Category: News

MA.DE GOLD- 2015 Postgraduate Design show at the Goldsmiths Design Festival

This year, the Postgraduate Design show is called MA.DE GOLD and will take place as part of our Goldsmiths Design Festival, a week of free events bringing together some of the most significant names in the design industry and showcasing the incredible work of Goldsmiths Design staff and students:

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The MA students’ wall of fame, at the beginning of the previous academic year

We warmly invite you to MA.DE GOLD – The 2015 MA Design show, part part of the Goldsmiths Design Festival. MA students from Design Futures & Metadesign, Critical Practice, Design & Environment, Fashion, Interaction Design, Design Education and Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship will be showcasing work that responds to themes like gender, technology and activism.

The exhibition will run from Thursday the 3rd to Wednesday the 9th of September on the Goldsmiths campus, with an opening party on the first day. MA Fashion work will be exhibited in the Whitehead Building, while work from other courses will be found in the Stuart Hall Building and the Lockwood Annexe Studios.

To find out more about MA.DE GOLD, follow them on Twitter and Instagram, and don’t forget to check out their website, too.

Silent Auction for charity featuring work from Goldsmiths designers

On 2 September, a silent auction of artwork will take place in the 310 New Cross Road exhibition space at SE14 6AF, open to the public between 10 am- 5 pm. The purpose of the auction is to raise funds for EduHaitian, a small charity supporting children’s education in Haiti, c0-founded and run by Olivia Owen, recent Goldsmiths International Studies graduate.

“EduHaitian’s mission is to give vulnerable and disadvantaged children in Haiti a chance to receive education and schooling through an established programme of sponsorships. Since 2011, EduHaitian has supported 47 children through private funding, fundraised entirely from our voluntary efforts. For each £250 raised, another child will join our programme from September. The cost is inclusive of tuition, locally sourced and brought uniforms, books, stationary and any further tuition required to bring in meet the education needs of each child.”

The exhibition will include work from Goldsmiths design students and recent graduates and features extracts of design processes, sketches, preliminary research, final pieces, or example of side practices that informs our design practice (photography, illustration, writing, etc).

If you have any questions about this event, please visit the blog of the event or contact Clara Nissim at claranissim[@]gmail.com.

 

MAKING DRONES workshop for Goldsmiths Design students

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As part of our upcoming Goldsmiths Design Festival, our Design students are invited to take part in a free workshop on making drones with recent MA Interaction Design graduate Jon Flint. The workshop will be an all-day event on 5 September, taking place in the Postgraduate Design Studios at Goldsmiths, and it will provide an introduction to drone technology and principles of flight, followed by practical prototyping with working electronics.

Why drones? Because we need to think and speculate about our life with them as they become less controversial. What will their possible uses be? What will their users be like? The workshop will try to encompass who these future users might be and what they might use a mini drone for.

Having worked on the Drone Aviary project by Superflux, Jon Flint is just the right person to teach you about drones! If you want to know more about his work and approach to design, have a look at our previous interviews with Jon on his graduation project and his return to the Goldsmiths Design workshops  as part of our graduate program.

From 3rd – 9th September Goldsmiths’ Department of Design opens its doors to the public for a week of free events bringing together some of the most significant names in the design industry and showcasing the incredible work of its staff and students.

Goldsmiths has the happiest Design students in London

The National Student Survey results are in, and we are delighted to hear that students from the Design department have the highest satisfaction rating in London! The overall satisfaction rating achieved by Goldsmiths Design was 96%, an 8% increase from last year’s survey. UK-wide, the Design department at Goldsmiths was ranked third in terms of student satisfaction. The Sociology and Anthropology departments also achieved very good ratings.

You can read a more detailed news piece on the National Student Survey results on the Goldsmiths website.