Re: Design | Spring 2023

RE: DESIGN

Spring 2023 Re: Design

University of Minnesota

College of Design

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Email: design@umn.edu

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Cover photo by Kevin Vi

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

Dear Alumni and Friends of the College of Design,

For the first time since January 2020, we are excited to be back in your mailbox with our college magazine. During this COVID-initiated pause, we spent time rethinking how best to connect you with the college and share the amazing work of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The magazine’s new title and updated look reflect that we are no longer emerging as a college, as we were more than 15 years ago. We are steadily evolving as a full-fledged College of Design.

While we are no longer a new college, we are still undergoing changes, as all organizations must to adapt and thrive. These changes include the introduction of our Design Justice Initiative (page 2) and our Kusske Design Initiative (page 5), as well as the organizational restructuring currently underway for transitioning our college to a two-department administrative structure (page 2).

Another significant change is my recent announcement that I will be entering phased retirement and stepping down from my role as the College of Design’s dean. I will remain in my current position until a new dean is appointed. When the new dean is in place, I will transition to a role focused on sustaining and developing the Kusske Design Initiative (KDI).

There is much more we can do through KDI to advance dialogue across the design disciplines and beyond. This holistic, collaborative approach is already transforming our students’ education through focuses such as biophilic design and methods for promoting circular economy. In the coming months and years, you’ll be seeing exciting outcomes and potentials for societal and environmental benefits from this promising initiative.

The University will soon launch a broad-reaching search for the College of Design’s next dean in partnership with a national search firm. The new dean will continue to further our teaching and academic programs, research and creative scholarship, community engagement, collaboration, and innovation.

Please stay tuned for more updates from the college and University as the search for the new dean progresses. In the meantime, we hope you will enjoy this magazine’s new design and the opportunity to reconnect with us and the work of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

Sincerely,

Carol Strohecker, Ph.D.

TRANSITIONS AND CHANGES

ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING OF THE COLLEGE OF DESIGN

The college is in the process of reorganizing and is moving toward a twodepartment structure. The inclusion of academic programs in each new department is based on the affinity of disciplines. The names of the two new departments are in the process of being determined.

The first of the new departments has already formed. It includes apparel design, product design, graphic design, and retail merchandising. Professor Barry Kudrowitz is serving as its head.

The second department is forming more gradually, during this year and next. Ultimately it will be composed of architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Interior design has already moved out of the former Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel to join architecture. School of Architecture Head Jennifer Yoos is helping to oversee this process.

Meanwhile, the interim head of landscape architecture, Professor Kristine Miller, is helping to plan that discipline’s move during the next academic year. The restructuring process will be completed by the end of the spring term in 2024.

Questions about the restructuring? Please reach out to design@umn.edu.

CDES ADVANCES DESIGN JUSTICE INITIATIVE

Launched in the fall of 2020, the Design Justice Initiative creates space, policies, and practices that support the inclusion and retention of Black, Indigenous, and people of color and other historically underinvested communities.

Two years after its founding, the director, Assistant Professor Terresa Moses, has worked with the Design Justice Collective to launch several events and programs supporting this mission. One such project is the Design Justice Faculty Cluster Hire, an ongoing effort to recruit faculty whose scholarship focuses on relevant topics and methods. These new faculty teach and conduct research, scholarship, and creative work centered on design justice.

The college recently welcomed the first two members of the cluster, Assistant Professor Ji Youn Shin (Product Design) and Assistant Professor Jessica Garcia Fritz (Architecture).

Learn more at design.umn.edu/justice.

CAREER REFLECTIONS

The end of the 2022 academic year saw the retirement of three of the college’s longstanding faculty leaders: Professor Marilyn DeLong (Apparel Studies), Professor John Koepke (Landscape Architecture), and Professor Becky Yust (Housing Studies). All three served in a variety of roles and had a tremendous impact on students, faculty, staff, and the college. Before departing, each of them reflected on their careers in an interview with the College of Design. Take a peek at some of what they shared and read the full interviews at z.umn.edu/ CDesInterviews.

