NC STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DESIGN ANNUAL REPORT 2001-2002
The College of Design, established in 1948 as the School of Design, is devoted to excellence in education, scholarship and practice. It is a community dedicated to imparting grace, delight and dignity to the endeavors of humanity. The 66 full-time faculty and professional staff of the College believe the rigor of individualized instruction in the design studio is vital to forging character, creativity, professionalism, environmental responsibility and engaged citizenship. The College offers 11 degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including a Ph.D. in Design. In a unique interdisciplinary design environment, instruction is offered in Art and Design, Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Landscape Architecture. There are currently 735 students in the College of Design. The College is dedicated to assuring the diversity of cultures, people and programs within all its activities.
The surest measure of a creative community is the vitality of people and programs. When this measure is taken of the College of Design community not only does the image of a vital community emerge, but a community of considerable influence is also apparent. Over the past year members of the faculty have been recognized with prestigious awards for the quality of scholarship, research and professional practice. Our faculty members have been recognized by the University of North Carolina system and national associations for excellence in teaching. And members of our faculty have gained significant and frequent recognition for the quality of their professional work. We have further demonstrated the vitality of our design community by the nature of our involvement with societal priorities as well as by direct involvement with the issues before a community such as water quality and growth management. Members of our community have demonstrated influence over important debates ranging from professional credentials and accreditation to community policies. We have projected our influence through international programs as well as scholarship in important areas such as universal design and natural learning. Our influence extends through the work of our faculty through work in K-12 programs as well as in the interaction we maintain with design programs throughout the country. This past year two important conferences were held at the College. Landscape Architecture hosted and organized the "Laying the Groundwork" conference focusing on the important contributions of women in the profession. The School of Architecture hosted an international workshop on case study education in conjunction with the AIA Case Study Work Group. Our students have similarly projected their influence this past year with ambitious projects such as the Earth Day celebrations in North Carolina, the Green Architecture project exhibit constructed by students to tour North Carolina, a project to establish a student gallery in downtown Raleigh, and plans to bring landscape architecture students from around the nation to Raleigh for the LABASH 2003 conference. Design by its nature is a gregarious action. It is an action that demands of the design the inclination to reach out, to network, and to build on the legacy of design. Find the real world, give it endlessly away Rumi, Speaking Flame: Rumi, A. Harvey (ed), Meerama, Ithica, New York,
1989, p. 86.
The changes of the past year have been dramatic. Public funding has been significantly curtailed even as demand for programs continues to grow. Not only is there a greater demand for admission to the College, but there is an increasing demand for College services through extension and engagement activities. The College is expected to meet increasing expectations in technology capability on the part of students and faculty. This expectation is reflected in areas such as the Materials and Loom Laboratories. This dramatically changing environment demands of the College greater capability to foster new sources of funding. It motivates faculty to actively seek sponsored projects and grants. The College community must be prepared to meet changes in the demands placed on the curricular programs by introducing new options and paths. Our community must be prepared to achieve success in a significantly more competitive environment. Today it is necessary to compete with other design schools in every aspect of operations from fund development to student and faculty recruitment. This increasing edge of competition will foster a sharper sense of the service environment of the University. It will force greater topicality and relevance in curricular studies, and it will change the nature of the professorate. These changes are affecting the professorate in significant ways by raising the expectations for research and scholarship. Faculty members are expected to not only engage in the creation of the designed artifact but also to seek greater meaning for the aggregate of their work in order to advance the work of others. Within the classroom faculty members are expected to derive scholarship from teaching, thereby raising the level of instruction. The importance of formal assessment processes is therefore increasing. Toward this end the College established an Assessment Task Force during the 2001-2002 academic year to develop measures appropriate to a design community. This work is being tested against self assessment practices of the Department of Art and Design. It is intended that following a fall semester workshop the entire College community will be expected to initiate this process during the 2002-2003 academic year.
There is considerable success to report in the achievement of Compact Plan aspirations. Under normal circumstances such progress would be cause for considerable pride and perhaps, a period of implementation that would allow these initiatives to mature. However, over the immediate future budget concerns will challenge the College to seek the means to sustain these advances. This is not a time to rest but rather to recommit to the initiatives of the plan. While design courses have opened to the entire university, programs also are available to K-12 students through Design Camp, which is being expanded to include an additional one-week day camp. Offerings to K-12 students have grown through collaborations with 4-H and community studios such as See Saw Studios in Durham. Successful University partnerships have resulted in a new dual degree in Textile Design and the development of curriculum to support writing and speaking. The College has signed an agreement with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to undertake a study on international programs with aims to initiate an International Center on campus and one abroad. Considerable headway was made this year to foster a climate of diversity. A special grant from the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity Affairs, which is matched by College funds, has sparked new efforts to increase diversity representation among faculty and students. The College also has changed admissions criteria to nurture diverse qualities among applicants. To improve processes within the College, a faculty committee has developed new performance measures for review, reappointment, promotion and tenure consideration. The process now includes mentoring to support junior faculty. Also accomplished is the creation of a College Office of Research, Extension and Engagement. An assistant dean now oversees its activities. In efforts to create a culture of continual intellectual and program growth, the College held its first annual research symposium in spring 2002 when nearly 40 presentations were made by faculty and graduate students. In other reorganization, a new unit of External Relations was created to combine efforts of development and communications, and a new program, professional relations. This new position will stimulate continuing education and networking opportunities for alumni and design professionals. The College is exploring new directions as its bolsters its research unit to encourage more scholarship and further shapes its Ph.D. Program. Under consideration are the development of a professional master's degree program in Art and Design and a non-studio based Design Studies degree program. A Professional Doctorate option is being considered in Architecture. Future possibilities may also include the creation of a Design Practice Incubator Facility on the Centennial Campus and a Design Center Abroad in conjunction with the University. Other aims include a program to house design students adjacent to the College of Design complex. Of critical concern today is the renovation of facilities and the need for additional space, including a new auditorium.
INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS The 2001-2002 fundamentals students were the first to enter the College through five different school and departmental admission processes. For the first semester the students were intermixed, with all departments represented in all fundamentals studios. A curious reaction from a number of the students to the intermixing was a surprise that they were with other disciplines and not just their majors. By the end of the semester, cross-discipline friendships had formed in most studios. Second semester fundamentals was organized to be discipline specific for each student. By the end of the semester most of the students had acquired the auras, attitudes and biases of their discipline and were clearly fundamentals students no longer. School of Architecture Among the most significant achievements at the School of Architecture was the successful conclusion of the search for a new director. Thomas Barrie, architecture professor at Lawrence Technological University of Detroit, brings a varied background of instructional, administrative, scholarly and professional experience. Searches were also conducted to fill three positions: one position for architectural history and two for architectural design. Two candidates were offered and accepted appointments for the upcoming year; the third position remains unfilled for the coming year. The School continued collaboration with the Triangle Chapter of the NC-AIA in sponsoring eight public lectures during the academic year. With an unusually impressive lineup of lectures and effective publicity, this year's series attracted large and appreciative audiences. A major exhibition of the proposed master plan and design for the NC Museum of Art expansion by Thomas Phifer, one of the public lectures, was presented on Feb. 25, 2002. An Architectural Representation Symposium was held April 25-26, 2002. Strong relationships with alumni, the professional community and organizations were nurtured through an April 2, 2002, reception and dinner at Caffe Luna. This event provided opportunity for the School to show its appreciation to its core professional supporters and for them in turn to express their concerns and aspiration's for the School's future. Department of Art and Design In 2001-2002, eight student exhibitions were offered to the public, including "Patterns of Commonalities," which featured student work from the College of Art at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, and NC State University's Art and Design Ghana Studio projects. The department's Study Abroad Program in Ghana in summer of 2001 attracted 33 participants from eight universities. Another milestone exhibition was "Cultural Reflections," the College's first exhibition with the Gallery of Art and Design. In May 2002, Art and Design culminated the year with a fashion show featuring more than 60 creations of weavings, hand-dyed and silkscreened fabrics, beadings and other originals. The fashion show was the result of a collaborative studio between Art and Design and the College of Textiles. More than 200 attended. Innovative teaching was highlighted this year by several cross-disciplinary studios and classes: Illustration and Writing, Design in Wood, Basic Photography, a special topics seminar led by clinical psychologist and writer Dr. Lucy Daniels, and a seminar to enhance the teaching of writing and speaking within a Design Fundamentals fall 2001 studio. The department sponsored the Alcoa Diversity and Culture Lecture Series. Opportunities for students were further enhanced by the creation of a new scholarship from Design Dimension Inc. Keeping with its focus on multimedia design, art and design students produced two short documentary videos featuring the work of new faculty member Vita Plume. Art and Design student Jackson Brown brought home the top prize in the Disney Individual Imagineering Competition. Department of Graphic Design The department conducted a national search for three faculty members, one of whom - Denise Gonzales Crisp from the Art Center College of Pasadena -- will assume the chairmanship in July 2002. Gonzales Crisp was invited to be one of five core graduate faculty in the newly formed Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design. She participated in revising California Institute of the Arts' graphic design curriculum while an adjunct faculty member there. She also directed and designed collateral and recruitment materials for Art Center College of Design. Two faculty positions remain open while the department considers its teaching needs. Among the year's highlights: the Master of Graphic Design program invited Katie Salen to teach a seminar in design and culture in the fall semester and employed former San Francisco MetaDesign partner Terry Irwin for a course on experience design in the spring 2002 semester. Graduate students worked with the Smithsonian Office of Education and Museum Studies to develop strategies for critical viewing in the Smithsonian's museums. Smithsonian staff member Stevie Engelke participated in the studio's final critique.
