Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture
Spring 2012
Tuesdays, 6:00 pm
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Global Issues is a lecture series, open to the the community, which is designed to identify the broad issues that are shaping design and art in the 21st century. It focuses on the concept of culture and its
dynamics in light of the radical changes brought about by globalization. In a world where people move more often than ever before and technology circulates ideas and goods faster than ever before, this lecture series views the resulting cultural fusions and collisions as source of new understandings, not just as a catalyst for conflict. Beginning with an introduction to cultural theory, the course proceeds to an examination of the ways in which design and art mirror the state of contemporary culture and the ways in which they critique and change culture.
Instructor:
Susan Yelavich, Associate Professor and Director, MA Design Studies, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design
January 24
Introduction to Global Issues: Culture as State and State of Mind
Susan Yelavich, Associate Professor and Director, MA Design Studies, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design
January 31
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
February 7
How to be an Outsider
Christopher Robbins, artist
February 14
Localizing Design: Case Studies from Rwanda and Haiti
Michael Murphy, Founding Partner and Executive Director, MASS Design, Boston
February 21
Design as a Catalyst of Social Resources
Ezio Manzini, Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Design Strategies, Parsons; Professor of Industrial Design, Politecnico di Milano
February 28
Unmapping
Sean Donahue, faculty, Art Center College of Design; Principal, Research Centered Design
March 6
Digital Crafting: Approaches for a Soft Architecture
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Director, Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen
March 20
Design Away
Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons The New School for Design
March 27
Fashion Hacking
Otto von Busch, Assistant Professor of Integrated Design, School of Design Strategies, Parsons
April 3
How Far Can Ideas Go?
Dror Benshetrit, principal, Studio Dror
April 10
Public Space and Public Life in Cuba
Coco Fusco, Director of Intermedia Initiatives, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons
April 17
Film Screening
“Examined Life,” Director, Astra Taylor
April 24
Photographs of an Expanding Urbanism and its Costs
Sze Tsung Leong, artist
May 1
Illustrating Cultural Identity and Images of ‘the Other’
Nora Krug, Associate Professor, Illustration Program, School of Art Media and Technology, Parsons
May 8
Student Propositions
Clive Dilnot, Professor of Design Studies, Parsons; Susan Yelavich, Associate Professor, Parsons
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