Have you ever seen an inflatable cinema in a church before? This unusual setting is precisely what visitors were able to enjoy at the MULTIPLEXER launch event, last week in the St James church at Hatcham, New Cross. Short films by POI and Lukas Valiauga were projected on an inflatable installation.
The Design department at Goldsmiths and Vehicles for Experimental Practice launched Issue Zero of the book-zine MULTIPLEXER, which brings together contributions from Lucas Bertinotti & Fabio Stefanonni, JODI, Marguerite Humeau, Sarah Kember, Mark D’Inverno, Alexandra Midal, Noam Toran, Jimmy Loizeau, Michael Mouyal, Laura Potter, Stuart Bannocks, El Ultimo Grito, Charcoal, Social Mining Union, Oswald de Andrade, Naho Matsuda & Alicia Simpson. On the same occasion, a call for submissions to Issue One was opened.
Designer Rose Sinclair, who is a Lecturer in Design (Textiles) at Goldsmiths, will be involved in a ‘Textile Networks” workshop on 14 November as part of the ‘Being Human’ Festival of Humanities. Rose “will lead a discussion on Dorcas societies of the 1950–60s, which brought together Caribbean women through textiles and acted as networks for social and economic change. The untold oral stories of Dorcas society members will be told through an accompanying installation.”
The workshop will take place between 1.15 and 4 pm, at St James Hatcham Building, New Cross, and it is part of Goldsmiths’ “Radical New Cross: Protest and Dissent 1875-2015” series. Admission is free and open to all, but booking in advance will be required. More information can be found on the festival’s website.
“MULTIPLEXER is a biannual book-zine produced by Vehicles for Experimental Practice & Goldsmiths Design Department as a place where the signs describing and constructed reality _ graphics, texts, music, comics, etc_ get analysed, manipulated, compressed and collided, to generate new forms and directions; each issue activated by a password acting as common denominator and entry-point to its content. Continue reading “MULTIPLEXER journal launch”
Inventing the Social. CSISP anniversary symposium in the Orangery at Goldsmiths, organised by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, May 2014
Alex Wilkie (Senior Lecturer in Design) has recently been appointed Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) alongside Co-Directors Michael Guggenheim and Marsha Rosengarten from the Department of Sociology.
For more than ten years CSISP has been at the forefront of researching and understanding the interplay between science, technology, society and the environment. Based in the Department of Sociology, CSISP is an interdisciplinary research centre that hosts conferences, reading groups, research projects, salons, seminars, workshops, visiting researchers as well as supporting doctoral research amongst other activities. Common to all is the exploration and examination of the role of ‘invention’ – and related terms such as ‘creativity’, ‘innovation’, technology, discovery, change and novelty – in social and public life. CSISP facilitates collaboration and intervention across disciplines and practices that touch upon and create the ‘social’, including, but not limited to: design and social science, computation and sociology, issue advocacy and inventive social methods, markets and economics, biomedicine and innovation in social research, the arts and environmental science.
CSISP was founded in 2003 by Andrew Barry and was inaugurated by Bruno Latour with a lecture on the question of “how not to change vehicles” in moving from micro to macro in the social study of invention. Since then, CSISP has been directed by Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Mike Michael, Marsha Rosengarten, Noortje Marres.
The latest issue of EASST review features an overview of CSISP, which is available to download here. CSISP Online includes reflections on CSISP activities and the CSISP pages on the Goldsmiths website contain an archive of the various events the research centre has hosted over the past decade, many of which feature ongoing dialogues between design and social science.
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