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2007 Savannah College of Art and Design, "Translations"
2008 Georgia Institute of Technology, "We Have Never Been Pre-Disciplinary"
2009 Louisiana State University CoAD, "But Also, We Are a Discipline"
2010 UNC Charlotte, "Made: Design Education & The Art of Making
2011 University of Nebraska, College of Architecture. "Beginning Of/In the End - Sustainable [re]starting"
Conference Co-Chairs:
Lindsey Ellsworth Bahe, Tim Hemsath, Peter Hind
Contact:
phind@unl.edu
Conference Website:
http://ncbds.unl.edu/
Statement of Theme:
Design schools have been dealing with issues of sustainability, design, and solutions to problems for a long time. It has been long known that meaningful design inherently calls for sustainable outcomes and leads to solutions in harmony with nature, not outside of it. While this may be true, the level of discourse about the impact our design could have in improving the climate, material reduction, energy reduction, and more, has increased to astonishing levels. William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their book Cradle to Cradle suggest a radical and deeper method of thinking and making. This call for change has been with us for some time but is our teaching paving the way for their type of new thinking. Are we really capable of this level of change? Can we affect change in what we do? If sustainable design thinking is the solution to environmental issues, do our early design studios prepare the way for the types of significant changes McDonough and Braungart require?
This proposal seeks to raise these and other questions about the shifts in practice and teaching. How are we responding or speculating about them? Our goal is to create a stage were educators can claim that what they are doing in foundation education is preparing students for the shifts and changes that have happened in the field of design. Conversely, the discussion may speculate that we are not doing enough. This proposal does not seek to prescribe outcomes, but rather we intend to provide a stage for open discourse and argument about where we have been and where we are going.
2012 Pennsylvania State University, Department of Architecture
Conference Chair:
Jodi LaCoe
Contact:
jll154@psu.edu
2013 TBA
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