In June 2001, industrial design junior Emilie Williams won a third place award and $1,000 in the Digital Talking-Book Player Competition sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Nick Hobson was a team finalist (along with students from art and design, and architecture) at ImagiNations 2002 University Design Competition at the Walt Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio. Student achievements point to innovation in the studio and classroom. Faculty members will begin the development planning of further graduate programs in Design Management with the College of Management and Furniture Design with the College of Engineering. For the last five years, the department has undertaken a cross-listed course with the colleges of Management and Engineering: ID 500/BUS 495/MAE 495 Advanced and Integrated Product Design and Development. The course has attracted outstanding sponsors and promoted exciting real-world projects for students to experience state-of-the-art processes for developing new products. The course has been a hallmark for the graduate area. Department of Landscape Architecture The department organized the "Laying the Groundwork" symposium held April 5-6, 2002. Five noted landscape architects - Mai Arbegast, Angela Danadjieva, Carol Franklin, Diane McGuire and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander - were featured in presentations at the College and Sarah P. Duke Gardens. An independent team of professionals granted students three ASLA Honor Awards and three ASLA Merit Awards. A Fulbright Grant was awarded to a graduating student. In spring 2002, 10 undergraduate students were on the Dean's List. The North Carolina ASLA student chapter is increasing in size and very active. The department sponsored trips for two students to the LABASH in Montreal, Canada. Ten students participated in the Philadelphia LABASH meeting in spring. The College of Design was selected to host the 2003 LABASH conference. Toward efforts to broaden international exposure of faculty and students, undergraduate students are now required to take a summer studio abroad. A graduate student who visited Ghana last summer turned her study there into a final thesis project, which won the ASLA Honor Award. The faculty has agreed to provide a shorter, two- to three-week course and develop relationships with other countries. These efforts will help MLA students participate in foreign experience. This spring, Professor Art Rice organized a mini-course in Venezuela, which attracted participation from 12 students. Graduate Studies & Ph.D. The Ph.D. in Design offers specialization areas in information design, and community and environmental design. Its aim is to prepare students holding previous graduate degrees through interdisciplinary and collaborative research in architecture and landscape architecture and in graphic design and industrial design. In this third year of operation of the Ph.D. program, five of the six students who constituted the inaugural class have passed their Preliminary Doctoral Qualifying Examination, had their dissertation research proposal approved by their advisory committees, and have been advanced to Ph.D. candidacy. One of these third year students has received a grant from the American Association of University Women to support her dissertation research in the amount of $20,000. There are 14 students enrolled in the program at present where, in addition to these doctoral candidates, five students are finishing their second year of study and four students are at the end of their first year of studies. Two students are on leave from the program. The admissions process has been refined and the six students of incoming fall 2002 class have been selected from the largest pool of applicants ever. Graduate studies at the College of Design is now coordinated by an associate dean, a title that brings the position into congruence with similar positions in other colleges.
TOTAL ENROLLMENT: 760 574 Undergraduates 186 Architecture 170 Master's Students 75 Architecture 16 Ph.D. Students 13 Community and Environmental Design
Outreach & Recruitment Summer Design Camp was held in June 2001, and the College hosted 82 high school students. Ten $500 scholarships were offered to minority and under-represented students. Plans are now under way to implement a one-week day camp for high school students interested in design. In the recruitment area, the College hosted 95 tour groups, a 30 percent increase over the previous year. The College of Design visited high schools and distributed admissions materials to more than 600 students. During visits, students received Design pencils and buttons. These are the first giveaways from the College, produced in 2001 for recruitment purposes. In special mailings, information packets that included an interactive CD-ROM developed by graphic design students, were distributed to middle and high schools across North Carolina. Special presentations on design are frequently made to community groups, such as Boys & Girls Club of Raleigh, Baptist Grove Church and SeeSaw Studio. Diversity Unit diversity programs include the following: Architecture co-hosted two receptions for prospective students with design alumni firms in Charlotte and Wilmington. Art and Design Department offered nine Saturday design workshops
for inner-city high school students at See Saw Studio in Durham as a diversity
outreach project. About 180 students participated. The department also
organized the Alcoa Diversity Project, a lecture series that celebrates
the culture and diversity within the department. The project was funded
by Alcoa Aluminum Corp. Graphic Design Department recruited African-American students by conducting information sessions at the Organization of Black Designers' annual conference in Miami, University of Tennessee/Chatanooga. Georgia State University, Atlanta International University and Kenessaw State University. The department increased its number of inquiries from minority students about graduate admission by 10 times and admitted four African-American graduate students for fall 2002, the first minority students in three years. Industrial Design Department developed and designed a website to encourage greater recruitment of minorities. Included in the website are interviews of students and alumni from Boston, Houston and Miami, as well as attendees of the Organization of Black Designers' national conference. Landscape Architecture Department conducted charrettes and presentations at St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, successfully recruiting one African-American graduate student. Recruitment efforts resulted in the admission to the graduate program of one African American, two Hispanics and five Asian students. In collaboration with the Graphic Design Department, a two-week summer outreach program was offered to middle school students in summer 2001. Contact was made with 32 minority students.
An additional video editing workstation was added to the Graphic Design Cluster. This digital video system enhances students' ability to create interactive or animated web and video content. Additional equipment purchased for the labs include flatbed scanners, high-resolution 35mm slide scanners, a 3D scanner, a digital film recorder, MiniDV camcorders, video tripods, microphones with wireless transmitters and receivers, and a DVD player. These all provide valuable support for our students.
FACULTY Peter Batchelor, as director of the AIA-North Carolina Urban Design Assistance Program worked with the following Urban Design Assistance Teams: Fayetteville, N.C.; North Blount Street in Raleigh; Dundalk, Md.; and Wilmington, N.C. Gail Borden, architecture, won a Graham Foundation Grant for his forthcoming book titled NASCARchitecture: The Positioning of Suburban Space. His topical research focus on "suburbia" has been discussed prominently in recent media including an NPR interview Sept. 1, 2001. Susan Brandeis, art and design, participated in the exhibition "Technology as Catalyst: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge" at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. She also gave a presentation entitled: "The Nature of Place/The Place of Technology" at a museum symposium held in May 2002. Tony Brock, graphic design, collaborated with Gail Borden, architecture, on Suburban, a book of essays edited by Boren and designed by Brock. Brock designed all materials for "Laying the Groundwork," a symposium organized by the Department of Landscape Architecture. Among his presentations and reviews were ones at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and UNC-Asheville. Robert Burns is architect of record for an addition and renovations of the Kamphoefner house for a new owner. Laurie Churchman, graphic design, participated in a panel discussion
in February 2002 at the College Art Association conference held in Philadelphia.
