You may have heard that honeybees are in trouble and dying out at an alarming rate. But have you thought about what our world would look like if they were to disappear altogether? This is the (very real) possibility that MA Interaction Design student Tom Hoare is exploring in his graduation project, which you’ll be able to see at the upcoming MAID final show (1-4 December 2015). Continue reading “MA-ID-02 graduation show preview: Tom Hoare investigates a future without bees”
This year’s MA Interaction Design graduation show (1-4 December) is getting closer and closer, and we’re here to whet your appetite for it by offering a sneak peek at some of the student projects to be exhibited!
Today, we’re talking to Karen Barrett, whose work offers a twist on the dominant neoliberal perspective of our current times, which urges us to pursue constant happiness at all cost. “Instead I propose that misery and suffering are inevitable in the human experience and therefore should be embraced rather than shunned. My project seeks to develop alternative emotional narratives that allow for acceptance and celebration of misery”, Karen says.
How did you get the idea and what were the challenges in developing it? Continue reading “MA-ID-02 graduation show preview: Karen Barrett argues for misery as a vital part of human experience”
Since the MA in Interaction Design course is slightly lengthier than the other MAs, graduates will have the spotlight all to themselves as their 2015 graduation show, for the MAID programme only, will take place on 1-4 December in the St James’s Church building at Hatcham, New Cross. Stay tuned for more information on this year’s exciting exhibition!
(And while you’re getting ready for the 2015 show, perhaps it would be a good moment to re-read our coverage of last year’s event.)
On Friday, students from the MA in Interaction Design course held presentations describing their experiences on work placements they undertook for the ‘Researching and Designing in the Field’ module.
The organisations where students worked were varied, ranging from charities to universities, to private sector companies and small start-ups, or even as near as near as Goldsmiths’ own Interaction Research Studio. The roles that students filled during their internships were varied as well, and included research, prototyping robots, developing apps, graphic design, service design, and administrative duties.
The questions and issues that arose from these experiences proved to be complex: tackling the limitations and frustrations of the working environment you are entering, conflicts between designing with business in mind and designing for the user, defining what it means to work for making the world a better place were just some of the points that came up in the feedback received by the students from co-programme leader Tobie Kerridge.
Unlike other postgraduate students at Goldsmiths Design, whose graduation show took place during the Goldsmiths Design Festival last month, Interaction Design students will finish their course at the end of the year, so be prepared to hear more about them soon. They are also keeping a blog which you should follow if you want to be up to date with news on their work.
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