communications, plus more! 

Archive | News, opportunities & events from 2022
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ADA | A Night Out at Vivid

Let us take you through Sydney's dazzling light display 'Vivid' with exclusive access to the UNSW team behind one of the installations!

Make your mark and earn $1000!

Hey School of Art & Design and Built Environment Students, this is your opportunity to have your work digitally printed and permanently installed a space on campus!

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!DO SOMETHING Exhibition

The UNSW Wicked Collective invites students, staff, and researchers across the ADA Faculty to submit creative responses and interventions to one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to the wicked problem of Climate Change.

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Deadline extended: Create Massive Action in Sydney

UNSW ADA is partnering with designers Bruce Mau and Aiyemobisi (Bisi) Williams and their Massive Change Network on a collaborative project to translate their 24 Massive Change Principles into a toolkit for creating Massive Action and to accelerate the ADA2051 commitment to seek and solve problems to improve life on earth.

Submission deadline 5pm Monday 1 August

Submission form available here

ADA students, welcome to your NEW Paddington Library and Nucleus: Student Hub!

The new Paddington Library and Nucleus: Student Hub will open to students from Monday 28 March in D Block, ground floor - come check it out!

This exciting new space provides an extensive number of student collaboration areas interfacing with the campus courtyard. This includes quiet individual and group study spaces, a collaboration area, help zone, waiting area, meeting rooms and kitchen. 

ADA 2023 Program Changes info sessions

Join us for our upcoming information sessions and find out about the ADA program updates and enhancements available to undergraduate students from 2023. Sessions run Thursday 25 Aug - Wednesday 31 Aug. 

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UNSOMNIA: What comes next? | Humanities

The 21st century has been plagued with one crisis after another – a global pandemic, climate catastrophes, economic turmoil and senseless violence. So how do we equip ourselves for what’s around the corner?  

Register now

Archive | News, opportunities & events from 2021

ADA Town Hall | Q&A

The ADA Student Town Hall held last week with Professor Claire Annesley, Dean of Arts, Design & Architecture, was a fantastic opportunity to connect and ask any questions, discuss key issues and share ideas. If you missed the event, read on for more Q&A and to access the recording.

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