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To: Kingston University School of Art & Architecture
Save Kingston University Foundation
#KingstonNeedsKnights We need to keep the Foundation Art and Design course open and in it's current position at Kingston University Knights Park. Kingston University Penrhyn Road is an unsuitable site for any fine arts based technical course. There are many reasons for this but here are just a few.
Why is this important?
1) Penrhyn Road is a grey, uninspiring university campus compared to Knights Park. The art school would not and cannot blend here.
2) All of the visual arts subjects are based at Knights Park for a reason, the workshops, from photography to print, from 3D to the Digital Media Workshop (DMW), you can find all of it at Knights Park. As a foundation student last year, it took me 3 months to find where Penrhyn Road was. How will foundation students at Penrhyn find their way to us
3) Because of all the visual arts courses being based at Knights Park, there is a strong community of artists and creatives, and the social life at the student union bar, as well as the artistic space of the workshop and DMW last year enabled me to make many friends on other courses who I am still in contact with this year. These lasting relationships would not happen at Penrhyn.
4) The teaching team on the foundation course at Kingston University is immensely talented and vivacious, and there is an equally talented team in each of the departments they serve. Why separate this team from the other creative staff at the university, and why jeopardise this extremely committed team into leaving?
2) All of the visual arts subjects are based at Knights Park for a reason, the workshops, from photography to print, from 3D to the Digital Media Workshop (DMW), you can find all of it at Knights Park. As a foundation student last year, it took me 3 months to find where Penrhyn Road was. How will foundation students at Penrhyn find their way to us
3) Because of all the visual arts courses being based at Knights Park, there is a strong community of artists and creatives, and the social life at the student union bar, as well as the artistic space of the workshop and DMW last year enabled me to make many friends on other courses who I am still in contact with this year. These lasting relationships would not happen at Penrhyn.
4) The teaching team on the foundation course at Kingston University is immensely talented and vivacious, and there is an equally talented team in each of the departments they serve. Why separate this team from the other creative staff at the university, and why jeopardise this extremely committed team into leaving?
