Past Events
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05/20/21
Self/Centered: The Class of 2021 MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism Graduate Thesis Presentations
- Conferences
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06/01/20
2020 Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive, June 1-12
- Summer Intensive
- Workshops & Readings
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05/28/20
Statements from Isolation: The 2020 MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism Graduate Thesis Presentation
- Conferences
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03/12/20
SPRING 2020 LECTURE SERIES POSTPONED
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12/03/19
Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard with Anne Quito, ” Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines”
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11/19/19
Steve Heller and Rev Dr. T.K Nakagaki, “The Swastika & Symbols of Hate”
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11/13/19
David Reinfurt, “A *New* Program for Graphic Design”
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10/15/19
Susan Yelavich, “Thinking Design Through Literature”
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05/13/19
Precarious | The 2019 SVA D-Crit Graduate Thesis Symposium
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04/23/19
Luis Ortega Govela and Olivia Erlanger, “Garage: American Delusion”
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04/16/19
Amanda K. Hurley, “Radical Suburbs: Beyond the Nuclear Family”
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04/09/19
4th Annual Phil Patton Lecture: Rob Walker on “The Art of Noticing”
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03/26/19
Akiko Busch, “How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency”
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02/26/19
Paul Makovsky, “On Florence Knoll Bassett & Writing Interior Design History”
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02/19/19
Jere Hester, “(Re)making News: Saving Local Journalism in the Digital Age”
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02/11/19
Screening of Van Alen Sessions Season Five: Fireproofing the Future in California
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02/05/19
Avery Trufelman, “Abandon Your Plans”
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12/11/18
Kimberlie Birks, “Design for Children: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep”
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11/26/18
William Myers, “Biodesign and Bioart: From Inspiration to Integration”
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11/20/18
Mark Lamster, “In Search of Philip Johnson”
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11/13/18
V. Mitch McEwen, “Nostalgia for the Present: New Orleans, Detroit, Pittsburgh”
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10/30/18
Nathan Adkisson, “Make Me Care!”
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10/16/18
Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, “Thinking Critically about Fashion: An Introduction to Vestoj”
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10/10/18
Vera Sacchetti, “Design as Learning, Learning as Design: Making the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial”
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05/08/18
Refract, Rephrase, Reframe: The 2018 SVA MA Design Research Thesis Symposium and Party
- Conferences
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04/24/18
Alexandra Lange, “The Design of Childhood”
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04/17/18
Steve Heller and Greg D’Onofrio, “The Moderns”
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03/28/18
3rd Annual Phil Patton Lecture: Natasha Jen and Khoi Vinh
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03/13/18
A Critical Reader for Critical Times
- Workshops & Readings
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02/20/18
Shannon Mattern, “Ether/Ore: An Atlas of Urban Media”
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02/13/18
Noa Raviv, “Essential Mistakes”
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01/30/18
Lewis Mumford Symposium: Cassim Shepard
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12/12/17
Rob Giampietro, Design Lead, Google Research & Machine Intelligence
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11/28/17
Andrea Lipps, “Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age”
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11/14/17
Mimi Zeiger, “Intersect, Instigate, Exchange”
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11/01/17
Superpool, “Groundwork in Istanbul”
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10/24/17
Dan Chen, “File > Save as > Intimacy”
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10/17/17
Allan Wexler, “Absurd Thinking, Between Art and Design”
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10/10/17
Ana Miljacki, “Bad Copies”
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09/26/17
Mark Hansen, Brown Institute for Media Innovation
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05/08/17
SIGHTLINES: SVA Design Research Thesis Symposium and Launch Party
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04/25/17
Elizabeth Glickfield
Founder and Editor of Dirty Furniture- Lectures
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04/18/17
Alice Twemlow: Making Waste: Unearthing the Metaphors, Values, and Temporalities of Product Design and its Criticism
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04/04/17
Michael Sorkin in conversation with Alan Rapp
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03/29/17
Jeremy Scahill
Co-founder, The Intercept and host, “Intercepted” podcast- Lectures
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03/28/17
Lizzie Widdicombe in conversation with Adam Harrison Levy
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03/21/17
2017 Phil Patton Memorial Lecture
Deyan Sudjic
Director of the Design Museum, London- Lectures
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02/28/17
Cliff Kuang: The Untold Story of Design Thinking
