Goldsmiths are piloting an MA in Innovation.
This hasn’t even been approved yet and I already want to beg them to sign me up.
From the prospectus:
“This programme is a collaboration between you, your place of work, and us here at Goldsmiths. The MA enables you to bring an academic perspective to an ‘innovation project’ identified in [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 23, 2009
Innovation Project*
October 21, 2009
Disparity
Sometimes we just want to buy things. And leave.
Case in point: the disparity between John Lewis opening a big shop in Cardiff and the new Dixons.co.uk ad campaign on the Underground. This pretty much summarises online vs in store retail for me. The ‘John Lewis shopping experience’ and branding carnival against self informed, swift transactions [...]
October 18, 2009
A certain thinker
“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would [...]
October 17, 2009
Design thinking
I cannot stop thinking about this.
‘Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.”
October 13, 2009
Poem cup
Working around the clock, cell phones in the middle of the night, googling this and that. How do we reconcile our physical needs with our virtual bodies? Katarina Häll’s graduation project is a comment on a world spinning faster and faster. The Poem cup offers a moment of reflection, a meditative break in the rush [...]
October 9, 2009
Talking about books #2
I have a troubled relationship with Germaine Greer. Sometimes I like her, sometimes I don’t.
When she reviews Stephen Bayley on Woman as Design, I like her very much. Especially for this quote:
“By having fig leaves painted over the genitalia of Adam and Eve, they [the Council of Trent] made them occult and mysterious. Bayley doesn’t [...]
October 8, 2009
Litho positive
Digital printing does a lot of things. It’s faster, customizable and generates less waste. It fits with our infinite choice/finite time mode of media consumption.
I know all that. But this abandoned printing press still gives me pangs for ink and heavy machinery.
image via mallix
