Right now I`m coursing Theatrical Design at the Universidad de Chile. This career involves being able to create and compose all the visual aspects of not only theatrical pieces, because even though the emphasis of the curriculum is set in theater, teachers form you to be able to take care of the visual aspects of any kind of show. These aspects are mainly the lightning, costume and scenography areas.

Among the subjects I have had to study, almost half of theme have been theoretical, such as History of Universal Theater, History of the Theatrical Design of the XX`th Century or Theory of the Representation. The other half are subjects related to the technical aspects of our discipline, such as Graphic Tools and Technologies. The theoretical subjects are intended to give us the foundations to create an all-embracing design applying the knowledge we have been learning with the technical subjects, all these converging in the main subject of the curriculum, which is called Workshop.

Our Faculty is Arts, but it`s divided in Departments, so we study in the Theater Department with the acting students only, in a old beautiful building located in the center of Santiago. By now, that I`m coursing the third year of the career, the Department feels like home. The classrooms and technological equipments are humble, but they are improving. If I could change something, I would add more open areas to the building, because the space gets to small for the disciplines requests, and I would improve the Lightning Lab. It would also be lovely to add some green areas too!, I think that would help the relaxation and health of the students.

The teaching methods vary form teacher to teacher, every one has their own perspective of the discipline, but in general they are very passionate and they invite you to give your 200% in order to make designs that rock the audiences. 

And advice: open your mind to be creative and exercise the collective work.