Design Week 2020
March 2-6, 2020
DESIGN | AGENT FOR CHANGE
This week long lecture + workshop series will examine new possibilities for change within design. We aim to construct a different kind of design agenda, with different players, new discoveries, discursive practices and ways to collaborate + come together across conventional boundaries. We will celebrate the work of those who have initiated new methodologies, are constructing new accesses to power and are committed to building a world that is bravely different through profound and practical action.
Searchable schedule with links below
Colorado College welcomes participants with disabilities. Please contact Jan Edwards, 719-227-8294 or by email at jedwards@coloradocollege.edu, to request accommodations. Advance notice may be necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
Design Week 2020
Mon,
March
02
|
Tues,
March
03
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Wed,
March
04
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Thur,
March
05
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Fri,
March
06
|
Related
Activities
Monday,
March
02
12:15
PM
Film
and
Lunch
Helvetica
Packard
Hall
132
Helvetica is a feature-length documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. 80 min. 2007
https://www.hustwit.com/helvetica
3:30
PM
Talk:
Lillian
Makeda
Representing
Navajo
Cultural
Identity
in
Architecture
Cornerstone
Screening
Room
131
The Navajo (or Diné) hogan is one of a small number of traditional Native American dwellings still in use during the 21st century. Part of the reason for the hogan's persistence has been the widespread adoption of a particular form, the tsin bee hooghan-a polygonally-shaped, horizontally-laid-log hogan. This illustrated talk will discuss the emergence of the tsin bee hooghan as a Diné icon during the period between 1890 and 1950 and suggest that Euro-American representations of Diné culture played a role in popularizing the form. These representations could be found within ethnological villages at world's fairs and at tourist destinations in the Southwest from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition onward. During the same period, several Euro-American groups interested in Indian reform targeted Native American architecture as a source of paganism and disease. These groups sought to "improve" the hogan and in the process, helped to speed the decline of older forms that were dissimilar to contemporary Euro-American architecture.
In the 1920s, a compromise began to emerge among Native American reform groups that deemed the hogan as an acceptable form of housing while viewing it as in need of an improving hand. With the appointment of John Collier as federal Indian commissioner in 1933, the federal Office of Indian Affairs instituted a number of programs that built model hogans-masonry versions of the tsin bee hooghan-that were intended for the Diné to emulate. At the same time, Native American and Euro-American roadside entrepreneurs began building examples of the tsin bee hooghan in the form of shops, motels, and other facilities based on hogan architecture. During the 1930s, ventures like Johnny's Navajo Hogan in Colorado Springs could be found across the Four Corners' region and by midcentury the tsin bee hooghan had become established as a "trademark of the Navajos."
Tuesday, March 03
12:15
PM
Lunch
and
Talk:
Allison
Milham
Intersections
in
Book
Arts:
Identity,
Place
&
the
Power
of
Stories
Tutt
Library
Event
Space
201
Artist Allison Leialoha Milham will speak about her interdisciplinary work in printing, book arts, music and activism. Milham is an educator, artist and songwriter of Native Hawaiian descent, and a visiting professor at The Press at CC, teaching book arts and letterpress printing. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Her award-winning, hand-printed and bound project, Uluhaimalama - Legacies of Lili'uokalani, is an immersive and layered work which uses her own renditions of Queen Lili'uokalani's compositions as a lens to explore Hawai'i's political history and contemporary struggles for sovereignty. Milham's work is held in multiple public collections including The Library of Congress, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and Yale University Arts Library.
https://www.morninghourstudio.com/
3:30
PM
Talk:
Peter
Oyler
Evolving
Praxis/Practice
Cornerstone
131
In
this
presentation,
Oyler
will
elaborate
the
ways
in
which
his
design
practice
explores
the
intersection
of
design,
craft,
contemporary
culture,
and
history
and
emphasizes
both
traditional
and
experimental
approaches
to
production.
Motivated
by
the
vast
possibilities
of
a
wide
range
of
materials,
diverse
scales
of
production,
and
our
ever-evolving
relationship
to
both
analog
and
digital
modes
of
making,
Oyler
will
discuss
how
ideas
of
scale,
proportion,
and
of
immersive
studio
practice
central
to
his
foundational
works
have
paved
the
way
for
his
current
design
projects
and
collaborations
all
the
while
illuminating
the
role
of
the
designer
as
a
unique
cultural
interlocutor.
http://www.peteoyler.com/
Wednesday, March 04
12:15
PM
Lunch
and
Talk:
Thomas
Gardner
Making
Manifest:
Love
/
Grit
/
Action
Tutt
Library
Event
Space
201
In recent years, design + build has re-emerged in architectural education as a way to collaborate toward sustainable solutions: Through design, product development and construction, students and professionals from many fields work together to respond to a variety of problems. A model that remains rich in possibility, the contemporary design + build studio combines the potential of teaching, research, practice, and development. This lecture will describe a migration from traditional studio practice of bespoke architecture to the creative act of teaching design and building for under-served populations, and will illustrate how design + build's new presence in high school and university curricula is a teaching and research model enabling students to take responsibility for developing future built environments.
https://www.mica.edu/research/center-for-social-design/people/thomas-gardner/
7
PM
Film
Urbanized
Cornerstone
Screening
Room
131
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. 85 min. 2011.
https://www.hustwit.com/urbanized
Thursday, March 05
12:15
PM
KVA
Architecture
Body
Geometries:
A
Workshop
of
Serious
Play
Cornerstone
Room
308
This workshop will explore the creation of large play-full, action-based drawings, using paint. Here, students can experience and investigate painting differently, with gestures made by the organized action of their own bodies-but not their hands-and recorded in paint. By de-skilling the art of painting and being play-full students will work in teams to create large prosthetic 'brushes' that can produce different kinds of marks when attached to an elbow, leg or other part of their body. Through a series of quick exercises, students will play with corporeal mark making on large sheets of paper-vertical and horizontal. Students will photograph their corporeal paintings and present an analysis of the underlying unfamiliar corporeal gestures and geometries produced by the body as a record of an action over time.
Drawing upon the 1960's social game of "Twister", the actions of balance and imbalance in daily life and the work of the French conceptual artist Yves Klein, the workshop offers messy play with paint as a way of making and describing non-euclidian corporeal geometries.
5-6:30
PM
Roundtable
Discussion
Design
|
Agent
for
Change
Cornerstone
Main
Space
In this moderated panel, invited guests will discuss the overarching theme of Design Week 2020, exploring the possibilities for change within design.
The panelists will include:
Sheila Kennedy + Frano Violich of KVA architects
Thomas Gardner, Professor of Social Design at MICA and co-founder of HousingOperative, a design-build agency based in Detroit and dedicated to the realization of architecture for social and cultural change.
Emily Arden Wells + Zac Stevens of Move Matter
Friday, March 06
12:15
PM
Art
Department
Open
House
(Brown
Bag)
Packard
Hall
131
Wrap up Design Week by attending the Art Department Open House! Bring your lunch and learn more about the Art Department design programs and ways to get involved with design. Art Department faculty, students, and a representative from the CC Advising Hub will be available. We will also share portfolios from alumni who have gone on to graduate school and careers in design.
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/art/
Related Activities
Thesis
Exhibitions
Coburn
Gallery,
Worner
Packard
Hallway
Design Week 2020 is sponsored by the Art Department and the Conway Family Design Research Fund
For additional event information, please contact: kbritton@coloradocollege.edu
For directions or disability accommodations, call 719-389-6607.