In what has already become a yearly tradition, third year BA Design students at Goldsmiths are, once again, organising a Grand Ball, which will take place at Rivoli Ballroom on November 27th. Tickets cost £15 and are on sale in the Third Year Studios at Goldsmiths Design, as well as in the student shop of the Richard Hoggart Building.
We continue our series of posts introducing new postgraduate students! Today, we get to meet Ilaria Miniussi, who is on the MA in Fashion:
What is your background? What did you do before coming to Goldsmiths?
I come from the North-East of Italy, precisely from a region called Friuli-Venezia Giulia. My city is located near Trieste, very close to the border with Slovenia. My region is very particular, as it faces directly with East Europe, there are the sea and the mountains, just a couple of hours apart, we have so many different taste as cultures, dialects, history and food. I grew up with the passion for languages and fashion and this brought me to study at the Art High School in Gorizia, which is basically divided in two between Italy and Slovenia with a strong heritage of architecture, history and art. After the diploma, I studied Foreign Languages and Literature for a year and then I followed my passion, being admitted at the Faculty of Fashion Design at the University of Architecture of Venice (IUAV). During my BA I studied for six months in Spain as Erasmus Student, improving my knowledge in Spanish and fashion, studying at the University of Vigo, at the Art Department. After my degree in 2012 I started to design my own label #hilarieminù, which is still at the design phase, as I am still studying what kind of contribution I could give in fashion. In 2013 I moved to London and I attended a short course of Visual Merchandising at Central Saint Martins. Seeing with my own eyes the ambient of an English university, I decided that I would have studied here as soon as I would have found the right university for my skills and competences. Continue reading “Meet Ilaria Miniussi, new MA in Fashion student”
We’ve already told you about introduction day for our new class of postgraduate students, but what do they think about the start of their new course? Where do they come from? Why did they choose Goldsmiths? We should get to know them better! We begin a series of blog interviews with new MA students with Lorna Boyle, who is on the MA in Design: Critical Practice:
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Roberto Feo of El Ultimo Grito has been appointed Professor of Design here at Goldsmiths, starting this academic year. On this happy occasion for all of us at Goldsmiths Design, we have prepared for you an interview with Roberto on his work and his new job:
What will you be doing at Goldsmiths as a Professor of Design?
My position is not really about teaching- I will help with teaching on the programmes, but mainly I will be generating a new design research group. It will be inclusive of staff and graduates, and it will offer possibilities of collaboration. Its focus will be similar to my interests in design and to the interests of the Design department at Goldsmiths: an experimental approach to design, and focusing not just on the end product, but on the meta-structure of design that goes behind that. We imagine the product in the vertex of a pyramid- I’m more interested in the system behind the final outcome, rather than just the final outcome as such. So I think that will be the purpose: how the object influences the pyramid and how changing the pyramid means that we also have a different outcome at the end.
I understand that you didn’t start out studying design yourself; what do you think is the role of design education in forming a designer?
I think design education gives you a focus into what design is. In reality, the design principles are present in many other activities, in terms of how you have to creatively plan and in order to materialise knowledge. We all share the same kind of process, design makes it more apparent, makes you more aware that this is what you’re doing. That’s why, for us ,it is interesting ,having a different background, because certain things are coming through your work in unexpected ways, so it gives you more material to play. But at the same time, education nowadays is not so much about teaching you how to be a designer, but about expanding the idea of what design is. I think that education really investigates design, and both the educators and the students collaborate in the function of the designer as a tutor or a professor in university. It’s not about teaching someone how to be what I am, I have to try teaching them what I don’t know yet. It’s a tricky thing, it requires a design approach to education and being experimental, trying to foresee what are these areas and trying to help students arrive to places you don’t know yet. That’s how you advance what design is. Continue reading “Roberto Feo : “For me, design is everything””
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