Events & Opportunities
| Posted on 17.06.2010 | Posted by CL
Department 21, Show Two at the Royal College of Art
Department 21 is a radical and challenging student-led interdisciplinary initiative established throughout the last academic year. For seven weeks at the beginning of 2010, postgraduates from all departments of the RCA were able to inhabit a temporary, physical space which acted as a truly multi-disciplinary creative hub. Here, a new kind of conceptual and social learning environment was created.
During the graduate show, as an interdepartmental group of students we will create an installation in the internal courtyard of the RCA. Here we will reactivate Department 21’s working methodology and spirit.
Consequently, within the installation and on each day of the Show, we will address a different critical theme within art, design and craft practice through a series of conversations and workshops with graduating students, alumni and external guests (see schedule below or online at www.department21.net).
We would be very happy to welcome you to one or more of these events. There is no need to book and we look forward to seeing you there.
Location of all events: Royal College of Art, Internal Courtyard, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
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Friday 25 June - .ORG: Architecture for art and design education
12.00pm .ORG is an all day multidisciplinary architecture workshop with Roberto Bottazzi and Finn Williams.
Together we will create, compile and discuss both practical and utopian ideas for the spatial reorganization of existing art and design schools.
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Saturday 26 June - EATING PRACTICE: Food in art and design
12.00pm Artists and designers discuss the significance of food in their respective practices.
The speaker include textile designer Marie Paysant-Le Roux, illustrator and post-modern food culturist Jan Lun Lee, architect Rebecca Lane, jewellers Jasleen Kaur and Therese Mørch-Jørgensen as well as ceramicist Brigit Connolly together with textile artist Anaïs Tondeur.
4.30pm Danielle Inga, design historian and food writer, and Cathrine Kramer, interaction designer, discuss food in a broader theoretical context, speculating on the future role and ideological implications of design in the production of food
All day, post-modern British-Asian food by Jan Lun Lee & Bart Marett.
All day, Chai Tea by Jasleen Kaur & Ian McIntyre.
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Sunday 27 June - CHALK AND TALK: Modes of teaching and knowledge distribution
12.00pm Six independent, bottom-up educational initiatives share their experiences of experimenting with different systems of teaching, radically reassessing accepted modes of knowledge distribution.
Guests include Critical Practice, FLAG, Interdisciplinary Critical Forum, Parallelschool, Thinking & Practice Group and Department 21.
Followed by a workshop aiming to compile a manual of good practice for future initiatives exploring horizontal, transparent educational models within institutions.
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Monday 28 June – FILLING IN THE BLANKS: Amateurism by numbers
12.00pm PhD student Stephen Knott and artist Jeff McMillan lead a paint-by-numbers workshop introducing participants to the various manifestations of amateur practice today
3.00pm Glenn Adamson presents a talk on De-skilling in amateur art, craft and design practice.
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Tuesday 29 June - SEVEN CENTURIES IN HALF A MILLION WORDS: Current ideas in design history
12.00pm MA History of Design graduates present their dissertations for discussion. Their research ranges from the decorative arts of India and Japan to digital design in the contemporary museum. This new generation of design historians are expanding the subject beyond its conventional themes and geographies, pointing to new ideas and changing themes in culture.
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Wednesday 30 June - STAYING ALIVE: Collaboration for survival
12.00 pm Barbara Stevini will reveal the inner mechanics, debates and decisions that drove the Artist Placement Group, founded in 1966
4.30pm Animator Callum Cooper, painter Sarah Douglas from Exhibit K, Sam Potts from the Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA) and Simon Elvins, Julie Hill & Tom Mower from St. Pierre & Miquelon discuss how collaboration and networking keeps them on track
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Thursday 1 July - DOCTORS IN CHARGE? Research students take over
12:00 PhD student and mother Jessica Jenkins hosts SMALL, a session dedicated to thinking creatively about how children, design and research can meet successfully. With guests Heather Peak and Jaspar Joffe.
2.30pm Dialogues in Design, a team of research students from the History of Design Department, will lead Guerilla Crits: interdisciplinary student-led conversations with practitioners about their work
Starts at the D21 space and continues in the galleries.
- - -
Saturday 3 July - FINESSING THE FINITE: Sustainability in art and design
12.00pm Sophie Thomas of Thomas Matthews communication design company discusses how she addresses sustainability in her graphic design practice.
