Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCi)

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

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School of Architecture

Design Classical
^{Peter Hodson}

In this drawing based course, you will be set graphic exercises to learn by doing the elements of the classical language, the proportional ratios which determine their appearance, and how to compose with them to make coherent, rational and harmonious classical designs, when a client asks for them.

This course provides a new (and rare) architectural skill which is interestingly marketable, and also satisfies curiosity about this ancient design language, (the ‘mother tongue’ of western architecture), whose disciplines underlie nearly every aspect of our historical built environment, (including much of the modern; Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto).  It is recommended that the drawing exercises are done using CAD, the course has also proven to be a terrifically effective means of honing even the most experienced CAD users’ mouse skills, owing to the strict disciplines regarding mass and proportion, and also the representation of complex decorative details which the classical language in practice entails.

Morocco Spring School – Jørn Utzon Architecture

^{Roger Tyrrell}

JØRN UTZON SPRING SCHOOL – MARRAKECH, MOROCCO 1st – 9th APRIL 2012
Website: http://www.utzonresearchnetwork.org 

Juhani Pallasmaa, Richard Leplastrier and Jan Utzon will lead the inaugural Jørn Utzon Spring Workshop and Symposium to be held in Morocco over Easter 2012. The objective is to explore Utzon’s paradigm in a context he drew inspiration from, by designing a ‘refugium’ in the Atlas Mountains.

Utzon spent some time hiking in the Atlas Mountains and this immersion led to a range of translations of vernacular typologies in projects in Denmark. 

Organised jointly by the Jørn Utzon Research Network (JURN), the Utzon Research Center, Aalborg, Denmark and l’Ecole Nationale d’Architecture of Morocco, the event will be further supported by tutors from Denmark, UK, Australia and Tasmania. The workshop, based in Marrakech, will begin with a one-day symposium discussing and defining the Utzon paradigm, before heading in to the Atlas Mountains exploring the site, traditional tectonic materials and processes and indigenous cultures, finally returning to Marrakech to complete the design proposals.

Additional Notes

The workshop is open to students of architecture and related disciplines with a minimum of two years undergraduate experience, academics and practitioners.

The fee includes costs in Morocco for accommodation, local travel, breakfast and dinner.  It also includes attendance at the Utzon symposium.
 

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School of Creative Technologies

AVID Video Editing
^{Charlie Watts}

Email: avid@port.ac.uk 

Avid Post-Production products are the choice of professionals worldwide from feature films to prime-time television, Avid provide an end-to-end solution you won't find anywhere else. The School of Creative Technologies is an Avid Academic Partner (AAP). For more details on the AAP, and to see what benefits are on offer to CT students, please follow this link.
Avid Xpress Pro - Real-world, real-time HD, SD, DV and film editing for Mac and PC systems.

Certified by AVID

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School of Creative Art, Film and Media

Creative Writing: The Stories of Your Life
^{Alison Habens}

Always wanted to write your life story but didn't know where to start? Learn how to turn your earliest memories, dreams and diaries into polished pieces of prose or poetry. This short course run by experienced lecturers, editors and published authors will help you plot and draft some original creative writing from your real life experiences. It will also include an introduction to the world of publishing, with advice about how to approach literary agents or editors with your proposals or manuscripts.

Course Information

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Terms and Conditions

Each course will run with a minimum and maximum number of delegates, if numbers exceed the maximum, an additional class may be created if minimum numbers subscribe. Courses will not run until the minimum number have registered and paid the fee in advance.

Most of these courses are available to order at the Online Store, otherwise please contact martin.robinson-dowland@port.ac.uk.

Cancellation of courses by the University

If your course is cancelled you can transfer to another course at no extra charge.

Alternatively you can receive a full refund for any course fees, deposits and cancellation protection supplements paid.

The College reserves the right to cancel any course at short notice. In this event you will be notified as soon as possible, at least three weeks before the due start date.

Cancellation of bookings by students

If you have to cancel your booking please notify the Admissions Office as soon as possible by telephone and confirm in writing.

If appropriate, you will be sent a cancellation protection claim form. 
 For cancellations made more than six weeks before the start of the course, any fees paid over and above the deposit will be refunded.

No refunds can be made to those who cancel within six weeks of the course or fail to attend a course for its full duration.

Deposits are non-refundable under any circumstances for confirmed bookings which are not covered by cancellation protection.

Cancellation protection

Cancellation protection can be arranged for you at the time of booking. This protection provides for the reimbursement of your Course and Accommodation fees in the event that you have to cancel your booking as a result of one of a number of common reasons for cancellation. The cost of cancellation protection is automatically calculated during the booking process.

The Terms and Conditions of the protection need to be read and agreed before proceeding with your booking.

Changes to published information

While every care has been taken in the production of this website to provide accurate descriptions of the courses on offer, the College reserves the right to make changes as necessary. You will be notified of changes in advance, wherever possible.