04 :: ? The Faculty works closely with industry to ensure that its programmes remain relevant and competitive, and to keep students constantly exposed to changes occurring in the professional worlds of art and design. In the course of the year, recognised national and international artists, architects, designers and academics are invited to engage with staff and students – in 2017, for example, the GSA has hosted the international ‘starchitects’ Sir David Adjaye, and Bjarke Ingels. The FADA and UJ Galleries host important public exhibitions throughout the year, and the annual student exhibition showcases the best student work for the public. Through our international partnerships, we offer students the possibility of participating in exchange programmes to the United States, Europe, and elsewhere in Africa. The Faculty annually hosts international conferences and seminars, and is the home of the Johannesburg laboratory of the international DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) network, which seeks to understand how design can best serve the emerging needs of broader society from a multidisciplinary platform. FADA has an admirable reputation for excellence, which we continue to leverage in a number of ways: not least in the numbers and quality of students we graduate, and the ways in which we continue to be inspired by, and engage with, the excitement and diversity of our urban context. The Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) is committed to the notion that art, design and architecture can change the world. With a dynamic focus on creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking, we challenge our students in all the eight disciplines in the Faculty, and in both our graduate and undergraduate programmes, to expand their fields beyond the conventional boundaries in imagining the world they hope to have and to leave behind. We emphasise sustainability, relevance and an engagement with the real world in our programmes, and connect actively with the dynamism, creativity and diversity of Johannesburg in promoting new approaches to design education that support UJ’s vision of being an international university of choice, anchored in Africa and dynamically shaping the future. The Faculty has excellent facilities and staff, and has a long-standing reputation for producing first- rate graduates that are well equipped to deal with the challenges of solving real-world problems. The Faculty is also home to UJ Arts & Culture, based on the Auckland Park Kingsway Campus (with cultural offices on the Doornfontein and Soweto Campuses), which runs two professional theatres and the UJ Art Gallery, and offers a dynamic range of public-facing performing and visual arts programmes for students and professionals. The Faculty has nine academic departments, namely the Department of Architecture, the Graduate School of Architecture (GSA), the Department of Fashion Design, the Department of Graphic Design, the Department of Industrial Design, the Department of Interior Design, the Department of Jewellery Design & Manufacture, the Department of Multimedia, and the Department of Visual Art. We also have two research centres: Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), and the NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in South African Art and Visual Culture. JOIN US AT FADA