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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.
April 5, 2007
Editor: Michael Fraase, mfraase@umn.edu
Inside this issue
Next two weeks
April 11, noon, 225 Rapson Hall
Prototypes of the Everyday
Daniel Jasper, assistant professor of graphic design, Department of Design, Housing,
and Apparel
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.
Part of the "Thursdays at Four" series hosted by the Institute
for Advanced Study. For more information call 612-626-5054.
April 12, 5:30-8:00 p.m., McNeal Hall Atrium
Interior Design Student Portfolio Review Night
Sponsored by the ASID-MN Student Chapter
Student presentation of portfolios and critiques from interior design professionals.
Door prizes for participants and viewers.
Refreshments will be served.
Open to students, staff, and faculty.
To register, e-mail Kellan Baker, bake0408@umn.edu.
More information is available on the CDes
Web site.
April 13, 12-1 p.m., Rapson Hall Courtyard
Studio desk prototypes feedback event
The input will be used to develop the final version and inform the purchase of
200+ desks on the second floor studios in Rapson Hall. If you would like to send
your comments by e-mail, please contact Virajita Singh, singh023@umn.edu,
by April 13.
April 16-17, Walter Library Digital Technology Center
Wireless Cities Conference
A conference organized in part by Brad Hokanson (DHA) and Greg Daigle (DHA) on
wireless cities will bring together educators, researchers, project coordinators,
funders, community activists, and policy-makers to discuss the implications of
wireless communities. The conference received funding assistance through
the Metropolitan Design Center. More information about the conference, including
online registration, is available on the Digital
Technology Center Web site.
April 18, noon, 225 Rapson Hall
Design, Housing, and Apparel Faculty Research Slam -- CANCELLED
April 19, 5:00-6:30 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
The Corridor Housing Initiative: Because Place Matters
The multi-award winning Corridor
Housing Initiative will hold a reception and screening of its new 11 minute
video, The Corridor Housing Initiative: Because Place Matters.The film will start
at 5:15 p.m. with an introduction by filmmaker Tom DeBiaso. A reception will
follow. Sponsored by the Metropolitan
Design Center.
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.
Ghost Lab
Ghost Research Lab is an educational initiative designed to promote the transfer
of architectural knowledge through direct experience and project-based learning
taught in the master builder tradition, with an emphasis on issues of landscape,
material culture, and community. Ghost Lab provides a two-week summer design/build
internship for architects, professors, and students, directed by Brian MacKay-Lyons,
architect. The program takes place each summer on the coast of Nova Scotia, atop
the stone ruins of a nearly 400-year-old village on the MacKay-Lyons farm. The
projects consist of a one-week design phase and a one-week construction phase.
A student from the University of Minnesota has attended each of the last few
years, and donor support has been available in the past to partly cover expenses.
For more information about how to apply, see the Ghost
Lab section of the MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Web site.
e-Scholarship awards available
Grants up to $5,000 are available on a limited basis for projects to improve,
increase, or promote technologically enhanced access to CDes educational efforts.
Full-time CDes faculty or P&A staff are eligible. Further information,
including the full request for proposals (RFP), is available on the CDes
e -Scholarship Wiki.
Minnesota 2058 Thriving by Design
Minnesota 2058 Thriving by Design is a three-year effort by the Center for Rural
Design and Minnesota Rural Partners to answer the question: What is the design
of Minnesota in 2058 and what is the role of the University of Minnesota in creating
its shape? The rural community and citizen-based Minnesota sesquicentennial project
will be outlined at the Thriving by Design Rural Summit of Minnesota Rural Partners
at Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd on May 11, 2007.
Tell your students about the first CDes graduate student research slam
Do you advise a graduate student who would like to share a current research project
with colleagues from the college? Tell them about the first CDes graduate student
research slam on April 10. The slam is meant to give graduate students from different
disciplines a chance to hear about each other's work and interests. There's room
for 15 students to give 3.5 minute presentations in 225 Rapson Hall at noon.
Ask students to email Kristine Miller, mille407@umn.edu,
by April 5 if they would like to present. Slots will be filled on a first-come,
first-served basis.
