Where imagination and experimentation meet
Welcome to UniSA Creative
At the University of South Australia, we’re known for breaking the boundaries and working beyond limits, just as all great creative practitioners do.
UniSA Creative, incorporating the South Australian School of Art, brings together the disciplines of architecture, planning, art and design, journalism, communication and media, film, television and visual effects and the creative industries to produce flexible graduates with multidisciplinary capabilities.
Creativity is at our core. Students learn by doing, crafting in specialist studios, constructing in purpose-built production facilities, always working with the latest technology.
Our research explores the complexities of the world around us. We engage in future-focused, cross-disciplinary research and consultancy to produce inspired solutions that are human-centred and sustainable.
UniSA provides a platform for emerging and established creatives in its three major galleries. Visit the Samstag Museum, SASA Gallery or MOD. to see interactive exhibitions and contemporary works by artists, researchers, storytellers and designers, both local and international.
We’re a catalyst for brilliance. A place where you can think critically and creatively, glimpse the future and engage with true originals.
The creative economy isn’t slowing down, and neither should you.
Read on to find out more about UniSA Creative.
Career and study areas
Explore our research
As Australia’s University of Enterprise, our research centres work closely with industry on projects that deliver improvements in tourism, arts and the creative industries.
Our approaches to research
Executive Education and short courses
Whether you want to learn new skills, update your qualifications, or undertake professional development training, UniSA’s Executive Education and short courses can rapidly further your knowledge and grow your business.
What's new at UniSA Creative
Creative events at UniSA
Join us and explore UniSA’s creative events and exhibitions. We’re currently featuring our unstoppable graduates, as we showcase student work from architecture, art and design, and film and television. Check out our other events and exhibitions to inspire your creative journey and connect with some of the finest creative minds SA has to offer.
One of South Australia’s leading creative centres, The Samstag Museum of Art aims to challenge and engage its audiences with a program of diverse and innovative contemporary art exhibitions, publications and public activities. 
MOD. is like no other museum experience in Australia. A futuristic museum of discovery, MOD. sits at the intersection of art and science, bringing together researchers, industries, and students to challenge, learn, and be inspired. 
UniSA’s Architecture Museum is a unique repository of architects’ records and a dynamic hub of research into South Australia’s architectural and built environment history. With more than 200,000 items in their collection, the Architecture Museum is an invaluable resource for all those interested in built environments and heritage. 
The South Australian School of Art (SASA) Gallery is a gallery and curatorial space for UniSA students, providing a platform for innovative contemporary art, architecture, design and writing practices. The SASA Gallery supports the range of creative programs taught at UniSA and offers free exhibitions, events, gallery talks and guest lectures. 
Match Studio is a dynamic research and learning space where interdisciplinary teams of students, academics and researchers solve industry problems by applying design thinking and co-design methods. 
With gym, pool and indoor court facilities spread across our four metropolitan campuses, UniSA offers a range of affordable and convenient fitness activities. Casual visits and memberships are open to the general public, as well as to UniSA students and staff. Creating a rich history
UniSA Creative is established upon the traditions of innovation, experimentation and quality of its three antecedent institutions to form a creative hub of teaching and research with strong links to industry and community.
The South Australian School of Art (SASA) is one of the oldest art schools in Australia, with its origins extending to the Adelaide School of Arts (1856). UniSA Creative’s Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art and South Australian School of Art Gallery (SASA Gallery) continue as vibrant and living legacies of the South Australian School of Art.
The Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design was named for the late South Australian architect and educator who in 1906 established one of the first architectural courses at the South Australian School of Mines, formed in 1889, later to become the South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT). Through its history, the expansion of the School's programs embraced all major skills relevant to the built environment including Town Planning (the first course of its kind in Australia), Building Technology, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture.
In 1991, the South Australian Institute of Technology and the South Australian College of Advanced Education merged to form the University of South Australia. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences which included the School of Communication and Information Studies and the School of Arts, Community Development and International Studies were among the Faculties and Schools that comprised the new University. Over time, creative discipline areas developed and strengthened to form the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages which later became the School of Creative Industries.
Today, UniSA Creative comprises one of the most comprehensive groupings of creative programs and research concentrations in Australia, delivering teaching programs and undertaking research from its two campuses at City West and Magill.
Student work
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