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Goldsmiths Design Festival talks and workshops

Paulina Klapetek at the 2015 Goldsmiths Design Festival

More and more exciting events are being added to the programme of the Goldsmiths Design Festival, opening later this week. All of the following talks and workshops are free to attend:

MA Design and Innovation student Sanchit Kedia is organising two festival events as part of his graduation project “Firefly”. On Thursday, 15 September, a materials workshop focused on DuPont Corian and its creative applications will take place between 2-5 pm, while on Friday, 16 September, Divij Jhamb of TRL will hold a talk on “Driving Consumer Innovation through Co-Creation” at 2 pm.
Another Friday event (starting 3.30 pm) features guest speaker Cat Drew of Policy Lab in a talk about bringing new policy tools and techniques to the UK Government using design.
Ar 4.30 pm, a lecture with Goldsmiths Design’s Tobie Kerridge will take an emergent project as a case study for discussing how interests can shape a framework for practice based design research.
Friday evening will end with “Untangling Stories”, an experimental performance with MA Design and Environment student Paulina Klapetek, followed by a Q&A.
Finally, on Sunday, 18 September, come hear Jimmy Loizeau and Liam Healy talk about “Design Unlikely Futures“, a project that emerged from volunteering at the Calais refugee camp.

We’re also happy to announce the second confirmed speaker at the Alumni Reunion evening (16 September, 6.30 pm): Chasity Johnson, an MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship graduate, will present Haute Ecology, an online ethical apparel company “for those who want to look fly without destroying the planet”.

Goldsmiths Design Festival news: Fashions and Embodiment workshop, Alumni evening

Only ten days remain until the start of this year’s Goldsmiths Design Festival (15-18 September), when the department opens its doors for a series of free design events, including the 2016 Postgraduate show!

The Masters students’ final exhibition will be open on 16-18 September, after an industry and press private view which takes place on the evening of September 15th. For a peek at the graduation projects, have a look at the Festival website, where students are uploading information and images on their work, tackling a variety of topics from diagnosing eating disorders amongst Chinese youth to crowding on the Underground and cat cafes.

But the festival includes other events as well. All day on 15 September, artists Celia Pym and Emma Hoette will be facilitating a Fashions and Embodiment workshop, initiated in collaboration with the Goldsmiths Fashion Research Unit and the MA Fashion Programme, and supported by Goldsmiths Annual Fund. The workshop will explore the relationship between fashion and movement through the acts of wearing and repairing; all participants must bring with them at least one garment that requires mending.

On the evening of 16 September, the Design department and the Development and Alumni Office at Goldsmiths will host a Design alumni evening reception. The first confirmed Design alumnus to be a speaker at the event is Nicholas O’Donnell-Hoare (MA Design: Critical Practice 2010), currently Head of Design and UX at Pi ltd, and a PhD student at the University of Dundee where he is researching Disruptive technologies and Design for Sustainability. (This is a good time to re-read an old interview with Nicholas on the Design blog).

Goldsmiths Design Festival returns in 2016

Last year, the Design Department at Goldsmiths opened its doors for its first ever Design Festival, a week of free events, including the 2015 MA show, as well as special guests, exhibitions, workshops and exciting performances. We’ve had drone-building, glue guns, nudity, poetry readings and many other exciting ingredients for a great festival.

We’re glad to announce that our Design festival will return in 2016 as part of the London Design Festival. Graduation projects from the MA class of 2016 will be there, as well as additional special events, amongst them a fashion workshop and an Alumni evening and reception. All events will take place in the St James Hatcham gallery in New Cross (15-18 September), with a private view opening on the evening of 15 September.

More information and highlights from the programme will be available soon. Until then, refresh your memory by revisiting last year’s highlights!

Goldsmiths graduate exhibited work at Milan Design Week

Last week was Milan Design Week, and we were happy to hear about one of our own alumni exhibiting there. Chuly Lee, who graduated from the MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (Design pathway) at Goldsmiths in 2012, was part of the ARTS THREAD x Designersblock 2016 showcase in Milan.

Here is what Chuly told us about this experience:

“As a Goldsmiths graduate, I am very proud of having a show during Milan Design Week 2016. Four years ago, when I was doing my MA at the College, I’ve been here to look around exhibitions as a study tour with other MA in Design students. This space reminds me of those old memories.

I think this experience is very much worth it for me, to accelerate what I am doing. It is definitely essential to have an exhibition, as a person who designs and makes things all day in the studio, because it is needed to know how my work communicates with the public, and to realise what my work makes people feel: satisfied or unsatisfied, and so on. So I believe it is very important for current design students to both visit and have this kind of shows and fairs, as many as they can, before graduation. Therefore, they can naturally get to know how this industry goes and how they will deal with their stuff in the future.

I am currently working on ceramic objects and porcelain jewellery. At this show, I’ve been meeting many people visiting from around the world. They gave me feedback that I even didn’t think about, and some of it is very positive, which makes me feel cheered up to do my business.”

(Images courtesy of Chuly Lee)