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CFP: 10th European Academy of Design Conference -­ Crafting the Future

CFP: 10th European Academy of Design Conference -­ Crafting the Future This conference celebrates the 10th anniversary of the European Academy of Design conferences and contributes to a  discussion on the role of design and designers in crafting our futures. The theme of the conference is the practical knowledge of the designer. How can the …

Posted 13 months ago by ten

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The Twenty-first Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design

April 13 & 14, 2012 Parsons the New School for Design Anna Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY Friday, April 13 5:30 p.m. "Consumed by the Past" The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address Dr. Thomas Denenberg, Director, The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont Reception to follow. Saturday, April 14 Session I. …

Posted 14 months ago by ten

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‘Possibility’ in Design

Of late I have encountered quit a few articles, monographs, or lectures where design scholars have discussed notions of “possibility” in relation to critical analyses on design, which often focus on design as both a social construct and political category for organizing social action. In the process I have become fascinated by the frequent conceptual …

Posted 17 months ago by ten

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Design Education and Sustainability

Ideas to Think With: Marcel Vellinga and the Anthropology of Sustainable Architecture For design educators interested in the increasingly intersecting areas of sustainability, cultural politics, and the built environment, Marcel Verllinga’s article “Anthropology and the Challenges of sustainable architecture” provides a number of critical insights for challenging popular assumptions about architecture. In this article Vellinga …

Posted 19 months ago by ten

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Visualizing Data Competition 2011

Overview The Gottesman Libraries is looking for designers that are able to understand the implications of educational data, and will award up to 20 designers an honorarium of $500 for work that visualizes data and potentially connects it to existing or potential educational policy, the effects of such policy upon students, and society at large. We …

Posted 26 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Cultural Probes

For those interested in design education I would like to share the work on Cultural Probes put forth by Bill Gaver, Tony Dunne, and Elena Pacenti. In an article published Interactions January – February 1999, Design: Cultural probes, they discuss their experiences working with a group of senior citizens to identify their needs for a …

Posted 28 months ago by ten

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