UC Davis professor of design Tim McNeil has
published The
Exhibition and Experience Design Handbook (Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers / American Alliance Of Museums, 2023).
Through extensive research, personal experiences, and illustrated
case studies and examples, the book explores exhibition design
history, practice, methods and techniques, and demonstrates how
design contributes to the expanding role of creating experiences.
The China Shop, a new faculty-led initiative that embeds
resident artists
and designers within scientific laboratories at UC Davis to
conduct
research, presents a conversation between scientists and artists
on May 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem
Museum of Art.
Using fashion to raise the profile of heart disease as
the leading killer of women, the Red Dress Collection, created by
students from the UC Davis Department of Design, has been an
innovative way to spotlight this awareness campaign. Garments
from the collection are now on display in the lobby of the Robert
and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts through May
1.
In conjunction with the ten year anniversary of Verge’s
groundbreaking at 625 S Street in Sacramento, the Verge will
present “The
First 10yrs,” an inaugural biennial exhibition of works
produced during the first ten years of Verge’s Resident
Artist Studio Program (RASP).
Research by Javier Arbona-Homar, assistant professor in design
and American studies, and Julie Sze, professor and founding chair
of the American studies program at UC Davis, has lead
Arbona-Homar to become an active participant in discussion on
whether the city of Vallejo should relocate its police station to
a prime spot on the city’s historic
waterfront.
Assistant Professor Thomas Maiorana is among the
interdisciplinary, multicampus researchers from the University of
California partnering with agencies and community organizations
in the Bay Area to help residents respond to natural disasters
more quickly — and more safely.
Associate Professor Brett Snyder along with Irene Cheng,
associate professor of architecture at the California College of
the Arts, have received an American Institute of Architects (AIA)
Award for their project Roommate House in Oakland, CA.
Associate Professor Gozde Goncu-Berk has received the Award of
Excellence from the Advance Textile Associations for her
work
“CalmWear: A Smart Tactile Sensory Stimulation
Clothing.” The award was announced
at Advanced Textile Associations, The 76th Annual
International Achievement Awards.
UC Davis Assistant Professor of Design Beth Ferguson is a
designer and curator for the exhibition “Tools for a Warming
Planet,” a collection of speculative and scientific field
tools for environmental exploration of climate change. The
installation is currently on view at
Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona, Spain, through Aug. 21. From
there it will be shown as part of Ars Electronia in Linz, Austria
this September.
Undergraduate student Amabel Gale, a double major in computer
science and design, was part of a team representing UC Davis at
this year’s Biodesign Challenge
Summit. The collaborative project “Sea Glass,” which
harnesses microalgae to filter agricultural wastewater and, at
the end of its use, the algae is converted into a bioplastic for
eyewear, was presented by the team.
Helge Olsen, professor emeritus and a founding member of the UC
Davis Department of Design who was widely recognized for his
furniture design, died on July 11. He was 86.
The California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis has
received a new grant to establish “The Color Lab” in
collaboration with the Center for Mind and Brain. The project’s
goal is to explore the impact of discrete color spectra on
stress, mind, and alertness.
Associate Professor Jiayi Young and graduate students from the UC
Davis Department of Design are presenting their research at
“Possibles,” the 2022 ISEA International
Graduate student Edward Whelan and students from his first-year
seminar Make an Exhibition: First-Generation College Students
have created a colorful installation in the UC Davis Arboretum.
The exhibition titled “Reflections & Connections” is on display
through June 20.
Professors Glenda Drew, design, and Jesse Drew, cinema and
digital media, and lecturers Alexa Bonomo and William Mead,
design, have created work that is featured in the installation
“memory.unshift( )” at the Axis Gallery in Sacramento.
Congratulations to Sarah Grimes (art history and design
double-major) who is among the winners of this year’s Norma J.
Lang Prize for Undergraduate Research.
The Savageau Award in the Department of Design is presented to a
graduating Master of Fine Arts student in Design selected by the
Design faculty to encourage, recognize and celebrate creative and
original contributions to the discipline of design.
When First Lady Jill Biden stepped out in a brilliant blue
Markarian dress, coat, gloves and matching mask during the
January 2021 inauguration, Anneliese Koch (B.A., design, ’17)
knew her career would never be the same.
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