Kat Jungnickel from Goldsmiths’ Department of Sociology has been awarded a Prototpublics Development Award by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council).
Kat will be the Principal Investigator on the project titled “The Dewey Organ: Making Problems and Publics”; her co-investigators will include Duncan Fairfax and Alex Wilkie from the Goldsmiths Design department, as well as Jennifer Ballie from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.
Livia Rossi graduated from our BA Design course; since 2012, she runs Dossofiorito, a design studio in Verona, Italy, alongside her work and life partner Gianluca.
Q: Why did you choose to study Design at Goldsmiths?
A: Years before my enrollment on the course, I shared a house in New Cross with Goldsmiths students and I had the opportunity to come to the Campus few times. I have always liked the positive and energetic atmosphere that you could breathe there. Later, when I was still studying fashion design, I attended a workshop on sustainable fashion with Mathilda Tham, a tutor in the Design department at Goldsmiths. It really struck me because she had a very different approach from how I was taught at the time.
A few years later, when I decided to go back to university and study Design, I remembered that workshop with Mathilda and I investigated about the Design course at Goldsmiths. I was really happy to find out that the course had a very interdisciplinary approach. Coming from a very specialised background, I thought it would be the perfect choice for me! Continue reading “Alumna Livia Rossi: “I’ve always liked the positive, energetic atmosphere you breathe at Goldsmiths””
You can now watch the full talk by alumna Nemi Gardner and her Biomodd teammate Claude Oprea:
Last Thursday, the Interaction Research Studio launched a book and a film featuring their newest project, Datacatcher. The Datacatcher “is a mobile device with a screen on one end and a large control dial set in a recess underneath. Short sentences appear on the screen every few seconds, providing facts about the surrounding area. Topics include average house prices, typical income, the number of pubs or of GP surgeries. Turning the dial one way scrolls through all the messages that have appeared on the device; turning it the other way accesses a set of poll questions that can be answered using the dial to select among alternatives.”
The Interaction Research Studio manufactured 130 prototypes of the device and distributed them to people in Greater London for up to two months. Two documentary filmmakers were hired to document the results of this experiment. If you were not present at the event last week, you can still find out how it went on the Datacatcher Vimeo channel.
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