Friday, 02 Nov 2018
Friday Research Seminar: Urban Investments: Architecture, Detroit and Late Fordism
Doug Spencer, director of graduate education in the Department of Architecture, will talk about urban investment in Detroit through the critical analysis of the campuses, open-plan office spaces and refurbished civic spaces proposed by Ford Motor Company.
Tuesday, 13 Nov 2018
Lecture: Science Inspired Design
Forrest Meggars, assistant professor of architecture at Princeton University and head of Princeton's CHAOS (Cooling and Heating for Architecturally Optimized Systems) lab, will talk about optimization of building systems and minimization of the chaos generated by the heat transfer process.
Wednesday, 14 Nov 2018
How a Center of Innovation Can Impact the University and Community
Allen D. Kunkel is associate vice president for economic development and director of the Jordan Valley Innovation Center at Missouri State University, where he is responsible for guiding the center in its mission of supporting businesses concentrating on advanced technology, biotechnology, life sciences and nanotechnology research and development.
The Precipitous Decline of Cairo, Illinois: Enamels and Photography
Enamel artist Sarah Perkins will give a short slide lecture about her personal work, which is primarily enameled bowls and containers, and photographer Gwen Walstrand will present her projects, which include narrative approaches to landscape and typological portraits of adolescents. The two will also discuss their collaborative exhibition highlighting the decline of Cairo, Illinois, on display at the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames.