So this week we met the new faces that are the 2013/14 UAL Foundation Diploma students. From the word go we could see some real enthusiasm and as a team we discussed how promising this year group looked already. As with any induction it was an opportunity for the students to meet not only the team but their peers and to start getting familiar with everyone's different personalities and attributes, you could already see small social groups formed within the 1st hour, yet everyone was happy to work with different people for all the tasks.
The Chinese students students have also had a real shock, thrown into a room with 70 odd unfamiliar faces, in an unfamiliar building in a different country. Credit to them all, in that by the end of the session they had already started to show some confidence. This is bound to take time (I know I would be freaked out on my 1st day if studying in a foreign country). I am confident that in time we will start to see them flourish as young creatives and with the help of the team and academic support staff, once the language barrier is broken we can really start connecting with them.
The day held some interesting activities showing great team work and creating a brand an name for ourselves within the building. The two induction activities we run on the day witnessed students creating sculptures entirely out of paper and influenced by conjoined verbs (Based on the work of Richard Serra). Another activity was blind sculptures where individuals selected a word and attempted to make a sculpture out of plasticine capturing the word, the difficulty was that they had to in fact make the sculpture with their hands behind their backs. Overall I would a highly inspiring, successful yet draining day, now to learn 77 new names, faces and talents.
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