She served on the board of AIGA/Raleigh, World Studio Foundation Advisory
Board. Nilda Cosco, Natural Learning Initiative, was invited to share information with landscape architects at Sveriges Lantbruks University (SLU) in Alnarp, Sweden, Nov. 19-30, 2001, on designed outdoor environments for children. Chandra Cox, art and design, illustrated her first children's book, Christmas Makes Me Think. Published by Lee and Low Books of New York, the story contains colorful mixed-media collages. The Raleigh Arts Commission has purchased four of her paintings for its permanent collection. Meredith Davis, graphic design, was appointed to the accreditation commission of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. She serves on several national committees, including the Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee for the U.S. Postal Service. She conducted workshops on design in K-12 education for the American Institute of Graphic Arts and for Design Michigan at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Lope Max Diaz, art and design, was named a College of Design Alumni Distinguished Professor for 2001-2002. He exhibited 10 paintings at Galeria Botello in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Oct. 18 to Nov. 18, 2001. The show was a remembrance exhibit to his father. Vincent Foote, industrial design, has won an Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Board of Governors of the 16-campus University of North Carolina. Frank Harmon, architecture, designed the Taylor House in the Bahamas, which was proclaimed House of the Year by Residential Architect magazine. Percy Hooper, industrial design, served as a head judge of the 2001 International Achievement Award/Industrial Fabric Association International. Haig Khachatoorian, industrial design, served as a guest juror of the international BraunPrize competition on Sept. 6 in Kronberg, Germany. Fernando Magallanes, landscape architecture, has published two entries in the three-volume set of the Chicago Botanic Garden Encyclopedia of Gardens published by Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, 2001. His essays are on Mexican architect and landscape Architect Luis Barragan and Parque Guell, designed by Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi. Marvin Malecha, FAIA, was selected as a Distinguished Professor by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Malecha also served as editor of "Case Studies in the Study and Practice of Architecture," published by the AIA. Malecha and Hunt McKinnon were selected to receive the NCARB Prize for creative integration of practice and education in the Academy. Robin Moore, landscape architecture, and Nilda Cosco, Natural Learning Initiative, won a 2002 Honor Award from the Ohio Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for their work on the Orchard School Community Park in Cleveland, Ohio. The Natural Learning Initiative worked on the project as consultant designers. They also won a 2002 EDRA Award for Place Research, recognizing their research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, exploring the relationship among the urban environment, children's play, and the development of culture. Mary Myers, landscape architecture, published articles in Landscape Architecture, Public Roads, Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design and International Think Tank on Education for Sustainability. Michael Pause, fundamentals and art and design, was named an NC State University Outstanding Teacher for 2001-2002. Vita Plume, art and design, presented "A Textile Identity" in March 2002 at the Women's Studies Conference in Valdosta, Ga. She exhibited her work in spring 2002 in Brooks Hall. Patrick Rand, architecture, was elected to national office as president of The Masonry Society, an international educational society. Dana Raymond, art and design, presented the sculpture "HORSE SCALE" in April 2002 at the LUMP Gallery in Raleigh. In March, he exhibited three interactive wood sculptures at Fayetteville State University in a North Carolina University System Sculpture Consortium Faculty show. Wendy Redfield, architecture, became a partner in the firm Clark and Redfield Architects. Art Rice, landscape architecture, led a spring 2002 mini-course in Venezuela. Fatih Rifki, architecture and graduate studies, was elected vice president of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium Inc., an international consortium of academic research centers. Henry Sanoff, architecture, was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to teach for two weeks in early September 2001 at the Universidad Nacional De Ingenieria, School of Architecture in Lima, Peru. Martha Scotford, graphic design, continued work for the Carolina Wrenn Press and engaged her students in the design of covers for the organization's books. She also organized the First Poetry Open for the Durham Arts Council. Achva Benzinberg Stein, landscape architecture, organized the Laying the Groundwork Symposium at the College of Design in April 2002. She was a keynote speaker at the Sustainable Landcape conference at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, on April 11-12. Scott Townsend, graphic design, was an artist-in-residence at the Foundation for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic. During the residency, he delivered a paper at the Academy of Fine Arts and installed a one-man show at the Center for Contemporary Art titled "Borderline Stories." He also completed a video installation at Lightwork Gallery in Syracuse, N.Y., and is scheduled for an interactive installation at Latitude 53 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in September 2002. Dr. Nancy White, design research and extension, was a featured speaker at Earth Day 2002 events at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was appointed to the Technical Advisory Committee to the North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission. She chaired the USDA 406 Water Quality Proposal Review Panel in July 2001 and was an invited panelist on the USDA 406 Water Quality Program Review Panel in May 2002.
