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 …

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 …

A book page showing french handwritten text and a symmetrical illustration of orange and red flowers in an orange vase.

RE:FUTURE – SIX VISIONS OF WISCONSIN

Ruth Davis Design Gallery
@ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

RE:FUTURE SIX VISIONS OF WISCONSIN What does the future of Wisconsin look like if things turn out okay? The Master of Science in Design + Innovation (MD+I) summer capstone project explores this question from multiple …

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The Trailblazers Collection

Ruth Davis Design Gallery Window
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Through a collaboration with Lands’ End and the Kohl’s Center for Retailing, the CDMC is thrilled to share The Trailblazers Collection: A Lands’ End Brand Reimagined by School of Human Ecology Students as a Ruth Davis …

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HLATC Community Day

Center for Design and Material Culture, 1235 Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the fall semester HLATC Community Day! Once a semester, HLATC staff host a Community Day where we lead behind-the-scene tours and share information about the Collection. This event is open to the …

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Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Symposium

Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the fourth annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 15 at 9AM. This fellowship program, in partnership with the Chipstone Foundation, offers undergraduate UW-Madison students …

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Coming Together: Culturally Inspired Creation Exhibition Reception

The Link
@ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

April 30, 2022 at 1pm The Link | 1st Floor, Nancy Nicholas Hall | UW–Madison Join us in celebration of the exhibition Coming Together: Culturally Inspired Creation. Meet with the Design Studies 527: Global Artisans students who …

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