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PhD by Design satellite session in Leeds

The PhD by Design conference that took place at Goldsmiths in November 2014 raised many interesting questions that deserved a follow-up, so the team behind the Goldsmiths event is now organising a satellite session at Leeds College of Art, on May 14th:

“Through this study day, we want to make space for tentative yet innovative ideas rather than gathering around polished knowledge and methods of dissemination. Everyone attending will also be presenting and contribute to create a supportive environment for discussion and exploration.

Some of the questions we aim to tackle are:

• Who is the audience for practice-based design research? And how can we reach it?

• What ways of disseminating reflect the inventive ways in which practice-based research is done?

• How to write up research with non-academic collaborators?

• How to push the boundaries of what counts as research and valuable dissemination?

• How to mediate that which is not linguistic in practice-based research?

As an outcome of the day, all the participants will contribute to creating an instant journal. So that at the end of the day, everyone goes home with a record of the knowledge, ideas and proposals generated during the workshop day.”

If you want to participate in the event with a presentation, the application deadline is 16 April 2015. More information can be found on the PhD by Design website.

Download a poster for the event

Ruby Hoette to speak at international fashion conference in Antwerp

Ruby Hoette, Programme Leader for our MA in Fashion, will be speaking this week at the Europeana Fashion International Conference:

“In collaboration with MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, Europeana Fashion hosts its third annual conference in Antwerp on 24, 25 and 26 February 2015. The conference DIGITAL FASHION FUTURES explores the future of digital fashion initiatives, bringing together a multitude of online fashion platforms and innovative perspectives from the cultural heritage industry.”

Ruby will participate in the following panel:

Skills and Competences for the Digital Fashion era

“With the advent of the digital era, the competence in fashion has been changed and not only new figures have emerged but also old figures had to reshape their practices. In this workshop/discussion, we will discuss few examples of this shift to better understand how the digital era has not only affect the way fashion is communicated but also produced, generating the emergence of new competencies.”

Chair: Lauren Downing Peters, Ph.D student at Stockhom University Centre for Fashion Studies
Panellists:
Ruby Hoette, lecturer in Design (Fashion and textiles) at Goldsmiths, University of London
Sally Ann Bolton, junior fashion editor at The Sunday Times Style magazine and Ph.D student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Jacob Kok, virtual fashion designer at Jacob Kok
Mauro Iannizzi, client director at H-Art
Karen Van Godtsenhoven, curator of exhibitions MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp

More information can be found on the Europeana Fashion website.

“Green by Default” – sustainable initiatives in the Design department

I think you will all agree that making the Design department at Goldsmiths greener is a worthy cause, and to this purpose began “Green by Default”, an initiative that promotes sustainable ideas on campus with a focus on Design, but collaborating with the Goldsmiths-wide Greening program (read our blog post on Greening Goldsmiths here).

Recently, Green by Default organised a planting workshop in the department, where undergraduate and postgraduate students worked hard to make 80 pots from recycled water bottles and seed them with flowers and vegetables (you can see more photos from the workshop here).

plantpots

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Alex Wilkie discusses ‘Diagrams and Play’ with Kamini Vellodi

Dr Alex Wilkie (Leader of the MPhil/PhD programme in Design at Goldsmiths) will participate in a discussion with artist, academic and writer Kamini Vellodi at Laurie Grove Baths on 4 March 2015, an event organised by Unit of Play in the Department of Sociology. The title of the discussion is “Diagrams and Play: from Schiller to Deleuze, via Beethoven”:

Deleuze’s conception of ‘diagrammatics’ implicates a radicalised notion of play. This augments Schiller’s conception of play as the harmonic synthesis of the form impulse and the sensible impulse to reconceive play as the disjunctive synthesis of the sensible.

Marsha Rosengarten will chair the talk. More information can be found on the Goldsmiths website.