Ravensbourne holds Industry Day

Press Release

03 November 2008

Top Media professionals to speak at Ravensbourne’s Industry Day

Endemol, ITV, D&AD, Vodafone, The Mill, Sony and Micorsoft are amongst those leading seminars in a teaching day with a difference

Ravensbourne College’s first industry-led teaching day will be held on 17 November 2008. The College has always attracted high-profile speakers, but never before has an entire day been dedicated to experienced professionals such as Warp Films, Professor Peter Higgins, Richard Eisserman, Hilary Alexander, Endemol, NBC Europe, D&AD, Microsoft, The Future Department and The Mill – to name but a few.

Known as “T-Shaped Futures”, the day revolves around the concept of encouraging a crossover between disciplines to broaden a student’s existing skills. T-Shaped is a phrase coined by Tim Brown (CEO of design consultancy IDEO) which is now widely recognized as a highly relevant model for future practitioners. Design and broadcast industries are coming closer than ever before. They are merging, blurring and collaborating in some unprecedented ways enabled through advances in technology. This coming together, coupled with the challenges now faced by today’s creative and broadcast practitioners require our future practitioners, employees, employers and business leaders to be multi-skilled and aware of what is going on in the related sectors around them. Those that become T-Shaped will be in higher demand and of higher value in the future.

Students will get the lowdown on pitching from ITV2’s Zai Bennett and NBC Europe’s Jon Farrar, the Future of the Fashion Industry from Hilary Alexander (Fashion Director of The Daily Telegraph), and roles within digital media from Daljit Singh of Digit.

Acting as part of personal development, students

Ravensbourne have been invited to participate in the Student Charrette next year, this time joining 19 other colleges and universities competing for the honour of winning.

Visual mock-up of the outdoor space

MA Environment Design students (left-to-right): Lee Miles, Hearan Kim, Daniel Evans, Course Leader Layton Reid, Sadie Bossom, James Briley, Affan Beg, Lewis Preston, Shane McCrea

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Notes to Editors

For information, please contact Lisa Johnstone, Head of Marketing and Communications on 020 8289 4815, l.johnstone@rave.ac.uk or visit www.rave.ac.uk

1. World Architecture Festival

The Festival is being launched as an annual event by Emap, the media group which runs other festivals including the World Retail Congress and Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

The best that global architecture has to offer will be on show at World Architecture Festival, a unique event celebrating the world’s finest work from the world’s greatest architects. The festival starts Wednesday 22nd October and runs until Friday 24th October at the CCIB International Conference Centre in Barcelona.

World Architecture Festival is set to become one of the most significant dates in the global architectural calendar. It is the biggest architectural event in the world, which looks beyond borders to celebrate the finest work from the world’s greatest architects.

At the heart of the Festival is the World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards), the biggest architectural awards programme in the world, which celebrates the work, concerns and aspirations of the international architectural community.

The delegates attending the Festival have access to something previously reserved for a select few – the opportunity to hear and see a shortlist of 224 architects from 42 countries present their schemes to a panel of expert judges. For more information visit: http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/

2. Ravensbourne

Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication is a University Sector College, validated by the University of Sussex. It is currently based in Chislehurst, Kent. Ravensbourne specialises in the creative exploitation of digital technologies in design and communication within a lively interdisciplinary learning community. It believes that students need to be fluent in the use of digital technologies, not just as a tool but as a medium, in order to stand head and shoulders above their peers when entering professional practice.

The College enjoys an excellent reputation, based on the quality of its learning and teaching, its excellent relationships with the creative industries and the calibre of its highly employable and award-winning students. It has a community of approximately 1,400 students that follow either pre-degree (Further Education), undergraduate or postgraduate (Higher Education) programmes, and are drawn from the UK, Europe and around ten percent from International (non-EU) destinations.

Ravensbourne programmes span broadcasting; interaction, media and sound design; animation and performance video; fashion, product, interior, graphic, and moving image design. In 2010 Ravensbourne will be relocating to an iconic, purpose built college on the Greenwich Peninsula to mark its educational transformation. For more information visit: www.rave.ac.uk