Young Creatives: Summer School

Devised and led by Scene Everything studio, this three day course provided students with a chance to get creative and explore a rapid prototyping approach to realising ideas hands-on at full scale. Participants will work together in groups to create 1:1 scale environments with cheap, recyclable materials. Each environment was akin to a film set, offering a space which lends itself to a particular cinematic narrative or theme.

The groups were provided with basic printed instructions for the sets, which are there to be adapted and improvised upon by the participants’ imagination. Together they will be encouraged to explore potential narratives which could be housed inside their environments. There is also a chance for filmmaking, with short films made inside their sets shown in a screening to conclude the course. Making is not only a production process, but a creative one. By offering a situation to get making quickly, this course celebrated a hands-on approach to making ‘things’ and thinking about creating atmospheres, aesthetics and environments.

Scene Everything is a multidisciplinary studio founded by artists and designers Nicholas Mortimer and Joseph Popper. The studio specialises in installation art, exhibition design and set design: creating spatial and narrative experiences for exhibitions and cultural events.

Scene Everything collaborates with institutions and creative practices - working from concept development and research through to detailed design. The studio brings substantial professional experience, realising large scale projects for museums, galleries and festivals. Recent clients include the Victoria & Albert Museum, the World Economic Forum and Derby QUAD.