Crafting New Futures Using “Ideas Arrangements Effects”

Center for Design & Material Culture
@ 4:00 pm

Monday, April 25 @ 4pm This event has passed. Watch the recording HERE. Join Kenneth Bailey co founder of Design Studio for Social Intervention as he shares key concepts behind the Studio’s recent book, Ideas …

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Designers are Critical to Equity & Inclusion

Center for Design & Material Culture
@ 10:00 am

Wednesday, April 20th @ 10am CT This event has passed. Watch the recording HERE. Design is a social art.  Designers create the environments for human life – from our physical spaces to the products we …

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Unsettling: Learning of Equity in Creative Expression and Teaching

@ 5:30 pm

Unsettling: Learning of Equity in Creative Expression and Teaching Wednesday, December 1 @ 5:30pm This event has passed. Watch the recording HERE. Xia Gao presents her work and her exploration of equity through her practice. “I …

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Visible/Invisible: Designing Afro-Futures

Center for Design & Material Culture
@ 5:00 pm

Visible/Invisible: Designing Afro-Futures Thursday, November 4 @ 5pm CT This event has passed. Watch the recording HERE. D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem presents on her multi-hyphenate practice as an award-winning, self-described “space sculptor”, designer, writer, performance artist, …

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