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Correspondence from Goldsmiths Design’s Charlie Evans, Designer in Residence in Taiwan (II)

This summer, Charlie Evans (2014 BA Design graduate, and currently a Technical Tutor in the Department) is spending two months in Taipei, on a Designers in Residence program for the British Council in Taiwan. Charlie will send us regular correspondence with impressions from his experience; we’re publishing the second of his letters today.

Hot-man

Firefighters have a horrible time. I met with a station this week to experience a part of their training:

It’s already hot, I layer up, a mask goes on, oxygen is opened, a helmet goes on. I have to internally rationalise my ability to breath because nothing about having my entire body being hermetically sealed indicates survival.

Beyond the body and its immediate architecture ­ my initial motivation for visiting ­ there is an additional aspect I had not anticipated; the firefighters rapidly transition between psychological spaces. Intensity and apathy. Lunch. Conversation. I can’t breath and people might die. Conversation. Dinner.

Infinity-Hose

Read Charlie’s first article on our blog. He is also keeping a visual blog on Tumblr. 

“Known Unknowns” interviews: Tom Wicks

Tom’s graduation project, “Show Not Tell”, fuels political campaigns with mobile data. We asked Tom at the show about his experience studying at Goldsmiths, and this is what he had to say:

“The course’s been brilliant. It’s unlike anything. I guess the question that the course answers is: what’s a design degree in a time when we can kind of learn anything on the Internet? It’s got to give you the things which aren’t necessarily technical skills, but just about the conversations and the things that you have here, which are really, really interesting, so it’s worth being here. I think what they’ve done is create this culture where you can talk about anything, where any idea is OK. And I think that’s really brilliant. But also, a sort of critical approach to design as well, that is able to question, makes you think.”

Correspondence from Goldsmiths Design’s Charlie Evans, Designer in Residence in Taiwan (I)

This summer, Charlie Evans (2014 BA Design graduate, and currently a Technical Tutor in the Department) is spending two months in Taipei, on a Designers in Residence program for the British Council in Taiwan. Charlie will send us regular correspondence with impressions from his experience; we’re publishing the first of his letters today.

Declaration

For the past six months I’ve been training as a professional wrestler in London. This involved an 8‐week beginner course, 2 months of relatively intense training and diet, two small knee injuries, a small shoulder injury and 2 months of relative inactivity.

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