We are very pleased to welcome åyr to the MAGMD Guest Practitioner Series 2017 on Monday 13 Feb, 4.30-5.30pm, D209

åyr will lead a one-hour workshop during which participants will have to set up and design a fictional page to advertise their real homes on a home sharing website.

åyr (formerly AIRBNB Pavilion) is an art collective based in London whose work focuses on contemporary forms of domesticity. Founded by Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava, Luis Ortega Govela and Octave Perrault, the collective was first formed on the occasion of an exhibition during the opening days of the XIV Architecture Biennale in Venice, which took place in apartments rented on Airbnb. It changed its name to åyr in 2015 following legal pressure. åyr tackles the evolution of the contemporary home and its transformations from the fortress of the family to a commodity traded online with performances, site-specific installations, events and writing. Its work focuses on the relationship between objects and their environments, and the effects of the internet on the city.

Recent exhibitions include the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Home Economics at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice and Home Visit at Museum Ludwig and Interior Therapy at Queer Thoughts Gallery in New York.

We are very pleased to welcome Bryony Quinn, to the MAGMD Guest Practitioner Series 2017 on Monday 06 Feb, 4.30-5.30pm, D209. Bryony, a writer, editor and lecturer based in the UK, will present a performance lecture from her project, The Oblique:

The Oblique is a written research project devoted to diagonals: from metaphorical slants that suggest digression and a departure from perpendicular thinking, to the literal and spatial slopes that divide the world around us. Taken from a chapter titled ‘Slippage’ that includes references to design, art, literature and architecture, this presentation will explore the conceptual cross-overs between seemingly disparate subjects via a series of definitions of inclination on the eye, body and mind.

Bio:
Bryony Quinn is a writer, editor and lecturer. She holds a MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Illustration from Camberwell College of Arts. During her time at the RCA she edited issue 18 of ARC, the student-led journal, co-organised a conference on the life and work of John Berger, art-directed the book ALBETOPOLIS COMPANION and received the annual critical writing prize for her final project on OBLIQUITY. She has contributed to various art and culture magazines, is a former assistant editor at It’s Nice That and is the current UK events organiser for Cabinet Magazine.

The Design School, LCC are excited to welcome James Langdon to present Primitive Grids –  Tue 31 Jan, 5.30pm, Lecture Theatre A

James Langdon has carved out a unique practice that fully integrates his design, editorial, and curatorial pursuits. As one of six directors of Eastside Projects—an artist-run exhibition space dedicated to promoting cultural growth in its home town of Birmingham, England—Langdon designs and edits many of the organization’s publications and is responsible for creating a series of experimental manuals that explore its mission through ideas as varied as urban renewal, adhocism, and public engagement. In 2013, Langdon founded the itinerant School for Design Fiction, working with students to investigate the storytelling inherent in the design process, the emotions embedded within an artifact, and the benefits of living in speculative worlds.

As a curator, Langdon organized Arefin & Arefin: The Graphic Design of Tony Arefin, an exhibition celebrating the overlooked but highly influential British graphic designer; Book Show, exploring the form of the book; and a restaging of Norman Potter’s In:quest of Icarus at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Langdon has been guest lecturer at schools around the world, including Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), and Konstfack (Stockholm). He is the recipient of the 2012 Inform International Award for Conceptual Design, presented by Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Germany.

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We are very pleased to welcome Traven T.Croves, comprised of Matthew Stuart & Andrew Lister, to the MAGMD Guest Practitioner Series 2017 on Monday 30 Jan, 4.30-5.30pm, D209. Matthew will discuss their publication, Bricks from the Kiln.

In their own words:

For us, ‘Bricks from the Kiln’ implies something in flux and liable to crack. A piece of a larger structure. A part of a sum. Fittingly, many of the bricks included here stem from larger bodies of work and ongoing research. Some are chapters lifted from forthcoming books, or investigations begun but forced aside. Others are unrecorded talks, or previously unpublished autonomous editions in their own right. In preparing BFTK#1 we were keen not to arbitrarily hang the issue on an overarching theme before the fact, but rather to adopt a more responsive approach, allowing connections to develop organically through both the editorial and design processes.

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We are very pleased to welcome MAGD alumni Marwan Kaabour to the MAGMD Guest Practitioner Series 2017 on Monday 23 Jan, 4.30-5.30pm, D209.

Marwan Kaabour is a Beirut-born, London-based graphic designer. He graduated from the American University go Beirut in 2009 and later received a Master’s degree from the London College of Communication in 2011.

Kaabour’s experiences comes from working across a variety of design disciplines and a broad range of sectors, ranging from publication and book design, exhibition design, brand identities, teaching and workshops. He has worked independently as well as part of design studios in Beirut (Mind the gap) and London (Barnbrook).

His approach to projects is informed and supported by research and critical analysis of the project’s particularities, with the aim of creating a bespoke, appropriate and exciting response.

He is currently a designer at Barnbrook, one of the UK’s most celebrated and highly regarded design studios. His clients include Art Basel, Victoria & Albert Museum, Thames & Hudson, South London Gallery, Serpentine Galleries and Somerset House.

We are very pleased to welcome The Demystification Committee, chaired by Oliver Smith & Francesco Tacchini to launch the MAGMD Guest Practitioner Series 2017 on Monday 16 Jan, 4.30-5.30pm, D209. The series this year sets out to discuss the role of criticality within and across contemporary design practices.

The Demystification Committee is a collaborative framework set up to investigate the globalised, extra-state, covert systems and large-scale networks, processes and technologies that shape our society.

Through artistic intervention, custom-made tools and machines, public engagement and experimentation, the Demystification Committee investigates clashing technological and societal trajectories.

Going beyond the use of specific techniques, tools or technologies, the Demystification Committee experiments with alternative narratives to the dominant myths surrounding technology and society.

Private View: Tuesday 6 December 6-9pm

We are very pleased to invite you to the Postgraduate Shows 2016. The MA Graphic Media Design course will present a selection of our graduate work in the Upper Street Gallery. This year’s show will include responses to a range of timely subjects from fields as varied as literature, politics and architecture through the practices of editorial design, installation, performance, film-making, generative type design and many others.

Show runs from 5-10 December
Opening hours:

• 11am-7pm Monday-Friday
• 11am-4pm Saturday-Sunday

RSVP to the Private View