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Introduction

The position of Head of the School of Design is an important leadership role for The Glasgow School of Art. The School of Design has an incredibly rich heritage, tracing back to the GSA’s original founding in 1845 as one of the UK’s first government schools of design, to aid the city’s manufacturing industries.

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History

Founded in 1845 as one of the uk’s first government Schools of Design, the GSA can trace its lineage to the 1750s and the establishment, during the Scottish enlightenment, of the Foulis Academy, European in ethos and the UK’s first School of Art.

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International

Socially and culturally diverse, the GSA has one of the highest numbers of international and EU students of any UK visual creative institution or faculty and one of Scotland’s highest percentages of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Alumni

Our global community of graduates work across the whole spectrum of design practice. From sustaining and developing Glasgow’s creative industries sector to working across the globe they take with them the unique experience of studying in Scotland’s creative and cultural capital and at the Glasgow School of Art.

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Participation

We believe that creativity thrives through diversity. Our community is represented by students from 80 countries around the world, each bringing their own social and cultural perspectives. But the GSA is diverse not solely because of the international nature of our students’ community, but because of the diversity of our local students.

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Research

The School of Design comprises a distinctive, specialist research culture encompassing design history and theory, design for health and care and research in, about or through creative practice, particularly in the areas of textile design and print cultures. Teaching at the school is informed directly by academic staff’s active engagement in research, creative practice and scholarship.

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The City

It is only two miles’ walk from the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world to the uk’s first technological university. It’s a walk that takes you through a city whose architecture was built at the height of its global success, from the parklands of Kelvingrove, through the city’s Georgian new town and into the victorian grid of the city centre.

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Galleries

Interrogate this year’s final year Graduate Showcases from the School of Design, galleries of alumni successes, and emergent designers.