Category: News

First year student project making the news

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First year BA Design students have been busy at work for a brief called “The Environment Keeps Happening to Me”, a project involving interventions that reclaim spaces and use them in an unconventional way. If you follow the hashtag #TEKHTM on Twitter, you can keep up to date with the ideas of different student groups (and how they are being put in practice). Here is, for example, a video of Group 6 staging an intervention at the Maritime Museum. The Flickr feed of lecturer Stuart Bannocks also provides images on the project.

One particular group has attracted quite a bit of attention: the Park Yourself project ended up in various news feeds, including BBC and iTV News (and here it is in News Shopper) for their idea of having a picnic in a car park in Greenwich, amongst automobiles. Before you ask: yes, they were in possession of a valid parking ticket!

(Screencap source: the Park Yourself Twitter account)

MA graduate Adam Charlton shortlisted for Design Week’s Rising Star award

Design Week have just announced the shortlist for their 2014 Awards, and we’re happy and proud to find out that one of our alumni is on the list. Adam Charlton, a 2012 graduate of our MA in Design: Critical Practice, is one of the nominees for the Rising Star award, the aim of which is to discover the best designers of the future.

The award ceremony will take place on Thursday 15 May 2014 at the Troxy Theatre in East London. Have a look at the Design Week Awards website to find out who are the judges and the other nominees.

Design and Social Science Seminar: Mapping Participation

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The series of Design and Social Sciences seminars at Goldsmiths continues: on Wednesday, March 19th, the topic of the session is “Mapping Participation”, with Christopher Kelty from University of California, Los Angeles. Here’s a synopsis of what you can expect from the talk:

“How can one map the empirical transformations of a concept? The “Birds of the Internet” project explores internet-mediated participation by looking across a large number of cases evaluated for their “participatoriness.” Participation is clearly not an either/or proposition, but a concept and a phenomena with different signatures. However, we have no clear names for the different styles of participation that have emerged in the last decade, nor any clear understanding of how they relate to the large number of other “heteronyms” of participation in the past. In the talk, I will offer a proposal for differentiating these signatures of participation–volatile, stable and extractive–and some thoughts on the use of clustering and case-study methods to analyse the circulation of concepts and transformation in use.”

The seminar starts at 4 pm in room 137 of the Richard Hoggart Building. As always, entry is free.

Design postgrads, get involved in the MA Show

The purpose of the graduating show is to celebrate the work of the students, so get involved in organising the MA Show you’d like to have! If you are a postgraduate Design student (MA in Critical Practice, Design and Environment, Design Futures, Design: Interaction Research, Fashion, MRes in Design, Innovation in Practice, Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Design Education, PGCE Design and Technology, Graduate Diploma in Design), the team that have already started on the job are calling you to join them:

“If you’re worried that your course has no practical output or that the output isn’t something you’d typically see in an exhibition: There will be space for talks, lectures, seminars, workshops, interactive installations, live art, performances and catwalks, should there be suitable interest shown in these types of events.

Our next meeting will be held in the middle MA Design Studio on Tuesday the 18th of March at 1PM (midday). Anyone is welcome.

If you want to be kept up-to-date with meeting minutes and agendas as well as any news, changes in meeting times and any other information related to the show, please sign up to this mailing list.”

And there are even more avenues available for involvement and collaboration: there are surveys open for you to give your opinion on the show’s organisation, venue and name; you can also join this open group on Facebook for suggestions and debate.