2007 Spring Decorative Arts Accession Meeting
A Decorative Arts Accession Meeting was held in the Goldstein Research Center
on March 28. A raku ceramic vase by Minneapolis potter Steve Hemingway, several
1950s stoneware tabletop pieces created by Bennington Potters in Vermont,
and a 1960s iconic outdoor chair made by Homecrest Industries in Wadena, Minnesota
were all accepted into the permanent collection. Some of these pieces will be
featured in a McNeal Hall mini-exhibit soon.
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.
"U
as destination for museums and galleries" by Pauline Oo, UMNnews, March 20,
2007
The Goldstein Museum of Design and the HGA Gallery are profiled in this article.
[ed. note: Goldstein Director Lin Nelson-Mayson notes that the Goldstein Museum
of Design houses nearly 27,000 objects, not the 7,000 cited in Oo's article.]
"Kitchen of
the future: Interactive comfort" by Karen Youso, Star Tribune, March 23,
2007
John Carmody (Architecture) is a primary source for this article.
"Home Sweet Home 2037" by Karen
Youso, Star Tribune, March 25, 2007
John Carmody (Architecture) guided the design of Minnesota's house of the future
project. Located in a hypothetical development in Ramsey, houses are clustered
within green areas where neighbors share amenities and services. Situated to
take advantage of energy from the sun, homes also face an area similar to the
old town square, where neighbors shop, play, and socialize house-to-house.
"University
of Minnesota to host 14 of most celebrated design thinkers from the United States
and Europe" by Staff, University News Service, March 26, 2007
The conference, "Design and Its Publics: Curators, Critics, and Historians" (DAIP)
brings together leading scholars, top critics, broadcasters, and design practitioners
with curators from some of the most influential museums in the United States,
London, and the Netherlands to address how public understanding of architecture
and design is shaped by criticism, scholarship, and curatorial practice. Sponsored
by the Design Institute and Department of Art History (CLA).
WCCO TV featured Leslie Van Duzer's (Architecture) freshman class garments/buildings
project that was displayed in the Rapson Courtyard last week in a 30-second spot
(voiceover, no interview) on Friday, March 30.
"Pulp
Power" by Stephanie Xenos, mspmag.com (Mpls. St. Paul Magazine), March 2007
An exhibit of paper brings the Eames design philosophy forward.
"Ecological Literacy in Architectural
Education," a highly anticipated American Institute of Architects (AIA) report,
cites Mary Guzowski (Architecture) and the late Rebecca
Foss (Center for Sustainable Building Research) as "champions of sustainable
design."
"Interior designers:
Their work is vital," by Tom Fisher, Star Tribune, April 2, 2007
Dean Tom Fisher's response to George F. Will's dismissal of the "professionalization" of
interior designers.
Congratulations and kudos
Bill Angell (DHA and MURC) testified before the Minnesota Housing Policy and
Finance Committee in support of House File 993 which calls for radon control
options to be required for all new residential buildings in Minnesota. The bill
is supported by the Builders Association of Minnesota and it passed the committee
without opposition. The bill is now is in its first engrossment before
the full House. Angell attended the third annual meeting or the World Health
Organization's (WHO) International Radon Project (IRP) held in Munich, Germany
from March 12-14. He is chair of the WHO IRP's prevention and mitigation
working group, which is developing a chapter that WHO will use with member countries
to reduce lung cancer deaths related to indoor radon. The University of Northampton
has invited Angell to join as a visiting fellow in Radon in the Built Environment
with the School of Applied Sciences.
The Center for Changing Landscapes has received an honor award from
the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for its
work on the Gitchi
Gami Trail. It will receive this award at the MASLA award banquet on April
20 at the Walker Art Center. This is the Center's third consecutive award.
William Conway (Architecture) participated in the collaborative teaching project,
Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies, which
was one of three recipients of a 2007 AIA Education Honor Awards for Excellence.
As a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas, Conway led one of the
project’s three studios, Transit Oriented Publics, which explored transit-oriented
development (TOD) and sustainability issues in rapidly growing northwest Arkansas.