MARILYN DELONG

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I enjoyed teaching all of the classes but the graduate-level classes were my favorite because of the 1:1 relationships that could be formed with students … The design field is in a critical transition based on climate change, the pandemic, and other significant cultural changes. So wherever you land, consider your impact on the future. ”

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BECKY YUST

“

It’s really hard to do this, but I would tell the faculty to enjoy the ride. Be strategic about what you want to accomplish and try to enjoy the process. Keep playing to your strengths. In school, we try to teach everything to everybody, but the way people are successful in life is by figuring out their strengths and pushing those. ”

Responding to the changing student character keeps faculty dynamic. My goal was to keep students engaged in learning –that’s the common goal across the generations … My advice to faculty is to be comfortable with ambiguity, be open to change to avoid undue stress, and have fun! ”

JOHN KOEPKE

DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY, RESILIENCE, AND REGENERATION

Designers play a critical role when it comes to environmental stewardship. From the selection to the processing, shipping, and marketing of raw materials, designers from all disciplines have the power to re-imagine our global systems for the better. Here are some ways our students, faculty, and staff are working more sustainably.

“eFARGO” TURNS REDUCING ENERGY USE INTO INTERACTIVE GAME

“Through my work, I want to empower every person to act, not just experts. I think play and games are a key way to achieve this goal,”

– Malini Srivastava, Associate Dean

eFargo is an interactive game that teaches users about carbon emissions and helps them reduce energy use in the real world. Developed by a team of faculty and students from the College of Design and North Dakota State University, the project is led by Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Creative Scholarship, and Engagement Malini Srivastava (Architecture). The project has won numerous awards, including the highly competitive 2022 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Read more at z.umn.edu/eFargo.

HELPING HENNEPIN COUNTY CHOOSE TO REUSE

Understanding product life cycles and the positive impact of reuse can be daunting for consumers who want to get started. Retail merchandising students in RM 3124: Consumers of Design joined forces with the Hennepin County Choose to Reuse team to research solutions for helping consumers prioritize reuse over purchasing new.

“When the Choose to Reuse team approached us about helping support this campaign through student research, we knew it was a great fit,” said Center for Retail Design & Innovation Assistant Director Peggy Lord. “We want our students to work on practical projects and to get experience working with real clients solving real problems.”

Read more at z.umn.edu/ChoosetoReuse.

Students from the winning Choose to Reuse team pose with faculty.

KUSSKE DESIGN INITIATIVE BUILDS CROSSDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

A generous three-year commitment from Manitou Fund has launched the Kusske Design Initiative (KDI) within the College of Design. Honoring the memory of distinguished alumnus Christopher Arthur Kusske (BLA ’78), KDI aims to show how design, interdisciplinary dialogue, co-creativity, and respect for nature can inform and inspire solutions for our rapidly changing world.

Kusske’s career, together with his partner Allen Kolkowitz (B.Arch ’82), exemplified interdisciplinary understanding and its importance to design excellence. Their firm, KOLKOWITZ KUSSKE, worked across the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain to generate systematically imagined solutions. They involved expertise from multiple disciplines, guided by the belief that all projects require a rigorous approach to design methodology.

Now in its second academic year, KDI has supported a cohort of twenty students and four faculty co-principals. The initiative includes programs such as the biweekly KDI Exchange, annual Burst colloquium, and ongoing Vista exhibits of creative work. The initiative also hosted the first two Kusske Lecture & Dialogues, featuring renowned architect Frank Gehry in November 2021 and fashion designer and urban gardening advocate Ron Finley in December 2022.

Learn more about KDI events at z.umn.edu/kusske.

ALUMNI NOTES

In Memoriam

Colbert L. Andrus (B.Arch ’67)

Dan Feidt (B.Arch ’75)

Gary John Mahaffey (B.Arch ’63)

Frank D. Nemeth (B.Arch ’67)

Mary Pappajohn (BS ’55, Related Art)

William “Bill” Vosbeck Jr. (B.Arch ’47)

1971

Bruce Boody (BLA ’78, RY ’71), PLA, was presented with a Community Appreciation Award for his decades of volunteer service and leadership in the community of Whitefish, Montana.

1972

Daniel Avchen (B.Arch ’72) retired from HGA Architects.

1974

Tom Meyer (B.Arch ’74) received the 2022 AIA Minnesota Gold Medal Award.

1975

Claude Schuttey (M.Arch ’75) is the recipient of the Society of College and University Planning (SCUP) Distinguished

Service Award, which recognizes volunteers who supported the creation of the SCUP Fund.

1980

Jill Hamburger (BS ’80, Retail Merchandising) was featured in the University of Minnesota Alumni Association’s September Alumni Spotlight and will wrap up her term as president of the UMN Retail Merchandising Advisory Board after four years.

