@GeorgeGreenwood
It is an installation called ‘Grounding’ by the artist and MFA student Rafael Perez Evans. His work is part of Goldsmiths' MFA degree show. Rafael has arranged for the carrots to be removed at the end of the exhibition and donated to farm animals.
Goldsmiths is launching the first MA in Black British History: explore 500 years of people, events and ideas from the black Tudors, abolitionists and Victorians to Windrush
How do you encourage children to enjoy reading?
On Saturday, Goldsmiths Professor of Children's Literature
@MichaelRosenYes
hosted a day of discussion and workshops. Here, he tells us how to promote reading for pleasure and why it's so valuable
“Michael Rosen has a rare, invaluable gift: the ability to address the most serious matters of life in a spirit of joy, humour and hope,”
Congratulations
@MichaelRosenYes
,
@GoldsmithsEng
, winner of the prestigious 2023 PEN Pinter prize👏
We’re bringing our cleaning services in-house, meaning our cleaners will get employment benefits in line with other Goldsmiths staff. Council has just approved the move – now we'll work with the cleaners and
@unisontweets
reps to make this happen smoothly.
“I especially look forward to… beginning our collective work of insisting that the histories of Black British people are central to the discipline of history as a whole.”
Dr Christienna Fryar has been appointed Lecturer in Black British History
@seefryar
“London achieved a high rating for being a very international city, with high levels of tolerance and diversity.” London ranked as the best city in the world for university students.
From today cleaning at Goldsmiths is in-house, with our new colleagues getting better pay, access to good pensions, improved sick pay and increased holiday allowance as a result of being directly employed by the College.
Find out more here:
We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Black students, colleagues, graduates and friends.
We condemn racism in all its forms. We admit our failings and know we are all responsible for making change.
Today we will be taking part in
#blackoutuesday
"Anyone who comes here today and in the future will know about the Battle of Lewisham."
A new public artwork has been unveiled outside Goldsmiths Library on Lewisham Way. Here, we find out why it matters
Goldsmiths’ new Warden Professor Frances Corner has announced an ambitious drive for the College to be carbon neutral by 2025.
The plan includes the removal of all beef products from campus outlets and a 10p levy on plastic bottles
"Each line of enquiry by Forensic Architecture seeks to effect direct change in the physical world"
Congrats to
@ForensicArchi
on winning the
@RIBA
Charles Jencks Award!
Next month, Goldsmiths will be let loose on
@HornimanMuseum
. A night of immersive experiences, digital installations and interactive performances critically responding to the Museum’s collections, spaces and history. With fully-licensed bars and food
Rose Sinclair (
@Dorcasstories
) of
@designdotgold
visited Windsor Castle yesterday to collect her MBE for services to the Arts.
Rose was recognised in the New Year Honours list for her work as a textiles researcher, curator and academic.
Read more👇
"I don't think I can remember, in my almost 30 years at Goldsmiths, a time when teaching has been more important."
Professor Les Back (
@academicdiary
) on how lockdown has brought the value of talking to students into focus.
The latest in our series of Academics at Home.
Goldsmiths' Professor of Children's Literature
@MichaelRosenYes
writes for The Guardian about his own understanding of the Holocaust as a young child and how it has informed his work educating pupils today
#HolocaustMemorialDay
This Friday at 10am Little Amal reaches Deptford on her 8000km journey from Syria to Manchester, part of a travelling festival of art and hope in support of refugees.
Little Amal's visit is Lewisham’s first major event as Borough of Culture 2022
Black female academics face racism and bullying as they progress their careers towards a professorship in UK universities, according to a new study by
@NicolaRollock
.
“Goldsmiths is an institution which can shape society through radical thinking underpinned by a clear sense of purpose.” We’re delighted to announce academic, higher education leader and campaigner Frances Corner
@FCorner
as our next Warden.
We're bringing our security team in-house after an insourcing proposal was approved today by College Council. The move will mean pay, holiday and pensions in line with other Goldsmiths staff and follows our insourcing of cleaning earlier this year.
