Professional Certificate in Creative Hospitality
This Professional Certificate in Creative Hospitality introduces the learner to concepts of authenticity and shared experience in their work by adopting the fundamental principles and theories of hospitality, that is the practice of welcoming strangers.
Start Date - 24 Sep 2024 - 17 Oct 2024
Credits - 5
NFQ Level - 9
About
This Professional Certificate in Creative Hospitality introduces the learner to concepts of authenticity and shared experience in their work by adopting the fundamental principles and theories of hospitality, that is the practice of welcoming strangers.
This module explores the process of integrating others into the environment that surrounds their creative practice. The learner navigates the role of host to the community that forms around their work, considering carefully the exchange with guests while addressing elements such as risk taking, reciprocity, self-preservation, placemaking and care.
Consider your creative practice as a space for strangers to connect.
You are the host to these strangers.
What do they need?
How can you maximise the potential for shared experience?
How can you make this connection authentic, impactful, fully immersive, complex?
How is the visitor welcomed?
What will they feel like when they leave?
How will your creative practice be impacted by these “guests”?
This programme allows you to create a point of hospitality using NCAD campus and environs as a site of enquiry. You will explore the process of welcoming others into our practice by carefully navigating the role of the host, the significance of guests, risk-taking, reciprocity, self-preservation, placemaking and care.
What to Expect
The sessions run in the evenings on Tuesday and Thursdays.
7 sessions in total, 6 in-person, 1 online.
Breakdown below.
Session 1 – Tue, Sep 24, in-person
Introduction to the module, outline Creative Hospitality Brief
Session 2 – Thu, Sep 26, in-person
Ritualising food memory.
Session 3 – Tue, Oct 1, in -person
Hospitality Lecture and discussion
Session 4 – Thu, Oct 3, in-person
Autumnal harvest – Cooking together– Potluck in the Field
Session 5 – Tue, Oct 8, in-person
Collective self-publishing session.
Session 6 – Thu, Oct 10, online
Food and Resistance lecture
Session 7 – Thu, Oct 17, in-person
Peer review plus conviviality.
Educational Standard
All applicants are expected to present an approved Bachelor degree at minimum level of 2nd class honours (2.2)
Applicants who do not meet the minimum academic entry requirements may be considered on the basis of prior work or learning experience (RPEL). Candidates may be required to pass a qualifying examination set by the relevant department before being accepted to a Masters degree programme. Attendance at selected undergraduate lecture courses at NCAD, together with related written work may be prescribed.
You may apply for the programme if you are currently completing your Undergraduate Degree. NCAD will review the rest of your application If necessary, we can make you a Conditional Offer. When your degree is completed and you send us final transcripts we will upgrade this to a Full Offer.
Essential Supporting Documents
A statement framing your reasons for applying to the programme, i.e. how attending the above selected course will benefit you and your practice (500 words)
A recent CV
Certified transcripts of previous programmes followed
Certified copies of degree/ certificates and/or other appropriate third level qualifications bearing the official stamp of the institution.
There is a fee of €600 for this programme.
Applications via NCAD will open in July 2024.
CFA Scholarship:
A CFA scholarship encourages the participation of learners from sections of society that are significantly under-represented in higher education by offering one free place on all of our CFA short courses.
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The Creative Hospitality module would suit artists, designers, chefs, food entrepreneurs, architects, public-facing organisations, healthcare practitioners, event managers, those involved in the tourism industry, care workers, hoteliers and more.
The exploration of this material provides an illuminating knowledge base for those interested in developing opportunities for interaction and shared connection in their professional practice. The working methodology has been designed with a celebratory emphasis on creative practice, that is artists, designers, cultural practitioners or indeed those who wish to explore new techniques and approaches to develop an idea. This module will provide professional development to individuals and organisations who wish to gain insight into the art of welcoming strangers.
Jennie Moran is a Dublin based artist who uses her practice to create opportunities for hospitality.
She has gathered knowledge through a degree in sculpture at the National College of Art and Design; international residencies at NES Iceland, Fondazione Ratti, Italy and Galleria Blanda, Buenos Aires. Her projects have been facilitated by Dublin City Council Art Bursary, Arts Council Project Award, Artist in the Community Award, Engaging with Architecture Award and a Visual Art Bursary.
Jennie Moran moranj@staff.ncad.ie.
