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Call for Artists in Residence

Planet P8 and Broad Digital are calling for artists to apply for their summer residency program under the theme “The Invisible Sounds”. They are looking to recruit 3-4 artists able to stay and work at PLAN8T on site in China as well as 3-4 artists living outside of China who will participate remotely.

The program is for artists who use sound as an object and material for their
artistic practice to communicate, give voice to the ground, to create, experiment and interact; sound should be used as material or subject matter in the creation of art.

Please send the following documents by email by 12 July 2021 to p8residency@joinp8.com with the subject line “2021SUMMER_P8AIR” and indicate in the body of the email whether you wish to participate on-site or remotely:

Portfolio (Please send a pdf file containing images and text of the artwork;
if the work is recorded as video or audio, please put all online links in a pdf
file or compress the files into a folder)
Introduction to the artist and a description of the artwork
Artist CV
Portrait photo of the artist
A 500-word creative plan for the residency (describing the motivation for
participation)

More information is available in the brochure linked below, and on the Plan8t AIR website.

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Fashion Narratives 2021 exhibition

The Fashions & Embodiment studio of our MA in Design: Expanded Practice are currently showing their work in progress at the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery, in an exhibition titled “Fashion Narratives”.

The brief of the project required students to respond to the text-only description of an object from the Goldsmiths Textile Collection with their own research and outcomes. See the chosen objects below:

Craft, Change and Community with Rose Sinclair

Rose Sinclair describes for The Museum of the Home the history of textile making by black women in the Caribbean in the early 1900s and its role in community building, in this video filmed for The Museum of the Home as part of their Windrush Day 2021 programme:

Goldsmiths PGCE student and pupils win V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge

V&A Innovate is an annual National Schools Challenge targeted to pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9, designed to inspire and build young designers to be the innovators of tomorrow. In teams, students are provided with real life problems, and work collectively to come up with a final design solution. V&A Innovate provides a platform for students to experience real design project briefs and insight to working collectively in teams. This year, the theme was centered around Home and Community.

The Charter School North Dulwich won three trophies, including Overall Winner 2021 for their design ‘Scenty Mems’, a personalised scented jumper to help remember loved ones. The students explored solutions to grief and coping with loss and loneliness, in a year which has seen families around the world lose loved ones to Covid-19. Their idea, praised for originality and thoughtfulness around a sensitive and painful issue, was to create a heated jumper infused with the scent of a lost loved one, to wear at home to enable continued connection.

The Charter School North Dulwich also picked up two other awards. Teacher Jennifer Vargas (PGCE Design & Technology, Goldsmiths) was chosen NQT of the Year. In the Home Category, the North Dulwich team won for their Garden scenic conveyor belt, designed to encourage sharing of green spaces between homes and communities, bringing people and nature together.