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Design and Social Science seminar: Rubbish metrics and genomic idiots

Wednesday, April 2nd brings us a new seminar in the Design and Social Science series, titled: “Rubbish metrics and genomics idiots: live methods and data-intensive provocations”. The speakers will be Adrian Mackenzie, from Lancaster University, and Ruth McNally, from Anglia Ruskin University. Their presentation will describe four years worth of attempts to inhabit genomic databases ethnographically and to construct provocations from the data.

The seminar takes place in room 137a of the Richard Hoggart Building, starting 4 pm; as usual, entry is free.

3rd year student Justin Ramsden on approaching graduation and working for LEGO

Doesn’t time just fly? A new generation of BA Design students is nearing graduation and getting ready for its final year show. Let’s meet them, then! Today, we are talking to 3rd year BA Design student Justin Ramsden, who works as a LEGO model designer and enjoys photography in his spare time.

Why did you choose to study at Goldsmiths Design?

I chose it due to its multi-disciplinary approach to the subject – I feel that the industry is becoming more multidisciplinary and requires graduates to have an array of skills rather than being defined by one discipline. I have never wanted to be specified as just a graphic or product designer and through this course, I have been pushed out of my comfort zones and explored a full range of specialisms in order to create varied and greater informed project outcomes, along with the questioning my work on a social and ethical scale. I have then applied these techniques to my professional practice as it proves I can apply myself to any given design task. Continue reading “3rd year student Justin Ramsden on approaching graduation and working for LEGO”

First year student project making the news

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First year BA Design students have been busy at work for a brief called “The Environment Keeps Happening to Me”, a project involving interventions that reclaim spaces and use them in an unconventional way. If you follow the hashtag #TEKHTM on Twitter, you can keep up to date with the ideas of different student groups (and how they are being put in practice). Here is, for example, a video of Group 6 staging an intervention at the Maritime Museum. The Flickr feed of lecturer Stuart Bannocks also provides images on the project.

One particular group has attracted quite a bit of attention: the Park Yourself project ended up in various news feeds, including BBC and iTV News (and here it is in News Shopper) for their idea of having a picnic in a car park in Greenwich, amongst automobiles. Before you ask: yes, they were in possession of a valid parking ticket!

(Screencap source: the Park Yourself Twitter account)