Pat Nunnally (Landscape Architecture), coordinator of the Institute on the Environment's River Life Program, will moderate a panel, "Imagining the River: The Mississippi Gorge," on Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. The panel discussion examines the only stretch of the Misissippi river that forms a gorge -- right through the University campus -- from the perspective of history, geology, policy, and art.

Nunnally has also recently started a blog, River Talk.

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Dong-Eun Kim (PhD Apparel Design, 2009) was awarded second place in the doctoral paper category at the International Textile and Apparel Association conference for her work, "Apparel fit based on viewing of 3D virtual models and live models." Kim is currently an assistant professor at California State University-Long Beach.

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Kim Johnson (Retail Merchandising) presented several papers, co-authored with current and former graduate students, a the International Textile and Apparel Association conference:

• "Let's Shop! Exploring the experiences of therapy shoppers" with Minjeong Kang (MS DHA, 2006; PhD DHA, 2009)
• "Appearance management during childhood and adolesence: Resolving conflicts" with Jae Eun Kim (PhD DHA, 2009) and Minjeong Kang (MS DHA, 2006; PhD DHA, 2009)
• "Sales associate characteristics linked to credibility: Influence of sales associate credibility on satisfaction, purchasing, and store loyalty" with HaeWon Ju (MS DHA, 2008) and Jae Eun Kim (PhD DHA, 2009)
• "Moral emotions and socially responsible consumption: A cross cultural examination" with Jae Eun Kim (PhD DHA, 2009)
• "Deterrance and avoidance of risky appearance management behaviors" with Jihyeong Son (MS DHA, 2009

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The Goldstein Museum of Design has published its fall 2009 newsletter, Fall 2009 News from the Goldstein. The publication focuses on the upcoming Good Design: stories from Herman Miller exhibition, opening November 21, 2009; the current exhibition, Intersections: Where Art and Fashion Meet, which closes November 1, 2009, news from the director, a spotlight on Wedgewood stoneware, news of a new acquisition, reorganization of the museum's research center, and news from the Friends of the Goldstein.

• Download Fall 2009 News from the Goldstein (.pdf; 2.2MB)

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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.

• INFORUM: "U of M faculty member plays crucial role in designing new World Health Organization radon gas level recommendations"
• KARE-11: "WHO lowers radon level recommendations; 'U' expert helps"
• Emerging Spring 2009: "Radon mitigation needed for healthy homes"
• UMNews: "U of M faculty member plays crucial role in designing new World Health Organization radon gas level recommendations"
• MinnPost.com: "New radon guidelines apply to many Minnesota homes"

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Laura Musacchio (Landscape Architecture) is guest editor for a special October 2009 issue of Landscape Ecology. The theme of the issue is "The Ecology and Culture of Landscape Sustainability" and includes articles by leading landscape researchers and practitioners from China, the Netherlands, Australia, and the United States.

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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.

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Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture) has completed the manuscript for his next book, Ethics for Architects, to be published by the Princeton Architectural Press in 2010. He continues to work on the manuscript for Salmela Architect II, to be published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2010.

Fisher also recently began his term as president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

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Blaine Brownell (Architecture) has begun writing a blog, entitled "Mind & Matter," for Architect magazine.

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The Fall 2009 issue of Emerging is available online and in your postal mail box. To receive a print Emerging subscription contact Laura Walton, lwalton@umn.edu.

