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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.
May 3, 2007
Editor: Michael Fraase, mfraase@umn.edu
Inside this issue
Next two weeks
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 have traveled
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 distributed at this reception.
May 3, 2-4 p.m., 105 Cargill Building
Stormwater
The University community’s annual public meeting on stormwater management
planning features remarks by University Services Vice President Kathleen O’Brien;
student presentations on stormwater design projects and Sarita restoration; and
an update on the University’s progress on its stormwater plans. Refreshments
will be served. More information is available on the Water
Resources Center Web site.
May 8, 8 p.m., Mariucci Arena
University of Minnesota Alumni Association 2007 Annual Celebration
Keynote speaker -- Tony Dungy, B.S. '78, head coach of the world champion Indianapolis
Colts and former Gopher football star. Special guest -- Stan Freese, B.S. '67,
talent casting and booking director, Disneyland Entertainment Productions with
members of the University of Minnesota marching band.
Tickets on sale now at the Northrup ticket office: students, $10; UMAA membrers,
$20; others, $35. More information is available on the Alumni
Association Web site.
May 10-11, Cragun's Resort & Conference Center, Brainerd, MN
Thriving by Design -- the 10th annual Minnesota Rural Summit
A kickoff to the Minnesota Sesquicentennial including remarks by Minnesota Secretary
of State Mark Ritchie, and up-to-the-minute information on sesquicentennial grants
for community celebrations and improvements and an intro to the Sesquicentennial
Plan for the Future process. The summit program will show how design and planning
have figured into Minnesota's past, present, and future, including the evolution
of Minnesota's economic development -- "a design influenced by great vision,
natural conditions, happenstance and good fortune," according to Jim Ramstrom,
a veteran of the Minnesota State Planning Agency and one of the keynote speakers.
Both the full agenda and registration are
available online.
May 12, 3-5 p.m., Northrop Auditorium
CDes commencement
The ceremony is for undergraduate and graduate students. A reception follows
in Rapson Hall immediately afterwards. Questions about the ceremony should be
directed to Laurie Gardner (Student Services), lgardner@umn.edu,
612-624-3635.
News and announcements
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of Design Announcements page. It's updated frequently between issues of CDes
MEMO.
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DHA 4121 -- History of Costume students edit Wikipedia
Students of Hazel Lutz (DHA) have begun to submit articles to Wikipedia and become
active editors. The experience aims to give them a different perspective on the
value and quality of the information database and help them better evaluate its
strenghths and weaknesses. The students created a page for The Goldstein Museum,
listed the published museum's exhibition catalogue from some years back, and
updated one artifact analysis. It remains to be seen if the articles will be
retained within the information base. Students can continue to work on this Web
site after the class is over.
Undergraduate Research Symposium
If you didn’t get a chance to attend the University of Minnesota Undergraduate
Research Symposium this year -- held April 18 in the Great Hall, Coffman Union
-- you can see a list
of projects on the library Web site. Four students from the College of Design
participated this year:
- Vivian Mui (Graphic Design honors student) Cross-Cultural Graphic Design
-- University of Minnesota and Hong Kong Case Studies
- Thomas Hilde (Landscape Architecture) Urban Rail Transit in Scandinavia
- Richard Crockett (Metropolitan Design Center) Riverfront Revitalization
of Mississippi River Towns in Minnesota
- Jorge Salcedo (Landscape Architecture) Affordable Housing and Homelessness
in Honduras
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.
"Urban planners
say loads of questions remain" by David Peterson, Star Tribune, April 19,
2007
The plan unveiled Thursday for downtown Minneapolis' bleak eastern edge is a
first-rate start -- but more of a marketing pitch than a true master plan, according
to several urban designers watching it from a distance. ... "The park raises
a number of issues," said Ann Forsyth, director of the Metropolitan Design Center
at the University of Minnesota.
"Green Building Initiative
Shares Climate Change Calculator" by Staff, Western Builder, April 16, 2007
The Green Building Initiative intends to share a generic version of its tool
to evaluate building assemblies in green building rating systems. The tool was
created in association with the Center for Sustainable Building Research.
"Awnings
save energy" by Staff, Technical-Textiles.net, April 19, 2007
A new study conducted by the University of Minnesota's Center for Sustainable
Building Research will determine what impact awnings have in saving energy in
homes.
"Critics let
loose on form over function" by Linda Mack, Star Tribune, April 28, 2007
Design critics surveyed the Twin Cities' new civic architecture and found unusual
forms that were sometimes less than people-friendly. Coverage of the Design Institute's "Design
and Its Publics" conference.
"Architecture
that can change the world" by Cathy Wurzer, Minnesota Public Radio, April
29, 2007
Report on "clean hub" project. [ed. note: This story was also covered by Minnesota
News Network (radio) and two of the local television broadcasters.]
"College
of Design students unveil prototype aimed at saving lives of disaster victims" by
Patty Mattern, University News Service, April 30, 2007
Throughout this semester, the students have designed and built what is being
called a "clean hub," a portable self-contained power, water and sanitation center.
