Date Monday 23 November 2026
Overview
Node Center for Curatorial Studies are delivering a short course on Exhibition Design.
Arts SU have teamed up with Node Center to offer FREE spaces for three current UAL students. This is an opportunity to build your skills, knowledge, and confidence, helping you take your professional practice to the next level.
Understanding how to work with the architecture of exhibition spaces is essential for effectively communicating a curatorial concept and connecting with audiences.
This online course will equip you with essential tools and knowledge for designing art exhibitions. You'll learn to develop space layouts and work with light, sound, and texture to transform spaces into engaging exhibitions.
Over five weeks, you will discover how to:
- Assess and work with conventional and unconventional exhibition spaces
- Create mood boards filled with inspiration and references to shape your vision
- Design the exhibition layout and artwork display
- Work with light, sound, materials and new elements to create unique atmospheres
- Ensure your design prioritizes accessibility, safety, and sustainability
This interactive course combines theory with hands-on exercises and inspiring case studies from both art and architecture. You will be introduced to practical skills in technical drawing and paper modelling, along with toolkits, checklists and guidelines that you can use in future projects.
Through weekly assignments and ongoing feedback, you will also have the opportunity to develop your own exhibition design proposal. By the end of the course, you will have the skills and confidence to translate a curatorial concept into an innovative exhibition design. Tailored for curators, designers, architects, or other cultural professionals, this course doesn’t require previous experience in curating, architecture, or art production.
The course is facilitated by Fabiana Dicuonzo
Fabiana Dicuonzo is an Italian architect and curator based in Porto. She is an exhibition designer and consultant for the Italian Ministry of Culture and European cooperation projects, including CoHeN, the first network of museums in towers and lighthouses of the Apulian coast, Italy. With a Masters in Architecture and a Postgraduate Degree in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, Sapienza University of Rome, she is pursuing her doctorate in Museology at the University of Porto (CITCEM). In 2018, she co-founded Profferlo Architecture and Antilia, a travelling curatorial project that regenerates urban spaces through art, architecture and design.
More details:
This is a five week interactive course.
The 2 hour online workshops run once a week from 23rd November - 21st December 2026.
Live attendance is encouraged to get the most out of the course, but recordings are available if you cannot attend a session.
A downloadable certificate is available upon course completion.
For more information on the course follow this link: Exhibition Design - Node Center
Arts SU aims to support UAL students with developing their professional practice. Therefore, we are working with Node Center to offer FREE places on this course for three UAL students.
If you are interested in applying to attend this course, please send in your application.
The deadline to apply is 9am on 2nd November 2026.
If you have any queries about this course or the application process, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Arts Programme team at Arts SU - artsprogramme@su.arts.ac.uk
Skills you can gain from this opportunity
Just by applying to this opportunity, you will develop your transferable skills. It will build your application writing, articulating your aspirations, demonstrating proactive behaviour and ambition, and learning to seek constructive feedback.
If selected for this opportunity, we hope you will develop your skills in:
Still not sure whether to apply? Why not read about the experiences of other UAL students have attended Node courses, funded by Arts SU.
Queer Art and Queer Curating: Learnings and Unlearnings from Node Center
Launching an Independent Art Space: Practical Skills for Creative Futures with Node Center
