Category: Alumni

Inflatable cinema for the launch of MULTIPLEXER journal

Have you ever seen an inflatable cinema in a church before? This unusual setting is precisely what visitors were able to enjoy at the MULTIPLEXER launch event, last week in the St James church at Hatcham, New Cross. Short films by POI and Lukas Valiauga were projected on an inflatable installation.

The Design department at Goldsmiths and Vehicles for Experimental Practice launched Issue Zero of the book-zine MULTIPLEXER, which brings together contributions from Lucas Bertinotti & Fabio Stefanonni, JODI, Marguerite Humeau, Sarah Kember, Mark D’Inverno, Alexandra Midal, Noam Toran, Jimmy Loizeau, Michael Mouyal, Laura Potter, Stuart Bannocks, El Ultimo Grito, Charcoal, Social Mining Union, Oswald de Andrade, Naho Matsuda & Alicia Simpson. On the same occasion, a call for submissions to Issue One was opened.

You can see more images from the event on our Facebook page.

Graduate wins $60 000 grant for work developed at Goldsmiths

In 2014 Grace Tillyard, who recently graduated with an MA Global Media and Transnational Communications from the Department of Media and Communications, was working with the World Food Programme in Haiti when she met the head of the NGO Project Medishare’s Women’s Cancer Programme, Dr Vince DeGennaro.

In discussions with medical practitioners in the country, she learned that a major problem in cancer care is that women only visit a doctor when their disease is so advanced that they are beyond help. Chemotherapy and surgical interventions at this point are drastically less effective.

After taking a Methods and Processes of Innovation module in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths, Grace was introduced to new approaches to engaging with, researching, and understanding an audience. This learning contributed toward her work with Project Medishare in Haiti in co-creating a campaign to sensitise whole communities to the causes and effects of cancer.

You can read on the Goldsmiths website a detailed article on Grace and her experience while developing this project.

Metadesign workshops with Goldsmiths Design students at the Unusual Suspects Festival

Meaghan McClure, Bruno Patias Volpi and Marie Elvik Hagen have just finished their MA course in Design Futures and Metadesign here at Goldsmiths, and next week they’ll be representing the University at the Unusual Suspects Festival in Glasgow, a three-day event exploring social innovation.

The Goldsmiths group will facilitate two sessions on design, collaboration and change agency, both on Thursday, October 8th (10-12 am and 2-4 pm): “The workshop will present several Metadesign tools and promote the development of re-directive propositions for local change, and open a dialogue between academics, community groups, policy makers and businesses about designing the futures we want to see”.

Tickets to the workshops are free, so don’t miss it if you’re in Glasgow next week!

 

 

Goldsmiths Design Festival wrap-up

We’ve already talked about some of the highlights from our Goldsmiths Design Festival (3-9 September), but the festival weekend was full of great events from which it was hard to pick where to go first.

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One of the most exciting events taking place was the Draw to Perform symposium, curated by artist Ram Samocha, which brought to Goldsmiths a line-up of daring, unique performance art sessions involving, amongst other things, a glue gun, milk and nudity. Continue reading “Goldsmiths Design Festival wrap-up”