Creative Academy uses art and design to innovate businesses, support individuals to be more creative, and develop young minds through our summer schools. Creative Academy is powered by Teesside University's School of Arts & Creative Industries and multi-award winning plus Tate gallery MIMA.
Introducing Teesside University's cutting-edge initiative: where creativity meets innovation, and businesses thrive. Our pioneering program developed in collaboration with Teesside University alumni, merges design methodologies with real-world impact, propelling businesses to new heights of success.
Through an exclusive industry membership model, businesses gain unparalleled access to our university's top-tier facilities, industry-led workshops, and academic consultancy services. Businesses are directly linked with industry trailblazers and leading alumni in innovation, AI, and the burgeoning net-zero sector, to support transformative innovation across all sectors.
Unlock your potential with short courses tailored for business owners, practitioners and innovators. From empowering school leaders with innovative arts education strategies to mastering AI for success, we support you and your team to evolve with changing markets and remain at the cutting edge of your industry.
Find out more: creativeacademy@tees.ac.uk
You gain insight into the core aspects of business planning, considering innovative learning experiences that focus on business planning as a process and the creativity needed to develop a unique proposition and meet customers’ needs.
Take inspiration from MIMA’s Open Access Collection Store and create your own hand-painted silk scarf in this immersive evening workshop. Engage with the rich history of ceramics and jewellery in the Middlesbrough Collection to explore new creative techniques that can inspire your work.
In this one-day workshop, draw inspiration from MIMA’s Working Lives exhibition to create a custom 48-page sketchbook. Learn new sketching and bookbinding techniques while engaging with historic and contemporary artworks, helping individuals and businesses foster creativity and innovation.
Dive into the digital future of fashion design with CLO3D, the industry-leading software for 3D garment design and visualisation. This course equips professionals with cutting-edge digital skills to enhance product development efficiency and creativity in fashion, gaming, and design industries.
Email creativeacademy@tees.ac.uk to register your interest and find out more.
Discover a world of possibilities as you explore your creative potential with skilled technicians and academic experts. Running throughout July and August, these five-day immersive experiences are tailored to young minds aged 14 to 16 in the Tees Valley.
If we allocated the time needed for the prototyping and design development of the Und3r Scope, it would have cost us £3,000 per week in our time and taken us away from running our core business. Working with the University is like having an internal R&D team in your back pocket and the costs are fixed so we can plan how and when we want to activate the team.
I don't know where else we'd receive this R&D support. Working alongside Teesside University allows me the confidence, as CEO, to know that the consultancy we receive is not only of the highest academic prowess, but also the most up to date.
