We are very pleased to welcome Ruben Pater to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 19 April, 4.30-5.30pm, Lecture Theatre B.

Untold Stories

While working for commercial design studios, graphic designer Ruben Pater experienced first-hand how ethical behavior is lacking in the design practice. He noticed how any attempt to renew or change this behaviour is automatically subdued to supply the needs of advertising. After a masters degree he started his own graphic design practice three years ago to try and build a more responsible practice.

Under the name Untold Stories, his aim is to work on the intersection between journalism, design, design criticism, and activism. Through his work, he is looking for methods to practice design in ways that does not exploit labor, simplify complex issues, or merely reproduces ideologies of the status quo. This led to the book ‘The Politics of Design’ (BIS, 2016) which addresses the blind spots of Western design education standards. In this session he will reflect on the impact and ethics of his work.

Something or Other 2017

We are very proud to present and host With a shift simultaneous realities collide at the invitation of the Graphic Design Educators’ Network. This half-day event will focus on the role of writing in/across/through design education and practice with guests – Bryony Quinn, James Langdon and Professor John Wood. Current MAGMD participants will lead a series of provocation sessions exploring notions of visibility within writing. A curated selection of artefacts from the Special Collections and Archives at LCC will be on display, alongside journals from the Writing-PAD archive. A special screening of No Exit – a graphic design opera from the Design Displacement Group – will also take place.

Wednesday 29th March 2017
2 – 5pm (registration from 1pm)
London College of Communication

Bookings and further information at this link.

Image: Aldo Caprini, MAGMD Full-time 2016-17

We are very pleased to welcome Conway and Young to the MAGMD Guest Practitioner Series 2017 on Monday 06 March, 4.30-5.30pm, D209.Conway and Young will present a workshop entitled Conditions of Possibility – Research and Action

Conway and Young are graphic designers and lecturers with a long-term interest in the relationship between people, environment and learning. They use design to rethink the social, political and environmental.

Taking both a discursive and material approach to the subject they are concerned with design’s critical and social potential to generate debate, interaction and exchange between people and communities. Projects often involve formal and informal collaborations with others.

Conway and Young have an experimental integrated design and pedagogic practice and have produced a range of projects for galleries and public settings across the UK for the last ten years. These include: ‘Exploding the University Summer School’, a critical design school in rural Wales; ‘The Floating’, a temporary publishing project on land and water for Bristol Biennial 2016; ‘See You Next Tuesday’, an irregular feminist adventure club. They are currently designing a performance and sculptural work for a primary school, commissioned by Bristol City Council.

They have a studio at Spike Island Bristol and both lecture on undergraduate and graduate design courses at Bristol UWE.

@CONWAYandYOUNG
conwayandyoung.com
explodingtheuniversity.com
thefloating.co.uk

Join Lorna Allan (MAGD 2016) at the upcoming Hidden Women of Design Social – an open forum on collaboration, self-promotion and balance/time at the Peckham Pelican on March 14th at 7.00pm. Everybody Welcome!

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/294941654254158/