Location SU Project Space, High Holborn
Overview
Welcome to Arts SU's Crits Hub!
Open from Friday 27th June - Friday 12th December 2025
10am - 6pm Mon - Fri
Emerging from Arts SU’s research into the often-intimidating experiences of critique culture at UAL, Crits Hub seeks to reclaim this process as a supportive space for artistic development by reimagining feedback sharing practices.
Traditional critiques can often feel like a “firing squad,” which disproportionately impacts student well-being and reinforces power imbalances. Crits Hub challenges this perspective, viewing critiques instead as a collaborative testing ground for new ideas. By proposing an alternative, horizontal approach to feedback, critiques can become safer and more accessible spaces for experimentation and authentic dialogue.
Students are invited to book this space and make use of the resource library, learning materials and ‘Crit Kit’ zine: a student-made pocket-sized guide proposing frameworks and methodologies towards diversifying the crit and accommodating a variety of learning styles. These tools can be used to design critique sessions that are bespoke to the unique needs of each peer-learning group.
It is hoped that by offering a dynamic and responsive peer-learning space, Crit Hub will encourage an institutional shift in how critique is practised at UAL. It envisions a compassionate crit culture rooted in equity, where lived experience is valued and individual voices are celebrated.
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Crits Hub came out of Arts SU's research into Crits & Inclusive Learning at UAL. You can read the full report written by Calum Sherwood here.
Crits Hub is open from Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm.
To book out the space for a group crit, please email artsprogramme@su.arts.ac.uk with your preferred date and time.
Curated by Evie Harman & Aisling Ward with support from the Arts Programme Team at Arts SU.
Zine designed by Radhika Chaudhary.
Posters designed by Charis Dalpra.