Glamorgan to open creative hub

The University of Glamorgan opens its brand new ‘ATRiuM’ building in the heart of Cardiff city centre this September. The state of the art building will be home to the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries. Professor Peter Robertson, Dean of the Faculty, looks forward to the opening of the campus and the future at Wales’ newest creative hub:
“Now eagerly awaiting our move into Cardiff, the newly established Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries has brought together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan, including Art and Design, Media and Communication, and Drama and Music. This diverse, multidisciplinary grouping supports a rich cultural and scholarly environment and provides specialist and hybrid undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree programmes.
The new faculty actively fosters the creative, technological, entrepreneurial and intellectual development of students and staff. Our multi-million pound purpose-built home will be an architectural icon, as well as a platform for an eclectic mix of teaching and research in the theory and practice of media, design and the arts. As well as state-of-the-art teaching and learning spaces and facilities, like-minded individuals from a broad range of subject areas will work together in an environment geared to sharing expertise across the disciplines.
Across South Wales, this new initiative has already attracted enormous interest from the media industry and ongoing discussions are taking place with leading companies such as BBC Wales, S4C and The Wales Millennium Centre. Both the faculty and the campus are being seen as a focus for the creative industries in Wales and the university is looking to translate this interest into sponsorship, industry-led projects and student placements.
The opening of the new building will also see the launch of new courses for Glamorgan in Fashion, Photography and Interactive and Motion Design. New initiatives are taking place with the first Foundation Degree for the Creative Industries in the UK, and the first industry-sponsored Foundation Degree in Popular Music Technology by Roland, the Japanese music technology conglomerate. We are looking forward to getting the faculty fully up and running as the largest single university initiative for the creative and cultural industries in the UK.”
For more information about the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries or ATRiuM visit

www.glam.ac.uk/atrium