Students in the Apparel Design Studio 3 class, taught by Lucy Dunne, are again participating in the Affair with the Chocolate Extravaganza. Shows take place at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday, November 7, 2009 and at 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Grace La and James Dallman
Principal architects, LA DALLMAN, Milwaukee
LA DALLMAN: Fabricated landscapes
Monday, November 9, 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Cass Gilbert Fund Lecture
The work of LA DALLMAN explores architecture as transformed site, reshaping the raw materials of found and abstracted landscape in projects of diverse scale and type. The practice deploys material and detailing investigations as cultural artifacts, which grow from the context. Among recent projects, the lecture will discuss LA DALLMAN's permanent exhibits at Discovery World, the new University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hillel Student Center, and the Levy House.
Led by James Dallman and Grace La, both graduates of Harvard University, the LA DALLMAN design studio has been awarded over 30 professional honors since its inception in 1999. Most recently, the Marsupial Bridge and Urban Spaces has received the Silver Medal of the national Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. LA DALLMAN was featured as Architectural Record's emerging architectural firm (April 2001), and was recognized as one of four small firms nationally working on large scale projects (Dec. 2002).
Recently, the practice won six design awards for excellence from the American Institute of Architects Wisconsin, second prize among 109 submissions in Pittsburgh's 2006 International West End Pedestrian Bridge Competition, and was a finalist in Atlanta's 2005 International Andrew Young Design Competition, Madison's Chazen Art Museum, and Pittsburgh's Allegheny Square Competition. The practice was awarded first place in the 2000 design competition for Kilbourn Tower.
LA DALLMAN is published in Detail in Process (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), The Green Braid (Routledge, 2007), The Public Chance (a + t, 2008), 1000x Architecture of the Americas (Verlaghaus Braun, 2008), Architectural Record, Praxis, Spain's a + t In Common Series, Canada's Azure, and Germany's Topos. They have lectured broadly and have exhibited their design work in various cities including at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Deborah Karasov: Thoughts of a sometime geographer
Monday, November 2, 2009, 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
H.W.S. Cleveland Fund Lecture
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that sometimes we can be immersed in beauty and yet our eyes have no clear vision. For a landscape architect or environmental artist, it is not such a great matter to have the technical skills to create beautiful things. Many other qualities of character and temperament are necessary. Karasov has always been inspired by those who recommend enlarging our sympathies by the patient and loving observation of landscape. Some say it is in this practice, rather than in formulas or theories, that we can find the promise of perfection for the art of landscape. Our greatest challenge is to mature our imagination among the things of this earth.
Deborah Karasov is executive director of the nonprofit Great River Greening in Saint Paul. She has a Ph.D. in geography (University of Minnesota) and a MLA (Harvard Graduate School of Design). With this background, and as a past collaborator with environmental artists, Karasov writes about major themes of geography and landscape in light of her own experiences. In the art field, she served as director of adult programs at the Walker Art Center; codirector, with Kinji Akagawa, of the Institute for Public Art and Design, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and consultant to the director, Design Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts. Author of The Once and Future Park, she also coedited the visual arts attachment of the literary review Rain Taxi, was editor of Public Art Review, and has written reviews for Sculpture Magazine, New Art Examiner, and Architecture Minnesota.
Her community service has included: board member of the Franconia Sculpture Park, New Opportunities Committee of Public Art Saint Paul, jury chair for the Minnesota Women's Suffrage Memorial Garden, and task force member of the Ford Site Redevelopment, Saint Paul Green Development Policy, and Critical Areas Zoning.
Ignacio San Martin (Metropolitan Design Center, Architecture) recently delivered a lecture on the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The lecture was presented at the School of Public Health and will be followed by two additional lectures on sustainable options and opportunities for the Twin Cities.
An interactive composition by Robert Fraher (MFA Interactive Design candidate) has been selected for inclusion in Accessibility 2009, a juried art exhibition in Sumter, SC. The piece, No Horse in Particular, explores the concept of meaning in visual imagery. The composition is a mixed-media piece combining photography, digital illustration, interactivity, and custom software development.
The Friends of the Goldstein present Design in the Dark: A film series free of charge the second Thursday of each month of fall semester 2009, 7 p.m., in 33 McNeal Hall.
November 12, 2009: Lagerfeld Confidential
December 10, 2009: Unzipped
January 14, 2010: Yves St. Laurent 5 Ave. Marceau 75116 Paris
February 11, 2010: Valentino, the Last Emperor
March 11, 2010: Seamless
April 8, 2010: Helvetica
Maryann Thompson: Recent work
Monday, October 19, 2009 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Cass Gilbert Fund Lecture
Maryann Thompson will present a selection of recent award-winning projects from her practice. Maryann Thompson Architects is a Cambridge, MA-based firm that specializes in architecture that is sustainable, regionally driven, and attempts to heighten the phenomenological qualities of the sites within which they work.
Thompson received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Young Architects Award in 1998. Her work has also received three AIA National Honor Awards, numerous AIA New England Design Honor Awards, and BSA Honor Awards for Design Excellence. Her work has been published in numerous national and international architecture and design magazines and in various books on architecture, including Norton's A Guide to 250 Key Twentieth-Century American Buildings, 40 Under 40, and Contemporary American Architects. Thompson has taught design as a visiting faculty member at MIT, RISD, UVA, Michigan, and Rice and is currently a faculty member at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
Marc Swackhamer's (Architecture) practice, HouMinn, is holding a competition for students, designers, engineers, "or any other curious, creative people" to design an innovative wall panel, or "app," for its latest wall prototype project, Open Source Wall (OSWall). Submissions from Architecture and other CDes graduate students or teams of students are welcomed. Swackhamer notes that projects from teams that can add an engineering student or a materials science student are "more likely to not only be well designed, but also technically sound." The winners will be paid to prototype their schemes over winter break and their projects will be featured in an exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, "Envelop{e}s," curated by Christopher Height, associate professor at Rice University's School of Architecture.
Two College of Design students received Metropolitan Design Center (MDC) scholarships for European travel this summer to work on self-directed research projects. Woody Hanson's research project is entitled "Building a Bi-Communal Bridge: Nicosia, Cyprus" while Austin Lukes researched "Lightrail Public Transportation in Ireland, the Netherlands, and France." The scholarships are sponsored by the MDC with the conviction that exposure to other cultures is essential for reflecting on our own. Hanson and Lukes will present the results of their research on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 6 p.m., followed by a reception in 225 Rapson Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
A digital work by Beth Koch (UMD Art and Design; PhD candidate, Design; MFA DHA, 2006) is included in a juried exhibition during the International Digital Media and Art Association conference, "At the Digital Edge: Digital Innovations and Challenges," in November, 2009.
Some two-dozen College of Design students and staff posed the provocative question "What if... design reduced our carbon footprint?" to thousands of spectators lining University Avenue Friday evening, October 9, 2009. The occasion was the 2009 parade for "The Ultimate Homecoming," the first since the opening of TCF Bank Stadium. Three gradually smaller houses, hoisted on marcher's shoulders, represented the possibility of a smaller carbon footprint. Mark Lescher (MArch 2007) served as design adviser and undergrad construction foreman Ben VandenWymeleneberg led a team of fellow students in refining the concept and constructing the lit-from-within houses.
College of Design's parade unit for Homecoming 2009.
Stephen Streng and Dewey Thorbeck (both Center for Rural Design) have been awarded a Minnesota Futures Symposium Grant by the Office of the Vice President for Research for the first International Symposium on Rural Design to be held January 15-16, 2010 on the Saint Paul campus. Streng was also awarded a travel grant from the University's Office of International Partnerships to support the attendance of Canadian scholars at the symposium. For more information about the symposium see the center's Web site or contact Stephen Streng at stre0185@umn.edu.
Twin Cities Public Television will premier Daniel Pierce Bergin's Parks for the People on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 7 p.m., on TPT2. The documentary focuses on the creation of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul parks. Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) appears in the production to discuss the visionary and practical roles of landscape architect H. W. S. Cleveland. The documentary will be rebroadcast Sunday, October 11, 2009, 6 p.m. (TPT2) and 8 p.m. (TPTMN).
Neckar along with Daniel Nadenicek (MLA, 1991; currently dean of the University of Georgia's School of Environmental Design) were the authors of the introduction to the reprint of Cleveland's seminal book on the field, Landscape Architecture as Applied to the Wants of the West.
Quadrant, a joint initiative of the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Minnesota Press, has announced a series of lectures:
New York's Tenement Museum
Ruth Abram, founding director, board member of the Coalition of Sites of Conscience
Monday, October 4, 2009, 4 p.m., 125 Nolte
Anaesthesia; or, The Chair as Image
John Harwood, Oberlin College, Quadrant Visiting Scholar
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:00-5:30 p.m., 125 Nolte
The Redesign of Design: Computer, Architect, Corporation
John Harwood, Oberlin College, Quadrant Visiting Scholar
Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00-1:30 p.m., 235 Nolte
Spatializing Histories and Nationhood: The Architecture of Moshe
Safdie at the Foot of Temple Mount
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Israel Institute of Technology, Quadrant Visiting Scholar
Monday, November 30, 2009, 5:50-7:00 p.m., 125 Nolte
Workshop with Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Israel Institute of Technology, Quadrant Visiting Scholar
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 12:00-1:30 p.m., 125 Nolte
Daniel Jasper's (Graphic Design) DHA 2351 class, Graphic Design I Text and Image, is undertaking a project to create context-sensitive design strategies for communicating about the H1N1 pandemic. Small groups of three students each develop public health messages and then determine which medium to use to carry the message: banners, posters, flyers, stickers, stencils, brochures, etc. The students then develop an implementation strategy for the message. The first results are beginning to appear throughout McNeal Hall.
The University's primary communication channel regarding the H1N1 virus has been broadcast e-mail with links to the University's Emergency Preparedness Web site. Jasper maintains that information, while "helpful and thorough in both breadth and depth is essentially trapped in both time and place in whatever electronic device you happen to be viewing it on at the moment." What if context-sensitive communications about the virus and preventing its spread were available in addition. "What if we
could alert the viewer to nodes of virus transmission as they encounter them?" asks Jasper. "What if we could communicate preventative measures for virus transmission in the areas where they might occur?"
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Dewey Thorbeck (Center for Rural Design) has travelled all over the world to sketch places that he finds have a strong and close integration of architecture and landscape. "To me the most beautiful places in the world are those that express this connection in a profoundly human way," says Thorbeck. An exhibition of his sketches, "Dewey Thorbeck Travel Sketches: An Architect's Recordings of Natural and Human Landscapes," runs September 25-December 27, 2009 in the Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library in Rapson Hall. An opening reception will be held on October 8, 2009, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Two CDes students, Erin Lovell and Jillian DeCoursey, are among the 15 students from around the country to present papers at the Fourth Annual Student Symposium on the Built Environment sponsored by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH) on Saturday, Sept. 26, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The symposium will be held at the University of St. Thomas's 3M Auditorium, Owens Science Hall, and in Room 127, O'Shaughnessy Science Hall. The event is free and open to the public. A light breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. in the Owens Science Hall lobby. Parking is available in adjacent lots. See St. Thomas's campus maps for directions and building locations.
Founded in 1973, MNSAH is one of 25 local chapters of the national Society of Architectural Historians. MNSAH's mission is to broaden awareness and appreciation of Minnesota's architectural heritage, to promote research, and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas related to architectural history.
On September 21, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for stronger action against indoor radon, the leading cause of lung cancer among US and Canadian non-smokers. The WHO recommendation calls for lowering radon levels by one-third below current US guidance.
"The WHO recommendations more strongly emphasize the importance of radon testing by all home owners and home buyers and reduction of high concentrations of the radioactive gas," says Bill Angell (Housing Studies), president of the American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST), in the WHO media release. "The World
Health Organization's strong stand is based upon new evidence of the risk
posed by toxic radon," added Angell from the 2009 International Radon Symposium.
Monica Fogg (Architecture) will participate in "Ways of Doing," an exhibition by the faculty and staff of the Department of Art and Art History of St. Catherine's University. The exhibition runs September 26-December 13, 2009 in the Visual Arts Building, 2004 Randolph Avenue, Saint Paul. An artists' reception will be held in conjunction with the College Art Gallery Collaborative's Fall Art Tour on Saturday, October 3, 2009, 5-8 p.m.
Jean McElvain (Goldstein Museum of Design) will speak on the powerful patterns in apparel and accessories from the Goldstein's collection. As a complement, 20th century art historian Roslye Ultan will discuss the importance of patterns and repetitive imagery in pop art. Art Into Fashion, Fashion Into Art: Expanding the Visual Field, Thursday, October 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Goldstein Museum of Design, McNeal Hall. Friends of the Goldstein members, $25; guests, $35. RSVP to Linda Hersom, herso004@umn.edu or 612-730-6751 by October 17, 2009.
Author Steven Berlin Johnson presents the keynote at the School of Nursing's History of Nursing conference, September 24-27, 2009. Johnson will deliver his keynote on Friday, September 25, 2009, at the Saint Paul Hotel, 350 Market Street, Saint Paul. Johnson is the author of The Ghost Map, a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London. The book uses a historical and biographical narrative to discuss ideas that have profoundly shaped the world we live in. Johnson will deliver a stimulating and scholarly presentation on the London cholera epidemic, highlighting parallels and contrasts between thinking during that time and today as it relates to the approach of epidemics. Registration is $35 and available online.
Renee Cheng (Architecture) has been named to the executive editorial board of the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Guide. A revised and expanded edition of the guide will be released later this year.
Cheng gave a presentation to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) national board on the "Culture of Practice: Educating the Next Generation" as part of an initiative to support a rich dialog between practice and academy. The presentation included an update on the professional curriculum that won the 2008 AIA Education Honor and explanation of how a robust professional practice stream fits in the program.
Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) delivered a paper entitled "Sacred and Political Phenomenology: The Contested Landscape of Religious Architecture" at the second international Architecture and Phenomenology Conference at Kyoto-Seika University in Kyoto, Japan. Saloojee also served as a moderator for a session at the conference.
Saloojee will present a paper entitled "Architecture + Community: Identity, Context and Place in Istanbul's Heritage Fabric, or, A Speculative Love Letter to 'Stamboul'"at the Revitalizing Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places for New Uses international symposium in Istanbul, October 2009.
Saloojee's article, "Quietly There: The Spatial Dimension of Liturgy in Eliel Saarinen's Christ Church Lutheran -- Minneapolis, Minnesota," will be published in the Fall 2009 issue of A2 magazine.
Arthur Chen and Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla (both Architecture) took a group of students to Zanzibar to complete an inventory of buildings in the World Heritage designated portion of the city known as Stone Town. As part of the efforts of the Center for World Heritage Studies, the team has been invited back to continue their work later this year.
John Comazzi and Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla (both Architecture) co-chaired a paper session at the 2009 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) National Conference in Portland, OR. The session, entitled "Indeterminacy: Design-Build as Reflection-in-Action," examined the demonstrated the unique role played by progressive design-build projects in design education.
John Comazzi (Architecture) has received an Access to Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (2009) for the support of two Design Camps for Educators, to be held in the Summer of 2010, working with elementary school students and educators to develop and implement design-based teaching modules as a catalyst for integrated learning.
Comazzi has also curated an exhibition entitled "Inflected Modernism: The Architecture Photography of Balthazar Korab" that reexamines canonical works of mid-century Modern architecture through the interpretive lens of Balthazar Korab. The exhibition will open at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in January 2010 and will include a public lecture that will examine Korab's life, career, and body of work. This exhibition will be partially funded by an Imagine Fund Grant for the Arts & Humanities and plans are in the works for additional venues.
On September 14, 2009, Blaine Brownell (Architecture) presented the first lecture at the Rice School of Architecture's fall 2009 series. Brownell's lecture was entitled "Material Futures: Thresholds and Potentialities."
Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture) will present "Resilience in the (Designed) Environment" as part of the Institute on the Environment's Frontiers in the Environment lecture series. Fisher's lecture takes place Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 12-1 p.m., in 380 VoTech Building. The lecture series is free and open to the public and no registration is required.
The Trends and Themes Fashion Preview will be held Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 5:45-7:30 p.m., at STYLEDLIFE, Galleria, Edina. The event is co-sponsored by Fashion Group International, one of the Goldstein Museum's community partners, and the Friends of the Goldstein. Admission is $25 for Fashion Group International and Friends of the Goldstein members; $35 for guests. RSVP to Vicki Martin, vmartin@carlisleny.com by September 11, 2009.
Fashion designer Yeohlee Teng, recipient of the 2004 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Fashion Design will present the new YEOHLEE Spring 2010 collection on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 5-7 p.m., at JV & Company, Gavidae Common, Minneapolis. Admission is $50 and space is limited to 50. For ticket information, call 612-626-4747.
The School of Architecture hosts the Fall 2009 Design @ noon lecture series on select Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m., in the Kodet Conference Room of Rapson Hall.
September 16, 2009
Arthur Chen & Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla
Study Abroad in Zanzibar, Summer 2009
September 23, 2009
Blaine Brownell
Study Abroad in Japan, M-Term 2009
October 7, 2009
Leslie Van Duzer
Study Abroad in Malawi, M-Term 2009
October 14, 2009
Lance LaVine
Study Abroad in Oaxaca, Spring semester 2009
October 21, 2009
Robert Mack
Study Abroad in Orkney Scotland, M-Term 2009
November 18, 2009
TBD
Study in Biloxi, Mississippi, Spring semester 2009
December 2, 2009
Thomas Fisher
Topic TBD
The Goldstein Museum of Design presents the unveiling of an exclusive new line of seven painted shoes by artist Logan Real representing the stage towns of the 2009 Tour de France. A reception will be held where Real will talk about this project and his previous designs.
September 25, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the Goldstein
Friends of the Goldstein members: $25; Guests: $35
To RSVP, contact Linda Hersom at herso004@umn.edu or 612-730-6751.
Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) will present a poster at Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation, the annual conference of the Design History Society, held at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. The poster is entitled "Design Authorship's Pre- and Post-History: Framing Its Legitimacy" and will be exhibited in early September.
In 2003, Leslie Van Duzer (Architecture) received a Fulbright Research Grant in Prague to research the work of architect Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands, an extensive but poorly documented body of work. She spent six months conducting intensive archival research and visiting project sites with her local collaborator, Maria Szadkowska. In fall 2008, museum curator Szadkowska opened an exhibition on the research at the City of Prague Museum and in spring 2009, a 391-page catalog was published in Czech and English. The book is already being translated into Italian and the exhibition is scheduled to travel to Plzen and Brno in the Czech Republic, Italy, and likely London. This exhaustive presentation is the first major survey of Loos's Czech work and the only survey in more than 20 years. It represents a significant contribution to Loos scholarship.
The Fall 2009 College of Design lectures, exhibitions, and events have been published. Look for a print poster in your Fall 2009 issue of Emerging.
Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) has been invited by James Corner, head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Penn and principal of Field Operations, to deliver a tribute to John Dixon Hunt, professor of landscape architecture and editor of the Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscape. The two-day event, October 30-31, 2009, marks Hunt's distinguished carreer as an academic, editor, historian, and theorist of gardens and landscape.
Cynthia Lapp (MLA 2009), winner of a Capstone Prize for her Oostvaarders Wold wildlife corridor design for the city of Almere in the Netherlands, presents her work at the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) September 13-17, 2009 in Duluth, and in the Stadhuis of Almere, September 22, 2009. The planner for Almere, Ria van Dijk, has been a visiting faculty in the School of Architecture at the invitation of Julia Robinson (Architecture). Lapp, who works for the Center for Changing Landscapes, will also be co-teaching a fall course on case studies in sustainable landscape design and planning with Kristin Raab (MLA 2009).
Undergraduate, professional, and graduate students are encouraged to participate in the Student Scholar Showcase, an exhibition of student research, art, and design. The event will be held in the TCF Bank Stadium in concert with Public Engagement Day, attracting an audience of local high schools, colleges, corporations, and non-profits, and will serve the dual purposes of showcasing student work and providing recruitment opportunities. University faculty and staff, as well as families of presenters, also will be invited to attend this event. 2008-2009 University graduates are encouraged to participate as well.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
1-4 p.m.
TCF Bank Stadium
More information is available on the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost Web site. Students should sign up by September 18, 2009.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) presented a workshop on creating durable artifacts from digital resources at the Wisconsin Distance Education Conference. Hokanson demonstrated the use of wikis to support coursework, using the wiki for his students' May 2009 study abroad trip to Copenhagen as an example. Material from the study abroad course was used to develop print-on-demand books, an example of which is available as a .pdf download at no charge.
Lonnie Broden (DHA) and her artwork are profiled by Karlee Weinmann in the Star Tribune. Broden will participate in the Uptown Art Fair for the first time this year and one of her pieces has been selected as this year's commemorative print.
Blaine Brownell (Architecture) lectured on "Sustainable Material Futures in Architecture" at the Architectural Institute of Japan in Tokyo on June 19, 2009, covering emerging trends in material development based on environmental, economic, and cultural responses, as well as future possibilities.
"If a fabric could regulate the environment more like our biological skin, think of the applications and sustainability." Brownell told Mason Riddle for the article "Smart Materials, Intelligent Futures" in the July/August 2009 issue of Fabric Architecture, published by the Industrial Fabrics Association International. "We need to demand more of our materials. They need to do more than just one thing," Brownell insists.
Brownell gave a keynote lecture at Columbia University on July 21, 2009 on the subject of aging infrastructure. The talk focused on future demands on US infrastructure and possibilities created by emergent material technologies in the spirit of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Jay Isenberg (M.Arch, 2003) and Lynda Monick-Isenberg (MA Home Economics/Design, 1980) are curating the Unbundling the Housing Crisis exhibition at the Form + Content Gallery, Whitney Square Building, 210 North Second Street #104, Minneapolis. The show runs July 30-September 5, 2009 and an opening reception will be held Saturday, August 1, 2009, 6-9 p.m.
Elemental Notes: Works by Ken Johnson opens today in the Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library. The exhibition runs through September 19, 2009. A reception will be held in the library Thursday, July 30, 2009, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Johnson studied at the University of Minnesota, the Parson School of Design, and The School of Visual Arts. The artist notes the drawings -- sketches drawn on grid paper -- are "based on what I take to be elemental, a sort of Golden Mean in my way of thinking." The exhibition also features installations by David Bartley.
Intersections: Where Art and Fashion Meet opens at the Goldstein Museum of Design on July 11, 2009 and runs through November 1, 2009. The exhibition, inspired by journalist and Friends of the Goldstein founder Margot Siegel, celebrates the fluid relationship between fashion and art while celebrating the exuberance of art, fashion, and popular culture. Intersections is co-curated by Barbara Heinemann and Mark Schultz with consultation by Margot Siegel.
An opening reception will be held at the museum on July 10, 2009, 6-8 p.m. Siegel will give brief remarks and the curators will give a gallery tour. In keeping with the Pop Art theme, "food that pops" (pop corn, tootsie pops) and cheese will be served. "Margotinis" will also be served, and the Goldstein asks that everyone bring a canned good for the MN food shelf.
Image credit: "Roy Lichtenstein" Suit, Cheap and Chic by Moschino. Gift of Shari Applebaum.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) is currently leading a University global seminar called Design and Society in Copenhagen. Students participating include Brooke Helgerson, Sam Daley, Matt Thompson, Melissa Granlund, Kara Sweeney (all Architecture), Andrew Garcia (Graphic Design), and Allie Klynderud (Housing Studies).
The seminar was open to all University students and examines the role of design across society. It looks at graphic, toy, industrial, architectural, and transportation design with a generalist approach. One central question of the seminar is how design in all forms has reached such a high level of importance in Danish society, common throughout Scandinavia.
One of the small houses in an allotment garden in Copenhagen, a long-running tradition of public gardens provided to renters for food production, and which now serve as weekend homes for much of the citizenry.
Working in conjunction with the Danish International School (DIS), the group has visited Kronborg Slot in Helsingor (Hamlet's Castle), industrial design firms Hay and Stelton, and the Danish Design Center in Copenhagen among other locales.
Examining the reuse of the canal system developed for trade by Christian IV in the 17th century and currently the focus of urban redevelopment efforts.
The course's wiki is available as are images from the seminar. The images and text written by the participants will be included in a book published online in both paper and digital form.
Harold A. Alexander (DHA, emeritus) and Marjorie A. Alexander presented a two-day papermaking workshop in Little Swanport, Tasmania, April 4-5, 2009. Following participation in the International Association of Paper Makers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) Congress in Burnie, Tasmania, the Alexanders investigated native Tasmanian plant fibers in making handcrafted papers with 10 local papermakers in the workshop.
Jean McElvain (Goldstein Museum of Design) will speak on Valentino's background, his inspiration, and his life as a designer in an address, entitled "Who is Valentino," before the screening of the film, Valentino: The Last Emperor, on Thursday, June 18, 2009, 6:55 p.m., at the Oak Street Cinema.
Little Circus in Space: An exhibit of photography by Bruce Silcox in collaboration with Les Filles Circus
May 28-July 10, 2009 in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library. An opening reception will be held on May 28, 2009, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library
Landscape and architectural spaces define the context of Les Filles Circus. The dynamics of these spaces frame the choreography and inspiration that emerges from Les Filles movement and colorful stories. Minneapolis photographer, Bruce Silcox, has been documenting Les Filles Circus since 2007 and wondrously articulates the talent and creative energy of this young group of artists.
Les Filles Circus (Bruce Silcox, 2008).
Sponsored by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, Common Roots Cafe, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and College of Design.
James Boyd-Brent (Graphic Design), Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design), and Assistant Dean, Student Services, Kate Maple, are representing graphic design in the University's participation in the Tuning Project. The Tuning Project is funded by the Lumina Foundation of Indianapolis, and is patterned after the Bologna Project, an effort by European Education ministers to enable and encourage common learner outcomes in each discipline. The State of Minnesota was selected to receive funding for the project and is one of three states to participate; the others are Indiana -- with faculty participating from education and biology -- and Utah -- with faculty participating from history and physics. Biology is also participating from the State of Minnesota.
Other participants from the State of Minnesota include Bemidji State University, Alexandria Technical College, and South-Central College.
Tuning Project meeting in Alexandria, MN.
Recent activities included meetings in Chicago and Alexandria, MN, and will eventually culminate in a meeting open to all faculty in graphic design that will be sponsored by the University.
The effort has been profiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio, and the New York Times.
Marilyn DeLong (associate dean, Apparel Design), Joanne Eicher (Regents professor emerita, DHA), and Juanjuan Wu (Retail Merchandising) gave invited presentations at the Shanghai International Fashion Forum as part of the Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival (SIFCF) in late April.
The SIFCF is a major month-long fashion event in China, including an International Fashion Forum, Shanghai Fashion Week, Donghua Fashion Week, an international fashion fair, and several fashion design contests.
DeLong presented “21 Design – Imperative for Urban Streetwear,” Eicher presented “Dress, Fashion, & Cultural Meaning,” and Wu presented “Under the Skin of Fashion: The Application of Symbolic Interaction Theory to the Study of Chinese Fashion.”
DeLong was a judge for the design contests and both she and Eicher were featured on the Life and Fashion Channel of Shanghai Television in interviews about the state of Chinese fashion within the international context.
