“MULTIPLEXER is a biannual book-zine produced by Vehicles for Experimental Practice & Goldsmiths Design Department as a place where the signs describing and constructed reality _ graphics, texts, music, comics, etc_ get analysed, manipulated, compressed and collided, to generate new forms and directions; each issue activated by a password acting as common denominator and entry-point to its content. Continue reading “MULTIPLEXER journal launch”
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Design and Sociology departments at Goldsmiths continue CSISP collaboration
Alex Wilkie (Senior Lecturer in Design) has recently been appointed Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) alongside Co-Directors Michael Guggenheim and Marsha Rosengarten from the Department of Sociology.
For more than ten years CSISP has been at the forefront of researching and understanding the interplay between science, technology, society and the environment. Based in the Department of Sociology, CSISP is an interdisciplinary research centre that hosts conferences, reading groups, research projects, salons, seminars, workshops, visiting researchers as well as supporting doctoral research amongst other activities. Common to all is the exploration and examination of the role of ‘invention’ – and related terms such as ‘creativity’, ‘innovation’, technology, discovery, change and novelty – in social and public life. CSISP facilitates collaboration and intervention across disciplines and practices that touch upon and create the ‘social’, including, but not limited to: design and social science, computation and sociology, issue advocacy and inventive social methods, markets and economics, biomedicine and innovation in social research, the arts and environmental science.
CSISP was founded in 2003 by Andrew Barry and was inaugurated by Bruno Latour with a lecture on the question of “how not to change vehicles” in moving from micro to macro in the social study of invention. Since then, CSISP has been directed by Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Mike Michael, Marsha Rosengarten, Noortje Marres.
The latest issue of EASST review features an overview of CSISP, which is available to download here. CSISP Online includes reflections on CSISP activities and the CSISP pages on the Goldsmiths website contain an archive of the various events the research centre has hosted over the past decade, many of which feature ongoing dialogues between design and social science.
Our Goldsmiths Design Festival starts today
Are you ready for the Goldsmiths Design Festival? Our week of free events celebrating design starts today, and there are so many things for you to do and see on campus!
The opening lecture with Maarten Gielen of Rotor will take place at 7 pm in Room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building. In the morning, starting 10:30, our PhD students will present their research in a ‘PhD Show and Tell’ session in room LG01 of the same building. Interested in an immersive theatre performance? Go to the Lockwood Building annexe starting 5:30 pm.
With the Trojan Beer Project, you can enjoy beer and find out about atmospheric data. It’s a win-win situation, so drop by the Ground Floor Cafe in the Professor Stuart Hall building in the evening. There will also be a party at the Student Union until late in the night, there will be music and DJs, there will be exhibitions all over campus– Our Alumni Pop-Up Shows, in particular, come with an artist talk today: at 6 pm in the Atrium of the Stuart Hall building, don’t miss it.
MA.DE GOLD, The 2015 Postgraduate Show starts today at the festival as well. You will be able to see the work of the MA students exhibited on campus (Whitehead Building for the MA Fashion, Stuart Hall Building and Lockwood Annexe Studios for the other courses). Films made by MA students will be shown as well, and in the evening you’ll be able to see an experimental interaction dining performance by Critical Practice student Eunji Han.
So we hope you’re ready for a day full of design events!
Alumnus Hefin Jones holding a Home Grown Space Travel Workshop at The Floating Cinema
On Sunday 6 September, you are invited to an evening of Space Speculation Design at the Floating Cinema (moored at The Proud Archivist in Haggerston):
“Join Hefin Jones, founder of The Welsh Space Campaign, on board The Floating Cinema for a light-hearted, imaginative, design workshop.
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.
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