Thomas Oslund (BLA ’80), FASLA, FAAR, received the ASLA Design Medal in 2021 and spoke at the ASLA Education Symposium in 2022.

1981

John Koepke (BLA ’81) retired from the UMN Department of Landscape Architecture after 27 years as a faculty member, which included 13 years as department head.

1984

Joe Mamayek (BED and B.Arch ’84), AIA, LEED AP, was named a principal at SGA.

1989

Bruce Chamberlain (BLA ’89), FASLA, joined Minneapolis-based

TLALLI Collaborative, LLC as practice lead. TLALLI Collaborative is a start-up urban design, landscape architecture, community planning, and development advisory practice founded by alumna Ana Nelson (MLA ’97).

1990

Julio Bermudez (M.Arch ’90), Ph.D., is an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the director of the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies Graduate Concentration at the Catholic University of America.

Eugene Lumpkin (BS ’90, Textiles & Clothing) is the founder of Atelier Tens/10, a startup fashion and technology firm focused on concept design and brand development based in Brussels, Belgium. He recently joined Parsons Paris–The New School as a lecturer.

1995

Nathan F. Knutson (M.Arch ’95) was inducted into the AIA College of Fellows in 2022.

1996

Pamela Freeman (BS ‘96, Retail Merchandising) joined Lenox Corporation

as senior vice president of retail sales.

1997

Ana Nelson (MLA ’97) was a featured speaker at the College of Design’s annual Dirty Laundry event.

1998

Lisa Bieringer (BA ’98, Architecture) is the managing principal at o+a, a design studio based in San Francisco, California.

1999

Nathan Strandberg (BS ’99, Design Communications) and Katie Kirk (BS ’01, Design Communications), cofounders of Eight Hour Day design studio, will have a set of USPS stamps coming out entitled Winter.

2000

Jennifer Swedell (BA ’00, Architecture), AIA, LEED, NOMA, is an associate principal and laboratory planner with CO architects. In April 2022, she painted a mural in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego, California, symbolizing peace and solidarity with Ukraine.

2001

Geri Huibregtse (BS ’01, Design Communications)

is now chief operating officer at Foundry.

2004

Sarah O’Keefe (BS ’04, Retail Merchandising) has launched a Kickstarter for her new toy company, Kith + Kin Co., which focuses on addressing the lack of diversity and inclusion in the toy industry.

Cassandra (Willms) Vargas (BS ’04, Apparel Design) joined Evereve as a principal designer.

Betsy Vohs (M.Arch ’04) was elected to serve a three-year term on the University of Minnesota Alumni Association Board of Directors beginning July 1, 2022.

2005

Paul Bruski (MFA ’05, Design) was named chair of Iowa State University’s Department of Graphic Design.

2006

Christopher Ochs (BED ’04, MURP ’06) is a professional landscape architect with the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

Kate Woletz (BS ’06, Interior Design) joined Flywheel Sourcing as the director of accounts

and also works as an independent product and trend designer and consultant for hard and soft home goods and seasonal products.

2007

Christina Fluegel (BS ’07, Interior Design) launched an interior design firm, PFW Designs.

Alana Zbaren (BS ’07, Interior Design) started a new position as commissioner for the Arts and Culture Commission with the City of Edina. Zbaren also serves as a senior grants manager with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

2008

Juyeon Park (Ph.D. ’08, Design) received the 2022 International Textile and Apparel Association’s Mid Career Excellence Award.

Terri Zborowsky (MS ’95; Ph.D. ’08, Design), RN, EDAC, CPXP, was a featured speaker in the College of Design’s Design in a Post-Pandemic World Discussion Series focused on spirituality and religion on April 26, 2022.

2009

Andrew Edwins (M.Arch ’08; MS ’09, Architecture),

AIA, has been named associate principal of PKA Architecture.

2010

Lauren DePoint (BS ’10, Interior Design), NCIDQ, is working as a senior interior designer with Ryan Companies.

Laura (Anderson)

Fernaine (BS ’10, Graphic Design) was promoted to creative director for S&P Global.

Rose (林詠琇) Jhun (BS ’10, Interior Design) joined TriMark USA as a designer III. After 20 years in the United States, Jhun also became an American citizen in April 2022.

Amber Sausen (BA ’05, Architecture; M.Arch ’10) was recognized by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as one of its “Top 40 Under 40” championing architecture and sustainability.

2012

Peter Atkins (BS ’12, Architecture), assoc. AIA, has been promoted to job captain/designer at PKA Architecture.

