Welcome to the UCA Creative Education Conference 2026, where we explore the meeting point of the Embodied and the Synthetic in Creative Education.

This year’s theme, Material/Machine, invites educators, makers, academics, technicians, librarians, leaders, policymakers, and students to interrogate the tensions and harmonies between material intelligence and digital automation.
We are rethinking what it means to learn, make, and create in a cross-disciplinary world where physical and digital processes intertwine. How can we design learning environments that honour embodied practice while embracing synthetic innovation? How do we protect authorship and integrity while expanding participation and aesthetic diversity?

Join us for a day of debate, workshops, and demonstrations that surface practical blueprints for creative education’s evolving landscape.

The University for the Creative Arts is hosting a one-day event exploring the historical, creative and technical connections between animation and digital games.

This conference seeks to explore the neglected relationship between these art forms, media industries and branches of popular entertainment.

The event aims to bring together critical perspectives incorporating videogame consoles, computer games, mobile apps, animation, cartoons, illustration and comics.

Alongside cultural and theoretical approaches, we welcome creative and industrial perspectives on Games Animation as both a profession and subject area, and invite papers that examine the role animation plays within games, as well as contributions regarding its teaching and history.