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A bi-weekly electronic newsletter for the faculty and
staff of the College of Design.
The deadline for submissions is noon on Wednesday prior to Thursday of publication.
Send submissions to Michael Fraase <mfraase@umn.edu>.
The next issue comes out September 28.
Read CDes Memo online on the College
of Design Web site.
November 9, 2006
Editor: Michael Fraase <mfraase@umn.edu>
Inside this issue
From Dean Fisher
Thanks to the faculty and staff who made it to our first all-college meeting!
The provost was impressed by the turn out and the good questions at the meeting,
and I was pleased that everyone managed to stay awake during my presentation
on the college budget, which is never the most scintillating topic. The committees
and communities of interest table received a lot of great input, which we'll
move forward with in preparation for another meeting just before classes begin
in January. Stay tuned for more information.
The College has also been asked by the University to develop a vision for
how we see our teaching and research changing over the next decade, as the basis
for planning our space needs over that same time period. Our goal will be to
have the entire college on one campus, and to think about how our facilities
may change in response to new forms of learning and discovering. This "design
of the design precinct" needs to be in draft form in January, and I will develop
a preliminary draft for others to give input.
Coming up
Friday, November 10 -- Figures of Capitalist Globalization: Firms, Models
and Chain Links lecture
3:00-4:30 p.m.
101 Walter Library
Anna Tsing, professor of anthropology at the University of California-Santa Cruz,
will be presenting a lecture sponsored by the Markets in Time Research Collaborative,
Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota.
Thursday, November 16 -- Beyond Desire: Fashion, Art, Life lecture
6-9 p.m.
33 McNeal Hall
Valerie Steele, chief curator and museum director, Fashion Institute of Technology,
New York, and editor, Fashion Theory/The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture.
CANCELLED -- Friday, November 17 -- Ecology of Construction
John Fernandez, associate professor of building technology, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
News and announcements
Want to stay in touch with important CDes announcements? Consider setting
your Web browser's home page to the College
of Design Announcements page. Updated frequently, this page has timely information
that didn't make the CDes Memo deadline.
Praxis/Practice at the Nash
The Katherine E. Nash Gallery presents Praxis/Practice, a collaborative exhibition
featuring work by students from the graduate programs of the University's Department
of Art and College of Design and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD).
Areas of research focus include: apparel, architecture, ceramics, design communication,
interior design, interactive media, landscape architecture, painting, and sculpture.The
exhibition runs November 14-December 15. Gallery hours are Tuesday and Wednesday,
10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. A public reception
is scheduled for Friday, December 1 from 6:00-8:30 p.m.
CDes launches faculty/alumni art exhibition program
The Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library will host an ongoing faculty/alumni
art exhibition program jointly sponsored by the University libraries and the
College of Design. This program invites and encourages faculty members and alumni
to exhibit their creative works and share them with colleagues, the University,
and the Twin Cities community. There will be four exhibitions during the academic
year, and the exhibiting artists will have a reception and lecture. During the
academic year 2006-07, the program features drawings by Renee Cheng (Architecture),
prints and paintings by Lonnie Broden (DHA), watercolor paintings by Julia Robinson
(Architecture), and photographs and multimedia by traveling scholarship recipients
from the Metropolitan Design Center. For more information, contact Joon Mornes,
head of the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library: j-morn@umn.edu;
612-624-1638.
The Department of Landscape Architecture recently held a retreat as part of
its year-long strategic planning effort. The first retreat was very successful
but we still have a lot of hard work to do.
Learning Abroad Center training sessions
The Learning Abroad Center is hosting two free training sessions on learning
abroad for advisers, faculty, and student services professionals. The sessions
will be repeated in May if you are unable to attend in December. To register,
go to the Learning
Abroad Center Web site, scroll down to the Faculty/Adviser Trainings, and
click the "register now" link for one or both sessions:
Learning Abroad: Basics -- Register
now
Monday, December 4, 2006
9-11 a.m.
110 Heller Hall (map)
Intended for those faculty, advisers, and student services professionals new
to the University or for those wanting an introduction to the basics of study
abroad.
Learning Abroad: Intermediate/Advanced* -- Register
now
Thursday, December 7, 2006
9-11 a.m.
110 Heller Hall (map)
Intended for those faculty, advisers, and student services professionals who
have a reasonable understanding of learning abroad at the University and for
those who have participated in the University's Study Abroad Curriculum Integration
efforts.
* This discussion will include experiential work, intern, and volunteer abroad
programs as well as traditional study programs.
For more information contact Jodi Malmgren, jodim@umn.edu,
612-626-7678.
CDes in the media
The following CDes activities and expertise have been featured in the media.
Contact Laura Weber, communications director, at l-webe@umn.edu if
you have news to promote through the media.
"New University college
unites disparate fields" -- The Minnesota Daily November 8, 2006
Project Holiday, a collaboration between CDes merchandising students and Bachmans,
is the subject of a "Story
Tips" from the U News Service.
