Beginner

NIDA Online: The Art of Set Design

Locations Online Delivery
Course Fee $300
Duration 4 days, 10 hours
Age Requirements 18+
NIDA Online: The Art of Set Design (15 October 2025)
Online

Oct 15, 2025 - Nov 5, 2025

Sessions
DateTime
15 October 20256:00 PM - 8:30 PM AEDT
22 October 20256:00 PM - 8:30 PM AEDT
29 October 20256:00 PM - 8:30 PM AEDT
5 November 20256:00 PM - 8:30 PM AEDT
OTHER UPCOMING CLASSES
Mon 2 Jun - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Online Delivery
6:00pm - 8:30pm AEDT
$300
Tue 22 Jul - Tue 12 Aug 2025
Online Delivery
6:00pm - 8:30pm AEDT
$300

NIDA Online: The Art of Set Design

Overview

Investigate the role of set design in storytelling in this short online course. Discover how the use of space impacts our storytelling and visual communication in performance. Learn how to extract information from a dramaturgical source, expanding your artistic influences through research as you collaborate with like-minded peers. Through active discussions and activities, discuss themes, concepts, visual styles and the process of realising a design as part of a creative team.  

Led by specialist NIDA teaching artists who are currently working in industry, undertake a foundational creative design process to expand your ideas into a simple design concept.  Gain insight into the materials required when creating model boxes and techniques for resolving designs. Learn how to communicate your vision in a supportive and inclusive community. Transform your vision into your own design concept and present it with confidence to your class. 

Delivery: Face to face via Zoom, 4 × 2.5 hour sessions 

Self-directed learning: 1 hour writing/research activity between each session 

Components

  • Explore the collaborative nature and dynamic interplay between various creative stakeholders in the design process. 
  • Develop skills in visual storytelling and how to articulate ideas through key elements of the set  
  • Learn methods for extracting key dramaturgical elements from a dramatic text to understand the production’s requirements, themes, and mood 

Level

This course is Beginner level.

For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions.

NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.