Design Lecture Series: Fiona Raby

On October 10, we welcomed Fiona Raby for a lecture on “Realists of a Larger Reality.”

Image 1: Design Lecture Series flyer Fiona Raby. Hosted online. Image 2: Portrait photo of Fiona Raby.

Fiona is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and Co-director of the Designed Realities Studio at The New School in New York. She is also a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby. She was Professor of Industrial Design (id2) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna between 2011-2016 and was Reader in Design Interactions at the RCA between 2005-2015. Her projects with Anthony include Technological Dream Series, No 1: Robots (2007), Designs For An Over Populated Planet: Foragers (2010), The United Micro Kingdoms (2013), The School of Constructed Realities (2015), and Amn Archive of Impossible Objects (2019 -). She was a founding member of the CRD Research Studio at the Royal College of Art where she worked as a Senior Research Fellow leading externally funded research projects.

Design Lecture Series: Elizabeth Guffey

On September 21, we welcomed Elizabeth Guffey for a lecture on “Designing Disability.”

Split image of image 1: screenshot of the Guffey’s website: elizabethguffey.com A grid of colorful posters designed with photography and typography, reading "Elizabeth Guffey Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts Design Lecture Series". Image 2: headshot of Guffey in a pale blue top behind a bookcase

Elizabeth Guffey works at the intersection of art, design and disability studies. Her book Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society (Bloomsbury) argues that designs like the International Symbol of Access or “wheelchair symbol” can alter the environment, making people more disabled or less, depending on the design’s planning and use. She is also Founding Editor of the academic journal Design and Culture. Guffey currently heads the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory at the State University of New York, Purchase College.

Design Lecture Series: Sadie Red Wing

On September 14, we welcomed Sadie Red Wing for a lecture on “Designing for Sovereign Tribal Nations in Higher Education.”

Sadie Red Wing is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation of Fort Totten, North Dakota. Red Wing earned her BFA in New Media Arts and Interactive Design at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as, encourages academia to include an indigenous perspective in design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as a Student Success Coach for American Indian College Fund (Denver, CO) where she specializes in student retention and resource building for the Native American demographic in higher education spaces. Her work has been featured on AIGA’s Eye on Design: “Why Can’t the U.S. Decolonize Its Design Education?” (2017), Communication Arts: “Decolonizing Native American Design” (2017), and The World Policy Journal: “United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” (2018).

Design Lecture Series: Shira Inbar

On Wednesday 4/7, 10:00am EST, please join us for a lecture by Shira Inbar called Type and Motion in Editorial Design . Link is available at spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net.

Shira Inbar is an independent graphic designer with an edge of motion graphics, working in the fields of entertainment, editorial design, and image-making. She worked as a designer and animator at MTV News and a senior designer at Pentagram Design. Since 2018 she has been maintaining an active practice of her own, making work for The New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, Medium, GIPHY, Quartz, Refinery29, Vice Media, Politico, AIGA Eye on Design, Red Bull Arts, and more. In addition to her practice, she teaches a variety of time-based design courses at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and The Cooper Union. Shira holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and an MFA from Yale University, New Haven.

Design Lecture Series: Alice Wong

On Wednesday 3/24, 10:00am EST, please join us for a conversation with Alice Wong and Professor Mindy Seu about the book and organization Disability Visibility. Link is available at spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net.

Closed captioning and sign language interpretation will be available.

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, media maker, and research consultant based in San Francisco, California. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visiblity Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. Alice is also the host and co-producer of the Disability Visibility podcast and co-partner of a number of collaborations such as #CriptheVote and Access Is Love. From 2013–2015, Alice served as a member of the Natioanl Council on Disability, an appointment by President Barack Obama. You can follow her on Twitter: @SFdirewolf. For more: disabilityvisibilityproject.com.

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