Several College of Design undergraduates participated in the University's 2009 Undergraduate Symposium on April 8, 2009. They are:
Meghann Coyle, Architecture
Old Eyes on New Buildings
Mentor: Sharon Roe
Jennifer Dens, Architecture
Northrop Memorial Auditorium: Historical Symbol of the University
Mentor: Nancy Miller
Heidi Erm, Housing Studies
Aging-in-Place Policies
Mentor: Ann Ziebarth
Laura Houghton, Housing Studies
Household & Community Response to Annual Flooding in Rural Bolivia
Mentor: Ann Ziebarth
Shing Mei Leung, Architecture
Designing an Urban Landscape
Mentor: John Ross
Nora Ronningen, Architecture
Transmaterial: Materials that Redefine Our Physical Environment
Mentor: Blaine Brownell
During the last week of April 2009, 32 undergraduate research posters were displayed at the state capitol, and 22 students -- including Meghann Coyle (BDA Architecture undergraduate student) -- met with 29 legislators to discuss the value of their research experience. UMNews covered the event and photographs of the event are available on Facebook.
Coyle's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project was entitled "Old Eyes on New Buildings." Her UROP mentor was Sharon Roe (Architecture)
Those interested in the state's funding for the University may be interested in a report, "The Lost Decade," produced by the Minnesota Budget Project, an initiative of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Becky Yust (Housing Studies) will give a unit presentation at the Writing-Enriched Curriculum symposium on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 8:30-11:30 a.m., in the Al Johnson Great Room of the McNamara Alumni Center. The symposium, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Writing, is a day-long event featuring presentations, addresses, and discussions about the University's Writing-Enriched Curriculum Project. Registration for the event is available online or by telephone at 612-626-7579.
James Boyd-Brent (Graphic Design) will give a guest lecture, "The Expressive Surface: Printmaking in the Early Twentieth Century," on Friday, May 8, 2009, 3 p.m., at the Thrivent Gallery of Religious Art, 625 Fourth Avenue South, Minneapolis.
Boyd-Brent's lecture opens the MODERN IMPRESSIONS: Color and Expression in Twentieth-Century Religious Prints exhibition. The exhibition opens at 1 p.m. on May 8, 2009 and runs through September 30, 2009.
The 2009 senior graphic design show, Stone Soup, takes place Sunday, May 17, 2009, 12:00-3:30 p.m., at Harry's Food and Cocktails, 500 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis. Graduating seniors -- Gina Alianello, Kim Arps, Bobbi Beito, Liz Bub, Andy Erikson, Clair Ganzel, Kari Haven, Hillary Heinz, Jenni Hielke, Heath Ihrke, Stephanie Kaari, Mandy Lange, Audrey Larson, Sarah Mytych, Andy Nelson, Alicia Oestreich, Kaitlyn Pickering, Melanie Ross, Lori Schwartz, Annika Seaberg, and Patrice Soehnlein -- will be exhibiting their portfolios and favorite design pieces from their University years.
The students will be collecting non-perishable food items for Neighborhood House.
For more information, e-mail the students, stonesoup.designshow@gmail.com.
Karl Frankowski's (BS Graphic Design, 2002) video, ID processes: Rapid Prototyping, is featured on both industrial design Web site Core77 and on boingboing Gadgets. Frankowski's video explains rapid prototyping processes for industrial designers and was originally shot for the 2007 Goldstein Museum of Design exhibition, Here by Design 3 (scroll about halfway down the page).
Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) helped organize the cross-disciplinary discourse for "Water, Culture and the Public: A Participatory Exploration, April 20-21, 2009. The National Science Foundation-sponsored exhibition, Water, at the Science Museum of Minnesota -- created jointly with the American Museum of Natural History -- catalyzed the cross-disciplinary approach of this event.
The exploration program, organized by Steve Kelley and Leah Wilkes of the Humphrey Institute's Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, and by staff of the Science Museum of Minnesota was supported by the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Water Resources Center. Presentations by landscape architects, scientists, and public policy professionals focused conversations with public officials, agency representatives, and citizens on issues raised by the exhibition and more locally at the intersections of design, science, and public policy. David Pitt (Landscape Architecture) and Landscape Architecture alumni Fred Rozumalski (BLA, 1988) and Peter MacDonagh (BLA, 1981)were among invited participants.
The College of Design graduating student exhibition, this year entitled Our Deal: Graduates Ready to Stimulate, runs April 25-May 16, 2009 in the HGA Gallery and ALA Library Gallery in Rapson Hall. An awards ceremony will take place on May 15, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
The annual event celebrates new graduates and reflects the professional quality of work done by students of the college. The exhibition includes work by students from all programs within the college: apparel design, architecture, graphic design, housing studies, interior design, landscape architecture, and retail merchandising. Sample projects include poster presentations of research, 3-D projects of clothing and architectural designs, and digital presentations of design process.
Jeff Crump (Housing Studies) and Leslie Van Duzer (Architecture) are participating in the University's Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Research and Creative Collaboratives 2009-10.
Crump will participate in the discussion on the North Side Housing Crisis. The discussion is part of "The Political Economy of Financial Crisis: From Nicollet Mall to Wall Street" and will take place on Monday, April 20, 2009, 4 p.m., in 275 Nicholson Hall.
Van Duzer will present "Beautiful Misperceptions: Illusions in Architecture and Magic" on Friday, April 24, 2009, 11 a.m., in 125 Nolte Center.
A year-end open house and celebration of Community-University partnerships will be held Thursday, April 23, 2009, 4-6 p.m., at the Weisman Art Museum. Examples of work by students, faculty, and staff will be presented and information about service-learning, internships, volunteering, and community-based research will be available.
A brief program will begin at 4:30 p.m. with the announcement of the Outstanding Partners in Engagement Awards, which honor community organizations, students, faculty, and staff.
For more information, contact Monica Siems, 612-626-2044 or siems005@umn.edu.
At the same conference Martin presented another paper, "Engaging Adolescents with Interior Design," with her co-author Kari Ihle (Interior Design graduate student). The paper was based on the University Summer Youth Program course they developed for 12-15 year olds, which was taught by Ihle during summer 2008. The course will again be offered during summer 2009.
Six undergraduate students from the College of Design will present their creativity, research, and scholarship at the U of M Undergraduate Symposium on Wednesday, April 8 at Coffman Union's Great Hall. Sessions will be held between 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
The selected students are Meghann Coyle and Jennifer Dens, both Arch BDA students; Heidi Erm and Laura Houghton, both Housing Studies students; and Shing Mei Leung and Nora Ronningen, both Arch BS students.
An opening for the Greenlight / Brave New Workshop Charrette Exhibit will take place at noon, Tuesday, April 14, in the Rapson Hall courtyard. The exhibit runs until 6 p.m. on April 17.
All are welcome to offer feedback on the sustainable design solutions generated by the student group Greenlight for the Brave New Workshop's theater on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. This is the third and final part of this iterative charrette process that began in January.
This exhibit has been made possible by a grant from Coca Cola.
Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Denise Guerin, Caren Martin, and Stephanie Zollinger (all Interior Design) presented the panel "Stimulating creativity -- Writing in the interior design curriculum" at the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) meeting in St. Louis on March 27, 2009.
Building Ties 09 -- Culturally sensitive housing for Mexicans and Somali will be on exhibition at the Hennepin County Government Center April 1-30, 2009. The exhibit features designs by third year undergraduate interior design students.
Lonnie Broden's environmental graphic design class presents a roundtable discussion on the topic "What is environmental design and what should it do?" on Tuesday, April 7, 6:15-8:00 p.m. in 10 McNeal Hall.
Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research) recently presented a paper, entitled "Vaishnava Ecology: Lessons for the Future from an Ancient Faith," in the Religion and Ecology session of the Upper Midwest regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature.
AIA Minnesota's fourth annual Town Hall Forum will feature Ignacio San Martin, director of the Metropolitan Design Center. He will speak on "Livable Communities--Why Not A Livable Metropolis?" on Thursday, April 16 from 5-7 p.m., at International Market Square, Studio 185, 275 Market Street, Minneapolis.
Reservations in advance are $25 and include light hors d'oeuvres. Student fee is $15. The program meets AIA/CES criteria and qualifies for 1.0 hour of continuing education credit.
Leslie Van Duzer (Architecture) will participate in a panel discussion on human rights with attorneys David Weissbrodt and Caroline Palmer. The panel discussion is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies and takes place on Monday, March 30, 2009, 4 p.m., in 125 Nolte Center.
The discussion will center around the performance of "Uncivil Wars" by David Gordon and his Pick Up Company which itself was based on Bertolt Brecht's play, "Round Heads and Pointed Heads."
What the if... is a two-week installation, March 30-April 10, 2009, transforming McNeal Hall into a space more representative of the creative community working within it by using the existing structures to provide new opportunities for presentation, discussion, and critique. A kick-off event is planned for Monday, March 30, 2009, 11:45 a.m., outside the Goldstein Gallery with presentations by Ange Tank (MFA graduate student), Evan Stremke (Graphic Design undergraduate student), Laura Weber (Communications) and Jeanne Schacht (Communications).
Ann Johnson (Civil Engineering), project manager for the University's Solar Decathlon effort, will address the Headliners Monthly Forum on Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7 p.m., in 135 Continuing Education and Conference Center. Johnson will unveil the team's iconic design for the house and discuss innovative energy features in the structure. Tickets for the event are $10; students involved in the Solar Decathlon project can attend at no charge.
Joanne Eicher (Regents professor emerita, DHA) presents "Kalabari Dress of Nigeria as an Example of Cultural Authentication" on Thursday, April 2, 2009, 6 p.m., in 33 McNeal Hall. A reception will follow the presentation. Eicher, who has lived and done research in Nigeria, explains a fascinating Kalabari textile technique, "pelete bite," and its cultural implications.
Kalabari woman making pelete bite. Photo by Joanne Eicher.
This presentation is offered in conjunction with the current exhibition in the Goldstein Museum Gallery, Expressions of Stability and Change: Ethnic Dress and Folk Costume, which runs through June 14, 2009.
Joanne Eicher (Regents professor emerita, DHA) was asked to provide concluding comments at the Program of African Studies (PAS) conference, "African Dress, Popular Culture, and Social Action," at Northwestern University, March 13-14, 2009. PAS, one of the first African Studies programs in the US, is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a series of anniversary events during the current academic year.
The publication of Arthur Chen's (Center for World Heritage Studies) The Walled City of Baku will be celebrated and the book will be discussed on Monday, March 30, 2009, 5:30-7:00 p.m. in 210 Rapson Hall. The book was created in coordination with the World Heritage Center of UNESCO.
Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture) will participate in the Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism panel discussion taking place today, Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 6 p.m. at the Steelcase WorkLife Center at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required and seating is limited.
Jane King Hession (M.Arch '95) will speak on "Frank Lloyd Wright in New York" at the 2009 annual meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH), Wednesday, March 18, 7:15 p.m., at the Minnesota Humanities Center, 987 Ivy Ave. East, St. Paul.
Hession is an architectural historian, curator, and writer based in Alexandria, VA. She is the coauthor of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years 1954-1959 and Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design.
For more information on MNSAH, contact Laura Weber, l-webe@umn.edu.
Jane Davidson (Mechanical Engineering) will deliver the 2009 Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 4 p.m., in the Cowles Auditorium of the Hubert H. Humphrey Center. Davidson's research focuses on solar systems for buildings, and solar thermo-chemical cycles to produce solar fuels. Her presentation will center on the need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions while meeting an exploding global demand for energy.
The Color Forecast 2010 seminar, presented by the Goldstein Museum of Design and Benjamin Moore, and co-sponsored by Fashion Group International of Minneapolis/Saint Paul (FGI) takes place on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 6-7 p.m. in 33 McNeal Hall. A reception follows. Doty Horn, director of color and design for Benjamin Moore, will present "Color Pulse 2010," Benjamin Moore's view of color direction for the coming year. Admission is $10 for members, $15 for non-members, and free for students. Please RSVP by Friday, April 3 to Barbara Porwit, 612-624-7434, gmd@umn.edu.
The panel discussion, "Retention of Traditions and the Immigrant Experience" has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6 p.m., in 274 McNeal Hall. A reception follows. Kate Daly (Retail Merchandising) moderates the panelists Nimo Farah, Seexeng Lee, and Jorje Panchi. Immigrants from three cultures reflect on their most important cultural traditions and the ways in which life in the United States has impacted those traditions. The discussion is part of the ongoing Goldstein Museum of Design exhibition, Expressions of Stability and Change: Ethnic Dress and Folk Costume, which runs through June 14, 2009.
Laurann Gilbertson, textile curator of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, IA, will present "The Re-invention of Scandinavian Folk Dress in the Nineteenth Century" on Thursday, March 12, 2009, 6 p.m., in 274 McNeal Hall. A reception follows. The presentation is part of the ongoing Goldstein Museum of Design exhibition, Expressions of Stability and Change: Ethnic Dress and Folk Costume, which runs through June 14, 2009.
Anna Tahinci, a local art historian, will speak to the DHA 4162 -- History of Interiors and Furnishings 1750-present class on Monday, March 23, 2009, 11:45 a.m.-1:40 p.m., in 395 McNeal Hall. The title of Tahinci's lecture is "Bronzes and bric-a-brac: Rodin's collectors during his lifetime." She received her Ph.D. in art history from the Sorbonne with specialization in 19th and 20th century European art; her dissertation was on "Rodin's collectors in his lifetime."
The Robert and Janet Sabes Center for Jewish Arts and Humanities presents Desaparecidos: Mothers of the Disappeared, a photographic exhibition by Sylvia Horwitz, March 12-April 23, 2009, at the Sabes Jewish Community Center, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis. The exhibit is a photographic tribute to the Desaparecidos, those who "disappeared" during the military regime of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83). Under this dictatorship an estimated 30,000 student activists, young professionals, writers, and artists were tortured and killed as political prisoners; a disproportionate number were Jewish.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) moderates the Rimon Artist Salon in conjunction with the exhibition on Sunday, March 22, 2009, 12 p.m., at the Sabes JCC. Photographer Sylvia Horwitz will discuss "Photography as a Tool for Jewish Social Conscience." The cost of the event is $5. For more information, contact Robyn Awend at 952-381-3416 or rawend@sabesjcc.org.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) will present "Creative problem solving and applications for local government" at the Hennepin-University Partnership brown bag lunch series on Friday, March 13, 2009, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., in room A2350 of the Hennepin County Government Center.