"Prints tell viewers
to go green" by Allison Wickler, The Minnesota Daily, May 1, 2007
Students in James Boyd-Brent's (DHA) Color and Form in Surface Design created
18 poster designs and made 1,400 prints total, addressing issues such as global
warming and resource conservation in the home.
Congratulations and kudos
William Weber and Virajita Singh were both promoted recently to the position
of senior research fellow at the Center for Sustainable Building Research. Singh
has been selected as one of 25 participants from across the University to the
2007-08 President's Emerging Leaders program.
Nick Potts (Architecture graduate student) won the school's final jury for
the semester.
During fall semester 2006, Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, mounted
the exhibit sponsored by the Goldstein Museum of Design from the collection of
Joanne B. Eicher (DHA). Attendance figures for the exhibition, entitled "Cloth
is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives," totaled
13,330.
Provost Tom Sullivan will recommend to the Board of Regents at their May 10
meeting that Steven McCarthy (DHA) be promoted from associate to full professor.
Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) has been awarded a grant-in-aid of research,
artistry, and scholarship through the Graduate School. The funding will be put
toward research and documentation of Eliel Saarinen's Christ Church Lutheran,
located in Minneapolis. The anticipated outcome of the project is a published
monograph on Saarinen's final built work.
Doug Lew's (Architecture) painting, "The Floating Restaurant," was accepted
by the Louisiana Watercolor Society's 37th Annual International Exhibition in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Steve Roos (Center for Rural Design) was recently in Washington, DC, to work
with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) on their annual lobby
day, April 26. There were two areas of legislative focus this year: encouraging
our elected officials to promote the use of green roofs as a component of sustainable
building standards for federal buildings (and federally-funded buildings); and
encouraging support for the proposed Small Community Visioning Pilot Initiative,
which would provide $5 million each year for five years to a pilot program providing
rural communities with financial support to define their vision for the future
of the community.
Kim Johnson (DHA) was elected president-elect of the International Textile
and Apparel Association, beginning Fall 2007.
Associate Dean Marilyn DeLong was elected to to serve on the national board
of directors of the Costume Society of America, beginning June, 2007.
John Carmody (Architecture) was appointed co-chair of the energy committee
of the UMore Park academic mission task force.
Publications
John Carmody (Architecture) and Kerry Haglund (Center for Sustainable Building
Research) have published the third edition of Residential Windows: A Guide to
New Technologies and Energy Performance. All of the energy performance data have
been revised, based on the latest simulation techniques and industry-accepted
assumptions.
Presentations
John Carmody (Architecture) was the keynote speaker at the "Better Buildings
2007 Conference" in Winnipeg, Manitoba in April. The topic was the "The Evolution
of Sustainable Building Rating Systems." Carmody will also be making two presentations
at the Ecobuild America Conference in Anaheim, California in May. One presentation
will address life cycle assessment tools for sustainable design including the
new Athena EcoCalculator developed in part by CSBR. The other will be an overview
of the state-of-the-art of sustainable design practices and metrics.
Clint Hewitt (Landscape Architecture) spoke at the National Intramural-Recreational
Sports Association (NIRSA) annual conference in Minneapolis, April 18-21. Hewitt's
talk was entitled "Including Recreation Needs in the Institutional Master Planning
and Capital Development Process." Hewitt was also appointed by President Bruininks
as the University's representative on the Riverfront Blue Ribbon (RBR) task force.
The task force was created to explore ways to enhance Minneapolis riverfront
revitalization organizational capacity.
Laura Weber (Communications) will lead a tour of the Old Campus Historic District
and Northrop Mall October 6 as part of a field session for the National Trust
for Historic Preservation's annual conference, to be held in the Twin Cities
Oct. 2-6. The field session, "Stewarding the Architectural Legacy of the University
of Minnesota," will include an exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum highlighting
the architectural legacy of LeRoy Buffington and Harvey Ellis at the U of M and
the state of Minnesota.
"Body Images" by Barbara Porwit (Goldstein Museum of Design) at the Art and
Architecture Building, third floor, 3338 University Avenue SE, part of the 10th
annual Arts Off Raymond open studio
event. Friday, May 4, 5-9 p.m.; Saturday, May 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Aaron Fahrmann (Imaging Lab) will show a selection of images from recent photography
projects in Studio 260 of the Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street N.E.,
Minneapolis during Art-A-Whirl. Friday, May 18, 5-10 p.m., Saturday, May 19,
12-8 p.m., and Sunday, May 20, 12-5 p.m.
Future events
July 30-August 3, Rapson Hall
Design Camp
Design Camp, hosted by the Design Institute, introduces teens ages 14-17 to design
through a series of workshops led by professional designers and U of M faculty,
assisted by College of Design graduate and undergraduate students. This
year's theme is "Retool your School." Workshops include: schooling, gearing,
parading, gaming, telling, and sporting. Instructors are: John Comazzi (Architecture)
and Anselmo Canfora, Scott Christensen (Design Institute) and Svenja Leggewie,
Tania Bowers and Robin Richman, Katie Salen and Eric Socolofsky, Daniel Jasper
(DHA), Reik Sijbring and Femke Snelting. Check out the Design
Institute Web site for more information and to download a registration form.
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.
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