Facilities

Whether you're working with cutting-edge techniques or traditional tools, Falmouth has everything you need to help you bring your ideas to life. Our facilities and spaces are carefully designed and developed with professional consultation and ongoing investment to ensure that, as a Falmouth graduate, you're more than equipped to succeed in your chosen profession.

We’re constantly investing in our facilities and spaces, which are carefully designed and developed with professional consultation, partnerships and expertise – ensuring that Falmouth graduates are more than equipped to succeed in their chosen practice or profession.

Media Centre

A professional working environment that's constantly evolving to match changes within the industry, with technical support on offer to help your skills keep pace with your creative ideas. There's a large TV studio with gallery and green room and an additional single camera TV presentation studio. You'll also have access to a well-stocked specialist equipment store, a newsroom with radio audio editing and scripting software, radio studio and control rooms and a digital animation suite fully equipped with industry-specialist software, desks and lighting.

Photography Centre

Our close relationships with Hasselblad, Nikon and Calumet ensure our facilities match industry requirements for both traditional and digital photography. You'll benefit from large professional-standard studios, well-equipped darkrooms and process areas, specialist printing and mounting services, and a large range of equipment for loan from the photography store including digital and film cameras, large format cameras, and studio and location lighting.

The Performance Centre

Whatever your chosen discipline, The Performance Centre encourages innovative collaborations across all our subject areas with specially designed studios for dance, acoustic music, amplified music, theatre and recording, as well as practice rooms for bands and solo occupancy and a 200-person capacity flexible theatre space. All studios are equipped with contemporary production lighting and sound facilities.

Design Centre

Providing bespoke workshops for wood, metals, plastics, fine metals, ceramics, glass, plaster and textiles, each supported by a team of technical instructors, the Design Centre also converts into a multi-level exhibition space. You'll have access to the latest tools for designing, prototyping and making, including 13 kilns, CNC milling and routing machines, rapid prototyping equipment and a digital printing suite. All our digital equipment is supported with a range of industry-standard 2D and 3D software.

Fashion Studio

In constant dialogue with the global fashion industry, the Fashion Studio has an open plan studio upstairs, while downstairs replicates the environment of a professional factory floor. You'll benefit from a huge range of industry-standard equipment including a laser cutter, full-size digital fabric printer, ultrasonic welder, dedicated steam room, industrial overlockers, heavy duty extraction bed, blind-stitching machines, knitting machines and heat press for bonding fabrics. There's also a video conferencing suite for presenting live briefs to national and international clients.

Other impressive facilities include:

Digital Animation Studio Industry-standard 3D and 2D animation software and hardware, traditional stop motion and 2D animation production areas and specialist animation postproduction facilities.

Interactive Arts Centre Equipped with a range of software including web design, image manipulation, video and audio editing and 3D modelling and design.

Fine Art workshops and studios Full-time BA(Hons) Fine Art students each have their own studios, providing the space and freedom to develop ideas, as well as a team of multi-skilled technical instructors and a great range of machines and tools.