DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao

Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:45 am - 11:00 am

Register Designing Hybrid Skins Dr. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao is an Associate Professor in Human Centered Design, with graduate field faculty appointments in Information Science, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She founded and …

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DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Libby O’Bryan

Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Watch the Recording What is it Worth? An experiment in the value of domestic labor and skill During her career in NYC’s garment industry, Libby O’Bryan witnessed many sewing jobs move overseas and was haunted …

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Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the sixth annual Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 12 at 10:00 AM. This fellowship program, in partnership with the Chipstone …

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The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show

Alliant Energy Center
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https://quiltshow.com/

Join the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture at the Alliant Energy Center for the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show! The center will host a non-profit booth during the Quilt Show’s open hours. …

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Hair Symposium

@ 8:00 am - 11:00 am

Material Intelligence Hair Symposium Friday, April 25, 2025 8am to 11am CST Watch Recording No material is more intimate, immediate, or incendiary than human hair. Materially speaking it is fairly simple: strands of dead cells …

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Textiles x Insects Panel Conversation and Lunch

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

How scientifically accurate are the butterflies and moths depicted by the textiles on view in Afterlives? What do butterfly boxes tell us about the intersections of art, science, design, and decoration? What do insect collection …

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Artificial Flowers: Ora, Labora, et Flore

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Session 1: 11am-12pm Session 2: 1pm-2pm Register here! UW Madison recently acquired a small and intriguing manuscript produced in the eighteenth century by Benedictine nuns at the St Godelieve Abbey in Bruges, Belgium. Across 30 …

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Understandable Design and Perfect Imperfections with William Kroll of Tender Co.

Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

William Kroll is a multi-disciplinary designer whose brand Tender has been produced in Britain and retailed worldwide since 2010. Through Tender he investigates historical making techniques and problem solving design for a contemporary fashion audience. William previously apprenticed …

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Design in Mind: Creating Neuroinclusive Spaces for Health & Well-Being

Room 228, Educational Science Building, 1025 W Johnson St, Madison, WI 53706
@ 9:55 am - 10:45 am

This event has passed. Watch the event recording below: Event Recording How can the built environment better support the diverse ways people think, feel, and experience the world? In this lecture, Dr. Kati Peditto, a Senior Design …

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