GIDEST is a research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design.
Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and based in the New School for Social Research, The Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought incubates advanced transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory and design and fosters dialogue on related themes across the university. Drawing on the New School’s tradition of politically-engaged, historically-g
12/04/2022
In solidarity with our striking New School faculty colleagues in ACT-UAW Local 7902, GIDEST has canceled all scheduled events. Part-time faculty comprise 87% of The New School's teaching staff. We urge the University to negotiate a fair contract acceptable to the union and its members. Updated information on the strike is can be found at https://www.instagram.com/act_uaw7902/
07/24/2020
FGWL #7: Raven Chacon — GIDEST @ The New School You can edit the text in this area, and change where the contact form on the right submits to, by entering edit mode using the modes on the bottom right.
06/30/2020
From GIDEST With Love #5 - Sunken Films, a new short by Bill Morrison
http://www.gidest.org/fgwl/morrison
06/17/2020
From GIDEST with Love #4 - Eyal Weizman: Forensics in the Time of Coronavirus
GIDEST’s second seminar series, in 2015-16, opened with a visit from the architect Eyal Weizman, founding director of the research agency Forensic Architecture. When coronavirus broke in the UK, we called Eyal at his home in London to find out what he and the agency were thinking and doing at this critical time. From GIDEST With Love #4 is an edited transcript of his conversation with GIDEST director Hugh Raffles.
http://www.gidest.org/fgwl/weizman
10/08/2018
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/films/end-of-life/
Don’t miss END OF LIFE, the new film from John Bruce (GIDEST Fellow 2015-16) and Pawel Wojtasik, which has its U.S. premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival. A few tickets still available for the extra showing on Sunday, October 14!
End of Life Bruce and Wojtasik are tuned to a very special and extraordinarily delicate wavelength as artists, and their radiant film takes a respectful and serenely composed look at the very activity, the actual work, of dying for five individuals.
10/05/2018
Congratulations to choreographer, dancer, writer and GIDEST Seminar speaker Okwui Okpokwasili on her MacArthur Fellowship!
Okwui Okpokwasili - MacArthur Foundation Making visible the interior lives of women whose stories of resistance and resilience have been left out of dominant cultural narratives
08/09/2018
The The New York Review of Books just reviewed filmmaker and GIDEST guest Bill Morrison's latest film, "Dawson City: Frozen Time."
Check out our interview with Bill Morrison from last year:
https://vimeo.com/253332572
After the Gold Rush It’s estimated that all copies of about 75 percent of silent films have perished, taking with them heaven knows how much memory of an era. In 1978 a significant portion of that memory was recovered by chance when a Pentecostal minister with a backhoe unearthed the last known remnants of 372 silent...
02/06/2018
Our spring seminar schedule includes Joan Jonas, N.K. Jemisin, Okwui Okpokwasili, and more. Visit http://www.gidest.org/events for more details.
Our latest video features the artist Sarah Oppenheimer discussing recent work she presented at her GIDEST seminar on October 6.
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A visual artist based in New York City, Sarah Oppenheimer creates work that spans the disciplinary boundaries between sculpture and architecture, performing architectural interventions in order to examine social constructions in the built environment and play with perceptions of space.
12/01/2017
ANNOUNCING THE 2018–2019 GIDEST FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH AND CREATIVE PRACTICE.
The Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought (GIDEST) invites New School faculty and doctoral students to submit applications for resident fellowships for the 2018–2019 academic year.
We welcome applications describing projects based in scholarly and/or other creative practice that further GIDEST's commitment to empirically grounded cross-disciplinarity and experimentation.
For full details, please visit www.gidest.org/application.
11/19/2017
11/06/2017
Featuring work by GIDEST guest Raven Chacon -
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