Features

Transforming the built environment

The Center for Sustainable Building Research takes the hard science on how the design, construction, and operation of buildings contributes to global warming, and translates it into information on sustainable building and products that people and communities can use. Full story

Beyond the classroom

Service-learning and community outreach opportunities are integral to the graduate and undergraduate curriculum in all College of Design departments and majors, instilling an ethos of public service as a key part of the design professions. Full story

Visualizing alternative landscape networks of food and energy


Scott County, with its abundant farmland, will play an important role in meeting future food and energy needs of the Twin Cities. The challenge is that the new 2030 Comprehensive Plan for Scott County was created in 2004 before the energy and food price increases of 2008. County planners were interested in some fresh ideas about the situation. Full story

Metropolitan Design Center: A new vision

Ignacio San Martin had never set foot in the Twin Cities before he interviewed for the directorship of the College of Design's Metropolitan Design Center about a year ago. Yet he already includes himself when speaking of the region's problems and opportunities. "We have spent 60 years building freeways," San Martin said in a recent interview -- we meaning Twin Citians. He is concerned about low-density sprawl, underutilized riverfront, and the automobile's continued dominance in transportation. Full story

Small college garners big awards

The College of Design may be one of the smaller colleges at the University of Minnesota, but there is no lack of talent among its students, who have been winning national and University-wide awards, scholarships, and grants over the past year. Full story

The challenge of bringing clean water to Mumbai

A College of Design student was part of a team of four University of Minnesota students who recently won a competition to help bring clean water to the slums of Mumbai, India. Full story

Water as global resource

Sandra Rolph (MLA '07), Sean Jergens (BED '02, MLA '05), and Jenny Salita (MLA '08) created artwork for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum's latest exhibit, "Waterosity: Go Green with a Splash." Their piece, "Global Spydrology," explores the connection between people, plants, and water. (Spydrology is a combination of spiral and hydrology.) Full story

Columns

Outreaching

Outreach is one of the University of Minnesota's three missions, along with teaching and research. That three-part mission stems not only from our being the state's flagship research institution, but also its sole land-grant university, which comes with the requirement that we disseminate knowledge to the people of the state. The word outreach has two distinct definitions: as a noun, it means the information or services provided to people in need; as a verb, it means extending or exceeding an expectation. Full story

Around the college

Baku removed from World Heritage danger list with help from U... Hewitt retirement... ICON solar house is on the move... Intersections: Where Art Meets Fashion... Full
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News

Awards... Appointments... Grants... Publications... Exhibitions and presentations... Students... Alumni... Deaths... Full story

Alumni

Alumni profiles... Fall alumni gatherings... Social networking... Full story

Private support

Study abroad experiences... Funding study abroad... Full story

Events calendar

The Fall 2009 College of Design lectures, exhibitions, and events have been published. Look for a print poster (.pdf; 9.4Mb) in your Fall 2009 print issue of Emerging.

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Angelina R. Jones, a graduate assistant with the Goldstein Museum of Design, recently had an article she co-wrote with Dr. Nancy J. Parezo published: Parezo, N. & Jones, A. "What's in a Name? The 1940s-1950s 'Squaw Dress,'" American Indian Quarterly, Summer 2009, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 374-404.

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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.

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Former Architecture faculty member Joel Goodman (B.Arch, 1966) sends word of his recent publications: "Building Size Fixed Reflector CPC Troughs and Bowls for Food Processing Facilities," Proceedings of the International Solar Food Processing Conference, Jan. 2009, Indore, India; "Architectural Active Solar Energy Reflector Collector Studies," Solar 2008 American Solar Energy Society Conference, San Diego, California; "Building-integrated, non-imaging trough cooking systems," Solar Cooker Review, March, Vol. 14, Number 1, 2008.

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Bill Moran (Design Minor) has launched his Travels in Typography Web site. The site includes a visual map of photos Moran and his students have taken during the 2008-09 typography trips. During the trips, students worked and researched, met and printed with artists, printers, and typographers in libraries and letterpress studios in Germany, Spain, and Italy including Biblioteque Nacional and Conde Duque in Madrid, Biblioteca Castilla de la Mancha in Toledo, The Gutenberg Museum and the Druckladen in Mainz, and Tipoteca Italiana near Venice.

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Laura Weber (Communications) has published a profile of St. Hubert's Lodge in the Summer 2009 issue of Minnesota History, the magazine of the Minnesota Historical Society. St. Hubert's Lodge in Frontenac is Minnesota's only remaining French American galleried-style house. Originally built by Israel Garrard in 1856, St. Hubert's Lodge was one of 34 Minnesota structures recorded in the 1934 Historic American Buildings Survey and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in the 1970s.

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Steven McCarthy's (Graphic Design) artist's book, entitled House Echo Home, has been selected for HOME: Origins, Places and Connections, a national juried exhibit at the Attleboro Arts Museum in Attleboro, Pennsylvania.

McCarthy has published a series of Artist's books.

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John Carmody (Center for Sustainable Building Research) has published a viewpoint (scroll down) in the May-August 2009 issue of momentum magazine, published by the University's Institute on the Environment. Carmody writes about the need to extend LEED to "focus on real performance metrics and outcomes, not just on best practices." He cites Sustainable Building 2030 and Architecture 2030 which aim to get to net-zero carbon or net-zero energy buildings by 2030 on the state and national levels, respectively.

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Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture) has published "Our Fracture-Critical World" in the May-August 2009 issue of momentum magazine, published by the University's Institute on the Environment.

Fisher writes that recent collapses -- from the I-35W bridge to the global banking system -- could be avoided in the future if we better understand how ecosystems work. Elements of an ecosystem "can become so interconnected and efficient that the ecosystem can lose its resilience and rapidly decline," writes Fisher.

The article is an abbreviation of a chapter of Fisher's forthcoming book on the I-35W bridge collapse, to be published by the University of Minnesota Press in spring 2010.

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The Spring 2009 issue of Emerging is available online and in your postal mail box. To receive a print Emerging subscription contact Laura Walton, lwalton@umn.edu.

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The College of Design's THERE Journal of Design is accepting submissions for the next issue on the topic of craft. The journal's editorial staff asks that students fill out an interactive flyer with a noun and a verb pertaining to how we handle craft -- the relationship between ideas and making.

• Download THERE issue six interactive flyer (.pdf; 296Kb)

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Dislocate, the University's student-run national literary journal, releases its fifth annual issue on Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8-12 p.m., at the Bedlam Theatre, 1501 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis. The event is free and open to the public.

The fifth issue, "Transitions," was designed by Graphic Design undergraduates Patrick Groessel and Meher Khan and features creative work from international writers and artists on the subject of political, social, geographic, and cultural transitions.

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Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture) published an op-ed piece, "Needed: Design in the Public Interest," in the May 1, 2009 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education calling for public-interest design. "The world desperately needs a design version of public health, and so do architectural schools and the profession itself," writes Fisher, championing a design-for-all philosophy. Fisher calls for a completely new business model for public-interest design fashioned after the one developed for public health in the mid-19th century and speculates that public-interest design firms might develop a hybrid consisting of both non-profit and for-profit aspects. "Do we really want to continue to be servants of the superrich," asks Fisher. "[O]r does our responsibility -- and our overlooked opportunities for new types of services -- also lie with the health, safety, and welfare of all?"

The work performed by public-interest design firms would also necessarily evolve:

"While public-interest designers would still provide solutions to particular problems, the scope of their work might involve an entire slum or region of a country, addressing basic needs of shelter, sanitation, clean water, and energy production. Much of the work, though, would probably entail the development of prototypes that could be produced at very low cost in local communities and be carried out by unskilled laborers in myriad cultures and climates. The development, testing, delivery, and continuing evaluation of easily replicable solutions would constitute a major portion of the work of public-interest design. That, in turn, would require an education that draws from a wider range of disciplines -- anthropology, cultural geography, economics, industrial engineering, public health -- than most design programs now do."

Fisher closes with the question of whether public-interest design can coexist with existing design fields. He partially answers his own question by observing what happened with public health. "But traditional aspects of design education, such as the creation of high-cost, resource-intensive solutions to meet the needs of the world's wealthiest, would be largely irrelevant to this new field. Public health became separated from medicine for similar reasons, and I suspect the same will happen with public-interest design."

