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Brooks Protzmann writes about his experiences teaching undergradutates from many majors at UT in the "Radical Collaboration @ IBM" class. 

The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin today announced the hire of a new chair of the Department of Design in the School of Design and Creative Technologies. Kate Canales comes to the Department of Design from Southern Methodist University (SMU) where she serves as Director of Design and Innovation Programs and a Clinical Professor in the Lyle School of Engineering. Canales will assume the role July 1.

Design lecturer James Walker has a background ranging from environments, branding, illustration and interaction. His work has been featured in several publications and books; was part of larger collective projects that are now in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, MOMA, and the Brooklyn Museum; and has won several design-focused awards from organizations such as the AIGA and Communication Arts. Walker received his M.F.A. in Visual Communication and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, Growth and Renewal in the McCombs School of Business recently invited Jan Ryan, Director of Creative Entrepreneurship and Innovation, to present a workshop on design thinking for their Ignite Startup series. In this Medium blog post, the center shares highlights from her talk. 

Carly Burton writes about her experience teaching a 5-week module on Design and Artificial Intelligence, with the objective to demonstrate how to use design as a tool for solving real-world problems—as AI becomes increasingly integrated into our everyday lives. The class was offered by the Center for Integrated Design in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Natalie Campbell (B.F.A., Design, 2017) is a visual designer at the Design Institute for Health, a partnership between the Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts dedicated to applying a creative design-based approach to the nation’s health care challenges. Campbell interned at the Design Institute as a communication designer after excelling on a class project for the organization in a Design classes taught by James Walker. Shortly after graduating from UT, she joined the team full time as a visual designer, and in that role, she focuses on creating visual design assets on projects where digital or physical interactions are critical components of the user journey. We caught up with her recently to learn more about her work and interest in designing for health care.

Fast Company explores the "Radical Collaboration @ IBM Design" class for undergraduates on Co.Design. Reporter Harry McCracken interviews School of Design and Creative Technologies Assistant Dean Doreen Lorenzo IBM designer Doug Powell on how IBM's is educating a new generation of designers and non-designers in their studios in Austin.

Doreen Lorenzo, who served as a judge at the Fast Company Design Innovation Awards, talks about the state of the design industry, where it's going and how the Center for Integrated Design is offering curriculum to meet the needs of the industry.

Rachel Downs is a senior Management Information Systems major and Marketing minor at UT who is currently enrolled in the Design Strategies class “Radical Collaboration @ IBM Design.” The course, taught by Lecturer Brooks Protzmann, hosted off-campus for three hours one evening a week at the IBM Design Studios in North Austin. We recently caught up with her to discuss her experiences in her “Radical Collaboration” class. 

IBM and UT have formed a classroom collaboration to teach design thinking to University of Texas undergraduates. The partnership is part of a broader mandate at the UT School of Design and Creative Technologies at the College of Fine Arts to transform creative education for 21st-century careers.