We invite you to watch this video conversation between Annapurna Mamidipudi, Dorothy Ko, and Sarah Anne Carter, moderated by Yuhang Li. They discuss the formation of this project and Malkha’s vision for a democratic craft …
Design Thinking
Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium
The 2nd annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium will feature presentations by the 2021 cohort of summer fellows. Their presentations will focus the 3 CDMC pillars: design thinking, material culture, and textiles.
Malkha | Madison: A Moment in Making: 2017
This virtual exhibition features a series of photographs by Harsh Lohit of two Malkha production centers during 2017. We invite visitors to think through these photographs as moments in a long history of the Malkha …
Malkha | Madison: Weaving Malkha
While exploring the history of Malkha over the past decades, we also considered its present and its future. Weaving Malkha is the abstracted vision of new possibilities through the energy of weaving. From the Artist, …
Malkha | Madison: Project Members
Curators: Sarah Anne Carter Sarah Anne Carter runs the Center for Design and Material Culture (CDMC) in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and teaches in the Design Studies Department. …
Malkha | Madison
Online Launch: August 2021 – Ongoing. The Malkha | Madison project seeks to deepen our understanding of the value of artisan production in the contemporary post-industrial world. Indian artisan cotton textile production is a field that links the pre-industrial past to the post-industrial future. Through CDMC’s 3 pillars, we aim to convey the vibrancy of the field by sharing the vision, process, & material culture of Malkha, a South India-based textiles commons.
Design 2021: Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Online Launch: June 2021. The CDMC and the Design Studies Department present a virtual edition of SoHE’s annual juried student exhibition. UW-Madison students of all majors were invited to submit their best design work generated through Design Studies courses over the past four semesters.
The Portal: A Step into the Past
Online Launch: June 2021. “The Portal: A Step into The Past” is an online exhibition/virtual experience featuring student-designed historic interiors. Juried by Shana McCaw, Brent Budsberg, and Jonathan Prown and digitally curated by IA design studies students, the exhibit showcases selected period rooms from course “DS 422: History of Architecture.”
The Portal: Call for Entries
“The Portal” is a juried online exhibition featuring student-designed historic interiors. The virtual exhibition will showcase selected period rooms designed by students of the course “DS 422: History of Architecture (18th Century to Present)” in the Fall 2020 semester.
Design 2021: Call for Entries
This spring, the CDMC and the Design Studies Dept. present “Design 2021,” a virtual edition of SoHE’s annual juried student exhibition. UW–Madison students of all majors are invited to submit their best design work generated through Design Studies courses over the past 4 semesters.