• The May 8, 2009 issue of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) newsletter, eye on design, features a blurb of Fisher's article.

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Clint Hewitt (Landscape Architecture) co-authored a chapter in the recently published Campus Recreation Sports Facilities for the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA). Hewitt's co-author was Jim Turman, director of recreational sports and assistant vice provost for student affairs.

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Kim Johnson (Retail Merchandising) has published two recent articles in retail merchandising journals: "Identifying characteristics of consumers who frequently return apparel" was co-authored with Minjeong Kang (Ph.D. candidate, Retail Merchandising) and published in volume 12, issue 1 of the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management. "Rural consumers' online shopping for apparel, food, and home furnishings products as a form of outshopping" was written with several co-authors and published in volume 27, issue 1 of Clothing and Textiles Research Journal.

Johnson and Jihyeong Son (Ph.D. candidate, Retail Merchandising) presented a paper, "Risky Appearance Management Behaviors: Identifying Factors Associated with Deterrence with Young Women," at the Popular Culture Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.

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Student staff members of the College of Design's THERE Journal of Design are currently finalizing content for the the fifth issue of the publication, "Border Crossings." The anticipated publication date is May 10, 2009 and it will be available from Amazon. Submissions for this issue were received from design professionals all over the world and numbered nearly twice as many as previous issues. Submissions included a wide variety of subjects, including a UNESCO World Heritage site and historic preservation of a significant cultural landscape, a utopian village in Antarctica, and graphic design of packaging to make consumers more aware of a product's manufacturing "story."

Student staff members were all M.Arch students and included Angela Boersma (managing editor), John Steingraeber, Simona Fischer, Kyle Veldhouse, James Thompson, Hans-Christian Karlberg, Erin Lilli, Federico Lammers Garcia, Michelle Ney, Andrew Salveson, and Kirk Mazzeo.

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Kristen Helle's (MFA Interactive Design, 2008; Ph.D. candidate, DHA) artwork is featured in the April issue of Minnesota Women's Press magazine.

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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.

• Download The Walled City of Baku flyer (.pdf; 420Kb)

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Uttam Kokil's (Ph.D. candidate, Interactive Design) co-authored paper, "Crop-Connect: Enabling Community Supported Agriculture," has been accepted in the student design competition of the human-technology interaction society of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Kokil and his two co-authors will present their paper at the society's annual conference in Boston, April 4-9, 2009.

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Becky Yust (Housing Studies) and Marilyn Bruin (Housing Studies) were among the co-authors of a study on the pilot organization and participant experiences of the Emerging Markets Homeownership Initiative (EMHI). EMHI is a collaborative effort to increase homeownership among households of color in Minnesota. The homeownership rate of Minnesotans of color was only 41% in 2002 (compared to 78% of whites). The study was published in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs' CURA Reporter (Volume 38, Numbers 3-4).

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The 2008 AIA Minnesota Honor Awards are announced in the March-April 2009 issue of Architecture MN with an introduction written by Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture). In introducing the three-member jury and the awards, Fisher wrote, "Despite their focus on individual projects, awards programs primarily indicate what the profession asa whole regards as its best efforts, while offering an invaluable reminder that architects need to find intrinsic rewards in their work and never count on recognition."

Fisher also wrote the article recognizing architect David Salmela's Hawks Boots Manufacturing Facility design as one of the award winners.

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Nancy Miller (Center for World Heritage Studies) profiles architect David Salmela's pioneering use of Richlite, a paper-based composite, as a cladding material in the Hawks Boots Manufacturing Facility in Duluth. "Richlite is composed of layers of recycled paper soaked with phenolic resin and compressed under heat and pressure," writes Miller. "The resulting material is a solid surface -- durable and waterproof like plastic, but with the warmth and aesthetic character of wood."