Laura Musacchio (Landscape Architecture) is co-organizing a symposium at the
2007 World Congress of Landscape Ecology, Wageningen, the Netherlands in July
2007. The theme of the symposium is the "Scientific Basis of Design for Landscape
Sustainability." The papers from the symposium will be part of a special issue
of Landscape Ecology, an international scientific journal.
Becky Yust (DHA) was elected to the Faculty Consultative Committee of the
University Senate for a three-year term beginning in July 2007.
Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research) was a guest reviewer
of building systems integrated studio projects at Dalhousie University, Nova
Scotia, Canada, April 2-4.
Barbara Martinson (DHA) has work in two juried exhibitions. "Metallica Four-Square," a
quilt woven with aluminium strips reclaimed from soft drink cans, will be shown
in Detritus -- an exhibition of work made from recycled materials. The exhibit
runs from April 19-June 1 at the Walsh Library Gallery at Seton Hall University,
South Orange, New Jersey. "Tree of Life," a digitally composed and inkjet printed
whole-cloth quilt, is in an exhibit at the the Fiber Art Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The exhibition titled Elemental: Contemporary Quilt Art runs through April 28.
On March 26, the Landscape Architecture second-year graduate students presented
their design ideas for the Hope Community in Minneapolis at Hope's Children's
Village. Their proposals included creating urban places for youth and children,
reconnecting neighborhoods over I-35W and I-94, and reconfiguring the street
sections of Portland and Franklin Avenues. This week students will begin a new
project with Juxtaposition Arts in North Minneapolis. Juxtaposition is a youth-focused,
minority-directed, urban visual arts center. Students will work with Juxtaposition
staff to develop a youth-focused urban arts district on West Broadway. This service-learning
urban design studio is led by Clint Hewitt (Landscape Architecture) and Kristine
Miller (Landscape Architecture).
Publications
The newly published textbook, Sustainable Design for Interior Environments,
(Fairchild) by Susan M. Winchip features information and a screen capture about
InformeDesign (p. 73-74) describing it as "an excellent online resource for
assistance in identifying sustainability research...."
Caren Martin (DHA) and Denise Guerin (DHA) presented two juried papers, "Integrating
the Use of Research into the Design Process Experience" and "Educator's Opportunity
to Determine What Happens Next to the Body of Knowledge," at the 44th Annual
International Conference of the Interior Design Educators Council in Austin,
Texas. The first presentation focused on how to bring research incrementally
into the undergraduate classroom and the second addressed Martin and Guerin's
The Interior Design Profession's Body of Knowledge, 2005 Edition and how the
academy could engage with practice around this topic.
Kim Johnson (DHA) is the coauthor of an article, "A longitudinal look at rural
consumer adoption of online shopping," published in the current issue of Psychology
and Marketing.
Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) has been asked to contribute a chapter in a
book, Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Re-presenting the Sacred
(forthcoming, 2008, Ashgate Press). Saloojee's chapter is tentatively entitled, "Solomon's
Narrative: Architecture, Text and the Sacred," and explores ideas of historical
narrative as a set of contemporary filters from which to understand religious
architecture. Saloojee also recently presented a paper at the 23rd International
Conference on the Beginning Design Student in Savannah, Georgia, hosted by the
Savannah College of Art and Design. Saloojee's paper was titled, "Flamel's Dream:
Architecture as Alchemy," and will be published in the conference proceedings
later this year.
Marilyn Bruin (DHA) and Becky Yust (DHA) published an article, "Local Housing
and Service Decisions: Planning for Aging Adults in Rural Communities," in the
Volume 20, Number 4 issue of the Journal of Housing for the Elderly.
Aaron Fahrmann (Photographer) has self-published two photography monographs,
INDUSTRY and Restaurant. INDUSTRY is a collection of abstract color photographs
made within a four city block industrial complex over a period of less than two
weeks in 2003. Restaurant is a collection of photographs made in and around restaurants
as part of his recent street photography project. Some of the images can be previewed
at Fahrmann's Web site. Selected
work from Restaurant, as well as works from Mysterious Landscapes, will be shown
in Studio 260 of the Northrup King Building during Art-A-Whirl. Art-A-Whirl is
the third weekend in May: Friday, May 18, from 5-10 p.m., Saturday, May 19, from
12-8 p.m., and Sunday, May 20, from 12-5 p.m.
