Author: goldsmithsdesign

2019 MA Show “Confluence” preview: Charis Poon

This year’s MA in Design: Expanded Practice degree show, “Confluence” will be open to the public on 13-16 December. As we approach the day of the exhibition opening, we’re giving you a preview of the diverse projects that will be on display. Today, we’re looking at the work of Charis Poon:

Charis Poon project field notes

“This year, two endlessly complex concerns have occupied my mind, Brexit and the 2019 Hong Kong Protests. I wanted to respond to these two concerns with positive action that was celebratory and encouraged questions, even while I was fully cognizant that design would not be a magic wand solution. Continue reading “2019 MA Show “Confluence” preview: Charis Poon”

2019 MA Show “Confluence” preview: Daniel Whitcroft

This year’s MA in Design: Expanded Practice degree show, “Confluence” will be open to the public on 13-16 December. As we approach the day of the exhibition opening, we’re giving you a preview of the diverse projects that will be on display. Today, we’re looking at the practice statement of Daniel Whitcroft:

Work by Daniel Whitcroft

“A century has now passed since Edward Gordon Craig first wrote of the Uber-Marionette and still no one truly knows what the theatre practitioner was talking about, although many have offered theories, ultimately no conclusive evidence exists that can support any of the proposed hypotheses. Continue reading “2019 MA Show “Confluence” preview: Daniel Whitcroft”

Open Innovation Opportunities – Innovation and Business Growth Event

When: Wednesday, 11 December 2019, 14:00 – 17:00

Where: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London

Free to attend; register via EventBrite.

The Goldsmiths Open Innovation Network (which includes our department’s Pi Studio) aims to bring together the world of academia and business to foster collaborative knowledge exchange, creating transformative relationships across sectors and partnerships. It is a platform to engage with Goldsmiths in enterprise activities from: collaborative funding bids and commissioned research; to student projects and placements; through to more formal arrangements like Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.

AutoHoodening

AutoHoodening Flyer

MASHING THE MONSTROUS KENTISH MIDWINTER RITUAL OF HOODENING WITH THE HORRORS OF CONTEMPORARY AUTOMATED WORK

Join Post Workers Theatre for a department -wide end of term extravaganza: four days of collective creativity and co-production, kicking off with a talk event & screening on Monday 9th December 2-5pm in the Hexagon (room 211, Lockwood Building).

Hoodening is an ancient folk custom performed in East Kent for over 200 years. The Hoodeners were mainly agricultural labourers, working in ploughing teams who visited pubs, shops and houses during the fallow season of winter, entertaining their hosts with carnivalesque horseplay in return for ‘largesse’, beer and cake. The Hoodening team’s stock characters represented their working realities. From the ‘poor old’ hooden horse exhausted by the hard labour forced upon him to the whip carrying ‘Waggoner’ trying to keep the others in line. Continue reading “AutoHoodening”