The University's $1.3 million Imagine Fund for the arts, humanities, and design -- available to tenured faculty at the University -- arose out of the recognition that the arts, humanities, and design have many fewer sources of funding than the sciences to support our research. The Imagine Fund was created from a major McKnight Foundation gift, with added support from funds within the Graduate School and Office of the Vice President for Research.

A total of 20 College of Design faculty members are Imagine Fund $3,000 Annual Award winners:

• Lucy Dunne (Apparel Design); "Wired aesthetics: new frontiers in clothing design"


• Ozayer Saloojee (Architecture); "(in)formal architecture: Race, identity and belonging in South Africa's minority communities"


• Marc Swackhamer (Architecture); "Open source wall application"


• John Comazzi (Architecture); "Balthazar Korab: Architect of photography -- a traveling exhibition"


• Juanjuan Wu (Retail Merchandising); "From the imperial to the modern: 20th century Chinese fashion and design"


• Blaine Brownell (Architecture); "Matter in the floating world"


• Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla (Architecture); "Studies in fabrorum geometry: Stone cutting and its application in architecture"


• Andrzej Piotrowski (Architecture); "Publication of the Architecture of Thought book"


• Missy Bye (Apparel Design); "The integration of ultrasonic welder technology into apparel design practice"


• Barbara Martinson (Graphic Design); "Sustainable surface design: reducing the use of hazardous substances in dyeing and printing"


• Cynthia Jara (Architecture); "Archival travel for the Forest Hills experiment"


• Stephen Weeks (Architecture); "Building the extra-ordinary ordinarily"


• Leon Statkowski (Architecture); "Minnesota buildings and landscapes: Field research for book"


• Renee Cheng (Architecture); "Next generation practice: Documenting innovation in architectural and design practices"


• Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design); "Intense ruby red: From Irish blood to French wine, and back again"


• Julia Robinson (Architecture); "What is so extraordinary about Dutch housing and urbanism? An American perspective"


• Leslie Van Duzer (Architecture); "Beautiful misconceptions"


• Ritu Bhatt (Architecture); "Everyday aesthetics and cognition: An exploration of Tibetan Buddhist spatial practices"


• Kristine Miller (Landscape Architecture); "Almost home: The public work of Gertrude Jekyll"


• Lance LaVine (Architecture); "Place-empathetic architecture"