goldsmithsdesign

Third year students document their work on YouTube

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Goldsmiths campus is now closed and everyone in the Design department is working remotely. This means that the graduating BA Design class of 2020 are facing the challenge of adapting their projects to the current situation.

How are third year BA Design students getting by in isolation? What are they working on, and how are they dealing with the limitations imposed by quarantine on their work? Our brilliant students have become vloggers to document this process; follow them on their collaborative YouTube channel, BAD Isolation.

Film by BA Design graduate to compete for Best Documentary at Oxford International Short Film Festival

“If I Get Like That Just Shoot Me”, a short documentary directed by Goldsmiths Design graduate Amy Clegg (BA Design class of 2019), is one of the nominees for the Best Documentary award in the 2020 Oxford International Short Film Festival, which will take place on 28-29 March.

Amy’s film, one of 6 short documentaries competing for the award, was developed as part of her graduation project from Goldsmiths Design and looks into the ever-widening gap between the perception and reality of informal care for the elderly. Amy is currently studying for an MA in Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths.

MA Design student is CEN8 Volunteer of the Month

MA Design: Expanded Practice student Javeria Khan is February 2020’s Volunteer of the Month at CEN8, a non-profit based at Goldsmiths running arts and performance after-school, weekend and holiday clubs/projects.

Fashion Constellations exhibition on display in the Constance Howard Gallery

The exhibition “Fashion Constellations: blueprints towards expanding fashion practice” is currently open in the Constance Howard Gallery at Goldsmiths; visitors can drop by Monday to Friday between 11 am- 5 pm.

The items on display document the teaching process on the Fashions & Embodiment Studio of the MA in Design: Expanded Practice (and the MA in Fashion before it).

Programme co-lead Ruby Hoette and lecturer Katherine May asked MA students to bring in old denim garments and ‘upick’ them, then sew them together into a quilt, exchanging stories and ideas as they go. The outcome is always different and unpredictable, while the process of this relaxed activity functions as a bonding and engagement opportunity as well as a conversation and questioning of fashion ethics.

In the exhibition, you’ll be able to see the resulting denim quilts made by successive cohorts of students, as well as other artifacts, images and texts.