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PhD by Design public lecture: Doina Petrescu and Roberto Feo

Public Lecture
Thursday, 5th November 2015, 5.30 – 7.30 PM
Ian Gulland Lecture Theater
Goldsmiths, University of London

Speakers:
Professor Doina Petrescu
University of Sheffield &atelier d’architecture autogérée

Professor Roberto Feo
Goldsmiths, University of London & El Ultimo Grito

We are very excited to announce the next Public Lecture as part of the PhD By Design conference ‘Researching across difference’ being held in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths on the 5th and 6th of November 2015. The conference is an opportunity to present work and discuss the diverse aspects of what it means to do a practice-based PhD in Design.

This year, the public lecture is on the evening of Thursday the 5th November and will involve leading design researchers Professor Doina Petrescu and Professor Roberto Feo.

The full programme of PhD by Design can now be read online.

For more information: phdbydesign.com
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If you have any questions, please contact us: phdbydesign@gold.ac.uk

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.

Rose Sinclair to discuss Dorcas societies at Being Human festival

Designer Rose Sinclair, who is a Lecturer in Design (Textiles) at Goldsmiths, will be involved in a ‘Textile Networks” workshop on 14 November as part of the ‘Being Human’ Festival of Humanities. Rose “will lead a discussion on Dorcas societies of the 1950–60s, which brought together Caribbean women through textiles and acted as networks for social and economic change. The untold oral stories of Dorcas society members will be told through an accompanying installation.”

The workshop will take place between 1.15 and 4 pm, at St James Hatcham Building, New Cross, and it is part of Goldsmiths’ “Radical New Cross: Protest and Dissent 1875-2015” series. Admission is free and open to all, but booking in advance will be required. More information can be found on the festival’s website.

‘A sense of wonder and the prevention of suffering’, a talk with Oliver Blank

This Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 6 pm, the Design department at Goldsmiths will have a guest: artist, designer and composer Oliver Blank, currently Senior Designer at Google Life Sciences. Oliver’s talk, titled ‘A sense of wonder and the prevention of suffering’, takes place in Room 211 (Hexagon) of the Lockwood Building and it is free and open to all.

Connecting audiences through sound and fictional narratives, Oliver’s artwork coaxes his audience out of the quotidian and into unforgettable experiences that instill a shared romance and heightened sense of place. His past installations include fabricating a fake bureau dedicated to fictionalising a city’s history, composing orchestral music for long forgotten buildings, and generating a sonic wildlife habitat in the centre of an Italian city.

You can find more information about the event on the Goldsmiths website. Also, stay tuned, there is more to come to the Design blog on Oliver and his talk.