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Get in touch with your postgraduate DSC

Ruth Jacob is a student on our MA in Fashion as well as the postgraduate Departmental Student Coordinator for Design this year, and she has a message for those of you who need her help and would like to get in touch with her:

„Hello to all postgrad Design students! I’d like to introduce myself as the DSC for the department. If you have any points, concerns or praises for the department please feel free to get in contact with me through Facebook or through my Goldmail account. My email address is dt301rj@gold.ac.uk.

I look forward to hearing from you.”

Goldsmiths Design alumnus Evan Boehm shortlisted for IK Prize

Coder and director Evan Boehm, who is a graduate of our MA in Design: Critical Practice (and whose award-winning digital work has been featured on the blog in the past) is one of the nominees for Tate Britain’s IK Prize. Votes from the public will have a say in choosing the final winner, so go ahead and have a look at the shortlisted entries and then, of course, vote for Evan!

The purpose of the prize is to celebrate creative talent in the digital industry; it will be awarded to an innovative project that adds to people’s enjoyment of Tate Britain’s art collection. Evan’s submission is called “Through The Eyes of an 8-Year Old’ ; as it is obvious from its title, it is a proposal for an animated, interactive web experience that explores the museum through the eyes and imagination of a child. Voting closes at midnight on January 24th, and the winning entry will be announced on 6 February, and subsequently turned into reality for display at Tate Britain, with a budget of £60,000.

Donate art materials to Action for Refugees in Lewisham

Do you have any art materials that you can do without? Why not donate them? Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) is a charity dedicated to alleviating poverty amongst refugees, asylum seekers and their children. As part of their services trying to make a positive difference, they are running Rainbow Club on Saturdays, a supplementary day school, for 63 children aged 5-11. This initiative is experiencing a lack of art materials, so if you can help them by providing any of the following:

• A3, A4, A2 white cartridge paper

• A3 coloured paper including black

• A4 and A3 white and coloured card charcoal sticks

• Paint/Paint palettes,

• Chalk pastels,

• Oil pastels,

• Masking Tape

• Pritt sticks

or similar items, please bring them to Room 124 of the Richard Hoggart building at Goldsmiths by the end of January. Visit AFRIL’s website if you want to know more about their activity.

Design and Social Science seminars

The series of Design and Social Science seminars for 2013-2014 continues with its third event on January the 22nd, when the session titled “Through thick and thin: Data as Source and Resource” will be presented by the Interaction Research Studio from the Design Department at Goldsmiths and Noortje Marres from the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process in the Department of Sociology. The seminar takes place between 4 and 6 pm in room 137a of the Richard Hoggart building and, like all events in this series, it is free to attend.

The mission statement of this series is as follows: “This year the Design and Social Science Seminar Series explores the burgeoning analytic interest and methodological preoccupation with ‘data’ and the shifting terrain of data practices across design and social science. Incorporating lectures, workshops and demonstrations, the seminar series brings together a resonant range of events on data practices that provoke questions about the formation and force of data, the claims made for and through data, and the altered practices and politics of data.” Are you up to date with information on the schedule of the seminars? Click on the poster below to enlarge it and find out all the times, dates and topics of discussion for the upcoming talks.