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.

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April 19, 2007

Editor: Michael Fraase, mfraase@umn.edu

Next two weeks

April 19, 5:00-6:30 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall
The Corridor Housing Initiative: Because Place Matters reception and film screening
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.

April 20, 12-2 p.m., 225 Rapson Hall, lunch served
New Center on design, health, and environment brainstorming event
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 forming a center or initiative on design, health, and the environment. College of Design faculty members 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 are invited to join this discussion. The convenors have invited the Academic Health Center, Department of Public Heath, and the Minnesota Department of Health. RSVP to Rebecca Krinke, rjkrinke@umn.edu.

April 20-July 1, Goldstein Museum of Design
Opening event tomorrow, Friday, April 20, 6-8 p.m.
Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset
Leading from Policy to Practice: Minnesota Affordable Housing
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., Mayo Memorial Auditorium (note location change)
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.

April 30-May 12, Rapson Hall
Senior show
To continue uniting the two College of Design campuses, seniors of graphic design, clothing design, interior design, retail merchandising, and housing will be traveling to the East Bank to show off their various disciplines. There will be a closing reception for the Rapson show from noon-1:30 p.m. the day of commencement. Design awards will also be conferred at
this reception.

May 2, 10:45 a.m.-noon, 233 McNeal Hall
Light Fair
Students from DHA 2613 -- Lighting Design and Life Safety Issues will present their custom luminaire designs in the Space Lab, 233 McNeal Hall.. Full scale operational models and poster presentations by the 12 design teams will be available for review.

News and announcements

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News from the Goldstein Research Center
The textile conservator from the Midwest Art Conservation Center recently visited the Goldstein to look at 650 international garments that have been donated to the museum. She will write a report recommending storage procedures that will best preserve the garments. Eight students taking a fashion illustration class at the College of St. Catherine recently visited the Goldstein Research Center, where they sketched a dozen garments selected for them from the Goldstein’s collection by Kathleen Campbell, assistant curator.

Frederick P. Rose architectural fellowship
Frederick P. Rose architectural fellowship creates partnerships between emerging architects and community-based organizations to direct the skills and passions of the architects in the service of low- and moderate-income communities. The fellowship is designed to promote the value of quality design and green building in affordable housing and encourages architects to become lifelong leaders in public service and community development. For new fellowships starting in 2007, the annual stipend paid to fellows in most communities is $42,000. The fellowship administrators are currently accepting applications for fellowships in New York, Oregon, and Minnesota. Please encourage any students or graduates who would be interested in the fellowship to visit the Rose Fellowship Web site, or contact Katie Swenson, kswenson@enterprisecommunity.org, director of the Rose Fellowship.

Faculty considering offering a May 2008 study abroad program
The Learning Abroad Center (LAC) provides support to faculty members and departments who wish to organize study abroad programs for their students. Through the custom program option, the Learning Abroad Center provides support services essential to study abroad programs while allowing faculty the freedom to design their own programs.

Faculty in architecture and environmental design/landscape architecture contact: Sheila Collins, LAC custom program director, at 612-625-9067 or colli059@umn.edu.
Faculty in Design, Housing, and Apparel contact Sophie Gladding, LAC custom program director, at 612-626-0597 or gladd001@umn.edu.

For more information, please see the Custom Program Faculty Leader Information section of the Learning Abroad Center Web site.

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.

"Do they like us?" by Linda Mack, Star Tribune, April 13, 2007
"Design and Its Public: Curators, Critics and Historians" will bring a rich lineup of 14 writers and curators to the University of Minnesota April 27 and 28.

Congratulations and kudos

Leslie Van Duzer (Architecture) will be formally reviewing two architecture programs: Dalhousie University in Halifax as an external examiner (a three-year academic appointment) and the DIS program in Copenhagen as a part of a University of Minnesota review team. In May, Van Duzer will attend thesis reviews at the Rhode Island School of Design.

From April 11-15, the master of landscape architecture students (GD 1 studio) -- led by John Koepke (Landscape Architecture) and Peter MacDonagh (Architecture; Landscape Architecture) -- visited The Clearing in Door County, Wisconsin, overlooking Lake Michigan’s Green Bay. The Clearing is a 1935 master work of landscape architect Jens Jensen, described in his obituary in 1951 by the New York Times as the dean of landscape architecture. Jensen pioneered the use of native plants, created the first designed American landscape, founded the first land conservation organization in the world, and worked extensively with Frank Lloyd Wright and other Prairie School designers. The students on this study and service project, recorded measurements of site features, studied a highly endangered plant community, and constructed a 150-foot-long retaining wall. Among all midwestern university landscape architecture programs that have worked here, The Clearing now considers the University of Minnesota MLA students as the benchmark for service projects. In 2006 they created two summer internships limited to University of Minnesota students.

Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla (Architecture) is guest reviewer for graduate and undergraduate studios final reviews at the University of Arkansas, School of Architecture, April 27-May 2.

Publications

Caren Martin (DHA) has published Interior Design: From Practice to Profession (ASID), asserting that the practice of interior design is well on its way to becoming a recognized profession within the U.S. and Canada.

Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla (Architecture) this summer will publish an article about stereotomy in the Politecnical University of Valencia (Spain) magazine, Loggia: Arquitectura y Restauracion. More information is available at the Asociacion de Editoriales Universitarias Espanolas and the magazine's Web sites.

Presentations

Leslie Van Duzer (Architecture) is an invited speaker at the 2007 Architecture Education Summit in Los Angeles in April. Her lecture is entitled "Straddling Dichotomies."

Steven McCarthy (DHA) will make a refereed presentation at the Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Visual Communication conference at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire on April 21. The title of his presentation is "Not the Same Old C.R.A.P. (Commercial Rhetoric Art Project): Desperate Househusband Fights Consumer Culture."

Jeff Crump (DHA) presented a paper entitled "Whose Street? Our Street! Telegraph Avenue in the 1960s" at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, California.

Joanne B. Eicher (DHA) presented the Bill Blass lecture on April 9 at Indiana University for the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design. Entitled "My Life with the F Word," the lecture provided an overview of her work with dress and fashion in a number of settings from academic teaching and publishing to general books for National Geographic Society. Two Ph.D. graduates of DHA are on the faculty in the department: Heather Akou and Theresa Winge.

Vivian Mui (DHA student) has a poster presentation accepted in the April 19 Univesity Undergraduate Symposium. Her research project, entitled "Cross-Cultural Graphic Design: Hong Kong & University of Minnesota Case Studies," was completed in summer 2006. The faculty mentor for the project was Sauman Chu (DHA).

Lin Nelson-Mayson (Goldstein Museum of Design) gave a walking tour at the Saint Paul American Craft Council show April 13. She discussed the relationship of craft and design and international influences on contemporary craft.

Future events

May 12, 3-5 p.m., Northrop Auditorium
CDes commencement
Reception in Rapson Hall following.

May 31, 5:30-8:30 p.m., McNeal Hall
Friends of the Goldstein annual meeting and 30th anniversary celebration
Savor wine and hors d’oeuvres alfresco while perusing a spectacular silent auction. At 7:30 p.m. a guest speaker from Target will discuss the effects of Design in Everyday Life. Admission: $40 per person. RSVP to 612-624-7434 or gmd@umn.edu.

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