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Goldsmiths Design Festival 2016 wrap-up: all interviews

Have you missed any of our previous coverage of the 2016 Goldsmiths Design Festival and MA graduation show? Don’t worry, here are all our interviews with this year’s MA graduates in one place:

Katherine Tse (MA in Design: Critical Practice) on making silk garments with home resources

Tilde Snyder (MA Fashion) on bringing a fashion show to the London Overground:

Ulla Puggaard (MA in Design Futures) on exploring the overlooked world of weeds: Continue reading “Goldsmiths Design Festival 2016 wrap-up: all interviews”

New MA in Design: Expanded Practice

Starting 2017, postgraduate study at Goldsmiths Design will undergo a significant change: we are introducing a brand new, 15-month MA in Design: Expanded Practice, a a radical post-disciplinary programme for practitioners who want to push the boundaries of what design can be and do.

By challenging the role and norms of traditional design towards an emerging type of ‘advanced design’, unshackled from the history of specialisms and entrenched methods, students will become part of a community of practice. Instead of specialised individual Masters, which this MA will replace, the programme will offer six thematic areas of investigation, or ‘Studios’:

Cities & Urbanism
Communication & Experience
Fashions & Embodiment
Innovation & Service
Interaction & Technology
Participation & Politics

Find out more about the new MA from the Goldsmiths website.

Coming soon: “Tangled Systems”, the 2016 MAID show

The 2016 graduation show for the MA in Interaction Design at Goldsmiths will be open between 7-10 December in the St James Hatcham Gallery in New Cross, under the title “Tangled Systems”. The work of this year’s graduating class tackles a wide range of topics and themes, investigating sleep, time, senses and emotions, and contemporary issues such as climate change and surveillance.

Visit the Tangled Systems website to find out more about the students and their projects, and don’t forget to RSVP on Facebook or Eventbrite.

MA Design graduates 2016: Katherine Tse uses home resources to expose the effort behind manufacturing clothes

For her graduation project from the MA in Design: Critical Practice, Yuen Wa Tse (Katherine) took on the laborious task of making silk underwear with home resources, in order to highlight the effort that even the most mundane clothing items require in their manufacturing process. She also aimed to produce items uncoupled from the fetishisation of gender identity:

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How did you decide on fast fashion and gender identity in fashion as the topic for your graduation project?

Fashion is intimately tied to our human bodies and our identity. Fast fashion can been seen as an outgrowth of high fashion in its aim to accommodate a more expressive individuality. I am particularly interested in the authenticity of an individual’s sense of self, gender and sexuality through fashion. Continue reading “MA Design graduates 2016: Katherine Tse uses home resources to expose the effort behind manufacturing clothes”