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02/14/17
A Critical Reader for Critical Times
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02/07/17
Sam Lubell: The Making of Never Built
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12/06/16
Leah Meisterlin: “Geographies of Difference”
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11/29/16
Sean Anderson: Curator of “Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter” at MoMA
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11/22/16
Daniel Perlin: Artist, Designer, and Director of UX at Droga5
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11/01/16
Virginia Heffernan: Cultural critic and author of “MAGIC AND LOSS: The Internet as Art”
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10/25/16
Matylda Krzykowski: Co-founder of Depot Basel and guest curator at Chamber Gallery, New York
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10/18/16
Danielle Shapiro: Design historian and author of “John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life”
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10/11/16
Aileen Kwun & Bryn Smith: Authors of “Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Design”
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06/06/16
Apply! 2016 Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive
- Workshops & Readings
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05/17/16
VITAL SIGNS: 2016 SVA MA Design Research Thesis Ideas Festival
- Conferences
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04/19/16
Mark Wasiuta, “The Making of ‘Environmental Communications: Contact High'”
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04/05/16
Ignacio G. Galán, “Architecture’s Occupations”
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03/29/16
Benjamin Prosky, “Designing Culture”
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03/22/16
2016 Phil Patton Memorial Lecture: Russell Flinchum, “Women and Cars”
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03/15/16
Anne Guiney, “The City as Research Project”
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03/03/16
Working Lunch with Nick Rappolt and Matt Basford: “Data and Creativity—Friends or Foes?”
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03/01/16
Alex Gallafent, “Design Research through Three Lenses: Journalism, Prototyping, and Improv”
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02/23/16
Sloane Crosley in Conversation with Adam Harrison Levy “Humor As A Writing Tool”
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02/16/16
Allan Chochinov, “Permission Is a Material: Rethinking the Contemporary Materials of Design”
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01/21/16
A Forum on Curating Beyond Fine Arts: Objects (Still) Matter
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12/08/15
Michael Garofalo, “The Cut and Paste Narrative: A Disappearing Act”
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12/01/15
Caroline Sinders, “Between Algorithm and Human Intervention”
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11/17/15
Brooke Hodge, “The Curator’s Eye: From Idea to Exhibition”
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11/03/15
Julia Kaganskiy, “Networks as Generators of Creativity”
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10/27/15
Marco Ferrari, “Beyond Borders: the Potential of Visual Research”
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10/20/15
Cas Holman, “Designing for Play”
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10/13/15
Michael Kubo, “Working Across Platforms”
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06/01/15
Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive
- Workshops & Readings
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05/31/15
“Exploding Footnotes: Design Research in Action”
- Exhibitions
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05/13/15
“Exploding Footnotes: Design Research in Action” Live Crit and Exhibition Opening
- Conferences
- Exhibitions
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04/21/15
Gabriela Rendón, “Social Property and the Urgency of a New Urban Practice”
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04/16/15
Michael Golec, “Champ Fleury in the Machine Age”
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04/14/15
Francesca Granata, “Why Fashion Criticism Matters”
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03/31/15
James Goggin, “Theory and Practise and Time and Place”
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03/24/15
Kevin Delaney, “Redesigning Global News Production”
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03/17/15
Craig Buckley, “Re-envisioning Assembly—Montage and Architecture in the Long 1960s”
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02/24/15
Ian Frazier, “The End of Writing, and What to Do After”
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02/10/15
Geoff Manaugh, “A Burglar’s Guide to the City”
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02/03/15
Joanna Ebenstein, “The Morbid Anatomy Museum”
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12/02/14
Beatrice Galilee, “Activating Architecture”
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11/18/14
Kiosk, “The Things We Never Stop Thinking About”
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11/10/14
Anab Jain, “Design for Anxious Times”
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11/04/14
Jason Schupbach, “Design Federal”
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10/28/14
Glenn Adamson, “Making it in NYC”
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10/27/14
Working Lunch: Jon Sueda, “Wide Open Spaces”
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10/14/14
Alexandra Jacobs, “Trending: How Fashion Has Gone From Class to Mass (and Maybe Mess)”
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05/02/14
Lingua Franca: The 2014 D-Crit Conference
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04/27/14
Ellen Lupton, “Design Fictions”
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04/01/14
Peter Bil’ak, “Works That Work, Making Magazines Today”
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03/18/14
