Design Lecture Series: Nontsikelelo Mutiti

On November 16, we welcomed Nontsikelelo Mutiti for a lecture presented as part of the Fall 2021 Rutgers Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Register at art.rutgers.edu/design-lecture-series

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Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator. She is invested in elevating the work and practices of Black peoples past, present, and future through a conceptual approach to design, publishing, archiving practices, and institution building. Mutiti holds a diploma in multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Digital Arts and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, with a concentration in graphic design.

Design Lecture Series: Channel Studio

On November 16, we welcomed Channel Studio for a lecture presented as part of the Fall 2021 Rutgers Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Register at art.rutgers.edu/design-lecture-series

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Channel is an independent design and technology studio based in New York City specializing in digital products, identities and archives. Channel Studio was founded by Will Denton and Seth Kranzler in 2017 with the intention of radically rethinking the ways we discover, explore, and interact with content. Today Channel partners with global brands, technology startups, and cultural institutions to imagine futuristic interfaces and build them at scale. Channel aims to preserve and democratize the world’s knowledge and culture by making them more accessible.

Design Lecture Series: Fiona Raby

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

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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.