Sara Lopez (BS ’12, Apparel Design) and her label, A--Company, were profiled in Vogue.

Prescott Morrill (MLA and MURP ’12) is a transportation planner for the DuluthSuperior Metropolitan Interstate Council.

Erika O’Brien (BS ‘12, Retail Merchandising) is an investor, operator, and entrepreneur through acquisition with Novastone Capital Advisors.

2014

Will Adams (M.Arch ’14) is working as a VR/project solutions technologist for Mortenson Seattle. His role and work was featured in an article in the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.

Lauren Janoski (BS ’14, Apparel Design) started a new position as a global luxury property specialist with Coldwell Banker Global Luxury.

Duane Johnson (BS ’01, Retail Merchandising; MBA ’14) received the University of Minnesota President’s Award for Outstanding Service.

Thanh Nguyen (BS ’14, Apparel Design) is now a store manager for Target Optical.

2015

Kristy Janigo (MA ’11; Ph.D. ’15, Design) was

elected to the Maple Grove City Council.

2016

Jesse Campos (M.Arch ’16) works with DFH Architects and was recently selected by the Santa Monica City Council to serve a term on its Architectural Review Board.

Caitlin Cohn (MA ’12; Ph.D. ’16, Design) joined the BlueGreen Alliance as a development manager.

Rachel Kelly (BFA ’16, Graphic Design) was promoted to senior brand experience planner for Cheerios and adult cereal at General Mills.

Kevin Vi (BFA ‘16, Graphic Design) joined the University of Minnesota College of Design as a graphic and multimedia designer. He was previously a graphic designer at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, and the University’s Global Programs and Strategy Alliance.

2017

Lindsey Kiefaber (M.Arch ’17) was promoted to senior project manager and architect with Ryan Companies US.

Sarah Klecker (BS ’17, Apparel Design) is a production artist for Catalyst Apparel with Nike.

Kayla Samuel (BS ’17, Retail Merchandising) joined Code 3 as an Amazon SEO strategist.

Brenna Schlauderaff (BS ’17, Retail Merchandising) was promoted to merchandise planner for Target.

Kelly Uhrich (BED ’15, MLA ’17) is now a licensed landscape architect. She works at RVi Planning and Landscape Architecture based in Tempe, Arizona.

2018

Adriana Belinski (BFA ’18, Graphic Design) wrote and illustrated the children’s book My Fairy Sweet Friend.

Ania Melby (BS ’18, Retail Merchandising) was promoted to associate buyer at Target.

Rachel Valenziano (MLA ’18) was the recipient of the inaugural Roger B. Martin Travel Prize, created in honor of the late Professor Emeritus Roger Martin.

2019

Cassandra Connery (BS ’19, Product Design)

joined cxLoyalty as a senior UX designer.

McKenna Kleiner (BA ’19, Graphic Design) was promoted to e-commerce analyst at Best Buy.

2020

Ako Asamoah (BFA ’20, Graphic Design) joined Twitch as a user experience designer.

Rachel Duerksen (BS ’20, Retail Merchandising) was promoted to senior business partner for space, presentations, and transitions at Target.

Curt Lund (MFA ’15; Ph.D. ’20, Design) was awarded tenure and a promotion to associate professor at Hamline University where he is a faculty member in the Digital Media Arts Department.

Juan Rujana (BS ’20, Product Design) is a fulltime product designer for Conquest Sport Group and co-founder of RUBR Design based in Brooklyn, New York.

Mary Wilson (BS ’20, Product Design) has joined Lego as a full-time designer based in Denmark.

2022

Olivia Bennett (BS ’22, Retail Merchandising) joined Décor Global as a merchandise analyst intern.

Jakob Mahla’s (BDA ’18; MS, M.Arch ’22) project “Cowspace” was accepted to the Future Food Deal Exhibition at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale.

Karla Villanueva (BS ’22, Interior Design) joined NELSON Worldwide as an interior designer.

Jaelen Wylie (BS ’22, Apparel Design) joined Target as an associate designer for bedding and domestics.

The following alumni completed the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) exams and are now certified interior designers: Jessica Rae Kohl Nielsen (BS ’04, Architecture; M.Arch ’09), Claire Meints (BS ’15, Interior Design), Jennifer Erickson (BS ’18, Interior Design), Caitlin Carter (BS ’19, Interior Design).

