On Thursday, May 21st 2015, the Interaction Research Studio is launching a book as well as screening a film about their new project, Datacatcher. The event will take place starting 6 30 pm in the Goldsmiths Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building.
Category: Research
PhD by Design satellite session in Leeds
The PhD by Design conference that took place at Goldsmiths in November 2014 raised many interesting questions that deserved a follow-up, so the team behind the Goldsmiths event is now organising a satellite session at Leeds College of Art, on May 14th:
“Through this study day, we want to make space for tentative yet innovative ideas rather than gathering around polished knowledge and methods of dissemination. Everyone attending will also be presenting and contribute to create a supportive environment for discussion and exploration.
Some of the questions we aim to tackle are:
• Who is the audience for practice-based design research? And how can we reach it?
• What ways of disseminating reflect the inventive ways in which practice-based research is done?
• How to write up research with non-academic collaborators?
• How to push the boundaries of what counts as research and valuable dissemination?
• How to mediate that which is not linguistic in practice-based research?
As an outcome of the day, all the participants will contribute to creating an instant journal. So that at the end of the day, everyone goes home with a record of the knowledge, ideas and proposals generated during the workshop day.”
If you want to participate in the event with a presentation, the application deadline is 16 April 2015. More information can be found on the PhD by Design website.
Fashion Research Unit to launch at Goldsmiths
A new research unit focusing on fashion will be launched at Goldsmiths, as a collaboration between the departments of Design, Media and Communications, Visual Culture, Sociology, ICCE, IMS, Computing and Art, and following the success of the Design Department’s new MA in Fashion. For its first two years, the Fashion Research Unit will be based in the Department of Media and Communications, with Prof Angela McRobbie as Director.
The inaugural event organised by the new unit will be an afternoon seminar, “Critical Perspectives on Fashion Research and Methodology”, on February 18th, starting 2 pm. Entry to the event is free (email Katie Hindle, cop02kh[@]gold.ac.uk, to RSVP) – you can find a full list of speakers on the Goldsmiths website.
Deadline for Design Star studentships is approaching
We are now only a month away from the deadline for applications to the Design Star PhD studentships (27 February 2015), so if you are planning to apply, be sure you don’t miss it!
The Design Star consortium is making available 12 PhD studentships in its member universities (Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Brighton; Loughbourough University; the Open University; University of Reading). Click here to read the guidelines for making an MPhil/PhD application with us. And if you need more information, don’t hesitate to inquire with Dr Alex Wilkie, Director of the Doctoral Programme in Design here at Goldsmiths (a.wilkie[at]gold.ac.uk).
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