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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.
January 25, 2007
Editor: Michael Fraase, mfraase@umn.edu
Inside this issue
Next two weeks
January 26, 6-8 p.m., Goldstein Museum
Design Redux: Eames as Paper -- Opening party and gallery tours by Design Guys
The Eames Office partnered with Minneapolis firm Design Guys to create a line
of paper for Neenah Paper.
January 31, noon, 225 Rapson Hall
Knots of Energy, Instruments of Awareness
Recent projects by Richard Hansen, H. W. S. Cleveland Visiting Professor, Colorado
State University at Pueblo.
February 1, 4:00-6:30 p.m., Metropolitan Design Center
Faculty Celebration
Celebrate CDes faculty work outside of the Metropolitan Design Center (1 Rapson
Hall). If you would like to include your publication or exhibit from 2005-06
and have not delivered it to the Center for display, please call or e-mail Kristin
Raab (612-624-3546 or raab0002@umn.edu)
to make arrangements.
February 4, 3-6 p.m., Hennepin History Museum
Building Ties -- Culturally Sensitive Housing Designs for the Hmong and Ojibwe
People
Features proposals by interior design students under the direction of Tasoulla
Hadjiyanni (DHA), opens Sunday, Feb. 4, 3-6 p.m. at the Hennepin History Museum,
2303 3rd Avenue S., Minneapolis..
February 7, 5:30 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
New Directions in World Heritage Preservation -- new lecture
Ron Van Oers, Ph.D., UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Wednesday, February 7, 5:30 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Brownbag lunch workshops, Thursday, February 8 and Friday, February 9, 12:15-1:15
p.m., 225 Rapson
February 7, noon, 225 Rapson Hall
Riveting Stories about the Designs that Changed My Life
Steven McCarthy, associate professor of graphic design, Department of Design,
Housing, and Apparel.
February 7, 3:30-5:00 p.m., 140 Nolte Center
Life in a New Architecture -- Ojibwe Cultural Identity and Residential Design
Lecture by Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (DHA), a McKnight Summer Research Fellow.
Future events
MoNKEy business
The Design Institute invites everyone interested in visualizing the future of
CDes to attend MNKE -- Mapping New Knowledge Ecologies, a one-day workshop on
Saturday February 10, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., at the DI's atelier in 308 Northrop Auditorium.
With presentations by experts from the fields of interactive design, statistics,
architecture, and locative media, MNKE will explore how the mapping of social
networks can reveal interdisciplinary connections and opportunities for innovation
within the CDes community. This workshop is structured as the opening conversation
of a long-term mapping project that aims to reveal existing CDes knowledge assets
and indicate potential new hybrid lines of inquiry emanating from the College
of Design.
Presenters:
Mark Hansen, associate professor, department of statistics, UCLA, Los Angeles
Laura Kurgan, director, Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University GSAPP
(see "Rap Map" in Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, January 8, 2007)
Josh On, web designer and activist, creator of www.theyrule.net,
San Francisco
W. Bradford Paley, founder, Digital Image Design Incorporated, New York, creator, www.textarc.org
Marc Tuters, graduate fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, Los Angeles
Moderators:
Janet Abrams, director, Design Institute
Peter Hall, senior editor, Design Institute
Space is limited, RSVP to design@umn.edu by
February 8 at 4 p.m.
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. It's updated frequently between issues of CDes
MEMO.
Design @ Noon lectures have been added
to the CDes Web site.
High schoolers visit Human Dimensioning Lab and Goldstein Museum
In December, the Human Dimensioning Lab and Goldstein Museum hosted a group of
15 advanced clothing design students from North Saint Paul's North High School.
Ellen McKinney, Human Dimensioning Lab research assistant, explained the body
scan technology to the students and scanned each of them. Students will use the
measurements from their scans in their clothing design projects. Kathleen Campbell,
Goldstein Museum assistant curator, gave the students a tour of the current Goldstein
Gallery exhibit, "American Fashion Transformed." Laura Lien, prospective student
adviser and recruiter, also met with the students and provided information about
the Clothing Design and Retail Merchandising Programs.
Students in Kris Layon's (DHA) DHA-2351 class designed a logo for Will Steger's
upcoming Global Warming 101 Expedition. Nineteen students collaborated to create
five potential logos for the expedition. The final logo combines the polar bear,
representing all wildlife endangered by global warming, with the Inukshuk, symbolic
of the stone monuments the Inuit use for land navigation and for designating
sacred areas. Niqirtsuituk, the North Star, represents the wisdom of elders in
the community and is the traditional guide for navigation. The North Star (symbol
of the Northern latitudes) and Inukshuk are components of the Nunvaut Flag of
Baffin Island and have been embedded into the expedition logo.
Goldstein Museum of Design receives National Endowment for Humanities Grant
The Goldstein Museum of Design is the recipient of a Preservation Assistance
Grant for Small Museums from the National Endowment for the Humanities. "Preserving
the Goldstein Sisters' Legacy: A General Collections Assessment" will provide
funds for a preservation consultant from the Midwest Arts Conservation Center
of Minneapolis to conduct a thorough preservation assessment of the museum's
historically significant design collection. The final report will include a survey
of the storage environment, safety, staff training, and collection use and will
provide recommendations and priorities for immediate and long-term preservation.