STUDENT HIGHLIGHT

DEMYSTIFYING CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a physical heart defect that begins in the womb, impacting around 40,000 children born in the U.S. each year. Seeking to improve education for diagnosed children and their families, Drs. Amr El-Bokl and Gurumurthy Hiremath (UMN Medical School) partnered with the Product Design Program. They collaborated with undergraduate student Levi Skelton and Assistant Professor Carlye Lauff to create Octo, a toy octopus designed with a removable, 3D-printed heart to help teach children about CHD and ease parental stress.

Read more about the collaboration at z.umn.edu/DemystifyingCHD.

think designers have a lot to bring to the medical field, especially for children. I think as UX design gets more popular, it will contribute the most to hospitals because the user experience is a top priority.”

“I

– Levi Skelton, Product Design Undergrad Student

Drs. Amr El-Bokl and Gurumurthy Hiremath stand with Levi Skelton and Assistant Professor Carlye Lauff in M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital.

STUDENT WORK

Work credit from top left to right

Emma Hughes

Apparel Design

Ethan Nevalainen

Graphic Design

Chon Fai Kuok

Architecture

Carolyn Fritz

Interior Design

Kim Than Retail Merchandising

Emma Brooks, Josephina King, and Ashlyn Mattson

Interior Design

Catherine Tinh

Product Design

Victoria Osterhus

Graphic Design

Bria Fast and Sydney Shea

Landscape Architecture

Terri Leung

Architecture

Kelsey Fetherston, Annie France, Annie Gardner, Grace Gimre, and Chase Greene

Retail Merchandising

Lauren Arndt

Landscape Architecture

Jaelen Wylie

Apparel Design

Avery Schlegel

Product Design

See more student work at design.umn.edu.

catherine tinh POURRA

FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

The College of Design had 12 faculty members receive grants from the UMN Imagine Fund: Vincent deBritto (Landscape Architecture), Greg Donofrio (Heritage Studies and Public History), Lucy Dunne (Apparel Design), Linsey Griffin (Apparel Design), Brad Holschuh (Apparel Design), Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design), Hyunjoo Im (Retail Merchandising), Lauren Kim (Retail Merchandising), Carlye Lauff (Product Design), Kristine Miller (Landscape Architecture), Malini Srivastava (Architecture), and Cecilia Xi Wang (Graphic Design).

Read more about the awarded projects at z.umn.edu/2022CDesImagineGrants.

Abimbola Asojo (Interior Design) was named the recipient of the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance’s 2021 Award for Global Engagement. Asojo was also awarded the 2022 Louis S. Tregre Award from The Council for Interior Design Qualification.

Elizabeth (Missy) Bye (Apparel Design) received the 2022 International Textile and Apparel Association’s Fellow Award.

Tejas Dhadphale (Product Design) and Naeun (Lauren) Kim (Retail Merchandising) received a 2022 College of Design Collaborative Research Grant for their project, “Understanding Product Localization for Global Market.”

Gail Dubrow’s (Architecture) article, “Practicing Architecture under the Bamboo Ceiling: The Life and Work of Iwahiko Tsumanuma (Thomas S. Rockrise), 1878–1936,” was published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Lucy Dunne and Missy Bye (both Apparel Design) received a National Science Foundation grant for the project, “Reducing Finished-Product Waste through Augmented Design Intelligence.”

Tom Fisher’s (MDC) latest book, Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World, was published in April 2022.

Linsey Griffin (Apparel Design) and Carlye Lauff (Product Design) joined the Kusske Design Initiative as co-principals.

Linsey Griffin (Apparel Design) and Professor Susan Sokolowski (University of Oregon) received second place in The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Protective Clothing Challenge for the project, “Apples-2-Apples Measures + Pattern Drafting Method.”

Tasoulla Hadjiyanni’s (Interior Design) chapter “Milkweed” is included as a case study in the book Designing Coffee Shops and Cafés for Community by Lisa Waxman. Hadjiyanni also received a 2021 University of Minnesota Outstanding Community Service Award.

Daniel Handeen (CSBR) was awarded a grant from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to research the development of thermal curtains that will reduce heat loss through the glazing walls of winter greenhouses.

Brad Holschuh (Apparel Design) was chosen as the recipient of a 2021–22 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education.

Hyunjoo Im (Retail Merchandising) and Yui (Hyunok) An (Ph.D. Student, Design Graduate Program) received a 2021 International Textile and Apparel Association Paper of Distinction Award in the Consumer Behavior Track for the

paper, “Consumer’s local retailer support during and after the pandemic: Empathyaltruism hypothesis perspective.”

