Event

The 2012 D-Crit Conference, featuring graduating students of the MFA Design Criticism Department, and moderated by Change Observer Co-editor Julie Lasky, is comprised of four themed panels, each introduced by keynote speakers, including media historian Stuart Ewen; Pentagram partner Michael Bierut; 2×4 founding partner Michael Rock; cultural historian Jeffrey Schnapp; monologuist Mike Daisey; and Interboro partner Daniel D’Oca.

Topics to be addressed include the absence of firearms in design collections, the persistence of an anti-ornament bias in architectural discourse, Main Street USA as rhetorical trope and the need fordesigners to make repairable products.

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Click here to register online.