About the event
Explore the world of physical computing in this hands-on workshop delivered by students and staff from the BA Creative Media Arts at the University of Westminster. In this workshop you will learn how to turn everyday objects and materials — like fruit, foil, or even paint — into interactive controllers for triggering sounds, games, or animations. No prior coding or electronics experience is needed—just creativity and a willingness to experiment.
The workshop introduces key concepts of interactivity, giving you practical insight into how technology can be embedded in the physical world. You’ll have the chance to design and build your own interactive project, combining problem-solving, creativity, and technical skills.
The session is suitable for ages 16 and above.
Maximum number of participants: 18
The event will take place in Blue Shed, Harrow Campus, University Of Westminster, Watford Rd, Northwick Park Roundabout, Harrow HA1 3TP. Room announcement will be given nearer the time.
About the facilitators
The BA (Hons) Creative Media Arts is an exciting hands-on course that will see you produce art and make content including films, photographs, interactive installations, immersive and digital media using creative technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), projection mapping, 3D modelling and game engines.
With an ethos of ‘learning through making’, you will be encouraged to experiment, innovate and pursue your own creative interests. The course places you at the forefront of technological developments in the arts and creative sectors.
The course produces multi-skilled graduates capable of thriving in fast-moving creative industries.
Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual
Each breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration, song, whistles, chants, spells, of mobilising ideas and knowledge, people and animals. The intangible, invisible force that creates changes in culture, education, legal systems, religion and ideologies.
AIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones, stones, and calling the four elements”, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’, WATER (22 June), EARTH (24 July - 1 August) FIRE (26 September - 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir, a park, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops, talks, performance and exhibition.
