Pat Kirkham
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Week 2 | Guest Lecture
Pat Kirkham is an author, professor, and design historian. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of London and is considered a foremost expert on the history of design, film, gender, and class. Pat Kirkham was the project director for the exhibition Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference at Bard Graduate Center in New York from November 15, 2000 – April 8, 2001. Accompanying the exhibition was a catalogue edited by Kirkham and published by Yale University Press in association with Bard Graduate Center. The book celebrates the contributions of women designers to American culture of the 20th century. Examples of work range from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, featuring the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups from well-known designers such as Ray Eames, Donna Karan, and Florence Knoll to less well-known compatriots.
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Shilpa Das
Shilpa Das
Week 3 | Guest Lecture
Dr. Shilpa Das is Principal Faculty, Interdisciplinary Design Studies. She designed and has been heading NID’s PhD Programme since 2017 and Science and Liberal Arts Studies at NID since 2004. Shilpa has been the Founding Co-Editor of The Trellis, a research publication and a magazine, D/signed at NID. She is the editor, author and creative visualizer of the book “50 Years of the National Institute of Design: 1961-2011” (2013); and co-editor of the book, “Indian Crafts in a Globalizing World” (2017). She has several published research papers in journals, chapters in books, and school textbooks. She has been editorial consultant to Collins Cobuild Dictionaries, UK and to the Gujarat State Textbook Board, Gandhinagar. She is co-editor of a special issue on Human Centred Design in Global Health for the journal, Global Health: Science and Practice and Reviewer for The Design Journal, Taylor and Francis.
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Christopher Dingwall
Christopher Dingwall
Week 4 | Guest Lecture
Christopher Dingwall is a historian of American and African-American cultures, with a focus on design, material culture, political economy, and race. Right now he's working on two complementary research projects: Selling Slavery: Race and the Industry of American Culture (for the Slaveries Since Emancipation Series at Cambridge University Press), a history of commercial plantation iconography and the making of the American culture industry during the long wake of slave emancipation; and Black Designers in Chicago (for the University of Chicago Press), a chronicle of African American artists and craftspeople in the American design industry during the twentieth century.
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Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson
Week 5 | Guest Lecture
Eric Anderson studies and teaches the history of modern design, with interests in interiors and domesticity, design exhibitions and media, psychological theories in design, and the global history of modernism. His articles and reviews have appeared in the journals West 86th, Centropa, Journal of Design History, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Austrian History Yearbook, German History and Burlington Magazine and in books including Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism (Vienna, 2018), Making Home: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Reform of Everyday Life (New Haven, 2018), Klimt und der Ringstrasse (Vienna, 2015) and Performance, Fashion, and the Modern Interior (Oxford, 2011). His most recent project tracks intersections of design pedagogy and global discourses of development at the Ulm School of Design and through Ulm’s international exchanges in Latin America, South Asia and East Asia.
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Cas Holman
Cas Holman
Week 8 | Guest Lecture
Founder of the independent toy company Heroes Will Rise and former Professor of Industrial Design at RISD, Cas travels the globe speaking about early education, the design process, and the value of play in all phases and aspects of life. Cas has shared her perspective in workshops, seminars, and consultations with the teams at Google, Nike, LEGO Foundation, and Disney Imagineering, and she has worked with architects, CEOs, and university faculty on projects related and seemingly unrelated to design. She helps individuals and organizations shape their projects, enrich team dynamics, and energize or reimagine their processes.
From the award-winning Rigamajig building kits and Geemo toys to exhibit and play space designs, Cas's work can be found in museums, classrooms, and public spaces around the world and in the permanent collections at the New York MoMA and the V&A Museum London.
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Elena Formia
Elena Formia
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Elena Formia is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture of the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, where she is Director of the First Cycle Degree in Industrial Design and the Second Cycle Degree in Advanced Design. Her main research topics are advanced design and future-focused processes, design education and the relationship between design sciences and humanistic knowledge. She has taught Design Cultures at the Bachelor and Master Design Degree Courses in Design of the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano and Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. She hold workshops and seminars in international universities such as TEC Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara, Mexico (2014).