Miller also wrote two articles in the issue, recognizing 2008 AIA Minnesota Honor Award winners. "Sea Green" acknowledges the design for the Charles Hostler Student Center at the American University of Beirut and "In the Material World" honors the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN.

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American Institute of Architects Minnesota President Renee Cheng (Architecture) writes a guest editorial in the March-April 2009 issue of Architecture MN highlighting the role architects play in creating quality of life and the new economy. "Each project -- large or small; residential, commercial, or cultural; noew or adaptive reuse -- has the potential to advance building performance, improve quality of life, and generally add beauty to the world," writes Cheng.

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John Carmody's (Center for Sustainable Building Research) paper, "The Role of Research Centers in Addressing Climate Change," was accepted at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. (ARCC) research conference to be held at the University of Texas, San Antonio, April 15-18, 2009. Carmody's submission -- one of more than 125 abstracts and 60 papers -- was the only one from the University of Minnesota.

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Blaine Brownell (Architecture) has published an article entitled "Tooling with Mother Nature" on biomimetic materials in the March 2009 issue of Discover magazine.

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Sauman "Sue" Chu (Graphic Design) will present and publish her research in eye tracking technology and news Web sites:

• "Using eye tracking technology to examine the effectiveness of design elements on news websites" will be published soon in Information Design Journal.


• Using Eye Tracking Technology to Examine the Effectiveness of Design Elements on News Websites will be presented next month at the Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Berlin.

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The fifth issue (Fall 2008) of Emerging is available online and in your postal mail box.

Features

"What if..."

The University of Minnesota's College of Design (CDes) trains design leaders. Our students, researchers, and faculty design with a social conscience and work to advance the quality and value of natural and designed environments while contributing to the betterment of the economic, social, and environmental realms of society. Full story

Conservation and preservation

The new College of Design found itself well-positioned to create two unique academic and research initiatives, bringing together expertise in international and American conservation and preservation practices. Full story

A legacy of scholarship, leadership, and service

A year ago Emerging profiled a pioneering society for women in architecture, Delta Phi. The University chapter was the largest in the country for many years. The U of M also gave birth to another pioneering design honor society, Phi Upsilon Omicron, which celebrates its centennial this year. Full story

Preserving the collection

The Goldstein Museum of Design has more than 26,000 items in its collection--including apparel, textiles, decorative arts, and graphic design pieces--and it's always adding more. Properly storing and preserving all of these artifacts are among the museum's most important responsibilities. Full story

Architecture undergraduates win Berkeley Prize

Architecture undergraduate students Laura Schlifer and Daniel Carlson won the first 2008 Berkeley Prize Architectural Design Fellowship in celebration of the prize's 10th anniversary. Schlifer and Carlson's project was entitled "Baby Boomers: A New Take on the Old." They each received $1,250 plus $3,500 to host a School of Architecture competition based on their entries. They were also finalists for the essay competition. Full story

Retiring Hewitt leaves indelible mark on Twin Cities campus

Campus planner, professor, public servant, and counselor, Clinton Hewitt embodies the respect that underpins the dignity of the University of Minnesota. He has guided planning for the Twin Cities campus with a knowing hand, elevating the campus to a place of beauty, reflection, and recreation. But perhaps, more than his planning position, it is Hewitt himself who has left an indelible mark on our great campus. Full story

What if historic preservation reflected the diversity of the American people?

Landmark registers recognize and protect many places of interest to design professionals, including great examples of architectural and landscape design, exquisite craft, and distinctive style. Many more landmarks have been preserved because of their connection to important individuals, events, groups, or aspects of daily life in our nation's history. Because most Americans and visitors learn about our history through visits to historic sites and buildings, rather than textbooks or scholarly journals, public awareness of the role that diverse groups played in our nation's past depends on what we think is important to save and whose stories we choose to tell at historic places. Full story

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Tasoulla Hadjiyanni's (Interior Design) and Kristin Helle's (Design Communication Ph.D. candidate) paper "Re/claiming the past -- Constructing Ojibwe identity in Minnesota homes" will be published in the journal Design Studies.

