design as dialogues at pratt . . .

on september 25th, i had a design as dialogue talk about pratt institute’s industrial design department, future tense, namely our new sophomores class. . . we did this during their studio session on friday with their instructors for sophomore studio: jeanne pfordresher, jonathan thayer, patrick fenton, scott lundberg & willy schwenzfeier. i think we all learned something from each other & about design education in general: design as dialogue, matthew burger 09/25/09

a relatively recent design as dialogue guest from last autumn was jeff michael, product designer who lives/works in cambridge, massachusetts and also teaches in the industrial design program at wentworth institute of technology
design as dialogue, jeff michael

in march 2007, nancy skolos and tom wedell came to pratt to discuss their shared studio work as well as their involvement with design students over many years of teaching in the graphic design department at risd . . .

skolos-wedell: light

in late september 2006, karen stone, design director at knoll international, invited erwin hauer, to talk about his work in conjunction with knoll, his book, continua (from princeton architectural press) and a recent article in metropolis magazine, called,”sculpting infinity”. adjunct faculty member, mark goetz also spoke to our students in 2006 and rebecca welz ask him to speak again (in february 2008), in a design as dialogue venue . . . you might want to take a look at the history on mark’s collaboration with todd bracher, efe buluc at to22:
to22: 2000 through 2008