THIS IS A PAST EVENT.
Cameron Tonkinwise, Director of Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon, will speak about "Design in the Liberal Arts" as a part of an ongoing Art Department lecture series dedicated to the topic. Reception to follow.
The aim of this lecture series is to broaden understanding, engage in, and provoke discussion around the idea of design in the liberal arts and to open up the ‘big questions’ of knowledge and practice that have significance for the future of design in the liberal arts academy.
Will the very nature of liberal arts challenge design teaching and practice? Can we accommodate ‘practice’ without compromising the value of abstract thinking? With the insight of leaders in the design field, including those with liberal arts backgrounds, we hope to explore opportunities for structuring programs for teaching design in the liberal arts at Wake Forest.
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About Cameron Tonkinwise
Cameron Tonkinwise's primary area of research is sustainable design. In particular, he focuses on the design of systems that lower societal materials intensity, primarily by decoupling use and ownership - in other words, systems of shared use.
Tonkinwise has published a range of articles on the role of design, and in particular, service design, in the promotion of the sharing economy and collaborative consumption. Tonkinwise has a background in philosophy; his dissertation concerned the educational philosophies of Martin Heidegger. Tonkinwise continues to research what designers can learn from philosophies of making, material culture studies and sociologies of technology.
Tonkinwise is facilitating the School of Design's creation of a new Design Studies sequence of courses that better prepare designers for a wider scope of work and the more interdisciplinary challenges of 21st century societies. Tonkinwise is also chairing the PhD Committee that is currently restructuring the School of Design's PhD program. He has extensive experience with practice-based design research, having supervised and examined reflective practice and artifact-based research projects and written about the epistemologies particular to this kind of work.
Tonkinwise comes to the Carnegie Mellon School of Design from Parsons The New School for Design in New York City where he was the Associate Dean Sustainability, and before that Co-Chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Chair of Design Thinking and Sustainability in the School of Design Strategies. Before that Tonkinwise was Director of Design Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and executive Director of Change Design, formerly known as the EcoDesign Foundation.
Part of the lecture series "Design in the Liberal Arts" organized by the Wake Forest University Art Department and funded by the Provost's Fund for Academic Innovation.
Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Scales Fine Arts Center, 102
1775 Wake Forest Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27109
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