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#fashchat with Ruby Hoette and Sian Prime

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Do you have a question related to fashion? Whether it’s about the fashion industry, job prospects, sustainability or our MA in Fashion (or whatever else you may have in mind), creative and cultural entrepreneur Sian Prime and Ruby Hoette, the convenor of our fashion programme, will try to provide answers in a live chat on Twitter on Monday, February 17th. You can tweet your questions @GoldsmithsUOL either now or on the day of the chat, using the tag #fashchat. Alternatively, if your question doesn’t fit in 140 characters, you can also email it to communications@gold.ac.uk.

Second Intel Galileo workshop with Design students

The series of Intel Galileo workshops organised by Design students continues: this week’s session will happen on Wednesday, at 2 pm, again in room 212b in the Lockwood Building.

Last week, Design students from various programmes showed up to receive their IntelGalileo kit and to discuss its possible uses. MA in Design: Interaction Research student Jonathan Flint is one of the initiators of the workshops; his team of classmates have already figured out what they want to use the board for.

Jonathan says the inspiration came from watching artist Heather Barnett in a workshop at the Society of Biology, which included work on a species of mold called Physarum. This organism has the ability to map itself to scattered food resources (its meal of choice is, apparently, oat flakes), and it excels at finding the best logical route between points; the most well-known related experiment had the mold simulate the Tokyo tube network. The team of Interaction Research students hopes to use the Intel kit to create a controlled environment that reacts to a data source, for example, a Twitter feed.

Since Jonathan is a student on our brand new Interaction Research course, so I had to ask him what made him take a leap of faith with a programme in its first year. „I come from a product design background, so I was designing things, but I had no idea how they were made”, Jon said, adding that he had heard good things about the work of our Interaction Design Studio and that he was keen on exploring new technology.

At this week’s worskhop, Jon and his friends intend to start working on their idea; other ideas may start coming to life as well. Are you a Goldsmiths Design student with an idea on how to use an Intel Galileo board? Do you want to learn more about the board itself? Well then, drop by the workshop tomorrow.

Press coverage of Alex Duffner’s “Domestic Science Machines”

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Alex Duffner’s “Domestic Science Machines” were featured in Wired magazine in the January issue, but in case you’d missed it, it is also possible now to read the article online on the Wired UK website here. Alex is a 2013 graduate of our BA Design course, and “Domestic Science Machines” was his graduation project, a series of prototypes that combined household objects with scientific instruments. In addition to Wired, Alex’s project has also appeared on other websites these days, such as Homeli, PSFK and Trendhunter. 

The “Domestic Science Machines” project was featured on the Design blog while still in development, last year before the graduation show, and you can re-read the article here. 

IntelGalileo student workshops

The Design department at Goldsmiths has been sponsored with Intel Galileo development boards to use as a basis for all kinds of exciting projects. With this starting point, MA student Jonathan Flint is organising what he hopes will turn out to be a series of workshops with other students, in order to explore the potential of the board. „The whole notion is based around the fact that it is better to learn in a group rather than individually, and the last thing I wanted was to have this board and never use it. It is open for anyone interested, no one is an expert and we are all just learning how to use it from scratch”, Jonathan says. The first workshop will happen on Wednesday, February 5th, in room 211b of the Lockwood Building, starting 2 pm. Any Goldsmiths Design student can join, regardless of the course they’re on, so if you’re interested in developing something with the board, or just curious about how it works, don’t hesitate to show up!