Event overview
Led by Rose Lejeune, Tom Clark, Bahar Noorizadeh, with invited guest Liam Healy
GS CCA is a complex thing. It can be viewed as many things. Firstly, it increases the visibility of the university brand, embedding Goldsmiths reputation by providing a different public space. Secondly, as a new and key element of the overall infrastructural offer, it becomes a visible and public asset of the university. Along with the Curzon cinema and George Wood theatre, it is considered as part of a cultural hub also able to serve the wider/local community. The cultural hub contributes to the university’s response to the Mayor Of London’s “Culture for All Londoners” strategy, and forms part of Goldsmiths’ commitment as a charity to engage with its community. In this it can also be said to indicate a broader need for universities to have an impact on wider society. However, can these functions be understood and perhaps mobilised separately to the gallery as consolidated object, a place to display art?
Through a ‘reverse design brief’ workshop, we propose to develop new frameworks of analysis that go beyond the singular institutional blueprint, to consider the infrastructural notions of policy and economic conditions. Working backwards from an existing object to its potential founding aims we want to explore its structural and methodological generalities and particularities, seeing if these might be used towards different ends. This we hope might offer a new route to thinking about an object like GS CCA as more than just a site that repeats condensed or crystallised relations that already exist, and as having a role in challenging or changing these.
Concretely, the workshop will explore GS CCA around three themes: economic, cultural, and pedagogical. We will work with the Art Mphil/PhD cohort and invited guests to get from a solution (the gallery itself) to a set of descriptive problems, dynamics, or functions by which to diagram the gallery and from which to build at a later date.
The workshop is designed and lead with Liam Healy. Liam has been teaching at Goldsmiths since 2013. He is currently an associate lecturer and tutor in studio practice on the BA Design and convenes the BA1 Methods and Processes course. He is a component in the disparate, collaborative collective 'Design Unlikely Futures': http://duf.space/; and is currently completing his PhD by practice with the working title of: 'Empirical Speculation and Urban Disasters: Prototyping Futures in The Jungle’ funded by AHRC Design Star scheme.
Suggested in preparation for seminar:
Keller Easterling, "Medium Design" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7RhIK9OIAE&index=2&t=0s&list=PLA73PHr2LCddbA5fYWu2O8xjw2I41hU3-
Benjamin Bratton, "On Speculative Design" http://dismagazine.com/discussion/81971/on-speculative-design-benjamin-h-bratton/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Feb 2019 | 10:00am - 1:00pm |
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