CDes MEMO Archives

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.

March 8, 2007

Editor: Michael Fraase, mfraase@umn.edu

Next two weeks

March 8, 10 a.m., Minnesota Population Center, Willey Hall
Neighborhood Effects
Stefanie Deluca, Johns Hopkins

March 9, 9-11 a.m., 180 Hubert H. Humphrey Center
Beyond the Open House and Focus Group: Community Engagement Methods that Really Work
Wendy Sarkissian
More information is available on the Metropolitan Design Center Web site.

February 24-March 11, HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
Fall 2006 Design Excellence Awards exhibition

March 19, 5:45 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
Shared Space -- A Fresh Approach to Reconciling People, Places, and Traffic
Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Hamilton-Baillie Associates

March 20, 8:00-10:30 a.m., Campus Club Conference Room ABC, Coffman Memorial Union
Active Transportation and Facility Planning
Ben Hamilton-Ballie and James Charlier
More information on the Hamilton-Ballie talks is available on the Design for Health Web site.

March 20, 6-8 p.m., Campus Club Conference Room ABC, Coffman Memorial Union
Cars and Communities
Ben Hamilton-Ballie
More information on the Hamilton-Ballie talks is available on the Metropolitan Design Center Web site.

March 22, 6-8 p.m., 144 McNeal Hall
Friends of the Goldstein Museum present: An Evening of Graphic Design
Steven McCarthy, associate professor of graphic design, will lecture on "Designer-Authored Histories: Graphic Design at the Goldstein" and Graphic Design 4: integrative campaign students Jennifer Kelly and Grace Eelkema, will present "Animating the Corridor between the Minneapolis and St. Paul Campuses." An identity-visualizing exercise for the Goldstein will wrap up the evening; refreshments will follow. Free for members of Friends of the Goldstein, $10 non-members; Students, $10 to join for 18 months. RSVP by March 19 to 612-624-7434 or goldstein@umn.edu.

News and announcements

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Upcoming Metropolitan Design Center program deadlines
Faculty fellow applications are due May 1. Student undergraduate travel fellowship applications are due March 7. Faculty minigrants for urban design and community engagement activities have rolling deadlines.

CAPA representative and alternate elected
The results of CDes professional and administrative (P&A) employees election for a Council of Academic Professionals & Administrators (CAPA) representative and alternate are in. Wendy Friedmeyer was elected to a three-year term as CDes representative, and Laura Weber as alternate. Friedmeyer, education programs coordinator in the Design Institute has three years previous experience as a CAPA representative and has also served as a CAPA senator. Weber is director of communications, and previously was a member of General College's P&A consultative committee for two years. Thank you, Wendy and Laura, for representing the College of Design.

Design Institute news
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING -- New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, published by the Design Institute, has been chosen as one of the best books of 2006 by Slate.com, and as number one book of 2006 by Archinect.com contributing editor Javier Arbona.

Thanks to all the attendees who made the Design Institute's Mapping New Knowledge Ecologies (MNKE) workshop, held on Saturday February 10, such a success -- especially by their fearless participation in the "hands-on" Jacob Moreno exercises conducted by guest presenter Josh On.

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.

"Think Small" -- By Bethany Little, New York Times, February 16, 2007
Geoff Warner's (B. Arch. 1989) firm, Alchemy Architects, was featured as a manufacturer of tiny homes.

"We've got green, how 'bout you?" -- By Holly Lahd, Minnesota Daily, February 22, 2007
The University could win every time with a LEED-certified stadium.

"Culture meets housing design" -- By Allison Wickler, Minnesota Daily, February 26, 2007
This year, students designed housing with Ojibwe and Hmong cultures in mind.

"Intelligent design" -- By Steve Berg, Star Tribune, March 4, 2007
On the heels of the information age, which seems to have just arrived, come suggestions from Dean Tom Fisher that we've entered a new era, one in which creativity, design, aesthetics, and the ability to forge emotional links will drive the American economy.

"At the Goldstein: making of the Eames paper" -- By Pauline Oo, UMNnews, March 6, 2007
Design students try new Eames paper in class assignments.

Congratulations and kudos

Leslie Van Duzer (Architecture) has accepted a three-year academic appointment as an external reviewer at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She will be responsible for visiting their faculty of Architecture and Planning one to three times each year to assess their curriculum.

