News – Page 15 – Goldsmiths Design Blog

Workshop Lates at Goldsmiths Design

“Workshop Lates is a thing. They take place in the workshops outside of normal opening times to achieve results outside of normal. They will begin as a series of 4, running weekly on Wednesday nights, 5.30 pm-7.30 pm. Each session combines practical demonstration and material overview with theoretical approaches to making. Session 1 takes place on 9th of November and can be described as an introduction into ideational model making via drawing + steel + bluefoam.

Participation is achieved via email+ request+ response+ confirmation. Places are limited and therefore a moderate policy of first come, first served is in effect. All skill levels are welcome. For additional information, and to book your place, please email e.evans[@]gold.ac.uk and j.davis[@]gold.ac.uk.“

Design students create 2016 Goldsmiths Prize trophy

BA Design students Archie Harding, Panagiotis Tzortzopoulos and Raoni Saporetti have been chosen to design the trophy that will be awarded to the 2016 winner of the Goldsmiths Prize. Here are some photos of the team at work:

The Goldsmiths Prize for fiction was established in 2016 to reward innovative novels that break the mould and explore the possibilities of the form. This year’s nominees are:

Transit, by Rachel Cusk
Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy
The Lesser Bohemians, by Eimear McBride
Solar Bones, by Mike McCormack
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Martin John, by Anakana Schofield

The winner will be announced on 9 November.

Caribbean front room installation and workshops at Lewisham Shopping Centre

This week, starting Wednesday, Goldsmiths Design lecturer Rose Sinclair will host a pop-up installation recreating a 1970s Caribbean front room at Lewisham Shopping Centre. A part of Black History Month celebrations, the event is intended as an exploration of how textiles travel and knowledge is recorded and preserved. Rose will also run textile workshops for crafters and makers of all abilities, while visitors will also be able to share their own textile stories in a photo booth.

You can find a full schedule for the week on the Goldsmiths website.

“Dorcas stories” talk and craft workshop with Rose Sinclair at the National Archives

Goldsmiths Design lecturer Rose Sinclair will hold a talk at The National Archives on Saturday, 12 November, as part of the Black British History series of talks: “Dorcas stories : archives, spaces memories and making”.

Dorcas, a woman who made garments for the poor (Bible: Acts chapter 9, versus 36-42), gave her name to countless Dorcas societies. These societies and clubs became embedded carriers of knowledge exchange and culture in textiles practice.

For women migrating from the Caribbean to Britain in the 1950s and 60s they would continue to provide a safe space to share ‘church’ and textile expertise and much more within the front room, a space where these particular textiles were produced. Rose Sinclair presents a curated talk about the hidden history of Dorcas clubs and the contribution of Caribbean women to a British textiles aesthetic through what they describe as the ‘gift’ of textiles.

This interactive talk event will be followed by a craft session with Rose, where participants will examine textiles in our collections such as the BT Design Register featuring graphic depictions related to ‘Junkanoo’ an expression of Caribbean Carnival and other African traditions.‎ The collections will act as starting points for crafting and sharing new ‘Dorcas’ aesthetics in new spaces.

Book your place

Talk event – 12:00-13:00 (FREE)
Craft workshop – 14:00-16:00 (£5 – limited places)