Please RSVP to Jerry Doyle, doyle218@umn.edu, by March 6 to reserve your place.
The series highlights University faculty and experts.
From the simplest tie-dye wrapper to the most sumptuous Kente cloth, African textiles display a wide variety of materials, designs, and techniques. Although many of these textile traditions are unique to a particular African culture, others are the product of complex interactions with European and Asian trade networks.
Joanne Eicher (DHA faculty emeritus) will present the Textile Curatorial Council lecture, "Are All African Textiles African?," on Sunday, March 1, 2009, 2-3 p.m., in the Wells Fargo Community Room at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. A reception will precede the lecture at 1:30 p.m. Admission is $10; free for Textile Curatorial Council members.
Eicher is a leading authority on African textiles.
Eicher, who is also editor-in-chief of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashon, will deliver the 17th annual Darl Snyder Lecture on Thursday, March 5, 2009, 10 a.m., in the University of Georgia chapel. The lecture series was established in 1992 in honor of Snyder for his dedication, research, and service to learning programs in Africa. The event is an annual opportunity to bring accomplished scholars in African studies to the University of Georgia campus.
Sustainable Housing: Research and Practice
Monday, February 23, 2009, 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
John Carmody, director, and William Weber, senior research fellow, Center for Sustainable Building Research
Housing design is in a state of major transformation in Minnesota and the rest of the world in order to meet aggressive goals for energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions. Recent research and examples of sustainable approaches to housing will be presented.
Greg Donofrio (Architecture) gives the second of eight lectures in the School of Architecture's Design @ Noon series Wednesday, February 25, 2009, at noon in 225 Rapson Hall.
Retention of Traditions and the Immigrant Experience
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 6 p.m., 33 McNeal Hall, reception follows
Kate Daly (Retail Merchandising) moderates a discussion between panelists Nimo Farah, Seexeng Lee, and Jorge Panchi on the challenges they face such as mediating between group identity and social integration. The panel discussion is part of the Goldstein's current exhibition, Expressions of Stability and Change: Ethnic Dress and Folk Costume.
Reinventing Community: The Role Of Philanthropy
Monday, February 16, 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
A conversation with philanthropic leaders who will discuss current issues, new funding directions, and the changing role of philanthropy in our communities.
Panelists: Peter Hutchinson, president, Bush Foundation; Carleen Rhodes, president and CEO, Minnesota Community Foundation and Saint Paul Foundation; moderated by Jon Pratt, executive director, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Demonstration of philanthropy and Buckman Fellows' alumni reception to follow presentation.
Mertie Buckman Lecture in Leadership and Philanthropy
Kate Daly (Retail Merchandising) will moderate a discussion between panelists Nimo Farah, Seexeng Lee, and Jorge Panchi on the challenges they face such as mediating between group identity and social integration. They will also discuss similarities and/or differences between life in their country of origin and their life here in the United States. This panel discussion is offered in connection with the Goldstein Museum of Design's current exhibition Expressions of Stability and Change: Ethnic Dress and Folk Costume.
The panel discussion takes place Thursday, February 26, 2009, 6 p.m., in 33 McNeal Hall with a reception following.
John Carmody and William Weber, both of the Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR), will present "Sustainable Housing Research and Practice" in connection with the current Rapson Hall HGA Gallery exhibition, The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design. This is the first exhibition to explore the field of green residential design as it reaches a turning point of acceptance by both home builders and the general public.
The Carmody and Weber presentation will take place Monday, February 23, 2009, 6 p.m., in 100 Rapson Hall with a reception following.
Jill Bezecny (Finance) has several paintings in the Studiopolis "Blue" group show that runs February 5-7, 2009. A reception will be held Friday, February 6, 2009, 7-10 p.m. Studiopolis is located in suite 423 of the Northrup King Building at 1500 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis.
Douglas M. Johnston
professor and chair, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Design, Iowa State University
Transformations: Revealing the ecological dynamics of place
Monday, February 2, 2009 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
H.W.S. Cleveland Fund Lecture
Department of Landscape Architecture
Restoration of ecological function, whether through structural reconstruction, restoration, or re-creation poses challenges to social recognition and appreciation in the more quotidian environment (outside of explicit exhibition or museum contexts). This presentation focuses on two projects (one for the Nature Conservancy's Emiquon Preserve, and one for the Chicago OpenLands Lakeshore Preserve) that pose design interventions seeking to clarify and illuminate ecological processes present in place.
Sauman "Sue" Chu (Graphic Design) will present and publish her research in eye tracking technology and news Web sites:
Faculty members of the School of Architecture will make presentations during the design @ noon series this semester. All lectures are at noon in 225 Rapson Hall.
Expressions of Stability and Change: Ethnic Dress and Folk Costume
February 7-June 14, 2009
Note: This exhibition has been extended through June 21, 2009
Goldstein Museum of Design
Opening party, February 6, 2009, 7-9 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Gloriously colored and exquisitely textured ethnic clothing from around the world will celebrate the vibrant multi-cultural nature of the University of Minnesota and greater Twin Cities communities. As a powerful symbol of cultural heritage, ethnic dress is a significant statement of identity and belonging. The exhibition features 30 ensembles of ethnic dress and folk costume from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Both men's and women's dress are included.
Supported in part by the University of Minnesota Imagine Fund, supported by a generous donation from the McKnight Foundation; the College of Design; and the Friends of the Goldstein.
Image information: Women's costume from the Ukraine. Made in the 20th century. Gift of the International Institute of Minnesota.
Four of the College of Design's spring events are featured in the University's Arts to Z initiative, a campaign and companion Web site that features a playful take on the letters of the alphabet to illustrate the breadth of the University's cultural offerings:
The Metropolitan Design Center undergraduate travel fellows will present an overview of their Summer 2008 travel study projects on February 3, 2009 at 6 p.m. in 225 Rapson Hall. The presentations will be followed by a reception next to the Metropolitan Design Center office where an exhibit of the projects will be on display.
Presenters:
The Green House: New Designs in Sustainable Architecture & Design
January 12-March 8, 2009
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
The National Building Museum's acclaimed exhibition The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design is the first to explore the field of green residential design as it reaches a turning point of acceptance by both home builders and the general public.
Photographic images and drawings of 22 projects from around the world document the emergence of a new brand of sustainable building. Architects and builders now view sustainability as a catalyst for creative home design and have also begun to think strategically about the environmental costs of building. These new houses are conceived as systems with extended life cycles that must meet green standards throughout the design, construction, and living process. Environmental responsibility is an integral, but not always conspicuous, aspect of the contemporary house.
Project architects such as Rick Joy, Jennifer Siegel and William McDonough (United States), Stuhlmacher + Korteknie (the Netherlands), Peter Carmichael (Australia), Werner Sobek (Germany), Shigeru Ban (Japan), and many others are presented in this exhibition.
Related event:
Sustainable Housing: Research and Practice
Monday, February 23, 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
John Carmody, director, and William Weber, senior research fellow, Center for Sustainable Building Research
Housing design is in a state of major transformation in Minnesota and the rest of the world in order to meet aggressive goals for energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions. Recent research and examples of sustainable approaches to housing will be presented.
James Boyd-Brent (Graphic Design) has work in F+CX2, an invitational exhibition at the Form + Content Gallery, 210 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401. The exhibition runs through Saturday, February 7, 2009.
ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY, RAPSON HALL
Horizons: Paintings by Mary Guzowski
Nature's Wonders: Drawings by Virajita Singh
January 20-April 30, 2009
Reception on Friday, January 23, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Mary Guzowski (Architecture) and Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research) are each engaged in a dialog with the changing phenomena of nature and with earthly objects that bring wondrous inspiration. Guzowski says: "Painting is an opportunity to witness and engage the changing qualities and moods of the seasons. They are intended to capture an ever changing spirit and quality of time and place.? For Singh, drawing objects from nature gives her a sense of the spiritual link between human existence and nature.
Douglas M. Johnston
professor and chair, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Design, Iowa State University
Transformations: Revealing the ecological dynamics of place
Monday, February 2, 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
H.W.S. Cleveland Fund Lecture
Department of Landscape Architecture
Restoration of ecological function, whether through structural reconstruction, restoration, or re-creation poses challenges to social recognition and appreciation in the more quotidian environment (outside of explicit exhibition or museum contexts). This presentation focuses on two projects (one for The Nature Conservancy's Emiquon Preserve, and one for the Chicago OpenLands Lakeshore Preserve) that pose design interventions seeking to clarify and illuminate ecological processes present in place.
Johnston's research focuses on the valuation of environmental improvements in the landscape, particularly as it applies to water resources. Recent research includes restoration options in large flood-plain rivers, studying the environmental and economic implications of retiring some agricultural drainage districts and other potential land management strategies. Johnston also investigates the downstream economic benefits of urban storm water runoff management practices. He has encouraged public understanding of watershed science and policy via a series of interactive computer-based exhibits. Johnston has authored dozens of technical reports and articles in these areas.
Previously, he was professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also held positions as affiliate professor with the departments of Geography and Urban and Regional Planning. Johnston served as senior scientist with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and as director of the Geographic Modeling Systems Lab. He received a BS in Environmental Studies and BLA from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, an MLA from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. in Water Resources Planning and Management from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.
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Dean Tom Fisher addressed the University's Communicators Forum on December 10, 2008 on the topic of his latest book, Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival. According to Fisher, fracture-critical system designs -- a design where the failure of any one part will bring down the whole -- surround us: the I-35W bridge, the global financial system, the US electrical grid, the New Orleans levee system, our oil-dependent transportation system, and our suburbs. Perhaps the most fracture-critical systems design is our food supply system.
According to Fisher, we designed so many fracture-critical systems because of an over-optimism in our ability to maintain the extended infrastructure, an unwarranted faith in technology, and hubris.
We need the resilience and redundancy inherent in natural systems in these constructed systems, Fisher says, because, ironically the more interconnected and efficient a system becomes, the more likely it is to become less resilient and fail.
Fisher says the design task before us is to "design a more resilient, less interconnected, and less efficient world" and compares the levee systems of Holland and New Orleans as an example. The result of success in such an enormous task would be "a higher quality of life, one in which the inner riches of an ethical life can compensate for the decline in material resources."
Several staff members of the Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR) participated in the Greenbuild conference November 19-21 in Boston.
More information and photos are available on the CSBR Web site.
Faculty and graduate students in the apparel design program presented research at the annual meeting of the International Textiles and Apparel Association (ITAA):
Members of the college community participated in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Minnesota's 74th annual convention, entitled "Voices with Vision," held November 11-14 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
John Carmody (Center for Sustainable Building Research) and Richard Strong (Architecture) co-presented the Sustainable Building 2030 Project Workshop. Carmody was also a co-presenter at the MN 2030, the New Energy Standard for State FUnded Buildings session.
Mary Guzowski (Architecture) co-presented at the Great Daylighting is No Accident: Innovative Daylight Harvesting Strategies and New Simulation Methods and Metrics program.
Blaine Brownell (Architecture) presented the Transmaterial session.
Renee Cheng (Architecture) co-presented the Education: A Driver for Change program.
Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture) presented the Architectural Design and Ethics session, followed by a book signing for his most recent book, Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival.
Jonee Kulman Brigham (Center for Sustainable Building Research) took part in the session on the Solar Decathlon, Icon Solar House: Innovative Design and the Solar Decathlon.
William Conway (Architecture) co-presented at the Visioning Rail Transit workshop.
Individual strands interlock and interlace to create structure. Multiple units connect becoming composition and texture. Color, pattern, and imagery combine into complex surfaces. In this exhibition, the Surface Design Association showcases work by its members to create a whole that is more than simply the Sum of the Parts.
As part of the Surface Design Association's 2007 International Conference held at the Kansas City Art Institute, members were invited to submit work measuring 52" x 18" for an installation showcasing innovative use of textiles. The 100 pieces juried into this exhibition utilize fibers and materials ranging from window screening to gold leaf, bamboo to baling twine, chicken wire to silk organza. The works are hand dyed, woven, knitted, crocheted, quilted, batiked, rusted, composted, digitally printed, hand stitched, painted, discharged, fused, appliqued, hooked, Jacquard woven, collaged, stamped, braided, screen printed, bonded, felted, embroidered, waxed, and pieced.
Sum of the Parts: Surface Design Association Membership Exhibition opens Saturday, November 22 at the Goldstein Museum of Design and runs through January 18, 2009.
Image credit: Linda B. Dunn Cambridge, MA, USA, Footnote, 2007, cotton, procion dye, fabric paint, acrylic paint, embroidery floss machine pieced, dyed, screen printed, painted.
Brad Hokanson's (Graphic Design) paper, "Circadian Rhythms and Creativity," was a featured research presentation at the recent conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology in Orlando. The paper builds on research conducted in Hokanson's Creative Problem Solving course (DHA 1111) and will be published in the proceedings.
The essential findings of the research are that creativity varies throughout the day, with a consistent early morning low point for adults about 5 a.m., whereas with 18 year olds, this low point may be about 9 a.m. Breakfast was also found to significantly improve morning creativity.
Hokanson also presented a workshop on creativity at the conference.
Nikolas Bakirtzis (Center for World Heritage Studies) and Theofanis Stavrou (History) inaugurate the Center for World Heritage Studies Round Table Series with a presentation and response. Bakirtzis will speak on aspects of the late medieval architectural heritage of Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, and Chios. This heritage, according to Bakirtzis, provides a context to revise the methodological and historiographical approach to the monuments of Crusader societies. Stavrou will respond to Bakirtzis' work-in-progress, which is part of an ongoing Cyprus Institute/European Commission Marie Curie project.