STUDENTS Theresa Adusei was awarded the Irwin E. Jones Travel Scholarship to study traditional and modern Japanese architecture and furniture. Architecture graduate students designed and constructed a traveling exhibition pavilion titled "The Nature of Architecture" that will tour the state. Commissioned by the American Institute of Architects-North Carolina, the display educates the public about the profession of architecture. Students involved are Tasia Agrafiotis, Che Clark, Chad Everhart, Jessica Johnson, Matthew Szymanski, Thomas Ryan and Mark Wilson. The paintings of 19 students were exhibited in August 2001 at the Gallery of Art & Design in Talley Student Center on the NC State University campus. The student work was produced in an intermediate studio-painting class in the Department of Art and Design. The class, which was co-taught by associate professors Chandra Cox and Susan Toplikar, required the students to research various cultures to provide the content and framework for the paintings. The following student artists were featured: Jackson Brown, Ben Callaway, Kris Daddona, Mollie Earls, Matt Goldfarb, Michelle Hanson, Chris Hutton, Jimmy Jordan, Greg Lindquist, Ellen Oettinger, Teague O'Malley, Jennifer Orr, Drew Robertson, Jan Tedder, Emmanuel Thompson, Nick Trincia, Jamaal Wesley, Tim Allen and Susan Jones. Design students installed the public art project "CROWSFIELD" on April 21, 2002, at the NC Museum of Art in celebration of Earth Day and Mother's Day. The project featured 3,000 wooden stakes planted in the ground, each wrapped with hay bale twine threaded through 3,000 used foil pie pans painted or decorated with inspiration from Mother Nature. Students who conceived and implemented the project are Shawn Hatley, David Reckford and Jesse Turner, all landscape architecture; Emmet Byrne, graphic design; and Tim Kiernan, art and design. Luke Buchanan, architecture and art and design, exhibited paintings and photography in his "Transient Stills" show at the Humble Pie in Raleigh during November 2001. Patricia Ann Dunn, industrial design, won a Bronze Award in the 2002 Universal Design Competition of the American Society of Aging. The work of graphic design students Emily Jones, Jennifer Newman, Emmett Byrne, Charlie Earp and Matthew Pelland will be featured in a forthcoming book by Elizabeth Resnick, chair of the Communication Design Department at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. The student submitted works created in a class led by Associate Professor Kermit Bailey. Tim Kiernan, art and design, presented five short films on March 22, 2002, at Witherspoon Student Center. Kiernan also won a John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Award to tell the story of "CROWSFIELD" at the NC Museum of Art. Greg Lindquist, art and design, received an NC State University Summer Enrichment Award for $3,600 for his proposal "Journey in Memory and Memorialization." After seven weeks of researching the lives of area farm workers, Mexican culture and North Carolina agriculture, a team of architecture students designed and constructed a shade structure for Stacy's Greenhouse in York, S.C. Students who built the structure under the direction of visiting assistant professor Bryan Bell in fall 2001 are Belinda Borelli, Josh Brady, Monica Carney, Jason Dufilho, Joel Horne, Brian King and Tan Pham. In a related project, another student team created a seating and shade unit for a soccer field in Sampson County, N.C. The field is a popular recreation spot outside a local church for Mexican migrant families. Students involved were Luke Buchanan, Trevor Dourzsak, Sydnor Elkins, Molly Guinan, Jeffrey Marxreiter, Daniel Moskop and Marci Perry. Several sponsors helped make this project possible. Loop, an online journal of interaction design education published by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), featured graphic design graduate student work from a spring 2001 College seminar, "New Information Environments," led by Rob Wittig of Chicago. Geoff Halber, graphic design and English, was selected to become a member of the Honor Society Phi Beta Kappa in fall 2001. The honor recognizes superior achievement in scholarly pursuit of liberal studies. Last spring, Halber was awarded the National Merit Scholarship of the American Center for Design. Shawn A. Hatley, landscape architecture, secured an NC State University Undergraduate Research Award for the spring 2002 semester. Under the direction of Professor Robin Moore, Hatley will investigate approaches in which water values and water conservation practices can be taught to visiting students in kindergarten through eighth grade, teachers and families. Nick Hobson, industrial design, and Gabriela Ferro, architecture, won first place in the Walt Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio Contest in June 2002. Both are exchange students: Hobson is from Scotland, and Ferro is from Spain. Jackson Brown, art and design, also was a finalist in the competition, and Disney funded his four-day trip to Disneyland in Glendale, Calif. Art and design students Harriet Hoover, Brooke Heuts, Greg Lindquist, Teague O'Malley, Kris Daddonna and Kilara Little received tuition scholarships from The Lucy Daniels Foundation to attend "Me and My Baby: Identity and Creativity," an annual conference held in November 2001 in Cary, N.C. The conference explores topics of psychoanalysis and creativity. Landscape architecture graduate students, under the direction of Associate Professor Shishir Raval, have offered several strategies on converting an old railroad bed into the Dunn-Erwin (N.C.) recreational trail. Students who participated are Kristen Keenan, April Hancock, Quinn White, Sharon Rhue, Kirsten Reberg-Horton, Stacey Ludlum, David Orth Reckford, Yang Yang, Alisa Wilson, Kevin Hardt, Silvia Lahrssen, Amy Ryan, Ilisa Sokolic, Lauri Newman, Jenni Reaves, Helen Miller and Pamela