It will facilitate developing a long-range preservation plan including future
conservation projects.
3D printer in W.L. Hall Workshop
The College of Design installed a 3D printer in the W.L. Hall Workshop over winter
break. The Z
Corp Spectrum Z510 3D printer builds an object layer-by-layer by binding
a plaster-based powder with a water-based solution to make a solid three-dimensional
object from an electronic file. Though initially rather fragile, with simple "post-processing" the
output can be made quite strong.
- The maximum capacity is 10"x14"x8"
- The
printer is capable of 24 bit color output
- The
printer "builds" at 1"-2" per hour depending upon part density
- The
printing software will accept .stl, .vrml, and .3ds file formats
- Structural
elements should be no less than 3/32" in thickness or cross-section
- Files
can be sent to cdes3dp@umn.edu. The workshop
staff will get back to you with questions, concerns, cost, and time estimates
- All
users will be charged $3 per cubic inch for all output to cover the cost of consumable
supplies
- The
volume of individual parts is computed by the printing software, so the workshop
staff can determine the cost before printing a part
- The
workshop staff is developing protocols/instructions for using this machine; if
you are interested in using the machine in the meantime just contact the workshop
- The
more frequently this machine runs, the more reliable it will be, so don't be
shy
- Feel
free to stop by 139 Rapson anytime to check out the machine and some printed
objects
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.
"2006 Safety Products Student Design Challenge," Industrial Fabric Products
Review, November 2006, p. 64. Features Karen LaBat's (DHA) students winning top
three awards in the 2006 competition sponsored by the Industrial Fabric Products
Association.
Radon in your
home?, by Bill Angell (DHA/MURC) eNews, a biweekly electronic newsletter
for U of M friends and alumni, Jan. 11, 2007.
"U plans eco-friendly
designs for existing campus buildings" -- By Allison Wickler, The Minnesota
Daily, January 24, 2007
The state's guidelines could push the University to become a leader in green
design. John Carmody (CSBR) is quoted and our M.S. in sustainability is mentioned.
Congratulations and kudos
The School of Architecture tied for seventh nationally among private and public
architecture programs and fourth in public programs (with University of California,
Berkeley) in the 2007 DesignIntelligence Dean's Survey of America's Best Architecture
and Design Schools. More than 84 school leaders participated in the survey. The
University was the fourth-ranked public research university.
Today at the University's first-ever Quality Fair (8 a.m.-noon, McNamara Alumni
Center) Brad Hokanson (E-scholarship as an Engine for Change and Innovation)
and Virajita Singh, (Greening the College of Design) presented their posters
representing the College of Design.
Steven McCarthy's (DHA) abstract entitled "The University of Minnesota's College
of Design: Identity through Emergent Studio Production" has been accepted for
the ConnectED 2007 conference (July 9-12, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia).
Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) has been named a founding fellow of
the University's new Institute on the Environment. Neckar is serving on a 24-member
task force that will guide Saint Paul's efforts to redevelop the 125-acre Ford
Motor Co. plant site.
During the week of January 15, Bill Angell (DHA) met in Washington, D.C. with
the U.S. Surgeon General Kenneth P. Moritsugu and EPA leaders to recognize national
winners for Radon Action Month, including a widow of a lung cancer victim who
is leading an campaign to require radon testing when a house is sold. Angell
also chaired an American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST)
board meeting, met with EPA staff about building a census-based professional
community and a grant funded project, and met with Council of Radiation Control
Protection Directors (CRCPD) about the joint 2008 AARST International Radon Symposium/CRCPD
National Radon Meeting.
InformeDesign was featured as a world-wide database resource on the Italian
architecture site, www.architecture.it,
on January 15.
The student group Greenlight organized and hosted a sustainable design workshop
the weekend of January 19 with about 50 people attending. Attendees included
CDes students, some professionals, and Cold Spring, MN community participants.
The workshop was sponsored by Cold Spring Granite company and the the resulting
four presentations will be used to guide the development work for downtown Cold
Spring. Dean Tom Fisher gave opening and closing remarks at the workshop as did
faculty advisers to Greenlight, Virajita Singh (Architecture) and Stephen Weeks
(Architecture).
Publications
Dean Tom Fisher has published several articles since the last issue of CDes
MEMO:
Presentations
Dean Tom Fisher was the featured guest on Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning
show with host Mariann Combs on Friday, December 22 from 10-11 a.m. The topic
was the state of design, along the lines of the a series on design Combs is putting
together and for which Tom has been interviewed.The show is archived
and podcasted.
Transitions
Jennifer (Jenny) Switala has joined CDes as a help desk staff member in the
college's IT department. Switala is a graduate of the architecture program. She
has been answering the help line (6-7760) recently, so you may know her already
by voice. Please welcome her by stopping by 127 Rapson and introducing yourself
when you have the chance.
Colophon
CDes MEMO is published by the College of Design at the University of Minnesota
bi-weekly, every other Thursday, September through May, on
the Web. Please send comments, questions, or submissions to Michael Fraase, mfraase@umn.edu.
Submissions are due by noon Wednesday prior to Thursday publication. Spring
semester publication dates are: January 25, February 8, February 22, March 8,
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