Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture

Global_Issues_spring2011Organized by Assistant Professor Susan Yelavich, this lecture series examines the capacities of design and art to re-shape cultural values in response to the radical changes brought about by globalization.  This series views the cultural cross-fertilizations and collisions that characterize global flows as sources of new understandings, not just as catalysts for conflict. In addition to short lectures on relevant theory by Professor Yelavich, the course features guest speakers whose design and art practices take on critical issues of social and environmental sustainability, national and postnational identities, community-driven design, and the affects of technology on social relations.

January 26

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

 

February 1

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 8

Border Urbanism: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of  Encroachment

Teddy Cruz, Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz; Artist in Public Culture/Urban Space, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego

 

February 15

Scale and Scalability

Jamer Hunt, Associate Professor and Director, MFA Transciplinary Design, School of Design Strategies, Parsons The New School for Design

 

March 1

Design Away

Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons The New School for Design

 

March 22

Street Talk

Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor, and Julia Dault, Artist and Instructor, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design

 

March 29

Scenes from Ghana

Mabel O. Wilson, Associate Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; principal, KW:a

 

April 5

Conditions of Self-Regulated Urbanity

Ivan Kucina, University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture


April 12

Film: Examined Life

A film by Astra Taylor, featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Peter Singer, Cornel West, among other philosophers

 

April 19

Culture, Memory, and Contemporary Design

Alper Böler, Furniture and Product Designer; Principal, Alper Böler Design, Istanbul

 

April 26

Film: Notebook on Cities and Clothes

A film by Wim Wenders, featuring Yohji Yamamoto

 

May 3

Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles

Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design

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