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Design students create 2016 Goldsmiths Prize trophy

BA Design students Archie Harding, Panagiotis Tzortzopoulos and Raoni Saporetti have been chosen to design the trophy that will be awarded to the 2016 winner of the Goldsmiths Prize. Here are some photos of the team at work:

The Goldsmiths Prize for fiction was established in 2016 to reward innovative novels that break the mould and explore the possibilities of the form. This year’s nominees are:

Transit, by Rachel Cusk
Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy
The Lesser Bohemians, by Eimear McBride
Solar Bones, by Mike McCormack
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Martin John, by Anakana Schofield

The winner will be announced on 9 November.

Caribbean front room installation and workshops at Lewisham Shopping Centre

This week, starting Wednesday, Goldsmiths Design lecturer Rose Sinclair will host a pop-up installation recreating a 1970s Caribbean front room at Lewisham Shopping Centre. A part of Black History Month celebrations, the event is intended as an exploration of how textiles travel and knowledge is recorded and preserved. Rose will also run textile workshops for crafters and makers of all abilities, while visitors will also be able to share their own textile stories in a photo booth.

You can find a full schedule for the week on the Goldsmiths website.

“Dorcas stories” talk and craft workshop with Rose Sinclair at the National Archives

Goldsmiths Design lecturer Rose Sinclair will hold a talk at The National Archives on Saturday, 12 November, as part of the Black British History series of talks: “Dorcas stories : archives, spaces memories and making”.

Dorcas, a woman who made garments for the poor (Bible: Acts chapter 9, versus 36-42), gave her name to countless Dorcas societies. These societies and clubs became embedded carriers of knowledge exchange and culture in textiles practice.

For women migrating from the Caribbean to Britain in the 1950s and 60s they would continue to provide a safe space to share ‘church’ and textile expertise and much more within the front room, a space where these particular textiles were produced. Rose Sinclair presents a curated talk about the hidden history of Dorcas clubs and the contribution of Caribbean women to a British textiles aesthetic through what they describe as the ‘gift’ of textiles.

This interactive talk event will be followed by a craft session with Rose, where participants will examine textiles in our collections such as the BT Design Register featuring graphic depictions related to ‘Junkanoo’ an expression of Caribbean Carnival and other African traditions.‎ The collections will act as starting points for crafting and sharing new ‘Dorcas’ aesthetics in new spaces.

Book your place

Talk event – 12:00-13:00 (FREE)
Craft workshop – 14:00-16:00 (£5 – limited places)

Kickstarter campaign for smart doorbell Ding, created by former Goldsmiths Design tutors

Isn’t it annoying when you’re expecting a guest or a package, but you don’t hear the doorbell, so the visitor ends up waiting outside your door for ages? If you’ve had this problem too, Ding may be just what you need: a smart doorbell that connects to an app on your phone and allows you to talk to the person standing at your door, no matter where you are.

Ding was thought up by Avril O’Neill and John Nussey, both former tutors at Goldsmiths Design. Avril is also an alumna of our BA Design programme (read an interview with her on the Design blog). The initial concept was developed at Design Council Spark, but now it’s really taking off, and by contributing to it on Kickstarter you can be a part of it, too, and get a Ding for your own home. More details on how the product works can be found on the campaign page, which is open until November 10.