Tracing Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean
Architecture and Society in Crusader Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, and Chios
Thursday, November 13, 5:00-6:15 p.m.
225 Rapson Hall
Earlier this month Julia Robinson (Architecture) traveled with her design studio students to the lower ninth ward of New Orleans to present initial urban designs to the community for feedback. The students are currently working on revisions for their urban designs as well as developing housing, commercial, and other buildings for the four-block site.
Julia Robinson (Architecture) and her design studio students in New Orleans lower ninth ward.
The group also helped clear the site for the Dunham Greenhouse designed by Tom Westbrook's (Architecture) design studio.
The exhibition, Journeys: Travels Far and Travels Near, opens Monday, October 20, 2008 and runs through Friday, December 19, 2008 in Rapson Hall. The show features drawings by Winston Close (Architecture emeritus) and Roger Martin (Landscape Architecture) and photographs by Roger Clemence (Landscape Architecture).
Left: Roger Martin, Il Canopus Hadrian’s Villa; middle: Winston Close, Toulouse; right: Roger Clemence, Snow Capped Suns in Winter, Clemence Farm, Wilson, Wisconsin.
Most architects and landscape architects love to travel, but also love to document what they see by drawing and photographing. For them, the sketch book and the camera are the constant companions in their traveler's bag. Each of the artists in the exhibition has traveled widely. The exhibition features selected on-site travel sketches, drawings, and watercolor paintings by Martin and Close while they traveled overseas via car, train, or bicycle, and photographs by Clemence who captured the seasons and settings of his tiny farm in Wilson, Wisconsin.
An opening party will take place on Friday, October 24, 2008, 5:30-7:00 p.m. in Rapson Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Update: November 12, 2008: Camille LeFevre has written an article about the Travels Far and Travels Near exhibition -- "Landscape Archetypes" -- in the November-December issue of Minnesota magazine, published by the University Alumni Association.
Craig Zimring, environmental psychologist and professor of architecture at Georgia Tech, will lecture on evidence-based design (EBD) as part of the Ellerbe Becket Optimal Healing Environments Lecture Series sponsored by the University's Center for Spirituality & Healing.
Zimring's lecture, entitled "Evidence-Based Design: What Do We Really Know?," (.pdf; 196Kb) takes place Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 4:00-5:30 p.m., at the Mayo Memorial Auditorium. A reception follows. The event is free, but registration is required online or by calling 612-624-9459.
The evidence-based design process uses research, previous project evaluations, and operational evidence from clients to plan, design, and construct commercial buildings. EBD is especially appropriate in healthcare environments because of the attendant high stakes, safety issues, a desire to improve patient outcomes, and a natural parallel to evidence-based medicine.
Prior to his lecture, Zimring will engage in dialog with students in the senior interior design class on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10-11 a.m., in 274 McNeal Hall. Zimring will address collaborative work in healthcare practice and how EBD is integrated into the design process. Space permitting, the conversation is open to all members of the College of Design and Center for Spirituality & Healing communities.
Questions about the morning session should be directed to Caren Martin (Interior Design), cmartin@umn.edu or 612-624-5318.
The City, the River, the Bridge symposium offers a retrospective on the I-35W bridge collapse, the aftermath, and its reconstruction. The symposium, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study, will be held October 9-10, 2008 at various locations around the Twin Cities campus. University President Robert Bruininks will give the capstone comment. Dean Tom Fisher and Pat Nunnally (Landscape Architecture) are featured speakers on Friday, October 10.
Update: Friday, October 10, 2008: Tim Nelson covered the event for Minnesota Public Radio, quoting Nunnally as saying, "There are a lot of things to still be thinking about. A lot of questions to ask about things we may have learned or not learned, what the ongoing discussion about infrastructure is and where might we be in these conversations in another five or ten years. We don't just sort of do things like fix substantial parts of the city and not have those things reverberate for a while."
The Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) holds its annual conference, entitled Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, at the College of Design's School of Architecture. Marc Swackhamer (Architecture) is the site chair for the event taking place on Friday October 17, 8-10 p.m. in the Rapson Hall courtyard. The conference is free and open to the public.
The conference examines the impact of biological processes in nature on sustainable design. Architects are fond of saying that shape is cheaper than material. Biological systems in nature put little emphasis on form or expensive materials. These biological systems have only a few chemical substances (materials) and necessarily focus on efficient building processes such as self organization in a bottom-up manner. As a result, the field of biomemetics appears to hold fascinating promise for the design disciplines in general and architecture in particular.
Blaine Brownell (Architecture) is one of the event's featured speakers.
The content of the conference focuses on the relationship between biology and computing and presents a unique opportunity for students and faculty "to be at the center of a critical conversation regarding the direction of digital production" in architecture, according to Swackhamer.
"This year, ACADIA will be among the highest attended in the organization's nearly 30 year history," said Swackhamer. "There are an unprecedented six keynote speakers, five technical and thematic workshops, 10 paper sessions, an exhibition of peer-reviewed projects, and a traveling exhibition entitled Anxious Climate featuring the work of Francois Roche, AMID/cero9, and Philippe Rahm."
Balthazar Korab worked with Le Corbusier before coming to the United States in 1955 to join Eero Saarinen and Associates, where he began experimenting with the use of photography as part of the design development process. Korab is joined in conversation by John Comazzi (Architecture).
This free, public event is the opening lecture for Beyond the Measly ABC, a symposium examining the legacy of one of the modern masters of architecture, Eero Saarinen.
Friday, October 10, 7-9 p.m.
Lecture: 7 p.m., Bell Museum Auditorium
Reception: 8:30 p.m., Rapson Hall
Several College of Design faculty will be participating in the symposium: Dean Tom Fisher will speak on Eero Saarinen's contribution to Contemporary Architecture; Nancy Miller (Architecture) will present work on Eero Saarinen's corporate campuses; and Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) will speak to his current research on Eliel Saarinen's design of Christ Church Lutheran.
As part of these events, an exhibit entitled "Christ Church Lutheran: Three Photographic Visions" will open at the conclusion of the symposium on Sunday, October 12. The exhibit features a photographic narrative of Christ Church Lutheran as seen through the camera lenses of George Miles-Ryan (1911-91), Balthazar Korab (1926-) and Pete Sieger, AIA. Organized and curated by Ozayr Saloojee and Michael Hara, the exhibit will be at Christ Church Lutheran until January of 2009. Contact the church at 612-721-6611 for exhibition hours.
The symposium is sponsored by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, Christ Church Lutheran, and the College of Design. Rendezvous with the U is cosponsored by the American Institute of Architects, Minneapolis.
For more information, call 612-625-8796.
Mogens Smed will present the class, "Modular interior construction: Design, bottom-line, and the environment," on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, from 2-4 p.m. in 104 Hanson Hall.
RSVP to warz0014@umn.edu is required by Monday, October 6.
Mogens has been a leader in the modular interior construction industry for almost 40 years and a long-time advocate for environmental sustainability in the interior design and construction industry.
The course:
On September 30, Leslie Van Duzer's (Architecture) exhibition, entitled "Adolf Loos: Works in the Czech Lands," opens at the City of Prague Museum in Prague. The exhibition, co-curated with art historian Maria Szadkowska, presents research conducted while on a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 2003. Their co-authored book on the topic is forthcoming.
The Goldstein Museum Of Design: A Resource For Designers An Introduction to the GMD collection for designers' reference will take place on September 19, 6-7 p.m., with a party and reception following from 7-9 p.m. in 333 McNeal Hall.
The Goldstein Museum of Design's collection of over 18,500 apparel items from around the world can inform and inspire contemporary designers.
As part of MN Fall Fashion Weekend, assistant curator Jean McElvain will present three examples to illustrate ways that designers can use the collection as a point of departure.
Paintings by Joonja Lee Mornes (Architecture/Landscape Architecture Library) will be shown as part of the "wind, water & light" exhibition at the Northfield Arts Guild, September 10-October 11. An opening reception will be held Friday, September 12, 7-9 p.m.
Rebecca Krinke (Landscape Architecture) has a sculpture in Franconia Sculpture Park's new show opening on Saturday, September 20. The show is free and open to the public.
The Rutherford Aris Seminar Series on Design is a cooperative lecture series by the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, the Weisman Art Museum, and the College of Design.
John Adams
professor, Department of Geography
Redesigning Metropolitan Systems for Equity and Efficiency
Thursday, September 11, 1:25 p.m., Weisman Art Museum
John Arnone
Guthrie collaborator, set designer
TBA
Tuesday, September 16, 1:25 p.m., Weisman Art Museum
Minda Grainek
vice president, creative director, Target
TBA
Tuesday, September 23, 1:25 p.m., Weisman Art Museum
Larry Wendling
vice president, corporate research and development, 3M
Product Design and Innovation
Tuesday, September 30, 1:25 p.m., Weisman Art Museum
Blaine Brownell
professor, School of Architecture
Materials in Architecture
Tuesday, October 7, 1:25 p.m., B-75 Amundson Hall
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Michael Speaks
professor and dean, College of Design, University of Kentucky
Design Thinking
Monday, September 15, 6 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Cass Gilbert Lecture
As the limits of what can and what cannot be built are daily pushed to new extremes by an insatiable, market driven appetite for more and ever more complex and formally exotic buildings, the architect and the structural engineer have become a close, if not inextricably linked, pair... As a result, cutting edge architects are beginning to understand the significance of innovation for their designs and for their design practices and, with cutting edge engineers, they are entering into new collaborations that call into question, once and for all, the line between the design and its engineering.
Speaks is professor and dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky. He has published and lectured internationally on contemporary art, architecture, urban design, and scenario planning. Former director of the graduate program and founding director of the Metropolitan Research and Design Post Graduate Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Speaks has also taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art, and in the architecture programs at Harvard University, Columbia University, The University of Michigan, The Berlage Institute, UCLA, TU Delft in the Netherlands, and the Art Center College of Design. Speaks is founding editor of the cultural journal Polygraph and former editor at Any in New York, and is currently a contributing editor for Architectural Record.
Important note: This lecture was postponed and will likely be rescheduled for the Spring 2009 semester.
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The Clothing Design program hosted a group of 60 designers from Target during the week of August 18 for a series of five, one-day workshops. The workshops were presented by A&E, a manufacturer of sewing threads for the apparel industry. Target menswear technical designer, Michal Sedivy (Retail Merchandising, 2006) and Karen LaBat (Clothing Design) facilitated the workshop planning.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) presented a workshop on the use of wikis in education at the University of Wisconsin Distance Education Conference in Madison. Wikis allow online collaboration and sharing of information among participants.
The influence of sportswear on contemporary American Fashion has been profound. From Sportswear to Streetwear: American Innovation -- an exhibition at the Goldstein Museum of Design running August 16-November 2 -- features garments from the museum's own collection to examine this influence. The exhibition demonstrates the migration of specialty fabrics such as quik-dri and stretch, and styles such as golf shirts, ski pants, equestrian-wear, and athletic shoes into non-sport casual dress. The influence has come full circle and dress for sport is now influenced by streetwear. This mutual influence shifts from sportswear to streetwear and back again, leaving viewers to ask: Is it sportswear or streetwear?
Is it sportswear or streetwear? The sweater and pleated skirt silhouette of the classic tennis ensemble is mirrored in a staple of 20th century streetwear: the sweater set and knee length skirt.
Tennis Dress, 1975-1980
CIAO LTD.
polyester
Gift of Ms.Lorraine Livingston, 1983.065.007
Sweater Set and Skirt, 1960-1970
Pringle For Bonwit Teller, New York, Scotland
Cashmere, small pearl buttons, wool
Gift of Dr & Mrs.Martin and Eve Jean Lebowitz, 2004.033.017B
Curators: Dolores DeFore, volunteer curatorial specialist in fashion; Marilyn DeLong, associate dean for research and outreach; Kelly Gage, graduate student in Apparel Studies; Gloria Hogan, consultant; Erin Jedlicka, graduate student in Apparel Studies.
Opening Reception
August 15, 2008, 7-9 p.m.
Goldstein Museum, McNeal Hall
Party for MN Fashion Week
September 19, 2008
The Goldstein Collection: A Resource for Designers 6-7 p.m.
Party 7-9 p.m.
Goldstein Museum, McNeal Hall
Symposium
October 10, 2008, 4 p.m.
McNeal Auditorium
Keynote address by Patricia Campbell Warner, professor emerita, history of dress, Department of Theater, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Warner is the author of When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear. She will explore this American innovation in dress in support of the exhibition. Other speakers will include Apparel Studies graduate students Monica Sklar ("Biker Chic: Renegade to Runway"), Joyce Heckman ("Running the Gamut"), Kelly Gage ("Horsing Around: Fashion for Sport and Street"), and Erin Jedlicka ("Ralph Lauren: Selling the American Dream").
John Comazzi (Architecture) will direct a two-day workshop with Scott Christensen (formerly of the Design Institute) as part of Cooper-Hewitt's Summer Design Institute. Comazzi and Christensen will work with a group of 27 teachers from around the US, developing models and strategies for the integration of design as a catalyst for learning and teaching in PK-12 education.
The workshop takes place Wednesday, July 30 and Thursday, July 31 at the Walker Art Center.
Earlier this month, John Comazzi (Architecture) presented a paper, "Making Material Matter: Design in Education," at the Creative Engagements conference in Oxford, UK. The interdisciplinary conference brought together educators from 14 different nations to discuss and develop ideas and strategies for the integration of creativity in education.
