Kat Jungnickel from Goldsmiths’ Department of Sociology has been awarded a Prototpublics Development Award by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council).
Kat will be the Principal Investigator on the project titled “The Dewey Organ: Making Problems and Publics”; her co-investigators will include Duncan Fairfax and Alex Wilkie from the Goldsmiths Design department, as well as Jennifer Ballie from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.
In the 2016 University league tables published by The Guardian UK, Goldsmiths was ranked number 1 for Design and Crafts! Our Guardian score was 100 out of 100, with 90.1 out of 100 satisfied with their course and 94.8 out of 100 satisfied with teaching.
We are very proud of all our staff and students and their achievements!
Nemi Gardner is a 2014 graduate of our BA in Design; last week, she returned to her alma mater to hold a talk on Biomodd, a platform that creates symbiotic relationships between plants and computers. The project was conceived by Angelo Vermeulen of Belgium, and Nemi is currently part of the London Biomodd team.
Permaculturist Claude Oprea, who is on the London Biomodd team as well, joined Nemi in speaking to the audience, and explained how computers can be powered by algae. The speakers invited Goldsmiths students to be a part of Biomodd themselves at a three day workshop in July- for more information, email biomoddlondon[at]gmail.com.
Yesterday was the ceremony for the 2015 Orwell Prize for political writing, and as we previously informed you, the trophies were designed and made by year 3 BA DCL student Keir Middleton. What inspired Keir in his work on the trophies?
“The design was inspired by Polish communist propaganda, which I believed mirrored both the stark and brutal writing in George Orwell’s famous satire 1984, as well as the communist apartment buildings that could be seen throughout East Berlin, as well as much of communist Europe, before the end of the Cold War.
“When designing the trophies, I wanted to create something that emulated the cut and dry policies of politics throughout Europe.”
“Design has always been so prominent in my life and Goldsmiths has given me the opportunity to nurture this passion of mine. I aim to pursue a career in teaching design to the younger generation or to further my own skills in the field.”
Keir was also part of the team that designed last year’s Orwell prize trophy. You can read a more detailed story on this year’s event on the Goldsmiths website.
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