The master’s programmes in Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) maintains a cohort of approximately 50-60 students of typically more than twenty nationalities. With such a culturally diverse cohort of students from a variety of prior learning experiences, promoting student cohesion is an important aspect in the student’s learning experience, with studio-based learning playing a key role. I presented my paper on “Cultural Diversity in a Masters Programme in Illustration: A Case Study in Internationalisation" at Confia in 2019 which presented the strategies we employed. During the Covid Pandemic of 2020 and 2021, both the institution and teaching team at GSA had to adapt these strategies to ensure adherence to government guidelines which restricted and eventually prohibited eventually prohibited studio based teaching. This required that we developed an agile teaching model and a hybrid approach with a remote teaching combined with limited access for students to the studio and workshops to continue to deliver the positive strategies developed to promote cultural inclusion and diversity. In this paper I will reflect on the effectiveness of those adaptations and consider lessons learned in the process..