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Rose Sinclair to give talk on Dorcas societies at Bruce Castle

Rose Sinclair of Goldsmiths Design will hold a free talk on Dorcas societies on Wednesday, 24 February, at Bruce Castle Museum in Haringey: “Mapping Textiles: Dorcas Stories and Narratives in the Front Room”.

The talk will focus on the work of Dorcas societies around the Haringey area and it will use archival material as well as discuss the influence of the networks of Caribbean women and their textiles:

Often founded by upper class women in churches in the 19th century, Dorcas Societies were initially begun to help make clothes for poor people, or to support women to become self-sufficient through the skill of working with a needle. During the 1950s and 1960s, Caribbean women in London would meet in their front rooms. The Clubs and Societies were a support network, where textiles formed the link.

The event will take place in the Lecture Hall at Bruce Castle starting 7 30 pm (doors open at 7).

MULTIPLEXER Issue One, call for submissions

Multiplexer poster

MULTIPLEXER is a biannual design journal/zine produced by Vehicles for Experimental Practice and the Design Department at Goldsmiths. Each issue uses a “password” as a starting point, which then gets redefined through the work presented.

Issue One is now open for entries until 25 February, and the password is MALFICTION. Submitted work can be anything printable, between 1-20 pages in length. Selected projects will be published in March; see attached poster for more details.

Book launch: ‘Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies and Displacements’

You are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of the edited collection: ‘Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies, Displacements’ edited by Ignacio Farías (Munich Center for Technology in Society) and Alex Wilkie (Goldsmiths, Design Department).

Studio Studies is being launched over two events, the first (at Goldsmiths) with a focus on the social sciences and the second (at the V&A) with a focus on the arts and design.

18th February 2016 | 4pm – 6pm

Book launch at Goldsmiths

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Curating Design talk with Dr Katherine Moline

Today, Friday the 29th of January, Dr Katherine Moline will hold a free talk on curating design. The talk will take place in the Nic Hughes Studios at Goldsmiths Design, room 301, starting 2 pm.

Dr Katherine Moline has recently curated a set of exhibitions that take speculative design and experimental research as a partial focus. In this talk she will offer her perspective as an art-historian on ECDC, a research project based in the Interaction Research Studio here in the design department.

Katherine is a Senior Lecturer in research practices and Postgraduate Coordinator: Admissions for Masters by Research and PhDs in Art & Design at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her work explores the cross-overs between avant-gardism in visual art and contemporary experimental design. Her particular interests are how experimental design reformulates strategies of historic artistic avant-gardes and the social pacts of design.