Thursday, March 19th was an Open Postgraduate Evening here at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Design department had plenty to offer to visitors.
“Thinking Threads”, an exhibition of MA Fashion student work, opened in the Constance Howard Gallery. (You can see more photos from the event here). The exhibition will still be on until 17 April.
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9 March – 17 April 2015
Private view: 19 March, from 4 to 7pm
The Constance Howard Gallery and the Goldsmiths MA Fashion programme are pleased to invite you to the opening of Thinking Threads, featuring new student works alongside archival pieces from the Goldsmiths Textiles Collection.
Using objects from the collection as a jumping off point, the pieces in Thinking Threads illustrate the diverse and far-reaching research processes and outcomes achieved. Each project critiques, deconstructs and challenges the intersecting paradigms of fashion, identity, sustainability and materiality. The material and theoretical inquiries conducted through the works on display have unfolded into a multitude of different media, including garments, textiles, printed matter, photography, and moving images: embodying physical threads, digital threads and threads on our backs. Viewers are invited to tease out the social, cultural and material threads running throughout this visually rich and engaging exhibition.
MA Fashion is a unique programme which explores the social and cultural context of fashion through both theory and practice. It enables students to combine research, debate and ethics with making to cultivate new and inclusive ways of thinking, doing and being fashion. Through collaboration and experimentation students develop critical perspectives on the prevailing fashion system and an understanding of how to activate this knowledge in various professions across the creative industries.
Constance Howard Gallery
Goldsmiths, University of London
Deptford Town Hall Building
New Cross Road London
SE14 6AF
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11am-5pm
www.gold.ac.uk/textile-collection/
www.fashiongoldsmiths.com
MA Fashion would like to thank Lizzie Cannon and Jenny Doussan from the Goldsmiths Textiles Collection and Lesley Ruthven from Goldsmiths Special Collections for their kind support.
If you want to find out everything there is to know about our MA in Fashion and keep up to date to what the students and staff are up to, the programme now has a new and improved website!
Have a look and find out who’s teaching on the course, who were the first batch of graduates, and read the student blog.
Techno Possibles is an aesthetic exploration of technological objects, a collaborative project organized by Vehicles for Experimental Design research unit at Goldsmiths, together with the MA in Design: Critical Practice course at Goldsmiths and the MA in Fashion at UCA.
The session was led by Roberto Feo, Ulrich Lehman, Laura Potter and Vinny Montag.
You can see more pictures from the workshop on our Facebook page.
Goldsmiths Design Blog 