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A paper by Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) and Kristin Helle (MFA 2008), "Between 2: Tango as interactive design" has been accepted by Interacting with Computers (Elsevier).

Tango at the Loring Pasta Bar.

The paper examines the physicality of dancing tango with the evolving interface capabilities of computers.

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Dean Tom Fisher (Architecture) has published two articles in the November/December 2008 issue of Architecture MN. In his "Rarefied Air" feature, Fisher profiles Duluth architect David Salmela. Samela is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Minnesota 2008 gold medal, the highest honor given to a Minnesota architect. In "Climate Zone," Fisher provides an overview of the eco-friendly Hostler Center at the American University of Beirut.

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Nancy Miller (Center for World Heritage Studies) has written three articles for the November/December 2008 issue of Architecture MN, the magazine of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Minnesota. Miller offers a profile of the South Korean Samsung Cancer Center in "Seoul Provider." In "Culture Crawl," Miller offers brief snapshots of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Des Moines Art Center, and the Milwaukee Art Museum in an art museum road trip through the upper midwest. Finally, Miller profiles Blaine Brownell (Architecture) in her "Material Matters."

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Kim Johnson (Retail Merchandising) has recently published a series of journal articles:

• "Business strategies of independent retailers: Effects of environmental hostility" in the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship


• "An investigation of consumer traits and their relationship to merchandise borrowing with undergraduates" in the Journal of Family and Consumer Science Education


• "Self-objectification and appearance-based teasing during adolescence" in the Journal of Family and Consumer Science Education


• "Advertisements: Interpreting images used to sell young adults" in the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management


• "Predicting in-shopping using small-town consumers' satisfaction with local retailers" in the International Journal of Retail and Distribution


• "Dress and human behavior: A review and critique of published research" in the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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Dean Tom Fisher's latest book, Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival, has been published by Architectural Press, an imprint of Elsevier. Fisher's book examines the process of rethinking our responsibilities to the natural world with regard to sustainability.

"As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves – in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the demand for finite resources, Fisher lays down a theory of architecture based on ethics and explores how buildings can and do provide both social and moral dimensions."

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Bruce Wright (Design Minor Fellow) has published a review of the perennial Little Golden Books series in the June issue of Print magazine.

"Little Golden Books debuted on October 1, 1942, at a time when most children's books were beyond the budget of the average working family. Simon & Schuster priced the Golden Books at an affordable quarter each, and printed them in glorious color to boot.

...

"But the marketers at Simon & Schuster decided to forgo then-standard publishing practices, bypass the bookstores and libraries, and place the attractive books in drugstores and grocery stores, directly before their intended purchasers. The scheme worked beyond anyone's expectations, much to critics' chagrin."

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Patrick Redmond (M.A. '90, DHA) published a brief review of AGI: Graphic Design Since 1950 in the April 13, 2008 issue of the Pioneer Press.

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James Boyd-Brent's (Graphic Design) etching is featured in "The Twenty Views of Dundas," a series of prints, also reproduced in the Northfield News, depicting the small town's history.

Boyd-Brent's work is a view of the ruins of the Archibald Mill on the Cannon River, the former engine of the town.

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Pat Nunnally (Landscape Architecture) has launched the Telling River Stories Web site, a collaborative project that populates the urban Mississippi River corridor with stories of how the city and the river have been jointly developed.

The Web site is part of the River Life: Mississippi and U project, a partnership of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, Institute for Advanced Study, Water Resource Center, College of Design, and Urban Studies Program. The River Life project connects University research, teaching, and civic engagement programs with off-campus partners who are working to reinvigorate the urban Mississippi River.

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"Some schools of architecture could use a good architect"
By Thomas Fisher, The Chronicle Review, March 7, 2008

Dean Tom Fisher penning an overview of a new book he co-edited, Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned From Schools of Architecture (Fairchild Books, 2007), writes that many architecture students -- like the proverbial schoemaker's child who goes barefoot -- learn the best practices of their discipline in some of the worst buildings on their campuses.

