Facilities
General
The Department has a wide variety of facilities to enable its students to study and produce work of the highest quality. The majority of these are housed in the Lockwood Building and its annexes. The Department has a number of seminar spaces with multimedia facilities, a series of dedicated design studios and teaching rooms. There is an extensive workshop with wood, metal and plastic specialities, and a textile studio. We are also equipped with a dark room for black and white photography. Our students have their own dedicated studio space within the Department. The students also have access to the wider college facilities including an extensive library of books, slides, sound and video. To find out more, see Goldsmiths facilities.
Computing facilities
The departmental computer facilities are based in two locations within the Lockwood building.
The Department spans a wide variety of design disciplines; our computer facilities reflect this. The first computer studio mainly comprises of Apple Macintosh for communication graphics, video, web-authoring and multimedia applications, whilst the second computer studio based adjacent to the workshops, houses PCs for computer-aided design in both two dimensional drafting and three-dimensional solid modelling. This facility links to the computer aided manufacturing facility in both the workshop and the textile studio.
Workshop
The Department workshops succeed in bridging the requirements of both the professional designer and the D&T education specialist, with wood, metal, plastics, textiles, casting and CADCAM/RP specialities. The facilities include machining workshops, fabrication spaces, foundry, casting and finishing areas, a dedicated textiles area and bench space for hand making. Electronics is also available for prototyping circuits.
The workshop facilities are maintained to the highest standards by
knowledgeable, helpful technical staff, with the student learning experience
facilitated by Workshop Tutors with diverse commercial backgrounds in design
& making, who collaborate with studio tutors and students to realise their
design or education outcomes regardless of the area of activity they are
engaged in.
Library resources