Design Dialogues is a speaker series embedded within our weekly colloquium. Each term, guest curator/s invite provocateurs from the worlds of design, art, academia, and technology to share their work and engage in direct discussion with students.
Design Dialogues Spring 2012: Infra / Meta / Tele
This lecture series investigates intersections between landscape and society - systems, infrastructures, and interstitial zones - both material and conceptual. These are terrestrial manifestations that represent our social geography and spatiality. They become monuments to our collective past, present, and near future.
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January 24: Rupert Ursin, Austrian Academy of Sciences
February 3: Edward Yu, Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control (ATSAC) System
February 10: Intelsat Filmore Teleport
February 17: Google, Inc Los Angeles Office + Unity Cable Landing Site
February 24: David Nelson, USC Institute for Creative Technology
March 30: Alexander Rose, Long Now Foundation
RECENT DESIGN DIALOGUES
Design Dialogues Fall 2011: Orbiters
Friends, collaborators, and recent discoveries.
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Design Dialogues Spring 2011: Made Up
Guest Curator: Tim Durfee
This series of 3 panels (Making Up, Lies, and Get Real) were positioned around the Grad Media exhibition, Made Up: Design's Fiction. Which framed speculative practices around the use of fiction in creating critical or philosophical objects, and designing for future scenarios or technological capabilities to acknowledge the increasingly uncanny correspondence of the real and the imaginary.
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Design Dialogues Fall 2010: Computation After New Media
Guest Curator: Garnet Hertz
This lecture series explores key concepts in computational media to empower individuals to imagine, collaborate, provoke, and prototype through computing.
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Design Dialogues Spring 2010: Media Morphologies
Guest Curator: Norman Klein, Cultural Historian and Author, The Imaginary 20th Century
This series will explore how digital culture has absorbed and evolved media that presumably died, imagining New Points of Origin for understanding the history of "seeing machines," spatial design, and electronic sound.
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Design Dialogues Fall 2009: Data + Art
Guest Curators: Dan Goods and David Delgado, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Every moment data is collected, filtered, organized, searched, visualized, sonified, filed, archived and forgotten. This term's series includes a number of artists and scientists who are exploring the data-saturated environment we live in. Some use their talents to help people better understand a subject while others see it as fertile ground for personal expression. By combing through the vast amount of data being collected every moment, these people are revealing to us hidden stories about the world and the human condition. read full curator statement + visitor bios
Design Dialogues Spring 2009: Efficient, See!
Guest Curators: Jenna Didier and Oliver Hess, Materials & Applications
Most thoughts of efficiency perhaps are those apartments that are so small they have no kitchen, or perhaps the space station where every ounce of weight is accounted for. Today's design culture seems to be going in 2 positive and distinct directions that both can be seen as explorations of efficiency. Firstly there is the idea of "nature as engineer" ... Secondly there is the "opulence of dematerialization"... read full curator statement + visitor bios
Design Dialogues Fall 2008: d:*.*
Guest Curator: Tim Durfee, Durfee | Reagn
There is no actual title yet to this series. I do know, however, that it will start with a prefix, which—depending on the results of the upcoming election—will either be “post,” or “neo.” I also know that the word following the prefix will be the name of an idea that everyone used to believe in... Bringing the title of the series to an exciting conclusion will be a word—maybe shocking, maybe not—that gives us a sense of where we are going... read full curator statement + visitor bios
VISITING PROVOCATEURS 2000 – present
75B, Design Collective, Rotterdam
Mark Allen, Machine Project
Rebecca Allen, Visionary Artist
Stuart Bailey, Dexter Sinister and Dot Dot Dot Magazine
Dustin Beatty, Anthem Magazine
Julian Bleecker, Near Future Laboratory
Tim Blum, Blum & Poe
Lauren Bon, Artist/Activist
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, MOCA at the PDC
John Seely Brown, Annenberg Center USC
Benjamin Bratton, Sociologist and Design Strategist
Kenyatta Cheese, unmediated.org
Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
Ben Conrad, Logan
Nikolai Cornell, George P. Johnson
Jordan Crandall, Visual Artist
Denise Gonzales Crisp, Designer, Writer
Zoe Crosher, Artist
Sharon Daniel, USCS
Jenna Didier, Materials + Applications
Sean Dockray, Telic
Paul Dourish, Department of Informatics UC Irvine
Tim Durfee, DurfeeRegn
David Erdman, servo
Marc Fornes, theverymany
Tracy Fullerton, Game Designer
Jens Gehlhaar, Creative Director, Brand New School
Mieke Gerritzen, MDP Visionary-in- Residence
Alexandra Grant, Artist
April Greiman, Made in Space
Nikolaus Hafermaas, Chair, ACCD Graphic Design
Justin Hall, unmediated.org
Marcus Hauer, Schoenerwissen/OfCD
Oliver Hess, Materials + Applications, TED Fellow
Garnet Hertz, artist
Perry Hoberman, Media Artist, NYC/LA/Singapore
Adriene Jenik, UCSD
Natalie Jerimijenko, UCSD
Michael Joyce, Author
Ned Kahn, MacArthur Genius
Geoff Kaplan, General Working Group
Somi Kim, Brand Integration Group, Ogilvy & Mather
Max Kisman, Holland Fonts
kozyndan, Los Angeles
George Legrady, UCSB
LIARS, musicians
Greg Lynn, Form
Wilam Henri Lucas, WILLEM AUGUSTUS
Gaston Nogues, Ball-Nogues Studio
MachineHistories
Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG
Lev Manovich, Visual Arts, UCSD
Tom Marble, Architect, Author
Geoff McFetridge, Champion Graphics
Jane McGonigal, Avantgame
Mark Stephen Meadows, pighed
Julia Meltzer, Los Angeles
Sally Menke, A.C.E.
Michael Meredith/MOS, Architect, Filmmaker
Mike Mills, director, Los Angeles
Keith Mitnick, Architect, Author
Lize Mogel, interdisciplinary artist and independent curator
Motion Theory
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
Michael Naimark, Media Artist
Eric Nakamura, Giant Robot
Adriana Parcero, Nokia
Anne Pascual, Schoenerwissen/OfCD
Celia Pearce, game designer + author
Fiona Raby, Dunne + Raby
Casey Reas, UCLA Design | Media Arts & Ivrea
Kate Rich, Feral Trade
Alexis Rochas, I/O
Brian Roettinger, Hand Held Heart
Ian Sands, former Director of Envisioning for Microsoft Office Labs
Janet Sarbanes, Author
Dmitri Siegel, designer and writer
Stephanie Smith, Ecoshack
Jennifer Steinkamp, Artist
Bruce Sterling, Author
Eddo Stern, artist
Super Happy Bunny
Gail Swanlund, StripeLA
Koert van Mensvoort, MDP Visionaries-in- Residence
Linda Taalman / Alan Koch,Taalman Koch Architecture
Jason Tester, Institute for the Future
Alexei Tylevich, Logan
Martin Venezky, Appetite Engineers
Rick Vermeulen, Graphic Designer
Jonathan Wells, RES
Davey Whitcraft, WILLEM AUGUSTUS
Fiona Whitton, Telic
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