Shin Egashira (Programme Head) is an architect, artist, educator who works collaboratively worldwide. His experiments which fuse old and new technologies, include the construction of Alfred Jarry’s Time Machine alongside astrophysicist Andrew Jaffe; ‘How to Walk a Flat elephant’, ‘Twisting Concrete’ and ‘Beautifully Incomplete’ at Betts Projects. He conducts a series of landscape workshops in rural and inner-city communities inter-culturally. Shin Egashira is Unit Tutor of the AA Diploma Unit 11, with whom he has been critically documenting neoliberal urban development in London from 1996 to the present day. He holds visiting professorships at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and the University of Hong Kong.

• Hands-on woodworking skills
• Material exploration and fabrication
• Prototyping
• Craft and wood joinery
• Metalworks and welding
• Collaborative methods and practices
• Approaches to landscape and forest

Tuition fees are waived for all successful applicants. Successful applicants will be asked to contribute towards food and accommodation at Hooke Park (Monday–Friday meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner). The costs are as follows:
 

• £60 – Deposit required from all applicants at the application stage. This amount will be deducted from the accommodation and food fees.
• £230 – Accommodation and food at Hooke Park
• £0 – Tuition fee
   

Note: The deposit is refundable only for applicants who are not accepted into the programme. 

No payment for accommodation or food is required until after you have received the outcome of your application. Please note that fees do not include flights or travel expenses. Students are required to bring their own laptops.

Accommodation: Participants live on site in Westminster Lodge, a dormitory with shared same-sex twin rooms, each with en-suite washroom and shower pods. Bedding is provided – participants are required to bring their own towel and toiletries.

Meals: The meals are  exclusively vegetarian. Additionally, participants have access to a fully equipped kitchen for non-catered meals.