The Lecture Series

Fall 2009: Tuesdays 6:00pm, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

Sept. 1 Introduction to Global Issues: Culture as State and State of Mind, Susan Yelavich

Sept. 8 Capacities of Design, Clive Dilnot

Sept. 15 Border Urbanism: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of Encroachment, Teddy Cruz

Sept. 22 Olympic Culture: National and Postnational Identities, Jilly Traganou

Oct. 6 Design for a Low Cost World, Stefano Mirti

Oct. 13 Unmapping, Sean Donahue

Oct. 20 The Art of Balkanization, Ivan Kucina

Oct. 27 Pure Land: Non-Dual Design in a Taiwanese Zen Buddhist Context, Lisa Norton

Nov. 10 The Transnational Artist, Do Ho Suh

Nov. 17 Lynching, Passing and Pictures: The use of personal and cultural memory in the creation of sequential art (a.k.a. COMIC BOOKS) Mat Johnson

Nov. 24 Being-by-Things: Seeing the way products and built environments let us be dependently blind to them, Cameron Tonkinwise

Dec. 1 Examined Life, Astra Taylor, dir.

Dec. 8 Purified Curtains: Archi-Textiles, Susan Yelavich

Dec. 15 Design as Politics, Clive Dilnot