Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture
Fall 2010
Tuesdays, 6:00pm
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
August 31
Introduction to Global Issues: Culture as State and State of Mind
Susan Yelavich
September 7
Capacities of Design and Culture
Clive Dilnot,
Professor of Design Studies
Parsons, School of Art and Design History and Theory
September 1
Olympic Culture: National and Postnational Identities
Georgia Traganou
Assistant Professor
Parsons, School of Art and Design History and Theory
September 21
Humane Games
Rafael Fajardo
Associate Professor, of eMAD (Electronic Media Arts Design) and Digital Media Studies
University of Denver
September 28
Film Viewing: Examined Life
Astra Taylor
Director, Examined Life (2008)
Featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Peter Singer, Cornel West, among other philosophers
October 5
Design Away
Cameron Tonkinwise
Associate Professor, Design and Sustainability
Parsons, School of Design Strategies
Co-director, Tishman Environment and Design Center
October 12
Unmapping
Sean Donahue
Faculty, Art Center of Design; Principal, ResearchCenteredDesign
October 19
Beyond the Fruit Hat: Brazilian Product and Furniture Design Today
Frederico Duarte
Design Critic
October 26
X’s and O’s
Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer
Architects
HouMinn Practice
November 2
Relational Design
Andrew Blauvelt
Chief of Communications and Audience Engagement
Walker Art Center
November 9
Post-Socialist Utopias
Marko Sančanin
Architect
Platforma 9,81
November 16
Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles
Susan Yelavich
This lecture will be held at Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street
November 30
Junky Styling: Salvage, Sustainability, and Fashion
Annika Sanders and Kerry Seager
Junky Styling, London; with Hazel Clark, Dean,
Parsons, School of Art and Design History and Theory
December 7
Bioethics Futures
Elio Caccavale
Associate Lecturer, Product Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
December 14
Students Propositions for New York City Blocks
Clive Dilnot and Susan Yelavich
Parsons, School of Art and Design History and Theory
