Our art and design students have access to industry-leading studios, labs and services. These include photographic and lighting facilities, printmaking and 3D labs, a wet lab and bindery facilities.
Wood, metal and CNC machining.
Our technical staff support your learning through making. As passionate artists and designers they can guide you through the planning and construction of your projects using a wide range of:
We produce final artefacts as well as moulds and forms for other fabrication processes.
Our bindery facility welcomes students from across the School of Art and Design, and caters for all levels of learners.
We can help with:
The bindery facility is equipped with guillotines, presses, digital foiler, paper drills, creaser/perforation hardware and an assortment of specialised tools.
You can use our digital fabrication studios for experimentation and prototyping purposes. The studio is equipped with various current and emergent technologies:
There may be costs associated with materials and services for some of your digital fabrication work.
Our technical staff support AUT fashion design students through garment making, and provide guidance through technical development and garment construction using a wide variety of fashion-specific equipment:
As a fashion design student, you can use our facilities to produce prototypes and final fashion garment collections.
As an art and design student you can book a range of industry standard audio-visual gear, including:
All free of charge through our booking system.
Our photographic facilities include:
The lighting studios are only available to users with a firm technical understanding of photography and who have undertaken specific lighting workshops.
As an art and design student you can access our well-equipped printmaking studios for creative learning and research projects, no matter what year of study you're in.
Catering to a combination of traditional and experimental, our facilities and processes include:
We provide basic materials for you to learn and get started.
If you're using the wet lab, you'll be supported to engage with multiple mediums and processes including:
The wet lab is equipped with kilns, wheels, extruders, fume bench, spray booth, wax heaters, a resin room and other assorted tools.
The Motion Capture Lab provides you with the equipment to use the motion capture process in digital design modelling for animation and creative projects, accurate data capture for movement research, and more. The lab has a motion tracking camera system like those found in major digital production studios for body, facial and object tracking, including a virtual camera for live data streaming through game engine software, allowing you to get a producer’s view of characters moving through your digital scene.
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery is a suite of purpose‐built galleries and project spaces in AUT’s School of Art and Design and Te Ara Poutama (Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development). The gallery is dedicated to the development of contemporary art and design through an international programme of exhibitions, events, symposia and publications.
We believe in high-quality research that has impact, and have world-class researchers and research strengths across art and design.