Inspired Festival Stories

These artists, actors, designers, writers and musicians have responded positively and creatively to unprecedented challenges. They have demonstrated outstanding ingenuity and adopted new ways of working, with inventive ideas evolving from a range of disciplines. Nurtured in the region, the Inspired Festival now brings our graduates to a global audience. We are proud to offer this platform to share their inspiring work.

Inspired Festival Journeys

Follow the journeys of our students as they create their projects through these video diaries.

Fashion Communication

Lu's magazine, Disrupt, is about celebrating hyperlocal creatives in Birmingham. From students and graduates and industry professionals.

Art and Design with Creative Technologies

Zoe developed a sustainable and gender inclusive toy that puts the agency of play back into the child's hands.

Media Production

Emil's project is a documentary titled "The Velichappadu: Oracles in the Face of Change".

 

Photography

Photography student Summer's project is about making the arts more accessible for artists and community to access the arts by bringing them together.

Inspired Case Studies

Alice Ayers

Postures of Peace: Held in This Hand

Alice Ayers is a final year Jewellery and Objects student, whose final project hopes to bring comfort to those with anxiety.

Amy Newton

Anteatering Around

Amy Newton, a final year Textile Design student, has created a multi-product range artworks, toys and fabrics, based around anteaters and conservation.

Abby Staniland

The Zoo of Time

Abby Staniland is a final year Landscape Architecture student. Her project, The Zoo of Time, reimagines Dudley Zoo and Castle.

Rosie Butler

Blooming Into Self

Rosie Butler is a final year Textile Design student, whose project symbolises personal growth and strength.

Micheas Ferlito

The Beacon

Micheas Ferlito is a final year Architecture student whose project, The Beacon, hopes to memorialise buildings of Birmingham's past. 

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