The functional clothing design studio students, taught by Karen LaBat (DHA), toured the Higher Dimension Research, Inc. (HDRI) headquarters in Oakdale, Minnesota. Teams of students are developing new products using HDRI's SuperFabrics, a proprietary puncture resistant fabric technology. HDRI is custom-producing fabrics specified by the teams for use in their prototypes.

Lisa Burdesky (Clothing Design 2005) was promoted to eveningwear handbag designer at BCBG, Los Angeles, CA.

Publications

Tom Fisher, "Signs and Symbols: St. Croix Lutheran High School Chapel," and "True North: University of Alaska Museum of the North," Architecture MN, March/April 2007.

Presentations

Stephanie Zollinger (DHA) presented "Transformations of a Textile Innovator: Jack Lenor Larsen" at the 2007 Conference of the National Association for Humanities Education in San Francisco.

Future events

March 28, 5-8 p.m., Great Hall, Coffman Memorial Union
Architecture, Environmental Design, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture Career Fair
More information about the fair is available on the CDes Web site.

April 2 , 9 a.m.-noon, 45 Rapson Hall
"Making the Mississippi" seminar series
Join Pat Nunnally, coordinator of the University's Mississippi River Initiative, and local experts on riverfront design, planning, and policy for a series of discussions on the changing Twin Cities Mississippi River waterfront.

Each program starts as a session of the undergraduate course, "Making the Mississippi," and will feature a presentation and discussion over the broad themes of the topic at hand. After a brief break, at 10:45 a.m., the discussion will continue (moving to 225 Rapson Hall) in a more interactive mode that allows for a more detailed analysis of that day’s particular subject.

April 4, 3:30-5:30 p.m., reception follows, 140 Nolte Hall
River Runs Through All of Us symposium
A symposium sponsored by the University of Minnesota Mississippi River Initiative
Speakers:

Seitu Jones, City of Minneapolis, CPED
Ruth Murphy, East Side Conservation Corps, St. Paul
Kathee Foran, Heart of the Beast Theater, Minneapolis
MaryLynn Pulscher, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Response: Paul Labovitz, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, National Park Service

April 12, 4 p.m., 125 Nolte Hall
The Mississippi River Over Time
Carrie Jennings (Minnesota Geological Survey), Dan Engstrom (St. Croix Research Station), and Deb Swackhamer (Institute on the Environment) will discuss the natural history, recent history, and future prospects for the Mississippi River. How was the river formed, what are its habitat and biological communities, and what is our legacy for the river and future generations? Part of the "Thursdays at Four" series hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study.

April 21, time TBD, location TBD
A Women's School of Architecture
Leslie Weisman, New Jersey Institute of Technology

April 27-28, noon-6 p.m., Rapson Hall auditorium
Design and Its Publics, Curators, Critics and Historians
Co-organized by Janet Abrams (Design Institute Director) and Steven Ostrow (Chair, Department of Art History). To reserve a seat, e-mail design@umn.edu with 'DAIP' in subject. An international line-up of speakers is now confirmed: details are available on the Design Institute Web site.

Confirmed speakers are:

Frances Anderton, host, DnA: Design and Architecture, KCRW 89.9FM, and KCRW.com, Los Angeles
Paola Antonelli, Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ole Bouman, Director, Netherlands Architecture Institute; editor-in-chief of Volume
Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Margaret Crawford, Professor of Design and Planning Theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Maarten Delbeke, Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture, Ghent University, Belgium; architecture critic
Brooke Hodge, Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Joseph Rosa, John H. Bryan Curatorial Chair of Architecture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Zoe Ryan, Neville Bryan Curator of Design, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Editor, Architectural Forum
Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London
Olivier Touraine, Touraine Richmond Architects, Venice, CA; UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Henry Urbach, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

April 29-May 1, Minneapolis Convention Center
Fifth Annual International Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Awards, and Trade Show
The conference will consist of plenary and specialized sessions focused on three green roof topic areas: Policies and programs; design and implementation; and research and technical papers on performance. Those planning to attend are also encouraged to check out the various training courses and workshops offered, as well as the conference trade show. Information is available at the Greening Rooftops conference Web site. Nina Ebbinghausen, Peter MacDonagh, and Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research) serve on the "Green Roofs Meet Minneapolis" host committee.

April 30, 8:00-10:30 a.m., Campus Club Conference Room ABC, Coffman Memorial Union
Accounting for Health in Planning Policy and Site Design
Jonathan Levine, University of Michigan
More information is available on the Design for Health Web site.

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