Last month, John Comazzi (Architecture) and Wendy Friedmeyer (Design Institute) coordinated a Design Camp for Teachers with the Highlands Elementary School in Edina. Instructors -- including Comazzi and Friedmeyer, Bruce Wright (Design Minor Fellow), Daniel Jasper (Graphic Design), Scott Christensen (formerly of the Design Institute), and Cheryl Wilgren Clyne (Art) worked with 24 teachers and 40 children to design a lemonade pavilion during the three-day design workshop.
Additionally, the team worked with the Highlands teachers to develop curricula for the integration of design-based learning in their classrooms.
Each instructor lead design workshops focusing on fabric architecture, graphic design, product design, and technology/journalism. The three-day event concluded with a public celebration of the work produced by the children and teachers. A documentary film that chronicles the effort is in production.
Dean Tom Fisher and Marc Swackhamer (Architecture) will present at "Solutions for the Other 90%," a lecture event featuring "short, rapid-fire, media-rich presentations" at the Walker Art Center on Thursday, July 31, 7 p.m. The event focuses on humanitarian design -- the belief that good design shouldn't just be for the richest 10 percent. Leading Twin Cities designers will present ideas for "sustainable solutions to the water, energy, education, health care, and transportation shortages affecting the 90 percent of the world's population that has little or no access to these products and services."
The event is free to the public; tickets will be available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk starting at 6 p.m.
Chris Schlichting's (Student Services) dance, "Love Things," is part of the Momentum series, a co-commission with the Southern Theater and the Walker Art Center. When asked about "Love Things," which Schlichting both choreographed and appears in as a dancer, explained, "One curse and blessing of being a choreographer is the duty of describing work when you've selected dance as your medium of expression. I'm constantly talking about dance, but when it comes to labeling my work I'm particular because I want to leave room for the imagination the same way an abstract painter would." With that caveat, Schlichting describes the piece as a "kinetic conversation about constructs of fantasy in and outside of dance through the lens of vernacular and formal dance. The work also considers movement as landscapes and architecture and it considers a lot of other things I'd be glad to discuss with people if they have questions after the performance."
"Love Things" runs July 17-19, 2008 at the Southern Theater.
Karen Ryan (Human Dimensioning Laboratory) presented "PolyWorks as an Academic Research Tool in the Human Dimensioning Laboratory" at the 2008 International PolyWorks User Meeting in May.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) presented a session called "Both/And: Creativity and Critical Thinking" at the sixth annual Critical Thinking Conference at Northwestern Michigan University.
The College of Design is collaborating with Edina Highlands Elementary School for the Highlands Design Camp. Bringing together teachers and their students in five workshops, the camp will undertake a full-fledged design project -- a lemonade pavilion.
Highlands Design Camp will be held 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. June 11-13 at Southview Middle School, 4725 S. View Lane, Edina. An open house will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 13.
Each camp workshop is led by a design professional from the college. The camp is coordinated by Wendy Friedmeyer (Design Institute) and John Comazzi (Architecture).
Barbara Porwit (Goldstein Museum of Design) is exhibiting recent drawings and paintings in a show with another painter at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community through July 4, 2008.
This is a limited show with selected pieces -- all figurative -- done in the past two years, explorations in oil bar and also a rare look at work in progress from a painting series on the subject of loss and recovery.
A reception is scheduled for Saturday, June 14, 2008 7-9 p.m.
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Laura Musacchio (Landscape Architecture) was an invited speaker at LaBash 2008, a student-run international landscape architecture conference, at the University of Guelph in Canada. Musacchio's workshop focused on re-greening cities.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) presented his research, entitled "Too early: Circadian influences on measured creativity," at the Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management international conference in Buffalo, New York. Jon Michael Fox (BED '78), undergraduate director of Buffalo State's Center for Studies in Creativity, helped organize the conference.
Several years ago I was asked to give the commencement address at the Memphis College of Art. The very day I sat down to write that speech, a long article appeared in the newspaper about how useless graduation speeches are. The headline read: "Nobody ever remembers their graduation speaker or speech." Needless to say, I felt a bit deflated as I sat down to write. This year, I discovered that at "TheWriteSpeech.com" a commencement address costs just $19. Amazon.com has 3 pages of commencement speech books retailing for under $20 and eligible for super saver shipping. For the previous commencement address in Memphis, I spoke about Vermeer and why his work still has such great relevance in our world today. The day before delivering this speech, I sent a copy to my father, who told me it was a pretty terrible graduation speech as it was too serious and didn't offer up any advice.
So, I guess I better start with some advice. My husband and I have adopted 4 guiding life principles - none of them original. The first: always notice someone's haircut. It's important and you will win friends. Second: people just want you to be nice to them. Sounds simple, but believe me, it's effective. Third: don't do stupid stuff. The latter comes from a friend who became a church elder and found himself suddenly in the position of counseling troubled people who were drinking too much, gambling, abusing spouses, being unfaithful, etc. These confused souls wanted guidance about how to rectify the harm they had done to loved ones. My friend's response was simple: if you don't do stupid stuff, you don't have to suffer the consequences of your actions. So, just don't do stupid stuff.
My final piece of simple but true advice comes from Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape. When asked once as a successful business leader to illuminate the secret of his immense success, Barksdale said in his characteristic Southern drawl, "the main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing." To prove it, Barksdale, a titan of the world of high tech, gave the state of Mississippi $100 million to teach children to read. We were all shocked that he didn't buy schools computers or pay to wire classrooms. Barksdale and his wife believed that reading is the most critical core competency for children and Mississippi ranked lowest in national literacy rates. He kept the main thing the main thing - and so should you.
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Meet the New Recruits is an off-campus senior design show featuring the works of the CDes graduating class of 2008. Share campfire stories, gorge on s'mores and hotdogs, and sample tasty drink specials.
Friday, May 16, 2008 4:30-7:00 p.m. (all ages); 7-9 p.m. (21+)
The Lodge Bar
A public art proposal, designed by Jonee Kulman Brigham, (Center for Sustainable Building Research,) through Full Spring Studio LLC received a grant from the St. Louis Park Arts & Culture Grant program. The installation, titled, "Children"s Nest Egg," explores humans' evolving relationship with the earth using poetry and changing perceptions of scale in a room-sized nest made of salvaged branches. Community nature writing and two public events will be incorporated into the project. The first event is Saturday May 17, 2008, 1-3 p.m. at the Westwood Hills Nature Center in St. Louis Park. More information and a downloadable flyer can be found at the project blog.
Barbara Porwit (Goldstein Museum of Design) and Friends of the Goldstein board members Susan Bradley, Judith Kinghorn, and Audrey Henningson will be showing work next weekend in Northeast Minneapolis' ArtAWhirl open studio event, May 16-18, 2008.
Bradley, Kinghorn, and Henningson will exhibit work at the Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street NE, #363, Minneapolis, MN 55413.
Porwit will exhibit at the California Building, 2205 California Street NE, #502, Minneapolis, MN 55418.
A 3-D textile sculpture, entitled "Moonray," will be installed in the atrium of McNeal Hall on May 7 as part of the upcoming Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space exhibition. The sculpture was designed by Cynthia Thompson of Maine-based Transformit.
The world of specialty textiles has been changing at a rapid pace with new materials, technologies, and innovations in production around the world. Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space examines many of these innovative materials and how they are being used by leading designers from around the globe.
Curators of the exhibition are Bruce Wright (Design Minor Fellow) and Karen LaBat (Clothing Design)
The exhibition runs May 16-July 27, 2008, with an opening reception and panel discussion May 15, 2008, 7-9p.m.
Dean Tom Fisher will participate in the first of a series of conversations in the Design Salon Series, sponsored by the College of Design and Target.
Reflections from a family member
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
April 21, 2008
Leonard Bernstein wrote: "The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown to him or to anyone else, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another inevitably, leaving us at the finish with the feeling that something is right in the world, that something checks throughout."
I am struck by how much my father's notes followed one another, inevitably -- how his personal qualities so fully mirrored his professional qualities. A sense of joy. A passion for people. A ceaseless curiosity. A deep loyalty to his community.
I'd like to say a word about each of these qualities.
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Barbara Porwit (Goldstein Museum of Design) will exhibit artwork in this weekend's Saint Paul Art Crawl. Included will be originals and prints of figurative work and portraiture in graphite, charcoal, conte crayon, and oil bar. 310 Dow Building (with Natalie Domka), 2442 University Ave., Saint Paul.
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
April 21, 2008
Ralph Rapson is still with us, and still among us,
Not just in the many extraordinary buildings -- the houses, churches, theaters, and institutional structures that he designed --
But also in the remarkable memories we all have of him as a person -- as a father and grandfather, a friend and colleague, a fellow faculty member, and a brilliantly accomplished architect --
And also in the educational legacy he left behind as the head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota for 30 years. The generations of students who studied there during the Rapson era remain one of the most important ways in which Ralph will continue to live on for decades to come.
I sit in Ralph Rapson Hall, at the desk that Ralph sat at when head of the school, and near my desk sit a set of accreditation reports from the Rapson years that reveal the compelling character of his vision. In them, you see the boldness of Ralph's architecture in educational form.
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Third-year interior design students of Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (Interior Design) have developed the Building Ties '08 exhibit featuring culturally sensitive housing designs for Mexicans and Ojibwe. The exhibit opens May 3, 2008 from 2-4 p.m. at the Hennepin History Museum, and runs through June 8, 2008.
Monica Fogg (DHA) has painted a landscape of Stillwater's historic Fairy Falls for Minnesota's sesquicentennial. Working in cocoa butter and food coloring instead of oil paints, Fogg worked from a 1904 photograph of Fairy Falls to create the 18x20 painting.
Fairy Falls is said to be the site where a Chippewa woman and her Sioux lover were killed.
The chocolate painting will be offered in a silent auction on Saturday, May 10, 2008 during the Washington County Historical Society's Minnesota Statehood Celebration, from 7-11 p.m. at the historic Washington County Courthouse. For more information, call 651-439-5956 or visit the Washington County Historical Society Web site.
The University has invested more than $400 million since 1997 into preserving its historic buildings. The preservation activities help the University maintain its sense of place.
Associate Dean Kate Solomonson is the primary source in a U of M Foundation article on the University's preservation activities:
"Historic buildings are not just physical entities; they connect with the past. Their loss impoverishes the University. For anyone who has a relationship with the University, there are buildings they deeply associate with their experiences. ... Historic preservation involves thinking not only about buildings, but also about the green or open space, trees and plantings, sidewalks, even fields that are part of an integrated cultural landscape. ... All of these components are part of a whole that shapes the spaces we pass through and experience as part of our daily lives on campus. They're also part of the iconic image and values presented beyond the world of the campus that anchor us in our history as we look to the future."
Solomonson is also featured in a preservation video tour of the buildings on the University's mall.
Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) has been selected to present at two upcoming conferences.
In May, he will chair a panel discussion, "Gettin' R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the Academy: What Constitutes Graphic Design Research?," at the University and College Design Association conference in DeKalb, Illinois. Daniel Jasper (Graphic Design) is one of the panelists.
In July, McCarthy will present "From Graphics to Products: Critical Design as Design Authorship" at New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogs in Graphic Design at the London College of Communication in the UK.
Rebecca Krinke (Landscape Architecture) participates in a panel discussion -- "The Present Moment" -- on the creation of a contemplative environment for stress reduction on campus, including a series of ephemeral spatial transformations for a portion of the Nolte Center lounge. The seminar is part of the Institute for Advanced Studies time symposium and will take place on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 4 p.m. in 125 Nolte Center.
As part of the Walker Art Center's Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes exhibition, Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) will participate in a panel discussion "about the challenges and successes of new suburban design, how suburbs are becoming destination environments, and the cultural implications of these shifts."
The panel discussion, Next Exit: The Shifting Landscape of Suburbia, takes place Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Walker's Cinema. Free tickets are available from 6 p.m. in the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk.
Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) will make a presentation entitled "Documenting the Graphic Design Learning Abroad Experience: From Journals and Photos to YouTube and Blogs" on Friday, April 4, 2008 at the Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media conference in Boston. The conference runs April 4-6, 2008.
Jodie Walz and Jen Green (Digital Collections + Archives) presented "Building relationships, integrating resources: A collaboration between the Digital Collections + Archives unit and the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota" (.pdf; 1Mb) at the Museum Computer Network 2007 conference in Chicago.
The public is invited to attend The Arts and the Built Environment: Changes in Suburban Life, a panel discussion in honor of Minnesota's 150th birthday.
The panel offers a look back 50 years and forward 50 years to the idea of suburbia: changing forms and uses in housing, suburban culture as seen through media and popular culture, and the evolution of a new mode of living: that of the suburbanite.
Featuring Moderator: Tom Fisher, dean, College of Design
Presenters: Kate Solomonson, associate dean, College of Design; and Becky Yust, head, Design, Housing, and Apparel, and John Archer, chair, Cultural Studies, College of Liberal Arts with special guest, Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Thursday, April 3, 5:30-6:30 p.m., free refreshments and cash bar
6:30-8:30 p.m., panel presentation
Campus Club, 4th floor, Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E.
Reservations are required (click on link above) and will be accepted as long as space remains available.
Questions? Anne Schultz, external relations assistant, schultz@umn.edu, 612-301-2337.
The School of Architecture and the Graham Foundation hosts the first international symposium on architecture, ethics, and spiritual geography bringing together a diverse community of scholars, design practitioners, and a local community to participate in a series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops located around the central questions of perception, place, and ethical landscapes.
Co-organized by Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture), Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research) and Richard Kroeker (Dalhousie University, Canada) the symposium has two tracks:
One track examines the role of the sacred as place and perception in our creative processes and sits at the locus of academia and professional practice. The focus is necessarily inter-faith and cross-cultural, highlighting the rich dialogue of sacred space to contemporary questions of politics, identity, and belonging. Sessions will include examinations of architecture and the sacred across world heritage, ethics, Abrahamic, and eastern religious traditions.
