Author: goldsmithsdesign

Alumnus Hefin Jones holding a Home Grown Space Travel Workshop at The Floating Cinema

'The Welsh Space Campaign'
‘The Welsh Space Campaign’

On Sunday 6 September, you are invited to an evening of Space Speculation Design  at the Floating Cinema (moored at The Proud Archivist in Haggerston):

“Join Hefin Jones, founder of The Welsh Space Campaign, on board The Floating Cinema for a light-hearted, imaginative, design workshop.

Participants will work to embrace the absurd and generate ideas which are then turned into imaginary plans for space colonisation and the creation of their own guide to space travel!

Using the extreme context of deep space and space travel, aligned to real time local businesses and the future/extreme space contexts they might operate in – this fantastical workshop brings together unexpected components which wouldn’t normally be associated with each other, to create something really unique and surprising.

The images, ideas and representations of space are borrowed from cinema and the processes you engage in will form part of a design method that involves participation, interaction, and more than just mere speculation…

Who should come: This workshop is designed to engage all age ranges and experience levels from 16+ so if you have an interest in interdisciplinary design, a love for all that is cosmic, or are simply just fascinated in the concepts around the Welsh Space Campaign join us!”

The workshop starts at 3 pm; tickets will be £6.50 with £5 concessions.

Hefin Jones is a 2013 graduate of our BA Design course and a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths Design, where he also runs the Art and Design Saturday Club. The Welsh Space Campaign started as Hefin’s graduation project from Goldsmiths.

Draw to Perform symposium comes to Goldsmiths Design Festival

Rachel Grant at a previous Draw to Perform, photo by Marco Berardi
Rachel Grant at a previous Draw to Perform, photo by Marco Berardi

Draw to Perform is an international symposium curated by Israeli-born artist Ram Samocha and focused on the connection between performance art and drawing. If you’re interested to see with your own eyes how such a connection works in practice, you’re in luck, as Draw to Perform is coming to Goldsmiths Design Festival!

The event will include video screenings, live drawing performances, talks and lectures by artists and art historians. The artists performing at Goldsmiths will be:

Rachel Grant– a visual artist living in Aberdeen; “her practice is process led, stemming from a fundamental curiosity in the act of making itself.”

Katrina Brown, interdisciplinary choreographer;

Poppy Jackson  , who”makes actionist work exploring the female body as an autonomous zone.”

Ram Samocha and Roberto Feo of El Ultimo Grito will introduce the symposium and participate in a panel discussion with the artists after the performances.

Draw to Perform at Goldsmiths will take place on 5 September starting 10 am, in Room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building. To book your free place, email ram_samocha@yahoo.com.

Image source: Draw to Perform Facebook page

Illegal Town Planning: Rhyl at Goldsmiths Design Festival

What would community town planning with local people look like? A project at our upcoming Goldsmiths Design Festival explores this idea in an exhibition focused on the Welsh town of Rhyl.

“The intention is not necessarily to produce a viable town plan, but to create a forum where local ideas about a town’s future might be discussed and presented in different ways. The project is intended as a platform for local participants to express personal visions through ambitious, large scaled plans. We hope to capture these moments through films, drawings, photography, (fictional) town planning documents and schemes as well as the architecture that will make up ‘Master Plans.’ The process hopes to reveal the ideas or concerns of local people and show ambitious ideas that would not normally be given a platform. These plans are given licence to be single-minded, devoid of bureaucracy, detached from financial reality and ambitious”.

The project is led by renowned designer and Goldsmiths lecturer Jimmy Loizeau, together with a team that includes other Goldsmiths staff and alumni: Tee Byford Flockhart, Neil Crud, Charlie Evans, Hannah Fasching, Hefin Jones, Lynne Jones, Paula Jones, Belen Palacios and Matthew Ward. The exhibition will be on all throughout the Festival (3-9 September) in the Kingsway Corridor of the Richard Hoggart Building at Goldsmiths; artist guided talks will take place on 3 and 4 September.