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Ruby Hoette to speak at international fashion conference in Antwerp

Ruby Hoette, Programme Leader for our MA in Fashion, will be speaking this week at the Europeana Fashion International Conference:

“In collaboration with MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, Europeana Fashion hosts its third annual conference in Antwerp on 24, 25 and 26 February 2015. The conference DIGITAL FASHION FUTURES explores the future of digital fashion initiatives, bringing together a multitude of online fashion platforms and innovative perspectives from the cultural heritage industry.”

Ruby will participate in the following panel:

Skills and Competences for the Digital Fashion era

“With the advent of the digital era, the competence in fashion has been changed and not only new figures have emerged but also old figures had to reshape their practices. In this workshop/discussion, we will discuss few examples of this shift to better understand how the digital era has not only affect the way fashion is communicated but also produced, generating the emergence of new competencies.”

Chair: Lauren Downing Peters, Ph.D student at Stockhom University Centre for Fashion Studies
Panellists:
Ruby Hoette, lecturer in Design (Fashion and textiles) at Goldsmiths, University of London
Sally Ann Bolton, junior fashion editor at The Sunday Times Style magazine and Ph.D student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Jacob Kok, virtual fashion designer at Jacob Kok
Mauro Iannizzi, client director at H-Art
Karen Van Godtsenhoven, curator of exhibitions MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp

More information can be found on the Europeana Fashion website.

Alex Wilkie discusses ‘Diagrams and Play’ with Kamini Vellodi

Dr Alex Wilkie (Leader of the MPhil/PhD programme in Design at Goldsmiths) will participate in a discussion with artist, academic and writer Kamini Vellodi at Laurie Grove Baths on 4 March 2015, an event organised by Unit of Play in the Department of Sociology. The title of the discussion is “Diagrams and Play: from Schiller to Deleuze, via Beethoven”:

Deleuze’s conception of ‘diagrammatics’ implicates a radicalised notion of play. This augments Schiller’s conception of play as the harmonic synthesis of the form impulse and the sensible impulse to reconceive play as the disjunctive synthesis of the sensible.

Marsha Rosengarten will chair the talk. More information can be found on the Goldsmiths website.

“Environment, Ethics and Cultures”: new book edited by Goldsmiths Design academics

“Environment, Ethics and Cultures: Design and Technology Education’s Contribution to Sustainable Global Futures” is a new book edited by Professor Kay Stables and Steve Keirl, both members of academic staff here in the Design department at Goldsmiths.

“This collection engages environmental, ethical and cultural values perspectives to show how Design and Technology (D&T) Education actively contributes to the significant educational goal of attaining sustainable global futures.

An international collection of authors representing all levels of education articulate how D&T research, curriculum theory, policy, and classroom practices can synergise to contribute positively to the education of children for sustainable global futures. The book offers a spectrum of theorised curriculum positions, political and policy analysis, and case studies of successful school practice.”

The book is available in hardcover or paperback from Sense Publishers. The publisher’s website includes a free preview of the first two chapters.

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.