Studio Unbound

Founded in 2009 by Snook's Lauren Currie the Studio Unbound is an initiative aiming to introduce students, graduates and educators to the creative power of social media. Studio Unbound explores the power of digital networking, demonstrating tools that students can use to move ideas forward, form networks with practitioners around the world, and build a reputation before and after graduation.

In highlighting creative people all over the world using social networking to their advantage, Studio Unbound discuss the dynamic, conversational value of new communication technologies and illustrate how ideas of teaching and learning need to move away from the confines of the classroom or studio towards other, often ad-hoc and virtual venues.

Focusing on the ever growing possibilities and opportunities that the digital world presents, Studio Unbound demonstrate that during a time of mass communication change, design courses must change with it if they are to stay relevant.

Studio Unbound is not all about Twitter or Facebook, but about breaking down preconceptions of social media technologies, into an incredible value system that can enable us all to find both an individual voice, and collaborative practice.

Studio Unbound have worked with various Universities, inviting professional practitioners to join in via skype; design writer and communications consultant Kate Andrews, forward thinking jeweller Kate Pickering, and Snook's very own Sarah Drummond

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