More Design Means open talks are being added to our calendar! Here’s what’s coming up in March:
Andreas Lang, 2 March 2017, 5 pm
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Design Means…with Dash MacDonald
When: Thursday, 9 February 2017, 5 pm
Where: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
Free and open to all
Dash N’ Dem are a design action group whose wide-ranging participatory projects centre on popular education and critical and creative citizenship participation. Dash will reflect on the open-ended, collaborative structure of their practice and how co-design can act as a form of activism that empowers different audiences to confront and reimagine their reality.
Dash will be presenting work that aims to make politics more accessible and engaging, including:
-Providing a group of teenagers at the South London Gallery with a David Cameron lookalike to take over and create their own party political broadcast in the run up to the 2015 UK general election
-Revisiting an 80’s post-punk compilation cassette ‘Dump it on Parliament’, originally produced in opposition to a proposed nuclear waste dump in Bedfordshire, and inviting emerging bands to develop cover versions and write new songs of protest
-Working with Slix and Prince Rapid from the Rough Sqwad, one of the original Grime crews, to use Grime as a young people’s political language, and engaging teenagers from Tower Hamlets with issues like workers rights and corporate greed
Design Means with Ersin Han Ersin: reinterpreting perception
Last Thursday (January 19th), the Design department re-started its series of open talks with Design practitioners “Design Means”, and the first guest speaker for 2017 was Marshmallow Laser Feast‘s Ersin Han Ersin, visual artist and director.
After a brief introduction to the history of virtual reality and interactive technologies (which are all a lot older than we usually think!), Ersin Han took the audience on a tour throughout his innovative, mind-expanding work which tackles our lack of meaningful connections with nature and looks at worlds that lie beyond our human sensory perception. Continue reading “Design Means with Ersin Han Ersin: reinterpreting perception”
Design Means with Ersin Han Ersin
Design Means talks are back! On Thursday, 19 January, Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Creative Director Ersin Han Ersin will be sharing their methodology of creating intimate experiences utilising cutting edge technologies.
Ersin presents a close look into the collective’s thought process of generating digital fossils for use in virtual reality, and exploration of real- time applications that employ inorganic sensing techniques to evoke organic sensations.
The talk takes place in Room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building at Goldsmiths, starting 5 pm.
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