Our Textiles Environment Design section (TED) have been beavering away and now some of their designers will be displaying their latest work  at Camberwell Space from Wednesday 7th July as part of AA2A 2010 Exhibition.

Go along and feast your eyes on these tasty textiles.

One of the the designers Clara Vuletich has been exploring the idea of 

How can digital print be used to enhance and celebrate old heirloom fabric pieces? 

Can a ‘digital craft’ process, using sustainable base cloths, help to reinvent the traditions of quilting and patchwork?

For more about her work and her use of digital printing go to her blog at http://www.loveandthrift.com/

Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public and will take place in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design as part of the CCW Graduate School programme of events. Set in a bespoke structure designed by Ola Wasilkowska and Michal Piasecki, with a host of international contributors including staff and students from across the Graduate School. Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

Friday 21 May – Launch event 5pm —7pm
Bring things to share in our Pot-Luck of snacks, while Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive play music from the commons.

Saturday 22 May – A day of consecutive Barcamps 10am — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Sunday 23 May – Market of Ideas 2pm — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Stall holders include: Abundant Amelia (designers: Dallas Pierce Quintero), Larisa Blazic and startx, Malgorzata Bochenska / Salon 101, Chelsea MA Interior Spatial Design students, Musashino Art University (Tokyo), Geoff Cox and Rui Guerra, Ian Drysdale and ThinkPublic, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Joanna Erbel, FLAG, Angela Hodgson Teall, The KNOT Team, Owen Hatherley, Brandon Labelle, Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Michal Kozlowski, Ewa Majewska, Lidka Makowska, microsillons, Krzysztof Nawratek, The People Speak, Satelite Project of Politicised Practice Research Group, Dr Malcolm Quinn, Mike Ricketts, Anatomy of the Street (Levente Polyak and Eszter Steierhoffer), Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive, George Shire, Dr Dan Smith, Bogna Swiatkowska / Bec Zmiana, TangentProjects, Textile Environment Design (TED), Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Chris Wainwright and Cape Farwell, Joanna Warsza and Nuno Sacramento and many more besides.

Parade is at:The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU.

Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics and students and is hosted by the CCW Graduate School.

Read more about this event on the Critical Practice website.

Watch the development on the Parade Flickr page.

Monday 5th October 2009 3–8pm
Procedures and Enquiries 3 -  Symposium on Drawing
University of the Arts, London
Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank, London SW1P 4RJ.
Map  and Directions: http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/docs/Millbank_Map.pdf

Procedures and Enquiries 3
This is the third in our series of symposia which discusses processes and practices of spatial investigation and design in relation to contemporary drawing practice.
In the 21st century digital interfaces increasingly inform our understanding of art, architecture and design.  In the past 20 years the viral spread of computing hardware and software has re-defined the protocols and procedures of the thinking/drawing process.  Recent editing, 3D modelling and projection technology has changed the immersive possibilities of the drawing space and opened up new avenues for time-based drawing.   Many artists and designers are enthusiastic about the further potential of this technology for an expanded digital drawing practice, while others resist and continue to champion a more craft-based or hybrid approach. 

This symposium provides a chance to discuss contemporary methodologies and approaches from across disciplines.

Speakers:
Session 1 / Chelsea Triangle Space / Chelsea College of Art and Design
15.00 James O’Leary / Intro – Drawing Time
15.20 Peter Maloney / Mapping Kubrick’s TimeSpace
16.00 Matthew Butcher / The Flood House
16.40 Christian Kerrigan / The 200 year continuum
17.20 Discussion followed by break

Session 2 / Lecture Theatre / Chelsea College of Art and Design
18.00 Perry Kulper / The Long Drawn Out
19.30 Drinks etc

To make an enquiry about this event, please email j.o-leary@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Nigel Bents talking to workshop participants

“The TED Research Cluster is part of an international collaborative design project called Cultural Collage. The project is led by UAL visiting Professor Marie O’Mahony, and it will involve designers and design students from the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney, Australia, Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile and Chelsea designers and students.

Working around the central themes of recycling, mutli-disciplinary practice and cultural collaboration, the designers will be asked to choose a second-hand plastic object and this will then be sent to the group of designers in the next country to be worked on or transformed, while always maintaining its functionality. The reworked object will then be sent to the next group of designers to be worked on for a final time.

Participants will also be asked to keep a ‘passport’ of their ideas, a sketchbook which records their drawings and thoughts which will be sent on with the accompanying object.

TED recently hosted an introductory workshop at Cheslea with presentations from Marie OMahony, Kate Goldsworthy, Emma Neuberg and Prof. Kay Politowicz. Other participants include textile designer Katherine Wardropper and Nigel Bents, a graphic designer and tutor at Chelsea.

The final pieces will be exhibited as part of PassionTour, a design festival in Santiago in September 2009.”

Find out about Textile Design at Chelsea

Aileen Campbell from her work As Jane Edwards and Geoffrey Rush

This work was shown at ‘Breaking Voices’, a day of performances and presentations as part of Thinking Through Practice.  This is an on-going research project which explores manifestations of philosophical thinking beyond the academic argument-based text, and sets out to identify and investigate practices where the aesthetic and the philosophical are symbiotically related.

Thinking Through Practice