Graham. Landscape architecture graduate students under the direction of Associate Professor Shishir Raval presented design and land use alternatives to residents of the Idlewild/College Park neighborhood in Raleigh at a May 2002 public meeting. Andrew Michael O'Neill, computer science and design, has won an NC State University Undergraduate Research Award for the spring 2002 semester. With art and design faculty sponsor Dr. Cymbre Raub, the student will develop an interactive web-based timeline. Rachelle Nitzanne Ornan, industrial design, was awarded a NASA Langley Research Center GSRP Fellowship. With the $24,000 grant, she will help create the architecture and ergonomics of a commercial space hotel. The 32nd Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on July 3-7, 2001, welcomed a large contingency from the College of Design, which hosted the international organization's first conference 31 years ago. Presenting papers were Ph.D. students Celen Pasalar, Zeynep Toker, Umut Toker, Michael Layne and Jianxin Hu. Pasalar and Toker won awards for their research posters. Jonathan Shearin and Stephanie Liner, art and design, created works that were accepted in the Students of Sculpture 2002 Competition. Shearin's sculpture, "Untitled #3," was one of four selected from to receive a cash award. Shearin also eceived the Penland School of Crafts Partners Scholarship, which included a two-week workshop in steel fabrication. Kelaine Vargas, landscape architecture, was awarded a Fulbright grant to study at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany during the 2002-03 academic year. Emilie Williams, industrial design, won a third place award and $1,000 in the Digital Talking-Book Player Competition sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) in cooperation with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). Judges evaluated 146 entries from 28 design schools across the country. Chris Williams, industrial design, and the team of Summer Hill, industrial design, and Carson Mataxis, art and design, created public art in the form of wolves as part of a project sponsored by the City of Raleigh's Art Commission and NC State University.
2001-2002 marked a most successful year in fundraising as the College surpassed its goal of $620,000 in private support. The following represents the development activities for 2001-2002: Unrestricted Funds/Design Guild: $55,000 Total for 2000-2001: $582,484 Significant gifts included $200,000 in bequests from anonymous donors, as well as the creation by Herb and Catherine McKim of the Diversity Scholarship Endowment for Architecture. Franklin Bost, president of Porex Surgical Products Group, signed a multiyear pledge to endow a partial fellowship for the Department of Industrial Design. The College community also was grateful for support from the Junior League, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Perkins & Will, and Design Dimension, which funded a new annual scholarship. Student scholarship recipients expressed their appreciation to scholarship donors at a reception and studio tour on Nov. 7, 2001. The Design Guild welcomed more than 100 guests to its annual Award Dinner at Exploris on March 16, 2002. Raleigh sculptor and designer Thomas Sayre received the Design Guild Award while Gordon Schenck was honored with the Wings-on-Wings Dean's Award. The campaign to raise funds to return The Student Publication, a periodical that was initiated in 1950 as a tribute to Matthew Nowicki, drew much interest from alumni, who have contributed nearly 70 percent of its required endowment. The publication continued for about 30 years, bringing international attention to the School of Design. As a student-conceived and produced journal, it published notable articles and creative endeavors that could not be found in more conventional publications. Alumni and friends gathered at College receptions in Wilmington (sponsored by alumni design firm Ligon Flynn Architects), Raleigh (Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee), Richmond, Va. (alumni design firm BCWH in conjunction with Virginia AIA conference), Washington, D.C. (alumni Richard Curtis of USA Today), Wilmington (alumni Charles Boney and wife Lynn at their home), and Charlotte (alumni firms Jenkins-Peer, WGM Design, ColeJenest & Stone and industry donor Adams Products Co.). Hundreds more alumni came together for memorial gatherings remembering the late faculty members Duncan Stuart (1919-2001) in December 2001 and John Reuer (1931-2002) in April 2002. The College's new professional relations effort began in May 2002 with interviews and survey. Alumni and friends will be interviewed extensively in the next academic year about their needs for continuing education, networking and job placement. The College intends to offer lifelong learning and explore new approaches to connect alumni back to the educational environment. As part of its outreach undertakings, the College of Design expanded distribution of its electronic newsletter, DESIGNlife. This online publication won a merit award in February 2002 from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in its Region III Contest. Also in the area of electronic media, an interactive CD-ROM designed by graphic design students for recruitment won a CASE Grand Award in Region III in February 2002 and a Silver Award in the national CASE competition in June 2002. The project was managed by the communications arm of External Relations. Work was nearing completion in summer 2002 on the College's new website, designed by Burney Design of Raleigh. The year's publications included the annual report, news magazines and a recruitment brochure. Images documenting the events, activities and life of the institution were added to the College Image Library for use in publications projects. For Open House and public events, an exhibit display was upgraded with multimedia, and inexpensive giveaways were created.
Administrative changes were highlighted by the appointment of several new leaders in the College community. New associate dean positions were created for the areas of graduate studies and research, extension and engagement. These are now held by Fatih Rifki, associate dean for graduate studies; and Jay Tomlinson, associate dean for research, extension and engagement. Thomas Barrie, coordinator of the Detroit Studio at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, was appointed director of the School of Architecture to assume responsibilities on July 1, 2002. During a long-term search, the School of Architecture was headed by architecture Professor Bob Burns. Previously, Fatih Rifki, associate dean of graduate studies, also temporarily headed the School. Denise Gonzales Crisp, a former senior designer at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., began as new chair of the Graphic Design on July 1, 2002. In Art and Design, Professor Chandra Cox became department chair in January 2002, allowing Professor Charles Joyner time for other creative pursuits. A similar transition occurred in Industrial Design as Professor Haig Khachatoorian completed a long and successful service period, and Bryan Laffitte assumed the chair responsibilities in July 2002. The College of Design formed the Office of External Relations in May 2002. This unit combines efforts of development and communications, and a new program, professional relations, which stimulates continuing education and networking opportunities for alumni and design professionals. Directors of these programs collaborate and share information in a strategy to create greater awareness of the College's mission and accomplishments, raise funds for scholarships and programs, and make a stronger connection between the educational studio and real world practice. As part of this effort, the College welcomed Carla Abramczyk, formerly of the Engineering Foundation at NC State University, as its new development director in May. Catherine Lazorko continues with media relations, publications and website work as communications director. Jean Marie Livaudais, who previously served as advancement director, became director of professional relations in May, assisting with the transition of development duties and assessing the needs of the professional community through interviews and survey. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
Dean Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA Academic Affairs Student Affairs Administration External Relations ACADEMIC PROGRAMS School of Architecture Ph.D. and Graduate Studies Fundamentals Art + Design Graphic Design Industrial Design Landscape Architecture
James Tomlinson, Assistant Dean for Research, Extension & Sponsored
Programs
The College of Design Research, Extension and Engagement Office encompasses the following units: Design Research and Extension, Natural Learning Initiative, Campus Design Initiative, Center for Universal Design and the Design Center. Active grants for 2001-2002 total more than $4 million while total expenditures stand at $2.07 million. Active Grants for 2001-2002: $2.07 million Research Extension and Engagement: $1.7 million
Typical projects of the Design Research, Extension and Engagement arm of the College are assisting communities to envision change through visualization technologies, working with governments to develop public input processes, and offering smart growth training for public officials. In a unique collaboration between scientists and designers, Dr. Nancy White has relied on aerial photography and mapping that spatially quantifies loss of wetlands. This mapping makes apparent how development alters the natural movement of water. A landscape architect with a Ph.D. in forestry, White brings a comprehensive perspective to land analysis. She leads many projects to examine water quality by assessing bacterial levels, evaluating sediment controls, understanding the effects of ditches and roads, and development in general. The Natural Learning Initiative, a unit of the College's Research, Extension and Engagement Office, is conducting a statewide survey of childcare sites that will provide crucial information about the quality of childcare center outdoor environments. The study, which will continue through December 2002, is supported by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Design is touching the lives of more North Carolinians through the Center for Universal Design, which conducts seminars statewide on universal multifamily housing. These explain the requirements of the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which have been incorporated into the North Carolina State Building Code. The Center also created a comprehensive manual to explain the code. In related efforts, the Center won a gold medal in the Home Builder's Association of Durham and Orange Counties annual Parade of Homes in October 2001. The center worked with a home builder to introduce universal design concepts with financial support from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Fannie Mae. The finished house contains architectural products, appliances and fixtures that add convenience, ease of use, safety and extra value. The Office of Research, Extension & Engagement offers a wealth of expertise in urban planning, community participatory design, landscape architecture, watershed restoration and landscape ecology, 3-D mapping and visualization technology, and barrier-free design for all populations. Focus on a few of clients and projects follows: NC State University Town of Cary Blue Ridge Parkway City of Durham City of Raleigh North Carolina Projects Watershed and Wetlands - White Oak Phase II, Shellfish, Construct Sustainable Coastal Landscape
Demonstration on the grounds of the Carteret Craven Electric Cooperative. National Projects International Projects Outreach to communities from other units The College of Design hosted an AIA Case Studies work meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 6. More than 45 architects and architectural educators from around the country, as well as invited presenters from Europe, participated in discussions. The intent of the collaborative effort is to develop a new body of knowledge regarding the practice of architecture through rigorous preparation of case studies. The information developed will be available to students, faculty, interns, practicing architects and the public. The Department of Landscape Architecture organized a three-day funded charrette in Stokesdale, N.C., assisted the town of Lillington, and offered design proposals to enhance the neighborhood near St. Augustine's College in Raleigh. One undergraduate landscape architecture student provided an urban design plan for three blocks in cooperation with the Durham planning department. The funded studio of Campus Design continues to aid the efforts of the campus planning department. Six graduate students presented various alternatives for a memorial to firemen who have lost their lives fighting wildfires. The Forest Department in Pisgah National Forest sponsored the students' visit and provided them with materials. Seven Forest Department officials came to the College to review the work. Efforts are now under way to raise the funds to construct them memorial. A group of landscape architecture students organized Earth Day celebrations at the NC Museum of Art and in downtown Raleigh in front of the State Office Building. Graphic Design and Landscape Architecture co-hosted a 4-H "Design Your Summer" program in Mecklenburg County, July 2001. A two-week summer outreach program was offered to middle school students in summer 2001. Contact was made with 32 minority students. The College regularly participates in K-12 Teacher Training Programs that address pedagogical issues related to the implementation of design materials and strategies in the classroom. The College also participates with groups such as the Raleigh Contemporary Art Museum to assist with the preparation of teachers to employ new technologies in the classroom.