"Design students present
plans for riverfront area" -- The Minnesota Daily, October 16, 2006
"Winning fashion" --
Minneapolis StarTribune, November 1, 2006
The Metropolitan Design Center's Design for Health series was featured in
two U News Service press releases this week:
The Metropolitan Design Center's Ann Forsyth did phone interviews with Minnesota
News Network (radio) and WCCO-AM radio.
Congratulations and kudos
Susan Sokolowski (DHA Ph.D. with apparel emphasis) was promoted to the position
of innovation director of women's apparel for Nike. She is responsible for project
management of all women's performance wear for the company.
Joanne B. Eicher (DHA) presented "Writing a book for National Geographic Society" to
Phi Upsilon Omicron, Alpha Chapter, on on Wednesday, October 25. She described
the process involved in writing one of two introductions for the book, Fashion
(2001) and the chapter text for Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood
(2005).
Visiting faculty member Benjamin Ibarra (Architecture) attended the opening
of AR&PA 2002 by the Queen of Spain who gives the international prize --
the "Queen Sofía" -- for conservation and restoration of cultural heritage.
The ceremony takes place in the auditorium of the Palace of Congresses, which
is in the area of the restoration. The congress has converted Valladolid to the
capital of the restoration in the Iberia-American culture.
Bill Angell (DHA) has been invited to serve on the steering committee of the
Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner's Asthma Advisory Committee and to
serve as chair of the environment work group. The steering committee recommends
goals, objectives, and strategies to the department charged with reducing Minnesota
asthma-related hospital admissions by 17% over five years. The strategic planning
is part of a Centers for Disease Control-funded initiative. The environment work
group is one of four that will shape the department's plan; its focus is on indoor
and outdoor environmental triggers associated with asthma.
Rachel Carlson (B.S. clothing design) and Amy Michelle Freeman (B.S. clothing
design) participated in Macy's "Distinction in Design" competition last week.
The competition offered the opportunity for designers to present their concepts
and products to the department store's buyers.
Kerry Haglund (Center for Sustainable Building Research) has been elected
to the board of directors of the National Fenestration
Rating Council (NFRC). Haglund and John Carmody (Center for Sustainable Building
Research) have been actively involved in NFRC's activities for many years as
part of their windows and glazings research. NFRC provides accurate and credible
information on the energy performance of windows, doors, and skylights.
Steven McCarthy (DHA) has had digital videos from his Commerical Rhetoric
Art Project juried into the Paris/Berlin
International Meetings.
Peter MacDonagh (Landscape Architecture alumnus,1985) recently helped complete
the site and water guidelines for the new version of the State of Minnesota's
Buildings, Benchmarks, and Beyond (B3) sustainable building design guidelines.
The guidelines are used by all state-bonded projects within the state.
Lee Tollefson's (Architecture) firm received a national AIA IFFRA design award
for its design for the San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas. The awards
were presented in San Diego last week. The project includes the restoration of
the cathedral which was built in the 18th century, as well as the construction
of a new Cathedral Center and urban courtyard. The building is particularly noteworthy
and is considered by many as the most important building in Texas.
Last week the Goldstein Museum's Research Center broke its record for the
number of separate groups served in a four-day period. Five different classes,
totalling 155 students, used the Goldstein research center -- including one class
that had six separate sections visit.
John Koepke (Landscape Architecture) has continued his work on the Laurentian
Vision Project with communities and mining companies on the Iron Range in northern
Minnesota. Work on the project recently took him to Portland, Oregon, where senior
research fellow Chris Carlson (Landscape Architecture) and he completed work
on a $10,000 grant associated with the project.
Brad Hokanson (DHA) presented two papers on the use of games in learning at
the recent International Textiles and Apparel Association annual meeting in San
Antonio. Hokanson worked with lead author Seung-Eun Lee of Central Michigan University
(formerly with the University of MInnesota).
Publications
Sauman Chu (DHA), Mauricio Arango (DHA), Chuck Yust (former IT staff) have
coauthored an article entitled "A Case Study: Creating and Designing a Bilingual
Resource Web Site for Somali Immigrants." The article has been published in the
book, Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends, and
Opportunities, by Sri Kurniawan and Panayiotis Zaphiris.
Amy Kampf (retail merchandising undergraduate) received honorable mention
for her undergraduate research paper from the International Textile and Apparel
Association.
The following research presentations were made by CDes students at the International
Textile and Apparel Association annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, November
1-4, 2006.
- Johnson, Kim & Yoo, Jeong Ju. (2006, November). Clothing and the self.
- Lee, JaeHa., Johnson, Kim, Lee,
Seung-Eun., & Gahring, Sherri. (2006, November) Business strategies of independent
retailers: Effects of environmental hostility.
- Kang, Minjeong. & Johnson,
Kim. (2006, November). Apparel returns: Influence of fashion innovativeness,
buying impulsiveness, and attitudes toward leniency of return policies.
- Yoo, Jeong-Ju. & Johnson,
Kim. (2006, November). Appearance-related teasing and self-objectification of
ethnically diverse adolescents.
Colophon
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