The second, parallel, track brings together community elders and other members of the Native American Dakota community who have worked to preserve sacred spaces against great odds, to examine and recount their history, and begin to map the way toward cultural restoration. This track will be opened by traditional spiritual ceremonies and will include speakers from mid-western Lakota communities and MikMaq First Nations communities from Canada.
The symposium is free and open to the public and will be held Friday, April 4, 2008 through Sunday, April 6, 2008 in Rapson Hall.
Additional sponsors of the symposium are the College of Design, the Metropolitan Design Center, Station 19 Architects, AIA-Minnesota, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Consortium for the Study of the Asias, and the Space and Place Collaborative.
Jean Johnson, product manager (CHE grad) and Gabe Doring, designer, from Stearns Manufacturing of St. Cloud, MN visited Karen LaBat's (DHA) functional clothing design studio class. They demonstrated and discussed the design of Stearns' "ice rescue suit" and several of the new personal flotation devices Stearns is developing. The "ice rescue suit" will be one of the featured products in the upcoming Goldstein exhibition, Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space.
The CDes Faculty/Alumni Exhibition Program at the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library announces an upcoming exhibition, Three Faculty Art Exhibition: Ceramic works by Janet Abrams (Design Institute), Drawings by Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture), and Stereotomy studies by Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla (Architecture). The exhibition opens March 10 and ends April 25, 2008. A reception and artists talk will be held Friday, March 14, from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Dean Tom Fisher is one of the featured speakers at "Good Design Makes a Difference," on Tuesday, March 25, 5:00-7:30 p.m., at International Market Square, 275 Market Street, Suite 54, Minneapolis. The event kicks off the sixth season of the American Institute of Architects Minnesota (AIA-MN) and Star Tribune Home of the Month program. Tickets are $15 and online registration is available.
Architect Teddy Cruz lectures as part of the Walker Art Center's Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes exhibition on Thursday, February 28, at 7 p.m.
Free tickets for Cruz's lecture, "Drawn Here: Teddy Cruz, Estudio Teddy Cruz," are available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 p.m.
From the Walker's Web site description of Cruz's lecture:
"In a society increasingly obsessed with policing borders and erecting boundaries, architect Teddy Cruz operates in the zone between countries, disciplines, and cultures. "We should be turning our attention away from the wall and towards the landscape, the ecology, and the communities," says Cruz, whose work is featured in the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. He has followed that admonition with projects of passion, gaining critical acclaim for engaging issues of community, sociability, and immigration, and for collaborating with community-based nonprofit organizations on affordable, sustainable housing and its potential to transform urban policy. A native of Guatemala, Cruz has won the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture, had his own longtime architecture practice (Estudio Teddy Cruz), and is a teacher in the visual arts department of the University of California, San Diego."
John Carmody (Center for Sustainable Building Research) discusses research proving awnings reduce home energy use in B-roll media footage available through the Professional Awning Manufacturers Association (PAMA).
Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) will discuss his research and new methods in urban planning at the Wells Event Center, 6139 West Highway 10, Ramsey today at noon. Neckar's address is part of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association's year-long, state-wide speakers tour.
Design + Technology & Sustainablity public lectures will be held on Thursdays in 225 Rapson Hall from 12-1 p.m. by the following Architecture faculty search candidates:
The Goldstein Museum of Design's exhibit, "Russel Wright: Living with good design," opens February 9 and runs through April 20. An opening party will be held Friday, February 8 from 7-9 p.m. in the Goldstein Gallery and will feature a lecture by exhibit curator Robert Stearns.
A lecture by Carol Franklin, principal, Andropogon Associates, Ltd., will take place on Monday, February 11 at 5:45 p.m. in 100 Rapson Hall. Franklin's lecture, "Russel Wright's Woodland Landscape: History and Perspective," will cover her in-depth study of Wright's home, Manitoga, in upstate New York. Manitoga became a national historic landmark last year.
Working through architecture is a lecture series presented by the School of Architecture and The Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library held at the Minneapolis Central Library (Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis). The events are on Tuesday evenings, 7:00-8:30 p.m., and are free to the public.
February 5
Leon Satkowski, Professor
ANDREA PALLADIO: ARCHITECTURE AND AGRITECTURE
February 19
Ozayr Saloojee, Assistant Professor
SINAN: TRADITION IN TRANSFORMATION
February 26
Kate Solomonson, Associate Professor + Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, CDes
CASS GILBERT: RE-IMAGINING THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE
March 4
Leslie Van Duzer, Associate Professor
ADOLF LOOS READYMADE
March 11
John Comazzi, Assistant Professor
BALTHAZAR KORAB: ARCHITECT OF PHOTOGRAPHY
March 25
Julia Robinson, Professor
LUCIEN KROLL: ARCHITECTURE OF EMPOWERMENT & ECOLOGY
April 1
Gunter Dittmar, Associate Professor
PETER ZUMTHOR: ARCHITECTURE OF BEING, BUILDING AND DWELLING
April 8
Renée Cheng, Associate Professor + Head, School of Architecture
FRANK GEHRY: MODERN OR MEDIEVAL MASTER?
April 15
Thomas Fisher, Professor + Dean, College of Design
RALPH RAPSON: THE PLAYFUL MODERNIST
Dean Tom Fisher lectured at the University of New Mexico Friday, January 25, as part of the School of Architecture and Planning's spring lecture series. Fisher's lecture was titled "Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival."
The College of Design presents the 40th annual senior fashion show on February 2. Two shows are scheduled, at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., at the McNamara Alumni Center. This year's show, entitled Abandon Your Threads, showcases a fully conceptualized line by each of the 17 individuals graduating from the clothing design program. A standing exhibition of work from the sophomore and junior classes is featured as well. More information is available in a University News Service release.
Carol Franklin
principal, Andropogon Associates, Ltd.
Woodland Landscape: History and Perspective
Russel Wright's home
February 11
David Dove
principal, Perkins + Will
Sustainable Design: Moving from Buildings to Communities
February 18
Liska Clemence Chan
associate professor of landscape architecture, University of Oregon
TRAVERSE: Shifted Waterways and Urban Life
H.W.S. Cleveland Lecture
February 25
Bob Close, FASLA (BLA '76)
president and founding principal, Close Landscape Architecture+
Human Settlement: Lessons Learned
H.W.S. Cleveland Lecture
March 3
Alice Friedman
Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College
New Light on New Canaan: Philip Johnson's Glass House/Guest House
Cass Gilbert Lecture
March 10
Nezar Al Sayyad
professor of architecture, city planning, urban design, and urban history, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition
March 24
Ria Van Dijk
urban designer, Municipality of Almere (The Netherlands) and visiting professor, School of Architecture, College of Design
Floating Cities
March 31
Rip Rapson
president and CEO, The Kresge Foundation
The Fifth Sector: Philanthropy's Role in Community Change
Mertie Buckman Lecture in Leadership and Philanthropy
April 7
Eric Rodenbeck
founder and creative director, Stamen Design, San Francisco
Visualizing Urban Data Streams
April 14
Shashi Caan
interior designer and architect, Parsons, The New School of Design, New York
Interiors Parlance: Inside Out
April 28
All lectures are at 5:45 p.m. in 100 Rapson Hall
All lectures and exhibitions are free and open to the public
Abandon Your Threads: Senior clothing design runway exhibition
February 2, two shows -- 5 and 8 p.m.
Alumni and friends reception 6:45-7:45 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center
Russel Wright: Living With Good Design
February 8-April 20, 2008
Goldstein Museum of Design, McNeal Hall
Russel Wright's (1904-76) prolific output -- ranging from the interior space of house wares, furniture, and fabrics to the exterior environment of landscape design -- made lasting contributions to shaping the lifestyle of the American middle-class.
Curator: Robert Stearns, Arts Midwest
National tour sponsored by Target
Fall 2007 School of Architecture Design Excellence Awards
March 10-21, 2008
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
College of Design Culminating Degree Exhibition
Graduating seniors and capstone honor students; MArch thesis award winners and MLA capstone winners
May 5-18, 2008
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
Inner Space to Outer Space: High Tech Textiles Today
May 17-July 27, 2008
Goldstein Museum of Design, McNeal Hall
New developments in extreme textile engineering and sophisticated fabric uses that extend human capabilities in the smallest and largest arenas. The exhibition will include an outdoor installation of fabric structures.
Curators:
Bruce Wright, editor, Fabric Architecture and design minor teaching fellow
Karen LaBat, professor of clothing design, College of Design
Sacred Sites | Sacred Sights: Architecture, Ethics, and Spiritual Geography
March 28-April 30, 2008
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
Presented in conjunction with the Sacred Sites symposium, this exhibition provides a look at a number of notable sacred structures and sites from Minnesota and around the world.
Rapson Hall is located at 89 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis 55455 (East Bank)
Parking in Church St. Garage, 80 Church St. S.E.
McNeal Hall is located at 1985 Buford Ave., St. Paul 55108
Parking in Gortner Ave. Ramp, 1395 Gortner Ave.
612-696-9068 design.umn.edu
For disability accommodations, please call 612-626-9068.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
This Saturday, December 15, from 6-9 p.m., celebrate the fall 2007 senior graphic design exhibition at the Ivy Arts Building, 2637 27th Avenue S. in south Minneapolis. Refreshments will be served; the event is free and open to the public.
Seniors showing work include:
Christina Adams
Nicholas Andreoli
Sheila Bruggeman
Kit Casey
John Dahl
Freda Duong
Christina DiMeo
Dave Hagen
Ashley Hay
Elizabeth Homer
Christine Lavarda
Jessica Lee Moore
Laura Lewis
Yao Lin
Trinh Mai
Lisa Poola
Kari Sivula
Sergey Trubetskoy
Meagan VanBurkleo
James Walz
For his Master of Liberal Studies final project, Aaron Fahrmann (Photographer) has created an interactive installation designed to amplify our daily experiences of synchrony, and question traditional ideas of linear time. This project attempts to incorporate network theory, chaos theory, string theory, synchrony, relativity, and dimensional translation -- all unified under a new idea of human movement within time. The project will be installed in Rapson Hall on the first floor between the new addition and the original building. This area, appropriately called the link, will hopefully have even more relevance after visiting this project. Visit the installation during finals week December 17-21.
Dean Tom Fisher and John Koepke (Landscape Architecture) were co-chairs of the administrators conference -- "Preparing for the Inconvenient Truth" -- of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). The keynote speakers were Will Steger, polar explorer, and J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh Energy. The conference took place on November 1 in Minneapolis.
Preparing for the inconvenient truth
Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota
John Koepke, University of Minnesota
Cultural preservation
John Dwyer, Shelter, University of Minnesota
New Orleans and the Clean Hub
James West, Mississippi State University
Rebuilding Biloxi
Ozayr Saloojee, University of Minnesota
Cultural Sustainability
Marielle Richon, UNESCO
World Heritage and Climate Change
Global flooding
Robert Sykes, University of Minnesota
The Situation in Venice
John Dwyer (Architecture alumnus)
Global Climate Change After Katrina
Reclamation landscapes
John Koepke, University of Minnesota
Laurentian Vision for the Iron Range
Laura Musacchio, University of Minnesota
Landscape Reclamation
Kyle Brown (Landscape Architecture alumnus), now at California State University at Ponoma
Greening our Campuses
Integrated practice
Marc Swackhamer, University of Minnesota
BIM and Biomimicry
Renee Cheng, University of Minnesota
BIM and Biomimicry
John Carmody, University of Minnesota
Supporting Faculty Research Integration in Professional Programs
Harrison Fraker (former Architecture faculty & department head) and Patrick Condon (former Landscape Architecture faculty)
Global Settlement, Sustainable Housing
2030 challenge
Mary Guzowski, University of Minnesota
Building our schools
Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota
Christopher Baker (Design Institute; Art) presented his vision of "What's Next" during the 20/20 event at the 2007 AIGA Design Conference in Denver last month. Baker described Urban Echo, an interactive architecturally-integrated urban projection that he recently showed in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Cass Gilbert Society will present a talk on Cass Gilbert and the architecture of St. Paul by Larry Millett, former St. Paul Pioneer Press architecture critic and author of the AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, on Tuesday, November 13, 7 p.m., at the University Club, 420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. There is a $5 fee for nonmembers.
Dean Tom Fisher's "State of the college" (.ppt; 2Mb) presentation is now available.
James Boyd-Brent's (Graphic Design) one-person exhibition -- World enough, and time... -- opens at the New York Studio Gallery on November 1 and runs through November 24.
New York Studio Gallery
511 West 25th Street #6-07
New York, NY 10001
212-627-3276
Arthur Chen (CWHS, Architecture), Bob Sykes (Landscape Architecture) and Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla (Architecture, CWHS) presented at the annual conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Saint Paul on October 6. The topic of the session, "A Global View of Preservation," was conservation issues and practices in the world heritage sites of Baku, Azerbaijan; Venice, Italy; and Oaxaca, Mexico. Kate Solomoson (Architecture) moderated the session.
Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) presented a paper entitled, "The University of Minnesota's College of Design: Identity through Emergent Studio Production," (.pdf; 7.6Mb) at the ConnectED 2007 conference, Sydney Austrailia, in July.
Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) presented "Presenting our own [his]tories," an story telling workshop for participants at the European Conference on Creativity and Innovation (ECCIX) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Hokanson also presented results of his research, entitled "Measuring Creativity: Two Studies."
Additionally, Hokanson was cited in Borsen, a Dutch newspaper (translation by CDes IT Director, John Grosen):
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The Port Cities exhibition takes place October 15-19, in the Rapson Hall courtyard. Drawings by Lance Neckar and Dean Abbott will be featured in the library. A reception is scheduled for Wednesday, October 17, at 5:30 p.m.
Daniel Escotto of the National Autonomus University of Mexico will present "The National University Campus in Mexico City: A new world heritage site" as part of the college's ongoing Design@noon lecture series on Wednesday, October 10, 12 p.m., 225 Rapson Hall.
