Agitate – Propagate – 68! Provocations from Radical London Organised by DARH in collaboration with LCC Library 1 – 31 May 2018 To mark the 50th anniversary of ‘1968’,…

Agitate – Propagate – 68! Provocations from Radical London

Organised by DARH in collaboration with LCC Library
1 – 31 May 2018

To mark the 50th anniversary of ‘1968’, a year of global protest and unrest, the Design Activism Research Hub (DARH) is staging an exhibition in the LCC Library with related events for students and staff during the month of May. The exhibition will display visual artefacts and publications related to activist concerns in London at that time; from international issues such as the Vietnam War to those closer to home: housing, racism, workers’ rights, and of course student revolt. Accompanying these will be posters produced by LCC students. The exhibition coincides with the release of the first book about London’s Poster Workshop 1968-71. To celebrate this, we will be hosting a book launch and Q&A with ex-members of Poster Workshop for LCC and UAL staff and students in the library on Thursday 3 May, 5.30pm – save the date! Copies of the book will be on sale. Details of events below. See also DARH website

Agitate-Propagate-68! Exhibition Opening and Poster Workshop, 1968-71 Book Launch

Thursday 3 May 2018, LCC library, 5.30 – 7.30pm
5.30pm: Exhibition opening and tour
6pm: Poster Workshop book launch and Q&A
(The exhibition runs until 31 May 2018)

Agitate-Propagate-Reel!
Thursday 24 May, MLG06A, LCC, 6 – 8pm
1968 themed film night organised by Screen School PhD candidate Mario Gamra, more information to follow.

Student workshops:

Agitate-Propagate-Print!
Wednesday 2 May

Screen-printing poster workshop for students on BA/MA Graphics and Illustration courses (now full). Run by members of Propagate Collective, with ex-members of Poster Workshop. This workshop is supported by a SEEF Award.

Agitate-Propagate-Read!
Tuesday 22 May 2.00-3.30pm

Ruth Collingwood and Monica Sajevo from the LCC library team will be running a student workshop with publications from the exhibition and the library’s extensive zine collection. Further information to follow.

16-17 June 2018 Design Museum, London The Design Museum is hosting a weekend of talks, performances, experiments, screenings and workshops co-curated with the MA Graphic Media Design (MAGMD)…

16-17 June 2018
Design Museum, London

The Design Museum is hosting a weekend of talks, performances, experiments, screenings and workshops co-curated with the MA Graphic Media Design (MAGMD) course at London College of Communication (LCC).

This weekend of events takes the theme of leakage as a point of departure to examine how information and narratives are distributed across media platforms, and questions what impact this has on social, cultural, political and economic contexts.

The programme is an extension of a series of workshops developed by the MAGMD course and leading practitioners Ruben Pater, FRAUD, David Benqué and Marwan Kaabour.

The series of events contributes to the public programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18’. Further info & bookings via Design Museum.

The team involved with the design, edit and launch of A Line Which Forms a Volume have recently been in conversation with Theo Inglis at Grafik magazine and Madeleine Morley at…

The team involved with the design, edit and launch of A Line Which Forms a Volume have recently been in conversation with Theo Inglis at Grafik magazine and Madeleine Morley at AIGA Eye on Design. In these features the team discuss their drive for publication, the concerns of the project and their future ambitions for the coming volumes.

‘My hope is that as more emergent design research becomes public, it will demonstrate and reinforce its value within the larger practice-driven framework’
Gabriela Matuszyk (Co-editor, Volume 1)

You can now buy your own copy of A Line Which Forms a Volume in store or online from the lovely people at magCulture.

Course leader, Paul Bailey, recently joined a panel discussion speculating what the future of education might look like alongside Georgina Capdevila, Creative Learning Producer at UAL Futures; Emma Teasdale of Alternative Art School; and Robyn Dooley, Founder of OH. The discussion will be hosted by Alec Dudson, editor-in-chief of intern.

In the coming months, MAGMD participants Hao Zhang, Virginia Christakou, Xiaoxuan Guo (Kwo), Masumi Ishii and Rong Tang will work with the Un-War laboratory — a hybrid virtual and physical studio conducting research into the experience of existence in the wartime and post war city of Sarajevo as a case study of how citizens interact with the environment around them in times of conflict and in post conflict arenas. This project has been developed with the Architecture and the Built Environment Department of Delft University, the Sarajevo School of Architecture, the Media and Design Schools at London College of Communication.

With the support of the LCC Research Fund, course tutor Ben Branagan will extend material and speculative experimentation investigating the legacies of the built environment. A series of ambiguous artefacts, and contextual works created in parallel to them, will explore the cycles of transformation and transmutation that inform the traditions of human manufacture, as well as contemporary systems of consumption and re-development. Building on previous works exhibited as part of last years Milan Design Festival and at Space Gallery in London, the work produced in this research period will be presented via an exhibition currently planned for winter 2018.

MAGMD participants Lan Le, Nuria Pla Cid, Sui-Ki Law, Colm McDermott and Christina Rosique join Curious Festival: MAPmaking 2018 — a collaboration with Barbican Creative Learning, and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Royal College of Art and MAGMD, London College of Communication.

The aim of the project is to study the integration of sound and music with visual art, with an emphasis on workshop collaboration and live performance. The final public performance, co-ordinated with the Barbican, is currently scheduled for the beginning of July.

2pm, Fri 9 March 2018 National College of Art & Design, Ireland Drawing upon Matthew Stadler’s thoughts on publication, MAGMD course leader Paul Bailey, will present a cross-section of his…

2pm, Fri 9 March 2018
National College of Art & Design, Ireland

Drawing upon Matthew Stadler’s thoughts on publication, MAGMD course leader Paul Bailey, will present a cross-section of his practice spanning design education, research and practice to staff and students at the National College of Art & Design, Ireland.

Course tutor Tony Credland wrote a short text with Prof. Russ Bestley in the upcoming book by Prof. Ian Horton and Bettina Furnée, ‘Hard Werken • One for All –…

Course tutor Tony Credland wrote a short text with Prof. Russ Bestley in the upcoming book by Prof. Ian Horton and Bettina Furnée, ‘Hard Werken • One for All – Graphic Art and Design 1979–1994‘. This is the first major publication on this riotous and highly accomplished Dutch vanguard design group.

The launch will take place in Rotterdam in the first week of April with a study day/symposium at Willem de Kooning Academy that includes a series of lectures and workshops.

In Search of… Play Design in Perspective — Wednesday 14th March 2018 — PEOPLE Assemble A visit to Turner Prize winner Assemble, an Architecture collective at their recently completed…

In Search of… Play
Design in Perspective

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Wednesday 14th March 2018

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PEOPLE
Assemble
A visit to Turner Prize winner Assemble, an Architecture collective at their recently completed Sugarhouse studio in Bermondsey.
In conversations with Fran Edgerley, one of the collective’s founding member.

OBJECTS
Punctuating the day, a selection of games landed by Åbäke and their publishing house Dent de Leone.

As well as the Forensic Design Club’s selection looking at:
— Humans and Other Animals, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
— Connect game, Ken Garland
— Table of Recall, Åbäke & Aurélien Froment
— Oblique Strategies, Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt