This year, the MA graduation shows took place as part of the first Goldsmiths Design Festival, between 3 and 9 September. The postgraduate shows were called MA.DE GOLD and displayed the work of students from courses in Critical Practice, Design and Environment, Design Futures and Metadesign, Interaction Design, Fashion, Design Education, as well as the Design pathway of the MA in Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship.
This year, the Postgraduate Design show is called MA.DE GOLD and will take place as part of our Goldsmiths Design Festival, a week of free events bringing together some of the most significant names in the design industry and showcasing the incredible work of Goldsmiths Design staff and students:
The MA students’ wall of fame, at the beginning of the previous academic year
We warmly invite you to MA.DE GOLD – The 2015 MA Design show, part part of the Goldsmiths Design Festival. MA students from Design Futures & Metadesign, Critical Practice, Design & Environment, Fashion, Interaction Design, Design Education and Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship will be showcasing work that responds to themes like gender, technology and activism.
The exhibition will run from Thursday the 3rd to Wednesday the 9th of September on the Goldsmiths campus, with an opening party on the first day. MA Fashion work will be exhibited in the Whitehead Building, while work from other courses will be found in the Stuart Hall Building and the Lockwood Annexe Studios.
To find out more about MA.DE GOLD, follow them on Twitter and Instagram, and don’t forget to check out their website, too.
Last Thursday, the Interaction Research Studio launched a book and a film featuring their newest project, Datacatcher. The Datacatcher “is a mobile device with a screen on one end and a large control dial set in a recess underneath. Short sentences appear on the screen every few seconds, providing facts about the surrounding area. Topics include average house prices, typical income, the number of pubs or of GP surgeries. Turning the dial one way scrolls through all the messages that have appeared on the device; turning it the other way accesses a set of poll questions that can be answered using the dial to select among alternatives.”
The Interaction Research Studio manufactured 130 prototypes of the device and distributed them to people in Greater London for up to two months. Two documentary filmmakers were hired to document the results of this experiment. If you were not present at the event last week, you can still find out how it went on the Datacatcher Vimeo channel.
The programme leader for our MA in Fashion, Ruby Hoette, will be running a workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria, this summer, as part of the Know-How/Show-How Summer School. Ruby will tutor the MODUS workshop between 6-10 July 2015 alongside Amsterdam-based artist and researcher Elisa van Joolen. The session will be “an analysis of contemporary dress codes such as that manifest themselves in the streets of Sofia”.
You can sign up until 22 May 2015 on the website of the Know-How/Show-How Summer School.The program “is meant to support the development of young emerging designers and creatives interested in working in interdisciplinary manner with international professionals, educators and experts from the european’s creative and educational community.” Tuition fee for the summer school is 200 euros, not including travel and accommodation costs.
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