Escotto will also lead a seminar, "Conservation and Management of Modern Heritage in Mexico City," on Thursday, October 11, 12 p.m., 225 Rapson Hall.
The lecture and seminar are organized by the college's Center for World Heritage Studies.
The College of Design is participating in the annual conference of the National Trust for Historical Preservation, October 2-6.
An educational session presented by Kate Solomonson and Arthur Chen (Architecture) will focus on global perspectives in historic preservation and feature fieldwork done in Venice, Baku, Azerbaijan, and Oaxaca, Mexico by college students and faculty.
The college will host a booth featuring its Center for World Heritage Studies, new M.S. in Architecture-Heritage Conservation and Preservation degree, and Housing Studies program.
Field session tours will include "Stewarding the Architectural Legacy of the University of Minnesota," featuring a bus and walking tour of the National Register of Historic Places-listed Old Campus Historic District, a look inside the restored Walter Library, and an exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum, "Regent John S. Pillsbury and Architect Leroy S. Buffington: A Collaborative Vision for Campus Design." Buffington's firm designed four buildings on campus: Eddy Hall, Nicholson Hall, Pillsbury Hall, and Burton Hall. The bus and walking tour will be led by Laura Weber (Communications). The exhibition at the Weisman will be on display October 1-21.
More information is available on the University's Campus Events Web site.
In the ensuing weeks after the I-35W bridge collapse, public talk has turned to questions of appropriate responses, whether legislative, engineering, and/or community-driven.
The College of Design is co-sponsoring a series of public lectures that extend the conversation further, into a series of considerations and reflections about the ongoing nature and role of the Mississippi river, the new I-35W bridge, and the community in which these two critical systems intersect.
Lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, on the dates listed below. All lectures will be held in 100 Rapson Hall.
October 2
Judith Martin, Urban Studies Program, University of Minnesota, "City Bridges – Imagined and Real"
Mona Smith, media artist, "Dakota Speak of Rivers"
October 9
R.T. Rybak, Mayor, City of Minneapolis, "Rebuilding Common Ground"
October 16
Paul Labovitz, Superintendent, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, "The Mississippi River as a (National) Park"
October 23
Chris Paola, Earth Science Geology/Geophysics, National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota
October 30
Hokan Miller, Upper River Services, "Between Prairie and Sea: The Mississippi River as a Continental Transportation System"
November 6
John Adams, Associate Dean, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, "A Vital Cog in the Regional Network: the New Bridge as a Transportation Link"
November 13
Tom Fisher, Dean, College of Design, University of Minnesota, "The Design of a New Bridge"
November 20
Lance Neckar, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, "Integrated Design: Sustainable Community"
For more information, see the project's Web site or the University News Service media release.
New York-based architect James Carpenter will lecture at the Public Art Saint Paul International Artist Series next month.
What: James Carpenter lecture
When: Monday, October 22, 2007
Where: Minnesota History Center Auditorium, 345 Kellogg Blvd. West, Saint Paul
The lecture is free and open to the public; a reception will follow the lecture.
Climate change expert Mark Seeley will present "Climate Change: A Citizen/Scientist Perspective" at the Aesthetic of Climate Change: science and design brown bag speaker series.
When: Monday, September 24, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Where: 225 Rapson Hall
The event is free, but seating is limited to roughly 40. Beverages will be provided.
The Institute on the Environment presents the first of its Environment Roundtable series, featuring University-wide conversations on pressing environmental issues.
The initial roundtable, "Saving the Planet ... One Campus at a Time: Pathways to Environmental Sustainability," wrestles with the topic of campus sustainability. Jacqueline Johnson, chancellor of University of Minnesota, Morris, and Tom Fisher, dean of the College of Design discuss the role academia should play and what challenges exist with regard to greening a campus.
The event is free and open to the public and will be webcast.
When: October 1, 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Where: Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics
Come to the fourth floor of McNeal Hall throughout fall semester 2007 to see an ongoing exhibition about the lives and work of notable interior designers by DHA 4607 senior interior design students from Caren Martin's and Michael English's (DHA) design studios. Visit often, as the displays change every two weeks and run through December 11. The current displays focus on interior designers Kelly Wearstler and Gary Lee.
On Thursday, September 20, in conjunction with the Gallery Grooves event co-sponsored by the Goldstein Museum, Philip Wood, co-founder and creative director of CITIZEN: Citizen will lecture in 33 McNeal Hall at 7:30 p.m.
CITIZEN:Citizen is a San Francisco-based, conceptual design studio that represents designers such as Patrik Fredrikson, Ian Stallard, and Tobias Wong. Wood will discuss "how objects contain and resonate cultural concerns, histories, ideologies, etc.; how objects accumulate new standing within a virtual world; how craft is emotionally compelling; and how culture and societies imbue meaning and value into objects -- more than the designers of those objects would care to admit."
According to University Relations, all educational institutions receiving federal fund are required to hold a program on the U.S. Constitution on September 17. Accordingly, the Law School, on behalf of the entire University of Minnesota system, will present a program commemorating the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 2007, from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in rooms 25 and 50, Mondale Hall, 229 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis.
Topics will include examinations of juvenile sentencing; executive privilege, including current controversies and underlying constitutional arguments; and the limits of the constitutional law of equality.
Webcast information and the program's agenda are available on the Law School's Web site.
Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (DHA) will present the paper "Conceptual design -- A pedagogy for developing and communicating complex ideas in a complex world" at the upcoming Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) midwest regional conference in Chicago, October 11-13. Marit Zosel, an interior design undergraduate student, will co-present, sharing the design of culturally sensitive housing for the Ojibwe people from DHA 3605 Fall 2006.
Sixteen students -- three undergraduate; 13 graduate -- participated in a month-long trip to Turkey last May with Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture). The Istanbul M-Term exhibit of the students' drawings, sketches, and photographs is on display through September 18 in the Rapson courtyard.
Dean Tom Fisher will present and lead a dynamic discussion on ethics and design on Thursday, September 20 in 225 Rapson, 12-1 p.m. The presentation will explore a variety of research and professional ethical issues and how they fit into the four different types of ethics. Please RSVP to Thomas Schenk, schen016@umn.edu, if you plan to attend.
Dean Fisher has taught “Architecture and Ethics? and recently completed a book on ethics, entitled Constructing a Good Life, due out in 2008.
This event has been designated by the Office of the Vice President for Research to satisfy the awareness/discussion component of the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) continuing education requirement. For more information about this workshop or the RCR requirement, please contact Thomas Schenk at the above e-mail address.
Four College of Design Students -- Amanda Olson, Emily Winkels, Aaron Westre, and Aaron Squadroni -- are presenting at the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians second annual student symposium on the built environment.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Owens Science Hall, 3M Auditorium
University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul
"Designing schools today is an increasingly collaborative effort including teachers, students, educational consultants, and parents," says Umberto Dindo, Chairman, AIA New York Chapter -- Committee on Architecture for Education. "In response to these changing policies and requirements, architects are creating schools that look, feel, and function differently. It's a new architecture for a new education."
The College of Design will host a symposium and gallery reception in coordination with the exhibition, "School Buildings -- The State of Affairs: A New Architecture for a New Education," on display in the Rapson Gallery until October 8, 2007.
Friday, September 28
5-8 p.m.
100 Rapson Hall
5-6 p.m. presentations by distinguished guests
6:00-6:45 p.m. panel discussion and Q&A session with audience
7-8 p.m. gallery reception in Rapson Gallery
The symposium will open with a panel of invited guests responding to the issues related to education and design presented by the projects represented in the exhibition. Guest panelists include Mark Ziegler (portfolio manager for public schools in the city of Zurich), Edith Ackermann (professor of developmental psychology at the University of Aix-Marseille, France and visiting scientist at the M.I.T. School of Architecture), and Elizabeth Hebert (Former principal of the nationally recognized Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, co-editor of Children, Learning & School Design, and Design Matters: How School Environment Affects Children).
Following their presentations, the guest presenters will be joined by a panel comprised of Tom Fisher (dean, College of Design, University of Minnesota) and representatives from the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) as well as the Humphrey Institutes' Center for School Change for a discussion of ideas provoked by the presentations and exhibition.
Manuel DeLanda, adjunct associate professor,
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University (New York) and professor for contemporary philosophy and science, European Graduate School (Switzerland)
Cities as Historical Actors: Ecological, Linguistic, and Economic Aspects of Urban Life
Cass Gilbert Lecture
Monday, September 17, 5:45 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Rob Jongman, landscape ecologist and senior researcher, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre (Netherlands)
From Concepts to the Real Landscapes of the Future: The Role of Landscape Ecology
H.W.S. Cleveland Lecture
Monday, October 8, 5:45 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
James Timberlake, founding partner, Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia) and adjunct faculty member, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Sustaining Architecture
Monday, October 15, 5:45 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Eric Jolly, president, Science Museum of Minnesota
The Diversity of Design
Monday, October 22, 5:45 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Chris Reed, founding partner, Stoss: Landscape Urbanism (Boston) and lecturer in landscape architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Performance Practices
Monday, October 29, 5:45 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Bill Pedersen (BArch ’61), founding partner, Kohn, Pedersen, Fox (New York)
Architecture of Linkage Rendezvous with the U
Monday, November 5, 5:45 p.m., Bell Museum Auditorium
Reception follows in Rapson Hall
Co-sponsored with AIA Minneapolis
Robert Off, professor and director, Institute for Membrane and Shell Technologies, University of Anhalt (Germany)
New Structural Membrane Developments
Monday, November 12, 5:45 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Roger Martin, dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
The Design of Business
2007 Shocker Product Development Lecture
Monday, November 26, 3:15–5:00 p.m., 3M Auditorium,
Carlson School of Management
Reception, 5:00-7:15 p.m., Carlson School atrium.
RSVP for lecture and reception to Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship
hce@umn.edu or 612-624-0226
Presented by the Carlson School of Management, College of Design, and the University of Minnesota New Product Design and Business Development Program.
Gallery Grooves
The Rake magazine’s monthly art, jazz, and wine event
Thursday, September 20, 7–9 p.m., McNeal Hall atrium
School Buildings -- The State of Affairs: A New Architecture for a New Education
Organized and designed by AIA New York Chapter Committee on Architecture for Education, Umberto Dindo, AIA, chairman, and ETH Zurich/Center for Cultural Studies in Architecture (CSSA), Martin Schneider, scientific associate, dipl. Arch. ETH Zurich
Exhibition underwriters: Credit Suisse, Stadt Zџrich, ETH Darch, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, through October 7, 2007
School Buildings Symposium and Reception
with Mark Ziegler, portfolio manager for schools at IMMO, city of Zurich; Edith Ackerman, professor of developmental psychology, University of Aix-Marseille 1, France, and currently visiting scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture; and Elizabeth Hebert, author, school design consultant, and former principal, Crow Island School, Winnetka, Illinois
Friday, September 28, Rapson Hall
Presentations 5–6 p.m.
Panel discussion 6–7 p.m.
Gallery reception 7–8 p.m.
Here By Design III: Process And Prototype
Goldstein Museum of Design, McNeal Hall, and HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
Curated by James Boyd-Brent, associate professor of graphic design, College of Design; and Lin Nelson-Mayson, director, Goldstein Museum of Design
October 20, 2007–January 20, 2008
Rendezvous with the U is cosponsored by American Institute of Architects, Minneapolis
Rapson Hall is located at 89 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis 55455. Parking in Church St. Garage, 80 Church St. S.E.
McNeal Hall is located at 1985 Buford Ave., St. Paul 55108. Parking in Gortner Ave. Ramp, 1395 Gortner Ave.
Bell Museum is located at 10 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis. Parking in Church St. Garage, 80 Church St. S.E. or Fourth Street Ramp, 1625 Fourth St. S.E.
Carlson School of Management is located at 321 19th Ave. S. Minneapolis 55455 (West Bank). Parking in 19th Ave. Ramp, 300 19th Ave. S. or 21st Ave. Ramp, 400 21st Ave.
All lectures and exhibitions are free and open to the public.
612-626-9068 www.cdes.umn.edu
For disability accommodations, please call 612-626-9068.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
An art installation, designed by Jonee Kulman Brigham (Center for Sustainable Building Research) is one of 15 exhibits in the "Art to A-Maze Walk" summer juried exhibition at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. Titled, "Children's Nest Egg," it explores humans' evolving relationship with the earth using poetry and changing perceptions of scale in a room sized nest made of salvaged branches. The exhibits are on display from June 16-September 30, 2007.
The diversity of the College of Design will be on display at the U of M's building at the Minnesota State Fair. Details are on the CDes Web calendar of events and the University's State Fair Web site.
8/29/2007
1-5 p.m.
Center for Sustainable Building Research
8/29/2007
5-9 p.m.
Student Services
8/30/2007
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Design Camp/Design and PK-12 Education community of interest
9/1/2007
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Housing Studies department
9/2/2007
5-9 p.m.
The Goldstein Museum of Design
The Goldstein Museum of Design's current exhibition, Products of Our Time, explores the interstices of design, art, and cultural commentary highlighting consumer inspired designed objects as a bellwether of our times.
August 16-September 15
Dialogue on the wall
A gallery installation by Jay H. Isenberg (Architecture) and Lynda Monick-Isenberg and a series of community events exploring the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Opening reception Saturday, August 18, 7-9 p.m. Form + Content Gallery, Whitney Square Building, 210 North Second Street, Suite 104, Minneapolis.
July 30-August 3
Design Camp 2007
The Design Institute has hosted Design Camp for teens annually since summer 2002, with generous support from Target Corporation. This year's theme is school design. Each of the six workshops -- schooling, gearing, parading, gaming, telling, and sporting -- will focus on redesigning some aspect of the school.
Questions? E-mail designcamp@umn.edu
September 20
Gallery Grooves
The Rake magazine's monthly art, jazz, and wine event will be hosted by the Goldstein Museum of Design.