Our Plan for Our Future: Strategic Plan 2022 – 2027 articulates the collective ambition for the future direction of The Glasgow School of Art.  It has been created through extensive and structured conversations with people who care passionately about the School alongside a considered evaluation of the current economic context in which we will deliver our creative education, research and innovation. 

The evaluation and contributions were honest and stretching.  Our creative community encouraged us to rediscover our questioning, radical, independent spirit in order to continue to be ground breaking, dynamic and open to new ideas. 

They hoped to see the GSA continue to flourish as a specialist art school and for us to commit to earn our reputation every day, through being truly excellent in everything we do.  They asked us to continue our journey of becoming more open and diverse, to concentrate on building a culture that empowered students, graduates and staff to succeed in everything they do. To achieve this, we will deliver confident and considered change through collective and ethical leadership.

We will rebuild the solid foundations that sustain us beyond the period of this plan, consolidate where necessary to evolve or reenergise our areas of excellence.  We will strategically grow our emergent academic areas to reach a new and more diverse student community and enable our world-leading researchers to grow in collective strength and impact, remaining creatively relevant in the years to come.

Everyone across the GSA is key to how we move forward together creating the successful, and transformative art school we want to be.

Professor Penny Macbeth
Director