Rolf Jacobson (CSBR) and the Center for Sustainable Building Research were awarded a $250,000+ grant from the Minnesota Department of Commerce for the proposal, “The Market for Passive House Multifamily Projects in Minnesota.”

Karen Lutsky’s (Landscape Architecture) book Five Bay Landscapes: curious explorations of the Great Lakes Basin was released by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Steven McCarthy’s (Graphic Design) article, “Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer” was adapted by AIGA into a podcast. McCarthy was also named jury chair of the 2022 Communication Design Educators Awards and presented a peer-reviewed paper, “Resurfacing: Tiles of Our Times,” at the AIGA national conference in Seattle.

Jean McElvain (GMD) and Caren Oberg (Ph.D. Student, Design Graduate Program) had the paper, “Curating Dior to Disco: Extrapolating complex narratives from existing objects,” published in the journal Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty.

Kristine Miller (Landscape Architecture) received the 2022 Lob Pine Award, the highest honor given by ASLA-MN.

Terresa Moses (Graphic Design) was chosen as a recipient of the University of Minnesota’s 2022 Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award. Moses has also co-authored a forthcoming book on Racism Untaught that will be published by MIT Press in fall 2023.

Laura Musacchio (Landscape Architecture) was selected as a member

of the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School Advisory Board.

John Owens’s (Graphic Design) new book, One Winter Up North, was published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Cecilia Xi Wang (Graphic Design), Eugene Park (Graphic Design), and Carlye Lauff (Product Design) received a 2022 College of Design Collaborative Research Grant for their proposal, “Human-centered Design Approach to Training Medical Residents and Fellows: An Immersive, Multi-modal, and Interactive Platform for Learning Cardiac Anesthesia.”

Cecilia Xi Wang’s (Graphic Design) paper, “Visualizing Tacit Knowledge in Cardiac Operating Room: a NeedFinding Study,” was accepted for oral presentation at Thematic Area: Design, User Experience, and Usability Conference and for publication in the proceedings.

Dingliang Yang (Architecture) was elected to the board of the USA Minnesota Expo 2027 bid commission. This bid is the United States national bid to host Expo 2027, commonly known as the World’s Fair.

Becky Yust (Housing Studies) received the Housing Education and Research Association’s 2022 Housing Impact Award.

2021–2022 Academic Year Retirements

Marilyn Bruin

Marilyn DeLong

Eunice Haugan

Patricia Hemmis

Elizabeth Goebel

John Koepke

Carol Waldron

Becky Yust

UPCOMING EVENTS

LOW-FIDELITY DESIGN: MAKING TECHNIQUES FROM THE MINNESOTA UNDERGROUND MUSIC SCENE

January 28—May 13, 2023

Goldstein Gallery, McNeal Hall z.umn.edu/LowFidelityExhibition

Low-Fidelity Design showcases affordable, accessible, and mostly off-screen design techniques through objects from the Minnesota Underground Music Archive. This exhibition highlights the intersection between anti-mainstream musicians and how they depict their music through promotional graphics— uniting sound with visual expression.

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APPAREL DESIGN FASHION SHOW

February 18, 2023

4:00 PM and 7:00 PM

Urban Daisy, 1621 E Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis fashionshow.design.umn.edu

Since 1968, apparel design students at the University of Minnesota have presented their final projects in the annual Apparel Design Fashion Showcase. Planned by the senior class, the showcase is a rite of passage for its participants. Each year the students’ clothing lines draw hundreds of fashion industry professionals, students, family, and friends to the showcase, creating an opportunity to engage with the larger fashion community.

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• Student achievement

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DESIGN IN 7: 7 STORIES, 7 MINUTES

April 5, 2023

6:30 PM doors, 7:00 PM program

Coffman Memorial Union Theater design.umn.edu/Designin7

What can be shared in just 7 minutes? Listen in as seven professionals from across the design fields share thought-provoking, inspiring, and often humorous tales from the design trenches.

See all of our upcoming events at design.umn.edu/events

A big thank you to our 2022–23 College to Career program sponsors

Honors Level

Ryan Companies, Studio BV

Dean’s List Level

Albertsson Hansen Architecture, Damon Farber Landscape Architects, Lucy Interior Design, PKA Architecture, DLR Group, Gardner Builders

To learn more about sponsorship and related programs, visit design.umn.edu/dsab or contact Lori Mollberg at lmollber@umn.edu.