- - -
Sunday 4 July - CULTURES OF RESISTANCE: Commodification of cultural production
12.00pm Ruth Potts from ‘the new economics foundation’, theorist and designer Adriana Eysler, the Carrot Workers Collective, product designer David Hood and colour artist Seainin Passi reevaluate the value of labour and discuss cultures of resistance.
During the graduate show, as an interdepartmental group of students we will create an installation in the internal courtyard of the RCA. Here we will reactivate Department 21’s working methodology and spirit.
Consequently, within the installation and on each day of the Show, we will address a different critical theme within art, design and craft practice through a series of conversations and workshops with graduating students, alumni and external guests (see schedule below or online at www.department21.net).
We would be very happy to welcome you to one or more of these events. There is no need to book and we look forward to seeing you there.
Location of all events: Royal College of Art, Internal Courtyard, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
- - -
Friday 25 June - .ORG: Architecture for art and design education
12.00pm .ORG is an all day multidisciplinary architecture workshop with Roberto Bottazzi and Finn Williams.
Together we will create, compile and discuss both practical and utopian ideas for the spatial reorganization of existing art and design schools.
- - -
Saturday 26 June - EATING PRACTICE: Food in art and design
12.00pm Artists and designers discuss the significance of food in their respective practices.
The speaker include textile designer Marie Paysant-Le Roux, illustrator and post-modern food culturist Jan Lun Lee, architect Rebecca Lane, jewellers Jasleen Kaur and Therese Mørch-Jørgensen as well as ceramicist Brigit Connolly together with textile artist Anaïs Tondeur.
4.30pm Danielle Inga, design historian and food writer, and Cathrine Kramer, interaction designer, discuss food in a broader theoretical context, speculating on the future role and ideological implications of design in the production of food
All day, post-modern British-Asian food by Jan Lun Lee & Bart Marett.
All day, Chai Tea by Jasleen Kaur & Ian McIntyre.
- - -
Sunday 27 June - CHALK AND TALK: Modes of teaching and knowledge distribution
12.00pm Six independent, bottom-up educational initiatives share their experiences of experimenting with different systems of teaching, radically reassessing accepted modes of knowledge distribution.
Guests include Critical Practice, FLAG, Interdisciplinary Critical Forum, Parallelschool, Thinking & Practice Group and Department 21.
Followed by a workshop aiming to compile a manual of good practice for future initiatives exploring horizontal, transparent educational models within institutions.
- - -
Monday 28 June – FILLING IN THE BLANKS: Amateurism by numbers
12.00pm PhD student Stephen Knott and artist Jeff McMillan lead a paint-by-numbers workshop introducing participants to the various manifestations of amateur practice today
3.00pm Glenn Adamson presents a talk on De-skilling in amateur art, craft and design practice.
- - -
Tuesday 29 June - SEVEN CENTURIES IN HALF A MILLION WORDS: Current ideas in design history
12.00pm MA History of Design graduates present their dissertations for discussion. Their research ranges from the decorative arts of India and Japan to digital design in the contemporary museum. This new generation of design historians are expanding the subject beyond its conventional themes and geographies, pointing to new ideas and changing themes in culture.
- - -
Wednesday 30 June - STAYING ALIVE: Collaboration for survival
12.00 pm Barbara Stevini will reveal the inner mechanics, debates and decisions that drove the Artist Placement Group, founded in 1966
4.30pm Animator Callum Cooper, painter Sarah Douglas from Exhibit K, Sam Potts from the Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA) and Simon Elvins, Julie Hill & Tom Mower from St. Pierre & Miquelon discuss how collaboration and networking keeps them on track
- - -
Thursday 1 July - DOCTORS IN CHARGE? Research students take over
12:00 PhD student and mother Jessica Jenkins hosts SMALL, a session dedicated to thinking creatively about how children, design and research can meet successfully. With guests Heather Peak and Jaspar Joffe.
2.30pm Dialogues in Design, a team of research students from the History of Design Department, will lead Guerilla Crits: interdisciplinary student-led conversations with practitioners about their work
Starts at the D21 space and continues in the galleries.
- - -
Saturday 3 July - FINESSING THE FINITE: Sustainability in art and design
12.00pm Sophie Thomas of Thomas Matthews communication design company discusses how she addresses sustainability in her graphic design practice.
- - -
Sunday 4 July - CULTURES OF RESISTANCE: Commodification of cultural production
12.00pm Ruth Potts from ‘the new economics foundation’, theorist and designer Adriana Eysler, the Carrot Workers Collective, product designer David Hood and colour artist Seainin Passi reevaluate the value of labour and discuss cultures of resistance.
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