July 2001 September 5-23 September 17 October 8 October 20 October 25 October 26-27 November 1 November 12 November 7 November 21 to January 7 December 17 December 19 February 6 February 4-24 February 22 to April 7 February 25 February 25 to March 17 March 4 March 16 March 17 to April 8 March 20 April 4 April 5-6 April 8 April 9-30 April 17 April 22 April 20 April 26 May 1-8 May 9 May 9-18 May 18 June 9-14 FACILITIES A Space Planning Study for the College of Design was completed in May 2002 by Roger Cannon and Susan Cannon, alumni of the College. They studied existing facilities at Brooks, Kamphoefner and Leazar halls; and reviewed projected growth through the year 2010. During this time period, the College of Design is expected to increase studio enrollment by 11 percent to 743 students. The architects were able to illustrate graphically the culture of the College and its needs for studio space, particularly flexibility within spaces. The principal educational space of any design program is the design studio. The design studio has unique space requirements, and as such, does not fit neatly into the space standards of the university system. Most significant among their findings was that a minimum of 100 square feet of studio space is required per student, and this number was approved and supported by a University review committee. Currently, individual design students have 40 to 60 square feet of studio space. Many common space deficiencies were described, including:
The study also finds serious deficiencies in accessibility as most of its buildings do not comply with current code requirements. Upgrades are needed to bathroom facilities. The original Brooks Hall and Leazar Hall are buildings that were designed many years ago for functions quite different from their current use. Proper ventilation is lacking in many areas. Future expansion and renovation were suggested in a phased approach to compensate for the loss of space during renovations and anticipated enrollment growth. A new facility is recommended to be located in the area of the Riddick Stadium parking lot. The phased approach suggests that improvements be made in this order: renovation of Leazar Hall, renovation of Kamphoefner Auditorium and Design Library, construction of a new building, renovation of Brooks Hall, and renovation of Kamphoefner Hall. VISITORS A large cadre of practicing designers, scholars and professionals participated in our programs during the 2001-2002 academic year by teaching seminars and design studios. The importance of their contributions to our instruction program cannot be overestimated. Many others served throughout the year as critics in reviews, as visiting lectures and panelists, and as hosts for field trips. Susan Anderson, UNC Printing, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Even in times of trial, perhaps most important in times of trial, is the need to set forward aspirations of specific action plans. These plans provide the College community an agenda that will address the quality of the academic programs, the incentive for scholarship among faculty, and the means to project the College as a center of influence. The College community must commit to the successful completion of the Comprehensive Campaign seeking to promote Breakthrough Initiatives instilling excellence throughout the University. The College community must continue the development of new curricular patterns to meet University expectations for growth. This strategy will further enrich the College by promoting a diversity of thought and action. It will also make it possible for the College to address a larger segment of the University community. The College community also wishes to explore the possibility of a close relation ship with University Housing to foster an affinity program in design for residents of the adjacent dormitories. The College must continue the effort to improve and expand facilities. The need for this activity is apparent in studio and classroom facilities, faculty offices, administrative and meeting spaces, and support areas such as the library, shop and information technology laboratory. The first phase of this action has begun with the selection of architects for the Leazar Hall renovation. This project will not only improve instructional space but with the completion of this project the College will also gain new space to support programs. The College Faculty Senate has established a task force to consider the establishment of an international center abroad. A study initiated in spring of this past academic year will be continued into the next academic year. The College must continue efforts to attract a more diverse student, faculty and staff population. The effort to diversify the college is linked to K-12 outreach programs as well as recruitment efforts. Gains in research, extension and engagement must be followed by new initiatives in community design programs, universal design, and a practice incubator program. Even in a difficult period for University budgets the College must seek to create a strategy that will lead to an improved operating budget. The College must continue to utilize the Compact Planning process as an administrative tool for the realization of aspirations and as the stimulus for change in response to the needs of the design professions and society.
The most important legacy of the College of Design is the design process. The design process focuses the teaching objectives of every course. It is the framework that structures the experience of students and faculty as they pursue ideas reflected in the creation of artifacts and the scholarship that accompanies them. It is the design process that provides the beacon in turbulent times and in the face of difficult challenges. This academic year has been framed by a horrific act of terror against America in New York and it closed with the most difficult budget challenge of this generation. In one case our sense of humanity and citizenship is threatened. We are tempted to close ourselves off to the abundant lessons of many cultures whose foundation is peace and beauty. Design is a gregarious act that demands openness to every good idea no matter the source. It demands the willingness to take risks and the confidence to learn from failure. The events leading to the World Trade Center act of murder and subsequent related actions are intended, and in fact have the effect on all of us to reconsider our openness. They make a compelling case for every one of us to withdraw, to become suspicious, of the very sources that would inspire us. We cannot allow this to happen. The design process inspires us to look beyond such hesitations because of the importance of inspiration. It is a way of seeing that demands more of those who engage a critical thought process to address problems and opportunities. We are broadened by the process of design, and we cannot deny its effect on us. Similarly, the budget challenges place obstacles before us that provide a convenient excuse to limit our actions and to moderate our dreams. But again, the design process is at its very best when severe limitations restrict the creative individual. It is a process that frames the questions and structures the answers to meet different objectives. It is a process that causes the individual to match values and action. We must address our values and our dreams as we consider budget difficulties. Our intention is for the College of Design to become a center of influence. The fuel for the beacon we know as the design process is our inherent faith in humanity and its interaction with the persistent optimism that is necessary to be a design practitioner.
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