Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of Architecture & Design and Director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art, as well as Curator for XXII Triennale di Milano.
Join us to celebrate the work of five design students whose work utilizes and explores the vastness of our Rob Roy Kelly wood letterpress type collection.
The design industry’s relationship to the field of business has long been established and continues to become further entangled each year. But designers aren’t just satisfied with only disrupting the business sector—they’re keen to disrupt the social sector too. Unfortunately, the weaknesses baked into the discipline of design (that have been present from the start) are readily exposed when designers enter complex social issues and treat them like any other human-centered innovation challenge. The lack of a moral framework, let alone a set of ethical guidelines, put designers at great risk of doing more harm than good.
Kaleena Sales is a professor of graphic design and Chair of the Department of Art & Design at Tennessee State University. Her design writing and research centers on Black culture and aesthetics.
The Career City Limits Speaker Series is BACK and better than ever with both virtual and in-person options! These sessions are your opportunity to connect directly with representatives from top companies in the nation seeking creative talent just like you.
The School of Design and Creative Technologies invites all of our students, faculty, & staff to a Popsicle Pop-Up Party on Friday, August 26th.
The Game Development and Design Program invites you to Level UP, the first in-person showcase in 3 years! Explore multiple levels of gameplay, computer graphics, soundscapes, and immersive experiences from UT students across Arts and Entertainment Technologies, Computer Science, and Radio-Television-Film.
Evolution is a collaborative design laboratory facilitating interdisciplinary experimentation in dance performance. Choreographers from the Department of Theatre and Dance join with concert and event lighting designers from the School of Design and Creative Technologies and composers from the Butler School of Music and throughout the University to create short dance works for the concert stage. This public showcase is presented in the B. Iden Payne Theatre each spring.
Design Thinking is a reactive framework. It focuses on symptoms rather than causes and thus lacks the capability to understand structures. This blindness is not an error of the framework but rather a feature that was intentionally constructed. By manufacturing Design Thinking in this way, it can more easily position itself as a universal tool for solving any type of problem because it can ignore the larger and more systemic nature of issues by focusing on a smaller facet of the problem. Design Thinking masks itself as a state-of-the-art schema because of its purported efficiency, however, its sole purpose is to generate innovation in the commercial sphere. (Seitz, 2020, p. vi)