Garden Design
FdA in Garden Design
Why choose Garden Design?
This course allows you to explore a broad range of creative ideas and technical skills. It will provide access to a variety of locations for inspiration and practice in designing a range of gardens to help you gather the vocational experience required to understand the subject in a very practical manner.
The combination of extensive art and design experience and horticultural expertise available through the collaboration between The North Wales School of Art and Design and Glyndŵr University Flintshire enables both institutions to provide you with an experience which will lead to you becoming visually literate, highly imaginative and resourceful designers with detailed knowledge and authoritative understanding of landscape design.
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- On this course you can combine art and design skills with horticulture expertise through access to facilities at the Wrexham campus and the facilities at the rural campus in Northop, Flintshire.
- Enthusiastic, specialist team of staff with expertise in horticulture, design, craft and production skills.
- The course offers you a variety of experience, combining a strong ethos of sustainability and high quality design within the environment of the garden.
- Strong industrial links, nationally and internationally, enable students to gain work placements and the experience of professional briefs.
- Teaching is split between the Wrexham and Northop campuses.
- Strong ethos of sustainability and high quality design within the environment of the garden.
- Specialist facilities, equipment and workshops, including hundreds of acres of grounds for landscaping projects.
- The course is distinctive, in that you will learn the fundamental elements of landscape and garden visualisation, planting development and sustainability combined with a practical knowledge of materials and process useful in the context of garden and landscape art and design. This knowledge will inform your ideas and designs whilst you progress through the levels of study.
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Career opportunities
Many career opportunities exist within this area of the arts including careers in education or artists in residence schemes, or designers and craftspeople working within the context of the landscape and garden. The course will offer problems for you to solve in creative and practical ways and these are the kind of skills employers find valuable in their employees.
Students successfully completing a course in Garden Design can expect to find employment in a number of roles, opportunities include: employment with landscape design companies, consultancy and visualisation, community based projects and self-employment.
Successful graduates of the foundation degree can progress onto the third year of a related honours degree course.
