As part of our first ever Goldsmiths Design Festival (3-9 September 2015), our students had the chance to learn how to build a drone themselves, and we had just the right person to guide them. Jon Flint, who led the Drone workshop, is a graduate of our MA in Interaction Design and he currently works with Superflux, of Drone Aviary fame.
The participating students spent the day learning the principles of drone flight and then built their own prototypes under Jon’s supervision. At the end of the workshop, it was time to test the results! It was a sunny, bright evening which allowed the workshop team to take their creations outside on the College Green and see them take flight.
This year, the MA graduation shows took place as part of the first Goldsmiths Design Festival, between 3 and 9 September. The postgraduate shows were called MA.DE GOLD and displayed the work of students from courses in Critical Practice, Design and Environment, Design Futures and Metadesign, Interaction Design, Fashion, Design Education, as well as the Design pathway of the MA in Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship.
Participants will work to embrace the absurd and generate ideas which are then turned into imaginary plans for space colonisation and the creation of their own guide to space travel!
Using the extreme context of deep space and space travel, aligned to real time local businesses and the future/extreme space contexts they might operate in – this fantastical workshop brings together unexpected components which wouldn’t normally be associated with each other, to create something really unique and surprising.
The images, ideas and representations of space are borrowed from cinema and the processes you engage in will form part of a design method that involves participation, interaction, and more than just mere speculation…
Who should come: This workshop is designed to engage all age ranges and experience levels from 16+ so if you have an interest in interdisciplinary design, a love for all that is cosmic, or are simply just fascinated in the concepts around the Welsh Space Campaign join us!”
The workshop starts at 3 pm; tickets will be £6.50 with £5 concessions.
Hefin Jones is a 2013 graduate of our BA Design course and a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths Design, where he also runs the Art and Design Saturday Club.The Welsh Space Campaign started as Hefin’s graduation project from Goldsmiths.
What would community town planning with local people look like? A project at our upcoming Goldsmiths Design Festival explores this idea in an exhibition focused on the Welsh town of Rhyl.
“The intention is not necessarily to produce a viable town plan, but to create a forum where local ideas about a town’s future might be discussed and presented in different ways. The project is intended as a platform for local participants to express personal visions through ambitious, large scaled plans. We hope to capture these moments through films, drawings, photography, (fictional) town planning documents and schemes as well as the architecture that will make up ‘Master Plans.’ The process hopes to reveal the ideas or concerns of local people and show ambitious ideas that would not normally be given a platform. These plans are given licence to be single-minded, devoid of bureaucracy, detached from financial reality and ambitious”.
The project is led by renowned designer and Goldsmiths lecturer Jimmy Loizeau, together with a team that includes other Goldsmiths staff and alumni: Tee Byford Flockhart, Neil Crud, Charlie Evans, Hannah Fasching, Hefin Jones, Lynne Jones, Paula Jones, Belen Palacios and Matthew Ward. The exhibition will be on all throughout the Festival (3-9 September) in the Kingsway Corridor of the Richard Hoggart Building at Goldsmiths; artist guided talks will take place on 3 and 4 September.
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