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Drone workshop with Jon Flint at Goldsmiths Design Festival

As part of our first ever Goldsmiths Design Festival (3-9 September 2015), our students had the chance to learn how to build a drone themselves, and we had just the right person to guide them. Jon Flint, who led the Drone workshop, is a graduate of our MA in Interaction Design and he currently works with Superflux, of Drone Aviary fame.

The participating students spent the day learning the principles of drone flight and then built their own prototypes under Jon’s supervision. At the end of the workshop, it was time to test the results! It was a sunny, bright evening which allowed the workshop team to take their creations outside on the College Green and see them take flight.

More photos from the workshop can be found on our Facebook page.

Jimmy Loizeau’s ‘The Illegal Town Plan: Rhyl’ at Goldsmiths Design Festival

How do you go about reviving a seaside town whose principal economy has slowly disappeared along with its tourists? This is the question asked by Jimmy Loizeau’s project “The Illegal Town Plan: Rhyl”, a work-in-progress exhibition showing the early stages of the project at this month’s Goldsmiths Design Festival.

Designer Jimmy Loizeau, Lecturer on the BA Design programme (from Rhyl), witnessed the steady decline of this small seaside town in North Wales: “Over the past twenty years or more it has lost its tourist industry. All attempts to lure people back have failed.”

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MA.DE GOLD Postgraduate Show at Goldsmiths Design Festival

This year, the MA graduation shows took place as part of the first Goldsmiths Design Festival, between 3 and 9 September. The postgraduate shows were called MA.DE GOLD and displayed the work of students from courses in Critical Practice, Design and Environment, Design Futures and Metadesign, Interaction Design, Fashion, Design Education, as well as the Design pathway of the MA in Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship.

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Our Goldsmiths Design Festival starts today

trojan brewery — The Trojan Brewery project

Are you ready for the Goldsmiths Design Festival? Our week of free events celebrating design starts today, and there are so many things for you to do and see on campus!

The opening lecture with Maarten Gielen of Rotor will take place at 7 pm in Room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building. In the morning, starting 10:30, our PhD students will present their research in a ‘PhD Show and Tell’ session in room LG01 of the same building. Interested in an immersive theatre performance? Go to the Lockwood Building annexe starting 5:30 pm.

With the Trojan Beer Project, you can enjoy beer and find out about atmospheric data. It’s a win-win situation, so drop by the Ground Floor Cafe in the Professor Stuart Hall building in the evening. There will also be a party at the Student Union until late in the night, there will be music and DJs, there will be exhibitions all over campus– Our Alumni Pop-Up Shows, in particular, come with an artist talk today: at 6 pm in the Atrium of the Stuart Hall building, don’t miss it.

MA.DE GOLD, The 2015 Postgraduate Show starts today at the festival as well. You will be able to see the work of the MA students exhibited on campus (Whitehead Building for the MA Fashion, Stuart Hall Building and Lockwood Annexe Studios for the other courses). Films made by MA students will be shown as well, and in the evening you’ll be able to see an experimental interaction dining performance by Critical Practice student Eunji Han.

So we hope you’re ready for a day full of design events!