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Opening Lecture at Goldsmiths Design Festival: Maarten Gielen of ROTOR

In case you still weren’t convinced that our upcoming Goldsmiths Design Festival will be unmissable, we are proud to announce that we will open with a lecture from designer and researcher Maarten Gielen, founding member of Rotor collective, on 3 September at 7 pm. The lecture will take place in room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building, and it is free to attend: just book your place on the Goldsmiths website.

Rotor is “a group of architects, designers and other professionals interested in material flows in industry and construction, particularly in relation to resources, waste, use and reuse. Rotor disseminates creative strategies for salvage and waste reduction through workshops, publications and exhibitions.” It began in 2005 in Belgium, and in 2010 they represented their country at the 2010 Architecture Biennale in Venice. Amongst their many achievements, they curated ‘Ex Limbo’ for the Prada Foundation in Milan, investigating the architectural and scenographic elements of Prada and OMA fashion shows, as well ‘Behind the Green Door’, an exhibition on the challenges facing sustainable architecture, at the 2013 Oslo Architecture Triennale. Last year, they created a separate spin-off identity called Rotor Deconstruction, which specialises in the dismantling of large-scale office interiors. Take your time going through their website to find out more about Rotor’s many other groundbreaking projects.

Rotor work @ Bomel - Picture by Jean Franc╠ºois Flamey - JeanFrancoisFlamey_31102014_4083 — Rotor work: ‘Abbatoirs de Bomel’

From 3rd – 9th September Goldsmiths’ Department of Design opens its doors to the public for a week of free events bringing together some of the most significant names in the design industry and showcasing the incredible work of its staff and students.

MA.DE GOLD- 2015 Postgraduate Design show at the Goldsmiths Design Festival

This year, the Postgraduate Design show is called MA.DE GOLD and will take place as part of our Goldsmiths Design Festival, a week of free events bringing together some of the most significant names in the design industry and showcasing the incredible work of Goldsmiths Design staff and students:

walloffame — The MA students’ wall of fame, at the beginning of the previous academic year

We warmly invite you to MA.DE GOLD – The 2015 MA Design show, part part of the Goldsmiths Design Festival. MA students from Design Futures & Metadesign, Critical Practice, Design & Environment, Fashion, Interaction Design, Design Education and Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship will be showcasing work that responds to themes like gender, technology and activism.

The exhibition will run from Thursday the 3rd to Wednesday the 9th of September on the Goldsmiths campus, with an opening party on the first day. MA Fashion work will be exhibited in the Whitehead Building, while work from other courses will be found in the Stuart Hall Building and the Lockwood Annexe Studios.

To find out more about MA.DE GOLD, follow them on Twitter and Instagram, and don’t forget to check out their website, too.

MAKING DRONES workshop for Goldsmiths Design students

drone

As part of our upcoming Goldsmiths Design Festival, our Design students are invited to take part in a free workshop on making drones with recent MA Interaction Design graduate Jon Flint. The workshop will be an all-day event on 5 September, taking place in the Postgraduate Design Studios at Goldsmiths, and it will provide an introduction to drone technology and principles of flight, followed by practical prototyping with working electronics.

Why drones? Because we need to think and speculate about our life with them as they become less controversial. What will their possible uses be? What will their users be like? The workshop will try to encompass who these future users might be and what they might use a mini drone for.

Having worked on the Drone Aviary project by Superflux, Jon Flint is just the right person to teach you about drones! If you want to know more about his work and approach to design, have a look at our previous interviews with Jon on his graduation project and his return to the Goldsmiths Design workshops as part of our graduate program.

Design Festival coming up at Goldsmiths in September

We hope you’re enjoying your summer break, but you certainly have something to look forward to, once autumn comes- in September, you are invited to Goldsmiths’ very first Design Festival. There will be lectures, workshops, exhibitions, music and more, from staff, alumni and special guests.

More information and a full program will be available soon; in the meantime, save the week starting September 3rd in your calendar for Design at Goldsmiths!