The book's authors found that the three architecture schools whose building exteriors received the highest rankings "respected the context of the surrounding campus."

"Is architecture evolutionary, adapting to its context, or revolutionary, demonstrating new ways of being? Should buildings seek consensus within a community or challenge peoples' views of the world? As in other fields, the discipline of architecture has cycled back and forth between these positions, now so rapidly that both views often coexist within a single department (and are sometimes held by the same person)."

Fisher writes that while problems exist, their solutions are readily at hand.

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The University of Minnesota Press has published Kristine F. Miller's (Landscape Architecture) Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces. In the book Miller examines how design influences six of New York's most important public spaces, including Times Square, Trump Tower, the IBM Atrium, and Federal Plaza.

"Design is, in Miller's view, complicit in regulation of public spaces in New York City to exclude undesirables, restrict activities, and privilege commercial interests, and in this work she shows how design can reactivate public space and public life."

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In an op-ed piece for the Hartford Courant, Dean Tom Fisher draws parallels between a modern outlet mall -- Wrentham Village outside of Boston, which Fisher refers to as a "village-in-a-vacuum" -- and fashion trends.

"Wrentham Village depends upon inexpensive oil, something that we almost certainly will never see again. As I drove into the parking lot, I noticed the sizable number of cars with license plates from neighboring states, and wondered when the day will come when it costs more to drive to such outlets that we can save on our purchases there."

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Jeff Crump (Housing Studies) chaired the state legislature's foreclosure data committee. The final report (.pdf; 236Kb) of the committee is now available, and the Housing Studies program is mentioned in Appendix Three.

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Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) and MFA graduate Bert Fraher have published "Narrative Structure, Myth, and Cognition in Instructional Design" in the January 2008 issue of Educational Technology. The article examines Joseph Campbell's monomyth as a universal structuring form for learning and technology.

Hokanson's doorbell (.avi; 66.5Mb) is audible (and visible). The doorbell was designed and built by sound sculptor Norm Andersen from a variety of materials, and includes nine sound sources. It plays for approximately 20 seconds and includes an off switch for Halloween.

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Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) profiles his Commercial Rhetoric Art Project in the winter 2008 issue of AIGA Issues in an article entitled "Killing Me Softly with Great Graphic Design: the Commercial Rhetoric Art Project." The project offers a social, political, and economic critique by repurposing advertising material coming into our homes into a series of collages, montages, and assemblages.

"Commercial messages invade and try to take over our homes on a daily basis, attempting to persuade us to consume, consume, and consume some more. This infestation has been so gradual -- rather, we've been complicit with the enemy -- that we only feel bothered or slightly overwhelmed, but not outraged."

McCarthy writes that "one aspect of the project's message is that graphic designers have contributed to the problem of over-consumption by actually succeeding in their field."

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C. Colston Burrell's (MLA, 1995) book Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start (1999, Rodale Books) will be issued in paperback next month.

Burrell is a garden designer, writer, photographer, and the owner of Native Landscape Design and Restoration, located near Charlottesville, Virginia. He has authored 12 books on gardening including A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers, which won the American Horticultural Society notable books of the year award for 1998.

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Architectural writer and historian Jane King Hession (MArch 1995) has co-authored Frank Lloyd Wright in New York examining the period Wright lived in New York, 1954-59. In 1999 King Hession co-authored Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design.

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Caren Martin (interior design) is the author of Interior Design From Practice To Profession: A History of the Profession (2007). Published by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), the 56-page booklet covers the definition of interior design today, a historical view of the development of interior design as a profession, and interior design in the 21st century.

