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Thinking Threads: MA Fashion exhibition

Thinking threads e-flyer

9 March – 17 April 2015
Private view: 19 March, from 4 to 7pm

The Constance Howard Gallery and the Goldsmiths MA Fashion programme are pleased to invite you to the opening of Thinking Threads, featuring new student works alongside archival pieces from the Goldsmiths Textiles Collection.

Using objects from the collection as a jumping off point, the pieces in Thinking Threads illustrate the diverse and far-reaching research processes and outcomes achieved. Each project critiques, deconstructs and challenges the intersecting paradigms of fashion, identity, sustainability and materiality. The material and theoretical inquiries conducted through the works on display have unfolded into a multitude of different media, including garments, textiles, printed matter, photography, and moving images: embodying physical threads, digital threads and threads on our backs. Viewers are invited to tease out the social, cultural and material threads running throughout this visually rich and engaging exhibition.

MA Fashion is a unique programme which explores the social and cultural context of fashion through both theory and practice. It enables students to combine research, debate and ethics with making to cultivate new and inclusive ways of thinking, doing and being fashion. Through collaboration and experimentation students develop critical perspectives on the prevailing fashion system and an understanding of how to activate this knowledge in various professions across the creative industries.

Constance Howard Gallery
Goldsmiths, University of London
Deptford Town Hall Building
New Cross Road London
SE14 6AF

Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11am-5pm

www.gold.ac.uk/textile-collection/
www.fashiongoldsmiths.com

MA Fashion would like to thank Lizzie Cannon and Jenny Doussan from the Goldsmiths Textiles Collection and Lesley Ruthven from Goldsmiths Special Collections for their kind support.

Concept Objects for Techno Possibles

Techno Possibles is an aesthetic exploration of technological objects, a collaborative project organized by Vehicles for Experimental Design research unit at Goldsmiths, together with the MA in Design: Critical Practice course at Goldsmiths and the MA in Fashion at UCA.

The session was led by Roberto Feo, Ulrich Lehman, Laura Potter and Vinny Montag.

You can see more pictures from the workshop on our Facebook page.

Dr Mathilda Tham spoke on gender and design at Whitechapel Gallery

Gender Identity and Design at Whitechapel Gallery

What gender have designed objects, design disciplines or even design itself? How can we open up for a design and a world that is less gender polarised? These were questions Dr Mathilda Tham, co-convenor of MA Design Futures and Metadesign and PhD supervisor, explored in her talk during an event chaired by acclaimed design critic Alice Rawsthorne, author of Hello World. Gabriel Ann Maher, of Eindhoven Academy, shared her insights and work in the remit of gender identity and design and transgender.

“Routledge Handbook for Sustainability and Fashion”: new book from Dr Mathilda Tham

Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion

Routledge Handbook for Sustainability and Fashion, which Dr Mathilda Tham, co-convenor of MA Design Futures and Metadesign and PhD supervisor, has co-edited with Kate Fletcher, is now out. With the bold ambition of setting the research agenda for fashion and sustainability for the next ten years, the book comprises chapters from a broad range of key scholars and practitioners in the field of sustainability/fashion, including John Thackara, John Ehrenfeldt, Lynda Grose, Ann Thorpe, Otto von Busch and Joanne Entwistle. Mathilda Tham’s chapter “Futures of futures studies in fashion” draws on a framework for peace building to explore new pathways for sustainability endeavours in fashion.

‘Sustainable Fashion has in the past often seemed gestural, borrowing from the discourse of Sustainable Design to only ever slightly lessen a massive problem. This selection proves that Sustainable Fashion Design is now a conceptually mature field with much to teach other disciplines of design.’ –Cameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

‘Containing the work of leading thinkers and activists, this Handbook is a much-needed volume, which broadens and deepens our understanding of the complexities of the conjoining of sustainability and fashion. A truly collaborative initiative, in its content and method it provides guidance, challenges, but also a positive way forward for sustainability and fashion to co-exist, despite what sometimes seem to be overwhelming odds.’ –Hazel Clark, Parsons The New School for Design, USA