Design Revolution Road Show

April 15th, 2010

Quote From The Road: April 15th

When: April 15th, 11:59 a.m.
Where: In a meeting with design faculty at University of Cincinnati

Professor Sooshin Choi: “Design education is like Home Depot: You can do it. We can help.”

April 15th, 2010

Recap: University of Cincinnati, April 15th

Our former intern, Jince, is a student at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning (DAAP), so we were not at all surprised to see him out on the college’s lawn and the first to greet us with his usual jovial smile. Jince had helped us plan the event with help from his professor Sooshin Choi, pasted posters all over campus (so many that administration made him take them down), and is even the co-author of our Design Revolution Toolkit.

As we pulled up to McMicken Commons, which is essentially the central nexus of campus, we were almost immediately mobbed by a group of excited DAAP students who had been awaiting our arrival. Our location was central to a slew of star-architect-designed buildings on campus, from Peter Eisenman to Frank Gehry. Before heading to our lecture, we enjoyed bagels with a select group of students and faculty who discussed DAAP’s program with us and asked for suggestions on how to move to a more social impact-driven collaborative model (though it seems they have some great studios in place already, including one looking at Cincinnati’s transportation system from the perspective a variety of disciplines). Sooshin Choi talked about the importance of building skills before you can rebel as a designer (as our intern Jince said, “I want to understand the beast before I tame it.”). We heard about the college’s co-op program, in which students spend every other term in an internship to better learn the profession from a real-world standpoint and extend their education into the practice of design.

Jince interviews his fellow students about the Design Revolution (see video above)

After our lecture, in which we urged students to put pressure on faculty to teach more studios focused on social impact (the faculty was in a meeting), we headed back out to the trailer where we were joined by the Dean of the college, and dozens of others.

It was great to catch up with Jince and some of his colleagues who are equally as impassioned about taking design beyond the product. We took a small detour to Graeter’s, the city’s famous ice cream establishment before packing up shop and taking to the road again. A HUGE thanks to Jince and everyone at DAAP for hosting our third-to-last-stop!

November 8th, 2009

Individual School Pages: Check for Updates

We’ve confirmed 25 different high schools and colleges as official stops on our tour! Each school has its own informational page, which can be accessed from the list on the Itinerary page here. Please check back regularly for updates on each school page- we will be adding specific schedule and location info for where the Airstream will be parked at each stop, along with when and where the lecture will be held as soon as we have confirmed details with each school.

November 1st, 2009

List of Confirmed Schools

As of November 1, 2009, the following schools have been confirmed (see the Itinerary page for the full route and more information):

• February 1: Redwood High School, Larkspur, CA
• February 2: Kick-Off Event with Adobe, San Francisco, CA
• February 3: California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
• February 4: Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
• February 5: San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
• February 8: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
• February 9: The Design High School, Los Angeles, CA
• February 15: University of Texas, Austin, TX
• February 18: University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
• February 22-23: Auburn University, Auburn, AL
• February 24-26: Hale County Workshop (Learning Landscape build), Greensboro, AL
• March 1-2: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• March 4-5: Bertie County School District, Windsor, NC
• March 11: Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, MD
• March 12: The Park School, Baltimore, MD
• March 15: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• March 22: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
• March 23: Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM), Brooklyn, NY
• March 25: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• March 29: Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
• March 30: Design Lab High School, Cleveland, OH
• April 1: College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
• April 2: Cranbrook Academy of Art and High School, Detroit, MI
• April 5-9: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• April 12-13: University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
• April 15: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• April 16: Wilmington High School, Wilmington, OH