"Emerging" is the byword for the new College of Design this year, so when the time came to name this magazine, it was the obvious choice. Alumni and friends who received CHE Kaleidoscope or CALA Works in the past will receive two issues of Emerging this academic year.

We planned this first issue to serve as an overview and introduction to the College of Design: our organization, our accomplishments, our aspirations. Each reader will find areas of familiarity on the following pages, while other things will be new. We hope you'll be intrigued and excited by the potential of what is emerging. Future issues will contain more feature-length articles grouped around the major themes of the college: sustainability and social justice, digital design and fabrication, world heritage and culture, urban and rural research and outreach, and product and innovation design. In the meantime, get a quick taste of some of these themes with the photo profiles on pages 7-9.

The offices, labs, and classrooms of the College of Design are evenly divided between campuses in Minneapolis (primarily in Rapson Hall) and St. Paul (McNeal Hall). This geographic fact of life means most of us have logged some time on the maroon Campus Connector buses. The center spread of this issue is a visual representation by graphic arts professor Steven McCarthy of our bifurcated college and our frequent intercity voyages.

The college will be shaping its mission, goals, and priorities in the coming months. Be sure to check the College of Design Web site at cdes.umn.edu to keep tabs on what's going on. We hope you enjoy reading about the new College of Design. If you have any comments or questions, please send them to me at l-webe@umn.edu.

-- Laura Weber, editor

Emerging

Fall 2006 Vol. 1, No. 1

DEAN
Thomas Fisher

EDITOR AND COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Laura Weber

ART DIRECTOR
Jeanne Schacht

WEB EDITOR
Michael Fraase

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS
Warren Bruland
Aaron Fahrmann

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Patrick O'Leary
Patty Mattern
Rick Moore
Amanda Schwengel

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Camille LeFevre

Emerging is published by the University of Minnesota's College of Design for alumni/ae, faculty, staff, and friends of the college.

The mission of the College of Design is to be a national leader in the full range of design fields, with an emphasis on sustainable, socially responsible, engaged, critical and collaborative design work.

Send address changes to
Anne Schultz, 32 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108 or schultz@umn.edu.

www.cdes.umn.edu

This publication is available in alternative formats upon request. Please call 612-626-9068 or fax 612-625-1922.

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

Printed with vegetable ink on recycled paper, 20 percent post-consumer waste.