As we adjust to life in lockdown, we're asking our academics what being at home has meant for their work.
Here, Rose Sinclair (
@dorcasstories
) talks about the meaning of objects in her home, and how looking again at the things we own can help weave our own personal stories
Tessa Jowell (Applied Social Studies, 1972) was a fearless agent for positive change in society and her courage was an inspiration to all. Our thoughts are with her family at this sad time.
“It was a myth that immigrants didn’t want to fit into British society. We weren’t allowed.” Goldsmiths graduate and dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reflects on decades of race relations in the UK.
What is Forensic Architecture? Watch to find out more about the Turner Prize shortlisted research agency. You can see their work on display at the
@ICALondon
until 13 May.
@ForensicArchi
"Being here at Goldsmiths has been a fantastic privilege. I've been very lucky to study here." Honorary Fellow
@LennyHenry
talks about the importance of higher education and how his mum has inspired and supported him.
#goldgrad
#HE
"There's a lot of people today who remember the pain of this word being hurled at them. From the 1990s, people started to reclaim queer." How has the term queer evolved over the decades? Dr Justin Bengry from Goldsmiths explores.
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
#QueerHistory
Heads of Department and Goldsmiths Critical Incident Group met this morning and made a number of important decisions about the teaching, assessments and operation of the university.
All face-to-face teaching will be suspended immediately. (1/4)
Goldsmiths academic Rose Sinclair (
@Dorcasstories
) has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours list.👏
Her critical work, spanning 30 years, champions the design practices of Caribbean women that have been overlooked.
Read more about Rose’s work👇
We support the decision to award A-level students their Centre Assessed Grades (CAGs), based on teacher assessments.
We'd like to reassure any student who has received an offer from us that your place is secure. We’re looking forward to welcoming you to Goldsmiths!
"By midday in New Cross, huge crowds of local people and members of political organisations had gathered on Clifton Rise to block the National Front's intended route." The Battle of Lewisham happened
#OnThisDay
13 August 1977. Here's more:
"Ellmann remakes the novel and expands the reader’s idea of what is possible with the form."
The winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2019 is ‘Ducks, Newburyport' by Lucy Ellmann.
The
@GoldsmithsPrize
celebrates fiction that breaks the mould.
Congratulations to
@GoldAlumni
and Research Fellow
@ForensicArchi
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, named joint-winner of the
#TurnerPrize2019
.
For the first time in Turner history, the nominees chose to split the prize
Windrush: Arrival 1948 closes this week. The exhibition recreates more than 1,000 landing cards, destroyed by the Home Office in 2010, documenting the journeys of the passengers who arrived at Tilbury Docks in 1948.
Third-year BA Design student Erin Button has devised a non-verbal method of communication with her brother, who has autism.
She translates his physical responses to daily scenarios into knittable code, made into football scarves which express his fluctuating anxiety levels
"Women responded to the social, material and technical challenges to their freedom of movement with vivid creativity." How did Victorian women cyclists use clothing to protest against restrictive ideas of how a woman should act and move in public?
Tomorrow night, Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre hosts actor, comedian, writer and recent
@GoldsmithsEng
graduate
@alandavies1
Alan will be talking about his memoir 'Just Ignore Him'
📍Online, free, 5-6.30pm
🎟️Book now:
“We’re building a new sub-discipline of architecture”, Professor Eyal Weizman (
@weizman_eyal
) discusses Forensic Architecture's use of architecture as an investigate tool in
@guardian
.
@ForensicArchi
exhibition at
@ICALondon
continues until 6 May.
"Human dignity can't really countenance the notion that there is an acceptable number of deaths."
Head of
@GoldsmithsLaw
@DimitriosGian
and
@DoughtyStreet
human rights barrister
@jonathancoopr
discuss the human rights implications of the UK government's Covid-19 response
Dr Michaela Benson has been documenting the experiences of British people in Europe since 2017 as part of her
@BrExpatsEU
research project
@sociologygold
.
