Tag: BA Design

Goldsmiths Design career talks: Kirsty Minns, The Future Laboratory

In January, the Design Department at Goldsmiths welcomed back a few of its graduates for a series of talks on career paths post-graduation. One of the speakers was Kirsty Minns, currently a Creative Director for The Future Laboratory.

Kirsty, who first came to Goldsmiths ten years ago, did not have in mind a clear trajectory from the beginning: “The third year on the course was a reality check: I need to earn money from being a designer, how am I actually going to do this?” She reminisced about learning to make ceramics for her graduation project: “I spent a lot of time in a small hut at the back of the Lockwood Building, trying to learn a process that normally takes years to learn.

And I think that was what really exciting about Goldsmiths, it gives you these opportunities where you have to be quite proactive in learning new skills, and the support of the tutors was phenomenal.” Continue reading “Goldsmiths Design career talks: Kirsty Minns, The Future Laboratory”

“Known Unknowns”: the 2016 Undergraduate show

We now have a name for this year’s Undergraduate Degree show: “Known Unknowns”!

We assemble independent investigations connected under one theme: the lack of understanding inherent to expanding knowledge, which we see in our own practice and within broader design discourse.

The show will open for private view on the evening of June 16; members of the public will be welcomed from June 17 to June 20. More information will be available soon.

Goldsmiths Design student Lena Asai featured in article on biohacking

BBC Focus Magazine published an article on biohacking in its December 2015 issue, which mentioned Goldsmiths Design student Lena Asai:

London’s Biohackspace currently has about 20 regular members from various backgrounds, ranging from artists to engineers. Most have no scientific training. Lena Asai, a design student at Goldsmiths, University of London, got interested after seeing biology-inspired art at a museum in her native Japan, where a scientist suggested she find a community lab. That led her to Biohackspace.

“They didn’t know what to do with me in the beginning,” explains Asai. “The first thing I said was, ‘I want to play around with DNA and stuff’. Obviously I didn’t know anything back then!” She has since attended a bootcamp at University College London (UCL) to learn basic genetic modification techniques. Her goal is to bring scientists and artists together. “We’re not doing science just for fun,” she says. “A communal lab is a great place where we should initiate collaboration.”

Read the whole article on Science Focus