http://beginningdesign.org Beginning Design Sat, 05 May 2012 16:21:22 +0000 http://beginningdesign.org en http://beginningdesign.org/Beginning-Design-Books http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/Beginning-Design-Books Sat, 05 May 2012 16:21:22 +0000 Beginning Design 2995307 <img src="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/BD_4.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/BD_4_o.jpg" data-mid="15665668" border="0" align="left"/> The NCBDS is proud to have past and current members producing books for the beginning design community. Please check out these texts if you are looking for books for your classes or for your own collection. <img src="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/BalmerSwisher.jpg" width="239" height="288" width_o="239" height_o="288" src_o="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/BalmerSwisher_o.jpg" data-mid="17179762" border="0" align="left"/> Jeff Balmer, Michael Swisher, Diagramming the Big Idea. (click here) <img src="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/Ecler_Image.jpg" width="268" height="212" width_o="268" height_o="212" src_o="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/Ecler_Image_o.jpg" data-mid="17178864" border="0" align="left"/> James Eckler, Language of Space and Form. (click here) <img src="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/Temple_Image.jpg" width="195" height="295" width_o="195" height_o="295" src_o="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/Temple_Image_o.jpg" data-mid="17179251" border="0" align="left"/> Stephen Temple, Making Thinking. (click here) <img src="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/Zell_Image.jpg" width="254" height="258" width_o="254" height_o="258" src_o="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995307/Zell_Image_o.jpg" data-mid="17178774" border="0" align="left"/> Mo Zell, Architectural Drawing Course. (click here) The NCBDS is proud to have past and current members producing books for the beginning design community. Please check out these texts if you are looking for... http://beginningdesign.org/2014-Mies-s-I-I-T http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/2014-Mies-s-I-I-T Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:49:00 +0000 Beginning Design 3090459 <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3090459/30a.jpg" width="670" height="345" width_o="672" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3090459/30a_o.jpg" data-mid="16118360" border="0" align="left"/> Illinois Institute of Technology Date: TBA Conference Chairs: Catherine Q. Wetzel email Leslie Johnson email Conference Website: TBA Illinois Institute of Technology Date: TBA Conference Chairs: Catherine Q. Wetzel email Leslie Johnson email Conference Website: TBA http://beginningdesign.org/3090465 http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/3090465 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:48:58 +0000 Beginning Design 3090465 <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3090465/31.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3090465/31_o.jpg" data-mid="15771315" border="0" align="left"/> University of Houston Date: TBA Conference Chairs: Gregory Marinic email Meg Jackson email Conference Website: TBA University of Houston Date: TBA Conference Chairs: Gregory Marinic email Meg Jackson email Conference Website: TBA http://beginningdesign.org/2013-Temple-University http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/2013-Temple-University Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:04:51 +0000 Beginning Design 3089936 <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3089936/29red.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3089936/29red_o.jpg" data-mid="19167343" border="0" align="left"/> Temple University Date: April 11-13 Conference Chairs: Eric Oskey Dennis Playdon Lorena Alvarez Conference Email: ncbds2013@temple.edu Conference Website: architecture.temple.edu/ncbds29 ACTIONS: The Making of Place This conference proposal positions itself in the notion that our perception of place is revealed through actions of making; building perception. The call for papers will ask for discussion of studio methods in which actions of making are intrinsic to the things made. The proposed conference objectives set out to create a forum for discussion of how the education of beginning architects intrinsically ties the study of perception with the tools and techniques of making and with the things designed as a result. It proposes that the process of creative inquiry is an inseparable part of the result. Temple University Date: April 11-13 Conference Chairs: Eric Oskey Dennis Playdon Lorena Alvarez Conference Email: ncbds2013@temple.edu Conference Website:... http://beginningdesign.org/2012-Penn-State http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/2012-Penn-State Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:28:13 +0000 Beginning Design 3070976 <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070976/28_post.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070976/28_post_o.jpg" data-mid="15667167" border="0" align="left"/> Pennsylvania State University March 29-31 Chair: Jodi LaCoe email Conference Website: beginningdesign2012.org If we believe that we constitute a polity of responsible citizens, where sustainability encompasses environmental, cultural, economic, and philosophical considerations, then what and how we teach is paramount to the vitality of global well-being. As academics and professionals, we recognize that the basic skills introduced to students in their first year will constitute the foundation on which all subsequent learning and design skills are overlaid, and from which all other techniques and decisions are constructed in subsequent years. These skills become firmly embedded in the students’ very idea of imagining and making, and comprise the fundamental tools by which they subsequently foster and develop their own personal design philosophy. Each new layer of skills produces new ways of thinking, considering, and imagining, resulting in a re-ordering of what was already there; new growth nourishing and sustaining earlier growth and vise-versa. In the process, all is re-imagined, re-formulated, re-ordered. Pennsylvania State University March 29-31 Chair: Jodi LaCoe email Conference Website: beginningdesign2012.org If we believe that we constitute a polity of... http://beginningdesign.org/2009-Louisiana-State-University http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/2009-Louisiana-State-University Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:26:22 +0000 Beginning Design 3070967 <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070967/25_post.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070967/25_post_o.jpg" data-mid="15667142" border="0" align="left"/> Louisiana State University March 12-14 Chairs Jim Sullivan, Matthew Dunn But Also, We are a Discipline. In the spirit of Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction, this conference adopts his phrase But Also as the conjunction that describes the complex and often-contradictory ‘relationship between beginnings and disciplinarity.’ In doing so, this conference joins last year’s conference; We have Never Been Pre-Disciplinary, to create an diptych, of sorts: two conferences exploring two sides of one topic. We have Never Been Pre-Disciplinary explores ‘the ways in which disciplines operate within beginning design education’ and the conference But Also, We are a Discipline explores the ways in which beginning design operates as a discipline. In other words, We have Never Been Pre-Disciplinary considers the continuities between beginning design and the discipline that follows, and But Also, We are a Discipline considers beginning design as a discrete discipline with its own history, body of knowledge and educational challenges. The quarter-century mark of the NCBDS existence warrants this diptych of conferences because of the body of knowledge that has been built over that time. Each part of this body – the papers, projects, and manifestos – implicitly and explicitly assumes a complex relationship with beginning design and the discipline that follows. The One could say that this body of knowledge assumes that at once it has never been pre-disciplinary but also that it is its own discipline. But Also, We are a Discipline invites submissions that explore beginning design’s history, its body of knowledge and the particular educational challenges that arise in its context, as well as their attendant pedagogies, projects, and curricula attendant to the discipline of beginning design. Submissions are welcome from all , such as traditional design disciplines, allied disciplines in the fine arts, disciplines that undertake 'design' activity without necessarily naming it as ‘design. We also seek the participation from other disciplines, such as the cognitive and learning sciences, that have much to say about beginnings, disciplinarily, and perhaps beginning design. For a copy of the conference proceedings, click here. Louisiana State University March 12-14 Chairs Jim Sullivan, Matthew Dunn But Also, We are a Discipline. In the spirit of Robert Venturi’s Complexity and... http://beginningdesign.org/2010-UNC-Charlotte http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/2010-UNC-Charlotte Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:45:59 +0000 Beginning Design 3070798 <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070798/26_post.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070798/26_post_o.jpg" data-mid="15666051" border="0" align="left"/> University of North Carolina at Charlotte March 18-21 Chairs: Jeffery Balmer, Chris Beokrem MADE: Design Education & the Art of Making sought to appraise the role of making past, present & future, both in teaching design and in the design of teaching. We aimed to examine theories and practices addressing fabrication and craft in all studio disciplines, and to take measure of their value in pedagogies of beginning design. Our theme was inspired as much by the tradition of craft and manufacturing characteristic of North Carolina as it was upon one of the primary preoccupations of faculty and students at the College: the exploration of both traditional and emergent techniques of making, in its various iterations and practices. For a copy of the conference proceedings, click here. University of North Carolina at Charlotte March 18-21 Chairs: Jeffery Balmer, Chris Beokrem MADE: Design Education & the Art of Making sought to appraise the... http://beginningdesign.org/2011-University-of-Nebraska http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/2011-University-of-Nebraska Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:33:51 +0000 Beginning Design 3070766 <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070766/27_Post.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/3070766/27_Post_o.jpg" data-mid="15665759" border="0" align="left"/> University of Nebraska- Lincoln April 1-2 Chairs: Lindsey Bahe, Peter Hind, & Brian Kelly 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. For a copy of the conference proceedings, click here. University of Nebraska- Lincoln April 1-2 Chairs: Lindsey Bahe, Peter Hind, & Brian Kelly Design schools have been dealing with issues of sustainability,... http://beginningdesign.org/Past-and-Upcoming-Conferences http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/Past-and-Upcoming-Conferences Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:13:17 +0000 Beginning Design 2995230 <img src="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995230/BD_3.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995230/BD_3_o.jpg" data-mid="15665511" border="0" align="left"/> Conferences are organized and run by conference chairs. Please direct questions and comments to those chairs. 2011 University of Nebraska, Beginning Of/In the End: PART 1 2012 Pennsylvania State, Beginning Of/In the End - Sustainable (re)Start: PART 2 Conference Chair: Jodi LaCoe 2013 Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Department of Architecture Conference Chairs: Eric Oskey email Dennis Playdon email Lorena Alvarez email Conference Website: architecture.temple.edu/ncbds29 Statement of Themes: This conference proposal positions itself in the notion that our perception of place is revealed through actions of making; building perception. The call for papers will ask for discussion of studio methods in which actions of making are intrinsic to the things made. The proposed conference objectives set out to create a forum for discussion of how the education of beginning architects intrinsically ties the study of perception with the tools and techniques of making and with the things designed as a result. It proposes that the process of creative inquiry is an inseparable part of the result. 2014 Illinois Institute of Technology beginningdesign.org/2014-Mies-s-I-I-T 2015 University of Houston beginningdesign.org/2015-Houston Conferences are organized and run by conference chairs. Please direct questions and comments to those chairs. 2011 University of Nebraska, Beginning Of/In the... http://beginningdesign.org/Host-a-Conference http://beginningdesign.org/following/beginningdesign.org/Host-a-Conference Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:09:39 +0000 Beginning Design 2995153 <img src="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995153/BD_1.jpg" width="670" height="347" width_o="670" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload34.cargocollective.com/1/6/214386/2995153/BD_1_o.jpg" data-mid="15262607" border="0" align="left"/> Individuals at educational institutions may submit to host and chair a conference. Submissions are reviewed for past participation in the NCBDS by the submitting conference chair(s), institutional support, new and relevant conference theme, quality of advanced planning and venue, and potential to generate scholarly inquiry. Individuals intending to submit are encouraged to attend a Steering Committee Meeting, which are held annually at conference, for further information. The past chairs from the two most recent conferences award the upcoming conferences. Proposals for the 2016 conference will be considered at the 2013 conference at Temple University. Please send proposals to Jim Sullivan by March 1, 2013. Below are examples of successful submissions: 2009 LSU College of Art and Design. 2010 UNC Charlotte, School of Architecture. 2011 UN Lincoln, College of Architecture. 2013 Temple University, Tyler College of Art. Please note: The NCBDS reserves the right to not award a conference or postpone awarding a conference as it sees fit to do otherwise. Individuals at educational institutions may submit to host and chair a conference. Submissions are reviewed for past participation in the NCBDS by the submitting...