Sam Hill reflects on the BA Design
Sam Hill graduated from the BA Design in 2008 after completing a wonderful project on experience value. Sam was recently asked to post on Boidus about his experience at Goldsmiths [read the article in full]. I really appreciate his reflection, I think it captures both the spirit of Goldsmiths and the underlying philosophy of the programme:
‘Learn how to learn’
Be experimental – ‘Explore ideas laterally and exhaustively’
Ideas need integrity – design needs to be purposeful, functional, and necessary; to benefit the user, as well as society in general’
Design needs to create and be created by dialogue
Somehow, all the descriptions of the course I do, in all the different mediums – lectures, prospectus descriptions, open day talks, I never manage to articulate this as simply… In the future, I’ll quote Sam Hill.