Date Wednesday 02 December 2026
Overview
Soft Skills Workshop by Naho Matsuda
Photo Credit Chaeeun Lee
Date: Wednesday 2nd December 2026
Time: TBC, likely 10am - 4 pm, (with a 1-hour lunch from 1 until 2 pm)
Location: CCI's Central London Library Hub on the ground floor, located at 272 High Holborn London, WC1V 7EY (access details below).
Please book tickets in advance, as spaces are limited.
Tickets
Tickets cost £5 and include a free personal scarf.
If you can no longer attend, please do let us know or cancel your ticket. If the cost of the ticket is a barrier to attending the workshop, please get in touch with us at artsprogramme@su.arts.ac.uk.
Refund requests can be made by emailing artsprogramme@su.arts.ac.uk up to 24 hours before the event. Tickets are non-refundable for no-shows or requests made past the 24-hour deadline.
Once tickets have sold out, we will activate a waitlist. The waitlist will be emailed with an alert if any tickets become available.
The workshop:
Spend a morning designing your own personal scarf, followed by an afternoon learning how to translate it into a digital pattern for an industrial knitting machine!
As part of the workshop, you're invited to design your own unique fan scarf that represents you, your wishes, and your career goals. This unique scarf, which points towards the future, will then serve as a wearable talisman (*an object believed to bring good luck or protect its owner from harm).
During the workshop, you'll be supported to develop ideas for slogans, typography, colour combinations, and composition. And you will learn some basic design skills, both manual and digital. At the end of the workshop, you'll have created a digital draft of your scarf, ready to be knitted on an industrial knitting machine. As part of this workshop, we'll send your design to be printed. A few weeks after the workshop, you'll receive your scarf - a unique piece, just for you, to keep you warm and cheer you on!
Photo credit Matt Ward
About Naho...
Naho is a German-Japanese visual artist, researcher and educator currently based in Germany and the UK. Naho’s work examines forms of language and modes of communication of humans as well as more-than-human perspectives. Naho's work is process-oriented, site-specific, often involving local people and the ‘more-than-human’ environment. She often works in public spaces, engaging with the on-site communities and the natural and urban environments. She uses a variety of media and materials: installation, video works, drawings, prints, websites and performances.
Naho has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at South by Southwest in Austin TX, 'O, Miami' Festival in Miami FL, You & AI of the Onassis Foundation in Athens, Qatar British Festival with the British Council in Doha, Great Exhibition of the North in Newcastle, UK. Her solo exhibition 'The Hardest Word' was shown at Kunsthalle Kempten in 2023.
Website: https://www.nahomatsuda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naho.matsuda/
Where: This event will take place in the Library Hub on the ground floor of UAL's Creative Computing Institute (CCI), located at 272 High Holborn London, WC1V 7EY. All UAL students are welcome to join. Please just bring your UAL ID to enter the building (alternatively, a temporary pass can be requested from the front desk on arrival).
Access:
The building entrance is at ground level; the whole building is accessible via lift, with a step-free access route to the Library Hub and accessible toilets on the same floor where the workshop is being held. Please do get in touch with The Arts Programme team if you have any questions or require any reasonable adjustments in order to attend and participate in this workshop: artsprogramme@su.arts.ac.uk
Take a virtual tour of the building here.
Directions to the room: When you enter the building, head past the reception desk to the lift lobby; for step-free access, press the -1 button or take the stairs down to the lower ground.
If the cost of the ticket is a barrier to attending the workshop, please get in touch with us at artsprogramme@su.arts.ac.uk.
Coming on your own or trying something new?
Don't worry, other people will be attending on their own as well; this event is open to all UAL students and can be a great opportunity to make more connections! If you have the Adobe Suite, you are welcome to bring your own laptop; otherwise, all equipment and software access will be provided, and no prior design experience is needed.
Creative Wellbeing
This year's programme of events has been created in direct response to the recommendations in the Arts SU report on Creative Burnout, 'Inside the Kiln'. Drawing on focus groups with students from across UAL, the report examines how creative burnout affects students’ ability to generate ideas, experiment, take risks, and remain connected to their creative practice. We hope sessions like this provide students with access to new materials, additional forms of creative self-care and resilience.
Read the full report here.
Skills you can gain from this opportunity:
By taking part in this opportunity we hope you will develop your skills in:
Arts Programme Skills Recognition Framework
