Inspired Festival Stories: 2025
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.
Lu's projectArt 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.
Zoe's projectMedia Production
Emil's project is a documentary titled "The Velichappadu: Oracles in the Face of Change".
Emil's project
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.
Summer's projectInspired Case Studies
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.
Micheas Ferlito
The Beacon
Micheas Ferlito is a final year Architecture student whose project, The Beacon, hopes to memorialise buildings of Birmingham's past.
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.
Rosie Butler
Blooming Into Self
Rosie Butler is a final year Textile Design student, whose project symbolises personal growth and strength.
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