@ 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 …
Past Events Category: Lecture/Symposium
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Why do we need Scientific Glassblowing?
Nancy Nicholas Hall, 5th Floor @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Klaus Paris is a second generation scientific glassblower, born and trained in Germany. Paris will speak about the German glass training programs, the similarities and differences in being a scientific glassblower in different countries and …
Breaking the Boundaries of Felt
Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 5:30 pm
Janice Arnold has been redefining the boundaries of handmade Felt for over 25 years. Her work is a confluence of ancient and modern methods using traditional and unexpected materials. In this presentation, she will share …
Chipstone-CDMC 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 fifth annual Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 13 at 10:00 AM. This fellowship program, in partnership with the Chipstone …
Remaking Objects in the Classroom and the Museum: A Panel Discussion
Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall @ 12:00 pm
Join us for a panel discussion between scholars, curators, and creators including Deborah Krohn (Bard Graduate Center), Jonathan Tavares (Art Institute, Chicago), and Tracy Drier, Distinguished Master Glassblower (UW Madison) about how reconstructed objects and …
Weaving and Counterfactual Narratives of Technical Progress
Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall @ 5:00 pm
Recording of Event Counterfactual thinking is a form of asking “what if” questions that consider how the present would have unfolded had historical events had different outcomes. In this talk, I’ll draw from my research …
