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Design Lecture Series: Amelia Winger-Bearskin

November 24, 2021February 5, 2021 by Mindy Seu

On Wednesday 2/10, 10am EST, please join us for a lecture by Amelia Winger-Bearskin called “Decentralized Storytelling.” Link is available at spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who helps communities leverage emerging technologies to effect positive change in the world. She is a Senior Technical Training Specialist at Contentful in the SF Bay Area. In 2019 she was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama’s World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. She founded IDEA New Rochelle, which partnered with the NR Mayor’s office to develop citizen-focused VR/AR tools and was awarded the 2018 Bloomberg Mayors Challenge $1 million dollar grant to prototype their AR Citizen toolkit. She is a Google VR JUMP Start creator, co-directing with Wendy Red Star a 360 video story about Native American Monsters which was selected for a McArthur Grant through the Sundance Institute Native New Frontiers Story Lab 2018. It is on display at Newark Museum beginning February 2019. Amelia is the founder and host of wampum.codes podcast and the host of Contentful + Algolia’s Developer Podcast DreamStacks. She is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan.

Design Lecture Series: Somnath Bhatt

February 14, 2021February 1, 2021 by Mindy Seu

On Wednesday 2/3, 10am EST, please join us for a lecture by Somnath Bhatt called “કામ કામ ને કામ (On work).” Link is available at spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net.

Somnath Bhatt is an artist and designer living in-between India and USA. Seeking the new in the old, and the old in the new is his favorite form of making.

Design Lecture Series: McKenzie Wark

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 by Mindy Seu

On January 27, 2021, the Rutgers Design Lecture Series, Spring 2021, kicked off with McKenzie Wark, who introduced “The Cis Gaze (and its others).”

For upcoming talks, please visit spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net.

McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of Capital is Dead (Verso Books), Sensoria (Verso Books), Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte) and various other things. Her next book is Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker, to be published by Duke University Press in fall 2021. She is currently editing a special issue of eflux journal on trans | fem | aesthetics, to be published in Spring 2021. She was awarded the Thoma Prize for digital art writing in 2019. She is professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of The New School, in New York City.

Design Lecture Series

January 23, 2021January 17, 2021 by Mindy Seu

Rutgers Practicum × IDEO × Project Drawdown

January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 by Mindy Seu

Drawdown Dialogues (drawdowndialogues.com) is a conversation series between five climate leaders and 14 student designers from Rutgers Design Practicum. Drawdown is a critical turning point for life on earth. This is that moment in the future when greenhouse gases begin to decline. It indicates the reversion of climate change and global warming. Project Drawdown is a solutions-based climate organization whose mission is to understand nature’s means of rebalancing the climate system.

Interviews and Graphics by:
Alexa Reyes, Anna Pittas, Cathryn Esposito, Derek Li, Marinelle Manansala, Nick Plyler, Pauline Yanes, Sarah Poon, Sebastian Lijo, Steve Tomori, Xinyi Huang, Yogini Borgaonkar, Yuchao Wang, Zhongxuan Lin

Web Design and Development by:
Pauline Yanes, Alexa Reyes, Yogini Borgaonkar

This collaboration was facilitated by Joanne Cheung of IDEO and Professor Mindy Seu.

Rutgers Practicum × Internet Archive

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 by Mindy Seu

14 students in Design Practicum and Internet Archive have collaborated to create a limited edition series of risograph posters. Each person in the course Design Practicum gathered unique collections on the Internet Archive and then adapted their findings into an 11×17 graphic. These were printed on a risograph by the Brooklyn-based studio TXT Books. The first 50 people to sign up on the Internet Archive site received a packet of these tabloid-sized posters.

You can see all prints and descriptions on the Internet Archive’s website by:
Alexa Reyes, Anna Pittas, Cathryn Esposito, Derek Li, Marinelle Manansala, Nicholas Plyler, Pauline Yanes, Sarah Poon, Sebastian Lijo, Steve Tomori, Xinyi Huang, Yogini Borgaonkar, Yuchao Wang, Zhongxuan Lin

This project was facilitated by Amir Esfahani, Director of Special Art Projects at the Internet Archive, Professor Mindy Seu, and Kurt Woerpel, co-founder of TXT Books.