Special Event

MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism presents "Precarious," the class of 2019 thesis symposium. The MA candidates will present their yearlong thesis research. Doors open at 6:30pm, presentations begin at 7:00pm. A keynote address will be given by author and urbanist Karrie Jacobs. Guests are invited to stay afterwards for a convivial reception to celebrate their achievement as they venture into the precarious post-graduate world. RSVP here. 

"Precarious Patterns, Precarious Practices, Precarious Places, Precarious Planets...There is possibility in precarity.

"Thinking about design requires an embracing of our times to draw connections from the past and present, to teeter on the edge of a future that we will never fully be able to predict.

"Our work exists in a critical space—illuminating ideas, moments, objects and places that are unseen, complex and subversive,
in order to address them, to learn from them, to offer solutions."

-Class of 2019

Presentations:

Laura Scofield, “Flags Happen: A Critical Discussion on Flags and Design”

Yasmeen Khaja, “Liminal Places: Mapping a Kuwaiti National Identity in Global Cyberspace”

John Kazior, “The Anthropocene Looks Like This: Mystification and Revelation in the Visual Rhetoric of Climate Change”

Sneha Mehta, “Matter Matters: The Transformative Power of Materiality in the 21st-Century Classroom”

Natalie Dubois, “Building Wor(l)ds: What Can Architecture Give in the Anthropocene?”

Olivia Mercado, “Lost in Translation: Framing the Wayfinding Experience Through the Lens of a City Language”

Miao Xu, “On the Design of Interactive Art for Healing”

Chetan Kaashyap, “Cities by Citizens: How Civic Participation is Transforming Urban Design in Bangalore CBD”

Emily R. Pellerin, “Style on the Inside: Understanding Power Dynamics in the Carceral Environment Through its Clothing”

Aneta Zeleznikova, “Space Program”

Monica Nelson, “Re-Visiting Women’s Histories in House Museums”