She discusses the uncertainty facing British citizens abroad and what Brexit means for Britishness in the world today
On display now, this new exhibition recreates 1,027 lost landing cards of Windrush passengers, giving a unique snapshot into their lives, including their birth date, nationality, occupation and destination. Until 13 February
Research by
@DrCBernard
was the first in the UK to explore child abuse in affluent families.
It was part of our REF 2021 submission for Social, Therapeutic & Community Studies, recognised for the real-world impact of its research.
Read on for more about Prof Bernard's work 🧵
A new interactive performance from
@TheRSC
combines the latest gaming and performance technology with a symphonic score which responds to performers' movements.
It's informed by work by
@i2mediaresearch
exploring the impact of the pandemic on audiences
Tutors from Goldsmiths' art, computing and design departments have joined forces with engineers, doctors and designers to manufacture and distribute reusable PPE.
Staff are combining resources to make the visors and are crowdfunding their project now!
In this morning’s ceremony, we awarded cultural icon and queer hero
@biminibabes
with an honorary fellowship from Goldsmiths
Listen to Bimini’s powerful speech on LGBTQ+ justice and joy👇
(Part 1 of 2)
Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Lewisham. As we near the end of the public consultation process share your views and help shape a new permanent commemorative artwork.
We're saddened to hear of the death of Dave Myers, one half of TV cooking duo The Hairy Bikers.
Dave studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Here he is captaining our alumni team in the 2020 University Challenge Christmas special
“She was one of the original disruptors, whose trend-setting work changed the way we thought as well as how we dressed.”
Today we remember Dame Mary Quant, pioneering fashion designer and Goldsmiths graduate who has died at the age of 93.
“It’s really important to have a centre which says this history matters, this history is important, this history exists.”
Here, the Centre For Queer History
@QueerHistGold
talk about their work to create a global hub for queer history research, open to everyone.
#LGBTHistoryMonth
Professor Alice Gregory
@GoldsmithsPsych
is an expert in the science of sleep.
She's worked with a children's book author and an illustrator to apply her understanding to a new book, specially designed to help children drift off
Introducing our new Entrepreneurial Fellows!
The six honorary Fellows will share their expertise with students, staff and partners, helping us to find new ways of collaborating to develop research and practice that supports our communities.
More here:
"This demonstrates how the media likes diversity when it helps to sell products, but when anyone actually attempts to discuss what it actually means, the media recoils in horror." Dr Anamik Saha explores race and the cultural industries in 2017:
Honorary Fellow
@BritishVogue
editor-in-chief
@Edward_Enninful
tells students: “You will soon join a world that focuses on divisions. My challenge to you is to always dream big, aim high, work hard and include others in, not only in your journey, but your successes.”
#GoldGrad
"As young people going into a life of reporting, writing or advocacy… we need you more than ever."
Award-winning war journalist
@EdVulliamy
was awarded an honorary degree from Goldsmiths in this morning's graduation ceremony. His message to today’s graduates:
"To bring accountability we need new investigative techniques, we need new methodologies."
Goldsmiths-based research agency
@ForensicArchi
is marking 10 years since its formation with a series of exhibitions presenting a body of work which has revolutionised human rights
Goldsmiths alumnus Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2020.
The pioneer of dub poetry, Johnson studied sociology at Goldsmiths in the 1970s and was made honorary fellow in 2004
Goldsmiths walked at the Pride parade for the first time this weekend! Here's students and staff in action at the celebrations in London. Happy
#Pride
!
Rare rediscovered 1960s and 70s posters for gigs at Goldsmiths and Students' Unions across London go on display at Goldsmiths this week, featuring names like Fleetwood Mac, Love, Deep Purple and Procol Harum. Until 5 April
Today, 13 August, marks 44 years since the Battle of Lewisham.
Here’s a look back to the unveiling of a permanent mural on Lewisham Way, which acts as a reminder of the day the community came together to block the course of a National Front march through Lewisham
“It didn’t matter you didn’t know any science, you got lots of things right. More or less.” Despite Paxman’s faint praise we stormed into the second round of
#UniversityChallenge
, beating
@ULIP_French
180-55. Catch team captain Issokson et al here!