Ritu Bhatt's (Architecture) "Aesthetic or Anaesthetic: Competing Symbols on
the Las Vegas Strip" will be published in Instruction as Provocation, or
Relearning from Las Vegas edited by Aron Vinegar and Michael Golec (forthcoming;
University of Minnesota Press).
Presentations
Kate Daly (DHA) gave a presentation, entitled "Project Holiday: An Academic
and Industry Collaboration," March 24 at the Minnesota Association of Family
and Consumer Sciences annual meeting in Richfield. Daly also participated in "Art
at Highland," March 31, a juried show sponsored by The Artists' Circle, a regional
arts group. Her medium is Asian-inspired functional stoneware pottery.
Dean Thomas Fisher and Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research)
participated in a meeting organized by the University-Hennepin County Partnership
on March 22 with a focus on the county's efforts to end homelessness. Fisher
and Singh presented their work on the seminar and studio courses they co-taught
on architecture and homelessness in spring of 2006. In the seminar and studio,
students worked with a Minneapolis shelter to redesign their space and also volunteered
at a one day event, Project Homeless Connect, which connected homeless persons
to the services they needed all under one roof.
Future events
April 20, 12-2 p.m., 225 Rapson Hall, lunch served
New initiative: center on design, health, and environment
Rebecca Krinke (Landscape Architecture), Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture),
and Steve Mitrione, MD, assisted by Kristin Raab, MLA student and former
State of Minnesota public health professional, are proposing an initiative on
design, health, and the environment. They are interested in a multidisciplinary,
collaborative process that seeks to improve the provision of healthcare and how
design can be a force in creating healthy environments. College of Design faculty
members are invited in joining this discussion. Some early interests include
stress reduction, the healthy workplace, and the healthy everyday environment.
The convenors have invited -- and are expecting -- individuals from the Academic
Health Center, Department of Public Heath, and the Minnesota Department of Health.
Proposed agenda:
- Introductions and five-minute PowerPoint to illustrate ideas on vision of
proposed center
- Discussion on overlaps between
body/mind/environment and design
- Brainstorming on possible research
agendas and teaming possibilities
RSVP to Rebecca Krinke, rjkrinke@umn.edu.
April 20-July 1, Goldstein Museum of Design
Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset
Leading from Policy to Practice: Minnesota Affordable Housing
The new Goldstein Museum of Design exhibits open. Leading from Policy to Practice:
Minnesota Affordable Housing, curated by Marilyn Bruin (DHA), presents ten case
studies of affordable housing in Minnesota. The Affordable Housing: Designing
an American Asset traveling exhibition and associated tour were organized by
the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., and made possible by generous
grants from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Fannie
Mae Foundation, and the National Association of Realtors.
April 21, time TBD, location TBD
A Women's School of Architecture
Leslie Weisman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
April 23, 4:30-7:00 p.m., Great Hall, Coffman Union
The Architecture 2030 Challenge: Zero-Energy/Zero-Emission Design Lecture
and Exhibition
Ed Mazria, AIA, Principal of Mazria, Odems, Dzurec, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico
1.25 HSW hours of continuing education
Emerging Green Builders Exhibition, 4:30 p.m.
Mazria lecture, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Cost: free (please register below)
Registration: see AIA
MN Web site
April 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Ski-U-Ma Room, McNamara Alumni Center
Zero-Energy/Zero-Emission Design Workshop
David Eijadi and Tom McDougall, The Weidt Group and Joel Loveland, The Seattle
Integrated Design Lab
5.0 HSW hours of continuing education
Cost: $75 (includes lunch, break, and handouts)
Registration: see AIA
MN Web site
April 27, 10:00-11:30 a.m., Bell Museum
CDes all-college retreat
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.
April 25, noon, 225 Rapson Hall
Architecture Faculty Research Slam
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.
Transitions
Todd Pitman, has joined the CDes IT team as the Web and multimedia technical
support specialist working with Theresa Tichich. Please welcome Todd, who offices
in 67 Rapson Hall.
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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
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