Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture
Fall 2011
Tuesdays, 6:00 pm
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Instructor:
Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design
This lecture series is free and open to the community.
August 30
Introduction to Global Issues: Culture as State and State of Mind
Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design
September 6
Capacities of Design and Culture
Clive Dilnot, Professor of Design Studies, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design
September 13
The Transnational Artist
Do Ho Suh, artist
September 20
Border Urbanism: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of Encroachment
Teddy Cruz, principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz; Artist in Public Culture/Urban Space, Visual Arts Department, U.C. San Diego
September 27
Unmapping
Sean Donahue, faculty, Art Center College of Design; Principal, Research Centered Design
October 4
Design Away
Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons The New School for Design
October 11
X’s and O’s
Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer, architects, HouMinn Practice
October 18
Photographs of an Expanding Urbanism and its Costs
Sze Tsung Leong, artist
October 25
Practice is a Global Concern
Sarah Teasley, Tutor, Royal College of Art, London
November 1
Fashion Hacking
Otto von Busch, Assistant Professor of Integrated Design, SCE, Parsons
November 8
Film, “Examined Life,” directed by Astra Taylor
November 15
Designing Time (Lecture in Great Hall, Cooper Union)
Anna Barbara, Professor of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
November 29
The Social App Lab, UC Berkeley
James Holston, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
December 6
Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles
Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor, Parsons
December 13
Student Propositions for New York City Blocks
Clive Dilnot, Professor of Design Studies, Parsons; Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor, Parsons The New School for Design
Photo credit: Alex Maclean, Landslides Aerial Photography