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Nancy Miller (Center for World Heritage Studies) has a package of articles in the January/February 2008 issue of Architecture Minnesota. The four-part package, entitled "Hallowed Ground," focuses on the architecture of St. John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

In the same issue, Miller's "Material Matters" examines the use of concrete to create rich textures and visually compelling surfaces.

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Dean Tom Fisher shared an excerpt of his forthcoming book, Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival, in the January-February 08 issue of Architecture Minnesota. The book will be published in May by Elsevier/The Architectural Press.

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Dean Tom Fisher and Nancy Miller (Center for World Heritage Studies) both have articles in the November-December 2007 issue of Architecture Minnesota.

In "A Tale of Two Bridges," Fisher writes about how "the I-35W bridge and the Guthrie Theater's 'endless bridge' reveal a shift in how we invest in our urban public spaces."

Miller, in an article entitled "On the Right Track," profiles a studio course led by Minneapolis architect William Conway which "examines the impact a light-rail line would have on northwest Arkansas."

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Boston's art and architecture are explored in the AIA Guide to Boston: Contemporary Landmarks, Urban Design, Parks, and Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods (Globe Pequot Press, March 2008) by Michael Southworth (BArch '64; professor of urban design and planning at UC-Berkeley) and Susan Southworth. The book covers 700 sites and four centuries of Boston architecture, parks, urban design, and historic landmarks and neighborhoods.

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Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) has published "The Virtue of Paper: Drawing as a Means to Innovation in Instructional Design," a chapter in a book entitled The Handbook of Visual Languages for Instructional Design: Theories and Practices" (Hershey: IGI-Global, 2007). The article connects the visual exploration techniques of architecture with the methodology of instructional design.

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The third issue (Fall 2007) of Emerging is available online and in your postal mail box. To receive a print Emerging subscription contact Anne Schultz, schultz@umn.edu.

• Download the Fall 2007 issue of Emerging (.pdf; 19.7Mb)

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Alex Terzich (Design Institute) has authored an article entitled "Yours, Mine, and the Future's: Google's Patent Search unlocks the value of proprietary information." The article was published in the November/December issue of The International Design Magazine (I.D.) (p. 50) and features a detail from Christopher Baker's (Design Institute; Art) American Toys (2007), a representation of 500 toy pistols patented in the U.S. over the past 150 years.

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Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) has authored an article on his creativity research entitled "By measure: Creativity in design." It was published in the October issue of the Journal of Industry and Higher Education.

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Nancy Miller (CWHS) developed a map of mid-century modern buildings constructed in Minnesota between 1945 and 1970. The map, entitled "Minnesota Modernism," was distributed to all registrants at the annual meeting of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which was held in Saint Paul, October 2-6. A project of the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota, the map was sponsored by the Midwest Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, with matching funds from the Minneapolis and St. Paul chapters of the AIA, and a contribution from the College of Design. The maps are available in the College offices and in the School of Architecture office.

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Kim Johnson (Retail Merchandising) has co-authored a journal article, "The U.S. apparel industry: Futuring with undergraduate apparel majors," published in Clothing and Textiles Research Journal.

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Kim Johnson (Retail Merchandising) and Jeong-Ju Yoo (former graduate student) have coauthored "Effects of appearance-related teasing on ethnically diverse adolescent girls" in Adolescence.

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Karen LaBat (DHA and Human Dimensioning Lab) published "Sizing Standardization" in a book edited by Susan Ashdown, entitled Sizing in clothing : developing effective sizing systems for ready-to-wear clothing (Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2007). Ashdown completed her DHA doctoral studies with Marilyn DeLong as advisor, and is currently a professor at Cornell University.

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Sauman Chu (DHA) has a chapter entitled "Digital game-based learning in higher education" accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (forthcoming, IGI Global).

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Jeff Crump (DHA) has published "Subprime Lending and Foreclosure in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties" in the Summer 2007 issue of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs CURA Reporter. Crump's research finds a more than 100% increase in Minneapolis foreclosures since 2006 with more than 50% of those foreclosures located in North Minneapolis.

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