Xiaohongshu
Great creative and make a fun enamel decoration for your uni room in this guided crafting workshop.
Audience: This event is for students and staff.
Overview: What happens when traditional cloisonné enamel art meets your creativity? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to create your own cloisonné enamel decoration from scratch.
Choose from designs such as the UCL logo, a cute bear, or a pattern of your own choice, and bring your idea to life by shaping and arranging metal wires to create the design before filling it with colourful enamel sand.No previous drawing or crafting experience is required.
You’ll be guided through each step, from outlining your design with metal wire to adding vibrant colours and creating the final piece.Whether you choose the iconic UCL logo, an adorable bear, or your own original design, this is your chance to slow down, get creative, and experience the beauty of traditional cloisonné enamel craft while making a unique piece that is truly your own.
Speaker bio: Mengqiu is a craft practitioner and PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, with an MA in Education from UCL and nearly a decade of experience creating workshops, cultural events, and public art programmes.
Mengqiu's practice sits at the intersection of craft, cultural heritage, and storytelling, exploring making as a way to connect people, memories, and cultures. I have collaborated with international brands including Dior, Gucci, and TUDOR, and co-created heritage craft workshops at the West Bund Art Festival in Shanghai and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Mengqiu's current work explores migration, identity, and living heritage through material and making.
Capacity: The maximum capacity of this session is 40.
Accessibility information:
- The facilitator will be wearing a microphone for the duration of the session.
- This room has MobileConnect available (via personal devices).
- The venue for this event has step-free access.
- This room does not have adjustable lighting.
- Guide dogs and personal assistant/carers are welcome.
- Please note that the Cloisters are not a closed space, and so there will be staff and students who are not participating in the event who may be walking through or using the space at the same time.
- We will have ear defenders available for students and staff to borrow at the Festival. You can collect a pair from the North Cloisters.
This event is part of UCL’s Thrive Festival.
Don't forget to check out the other events that we're organising as part of Thrive Festival! We have a full schedule of exciting, fun, interesting, and restorative events happening on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October at Bloomsbury campus and Wednesday 21 October at East campus.