Category: Postgraduate

Interaction Design students presented their work placement experiences

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On Friday, students from the MA in Interaction Design course held presentations describing their experiences on work placements they undertook for the ‘Researching and Designing in the Field’ module.

The organisations where students worked were varied, ranging from charities to universities, to private sector companies and small start-ups, or even as near as near as Goldsmiths’ own Interaction Research Studio. The roles that students filled during their internships were varied as well, and included research, prototyping robots, developing apps, graphic design, service design, and administrative duties.

The questions and issues that arose from these experiences proved to be complex: tackling the limitations and frustrations of the working environment you are entering, conflicts between designing with business in mind and designing for the user, defining what it means to work for making the world a better place were just some of the points that came up in the feedback received by the students from co-programme leader Tobie Kerridge.

Unlike other postgraduate students at Goldsmiths Design, whose graduation show took place during the Goldsmiths Design Festival last month, Interaction Design students will finish their course at the end of the year, so be prepared to hear more about them soon. They are also keeping a blog which you should follow if you want to be up to date with news on their work.

Metadesign workshops with Goldsmiths Design students at the Unusual Suspects Festival

Meaghan McClure, Bruno Patias Volpi and Marie Elvik Hagen have just finished their MA course in Design Futures and Metadesign here at Goldsmiths, and next week they’ll be representing the University at the Unusual Suspects Festival in Glasgow, a three-day event exploring social innovation.

The Goldsmiths group will facilitate two sessions on design, collaboration and change agency, both on Thursday, October 8th (10-12 am and 2-4 pm): “The workshop will present several Metadesign tools and promote the development of re-directive propositions for local change, and open a dialogue between academics, community groups, policy makers and businesses about designing the futures we want to see”.

Tickets to the workshops are free, so don’t miss it if you’re in Glasgow next week!

 

 

Goldsmiths Design Festival wrap-up

We’ve already talked about some of the highlights from our Goldsmiths Design Festival (3-9 September), but the festival weekend was full of great events from which it was hard to pick where to go first.

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One of the most exciting events taking place was the Draw to Perform symposium, curated by artist Ram Samocha, which brought to Goldsmiths a line-up of daring, unique performance art sessions involving, amongst other things, a glue gun, milk and nudity. Continue reading “Goldsmiths Design Festival wrap-up”

Drone workshop with Jon Flint at Goldsmiths Design Festival

As part of our first ever Goldsmiths Design Festival (3-9 September 2015), our students had the chance to learn how to build a drone themselves, and we had just the right person to guide them. Jon Flint, who led the Drone workshop, is a graduate of our MA in Interaction Design and he currently works with Superflux, of Drone Aviary fame.

The participating students spent the day learning the principles of drone flight and then built their own prototypes under Jon’s supervision. At the end of the workshop, it was time to test the results! It was a sunny, bright evening which allowed the workshop team to take their creations outside on the College Green and see them take flight.

More photos from the workshop can be found on our Facebook page.