Design & Existential Risk (Gersten, Ellsworth, Kruse, Keller roundtable Part 1)
ELIZABETH ELLSWORTH, JAMIE KRUSE,
AND DAVID GERSTEN
Friday, November 5, 2010
Elizabeth Ellsworth is associate provost for Curriculum and Learning and professor of Media Studies at The New School and co-founder of smudge studio (with Jamie Kruse). Elizabeth’s research and teaching focus on the design of mediated learning environments, uses of media to teach about and across social and cultural difference, media and social change, and documentary media forms. Jamie Kruse, is a designer, artist, and independent scholar. She is co-director and art director of smudge studio, a nonprofit art and design studio located in Brooklyn, NY. She works primarily with art, education, and health-related nonprofits in the United States and Canada. David Gersten is a Professor of Architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, where he has also served as associate dean, and is a visiting professor at RISD. In addition to drawing, creating constructions, and fiction writing, Gersten has published and lectured on numerous topics. His current research examines expanded disciplinary geographies, polymorphic transformation, and the evolution of knowledge.
designexrisk.wordpress.com/
Design and Existential Risk is a series of conversations with leading thinkers, designers, and educators who critically question how the practice of design can imagine and prepare for extreme existential risks. The series explores the ways design thinking engages sustainability and human survival now and in the future.
AND DAVID GERSTEN
Friday, November 5, 2010
Elizabeth Ellsworth is associate provost for Curriculum and Learning and professor of Media Studies at The New School and co-founder of smudge studio (with Jamie Kruse). Elizabeth’s research and teaching focus on the design of mediated learning environments, uses of media to teach about and across social and cultural difference, media and social change, and documentary media forms. Jamie Kruse, is a designer, artist, and independent scholar. She is co-director and art director of smudge studio, a nonprofit art and design studio located in Brooklyn, NY. She works primarily with art, education, and health-related nonprofits in the United States and Canada. David Gersten is a Professor of Architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, where he has also served as associate dean, and is a visiting professor at RISD. In addition to drawing, creating constructions, and fiction writing, Gersten has published and lectured on numerous topics. His current research examines expanded disciplinary geographies, polymorphic transformation, and the evolution of knowledge.
designexrisk.wordpress.com/
Design and Existential Risk is a series of conversations with leading thinkers, designers, and educators who critically question how the practice of design can imagine and prepare for extreme existential risks. The series explores the ways design thinking engages sustainability and human survival now and in the future.
Previous
David Gersten presents New York City, a 5000 Year History
Next