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Sandy Ng
Sandy Ng
Week 6 | Guest Lecture
Sandy Ng specializes in modern art and design. Her post-doctoral published works examine the notion of hybrid modernism in Lin Fengmian’s figurative paintings (1900-1991). She is currently working on a research project that explores design, gender, and modern living in early twentieth century China. Her research also scrutinizes how craftsmanship and design convey individuality and social status in the modern era. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Bard Graduate Centre in New York, United States during the 2018-19 academic year and is presently College Art Association’s caa.reviews Field Editor for Design History. She is planning an edited volume based on the symposium entitled "Material Culture and Design in Modern Asia" she has organized at the Bard Graduate Centre in the United States in 2021.
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Mohamed Elshahed
Mohamed Elshahed
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Mohamed Elshahed is a curator and architectural historian focusing on modernism in Egypt and the Arab World. After undergraduate studies at the College of Architecture and Design (NJIT) he earned his Masters from MIT’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and a PhD from NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His work spans architecture, design and material culture. He is the curator of the British Museum’s Modern Egypt Project and Egypt’s winning pavilion, Modernist Indignation, at the 2018 London Design Biennale. In 2019 Apollo Magazine named him among the 40 under 40 influential thinkers and artists in the Middle East. In 2011 he founded Cairobserver.com with six printed issues of the magazine by the same name, distributed for free in events in Cairo, Beirut and Dubai which aimed to stimulate public debates around issues of architecture, heritage and urbanism in the region. He was the Spring 2020 Practitioner-in-Residence, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU.
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Ernesto Oroza
Ernesto Oroza
Week 7 | Guest Lecture
Ernesto Oroza’s practice channels the tradition of Radical Architecture into his own analytical employment of contemporary object typologies and productive forces. In lieu of functioning within the realm of manufacturing, he produces and distributes speculative models and research through various publication methods, exhibitions, collaborative practices, documentaries, and unorthodox forays into more conventional modes of architecture, interior and object design. Oroza’s work has been presented at the Groninger Museum, The Netherlands; The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Institut de Cultura La Virreina, Barcelona; Documenta fifteen, Kassel. Oroza has been awarded fellowships by Guggenheim Foundation, HARPO Foundation, and received the Pernod Ricard Fellowship from the Villa Vassilieff, among others.
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Michelle Fisher
Michelle Fisher
Week 10 | Guest Lecture
Michelle Millar Fisher is currently the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts within the Contemporary Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. Michelle has long been interested in the confluence of gender and design. She has written widely on care work, mothering, and reproductive labor, including parenting in museums (and hiding care work at work), being childfree, grief and mothers, and the architecture of maternity. Since 2017, she has co-organized an independent team of collaborators around a book (MIT Press 2021), exhibition, curriculum, and program series called Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births. Find it on Instagram at @designingmotherhood. In 2017, she co-organized an exhibition and book, I Will What I Want: Women, Design, and Empowerment, in conjunction with muca-Roma, Mexico City.
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Mugendi K. M'Rithaa
Mugendi K. M'Rithaa
Week 9 | Guest Lecture
Prof. Mugendi K. M’Rithaa is an industrial designer, educator and researcher at Machakos University, Kenya. He studied in Kenya, the USA, India and South Africa and holds postgraduate qualifications in Industrial Design and Higher Education, as well as a doctorate in Universal Design. He is widely travelled and has taught in Kenya, Botswana, South Africa and Sweden and is passionate about various expressions of socially conscious (and responsible) design, including Designerly Strategies for Mitigating Climate Change; Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability; Distributed Renewable Energy; Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Participatory Design; and Universal Design. Mugendi has a special interest in the pivotal role of design thinking in advancing the developmental agenda primarily on the African continent. Mugendi is also Africa’s first President of the World Design Organization™, formerly known as the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. Much of his work focuses on the importance of WDO in supporting the aspirations of younger designers worldwide.
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Mariana Amatullo
Mariana Amatullo
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A practitioner-scholar, academic administrator and design strategist, Mariana Amatullo joined The New School as full-time faculty in the School of Design Strategies (SDS) at Parsons School of Design in 2017. Her work encompasses integrating academic development and academic administrative functions for the division to operate as a continued source for teaching and learning innovation, new partnerships, profitability, and sustainability. Prior to joining The New School, Mariana led the award-winning social innovation department, Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California which she co-founded in 2001.She holds a Ph.D. in Management (Designing Sustainable Systems) from Case Western Reserve University, an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California, and a Licence en Lettres Degree from the Sorbonne University, Paris, where she also studied Art History at L’Ecole du Louvre.
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