Sharon Helgason Gallagher, “The Book and the Bicycle”
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03/11/14
Phillip Tiongson, “Invention and Intention: Building Experiential Stories”
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02/27/14
Rick Poynor, “Dom Sylvester Houédard: Letters in Space”
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02/25/14
Robert Krulwich, “Hard Stories Told Easily”
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01/28/14
Eva Franch, “Corporate Avant Garde and the Return of Disruption”
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12/10/13
Amy Ogata, “Design, Creativity, and Postwar American Childhood”
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11/19/13
Vishaan Chakrabarti, “A Country of Cities”
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10/29/13
Akiko Busch, “Assorted Notes on Fit”
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10/23/13
Karrie Jacobs, “The City Beautiful All Over Again”
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10/15/13
John Warner, “It’s Funny Because It’s True. It’s True, Because It’s Funny”
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10/08/13
Glen Cummings, “Negotiating Urban Nature”
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10/01/13
Jane Nisselson, “Cinematics of Systems, Processes, and Beautiful Things”
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09/17/13
Constance Rosenblum, “Private Lives in the Big City: Writing About New Yorkers and Their Distinctive Habitats”
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05/11/13
counter/point: The 2013 D-Crit Conference
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04/16/13
Kurt Andersen, “Why Spy”
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04/09/13
Rick Poynor, “Writing with Pictures”
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03/19/13
Virginia Postrel, “Meaning and Value in Commercial Culture”
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03/12/13
Vince Aletti, “Face of Fashion: Fashion Photography, Art Direction, and Magazine Design”
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02/26/13
Kati London, “New Forms of Engagement and Play in a Sensor- and Real-Time-Data-Dominated World”
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02/18/13
Sandy Speicher, “Design for Learning”
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02/12/13
Susannah Drake, “Resilient Urban Environments”
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02/05/13
Markus Kayser, “Can There Be Union between Nature and Technology in Fabrication?”
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01/29/13
Noah Rosenberg, “Slow. Down.”
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01/09/13
Nicholas de Monchaux, “Fashioning Apollo”
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12/04/12
Murray Moss, “Apples to Oranges: Dialogues between Art and Design in Commerce and Culture”
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11/27/12
Steve Almond, “How to Make the Reader See It: The Book as a Visual Artifact”
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11/20/12
Emilie Baltz, “Why Foreplay Makes the Food (AKA: There’s more to a steak than beef)”
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10/20/12
D-Crit Open House Fall 2012: Milton Glaser
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10/16/12
Project Projects, “As of 10.15.12″
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10/09/12
Lucy Collins, “From the Ivory Tower to the Tents: Thinking Critically about Fashion”
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10/02/12
Pedro Gadanho, “Is Curating the New Criticism?”
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09/25/12
Zoe Coombes, “Dirt from Glass Cages”
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05/02/12
Eventually Everything: The 2012 D-Crit Conference
- Conferences
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04/17/12
Damon Rich, “Working the System”
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04/10/12
Michael Meredith, “Playful Experimentation and Criticism”
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04/03/12
Cintra Wilson, “Fear and Clothing”
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03/27/12
Witold Rybczynski, “The Biography of a Building”
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02/28/12
Jimenez Lai, “Cartoonish Architecture”
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02/21/12
Starlee Kine, “How to Capture the Culture Zeitgeist: What Phil Collins and Zombies Have in Common”
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02/14/12
Lunchtime Q&A with Michael Kimmelman
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02/07/12
Jonathan Olivares, “Working with Jonathan Olivares”
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01/31/12
Aaron Betsky, “Architecture Beyond Building”
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12/13/11
Mark Dery, “The Politics of Style”
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12/06/11
Peter Hall, “Infoviz: Where’s the Critique?”
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11/15/11
Eye to Eye: Q & A with Lewis Lapham and Adam Harrison Levy
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11/03/11
åbäke, “Seriously Forks XI”
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05/04/11
Present Tense: The 2011 D-Crit Conference
- Conferences
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04/30/10
Crossing the Line: The 2010 D-Crit Conference
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02/23/09
David Reinfurt, “The First Rule is Always Production, Never Documentation. The Second Rule is There Are No Rules”
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12/16/08
Cathleen McGuigan, “The Role of Design Criticism in the National Press”
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11/04/08
Elyssa Dimant, “‘In Rogue’: Crafting Fashion Criticism”
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10/28/08
Rob Giampietro, “On Design, Distribution, and Circulation”
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10/07/08
Jenni Sorkin, “The Pottery Seminar at Black Mountain College”
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