UW-Madison Center for Design and Material Culture
UW-Madison Center for Design and Material Culture
The Center for Design and Material Culture is the
primary destination for the multi-disciplinary study of material culture and
design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the School of Human Ecology. The Center focuses on the study
of textiles, material culture, and design thinking and is a hub for
innovative programs that engage local, national, and international audiences.
The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, the Ruth Davis Design Gallery, the Lynn
Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, and the Dorothy O'Brien Innovation Lab support the work of the Center for Design and Material Culture.
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From Laura Peck
Emily Ostertag, 2017 Early Career Alumni Award Winner, will share her journey as a former UW swimmer (‘02-‘06) and School of Human Ecology Interior design… -
From Laura Peck
The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the third annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Wednesday, August 24 at… -
From Laura Peck
The Studio proposes that we can redesign systems if we follow a simple premise: “Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects.”… -
From Adriana Barrios
This semester, students in the Design Studies 527: Global Artisans course collaborated with traditional weaving, embroidery, block-printing, and bandhani artists from… -
From Laura Peck
Design is a social art. Designers create the environments for human life – from our physical spaces to the products we depend upon to the information that… -
From Adriana Barrios
Roberto Torres Mata, Dakota Mace, John Hitchcock, and Carolyn Kallenborn will discuss their international interdisciplinary creative collaboration for Intercambios: Art,… -
From Laura Peck
Swedish artist, Sofia Hagström Møller, will present her artistic work in the field of weaving. Hagström Møller will show images from previous… -
From Laura Peck
Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture 2019: Come to your Senses! Understanding Arts Everywhere … and the Arts of Yoruba People in ParticularHenry John Drewal (Emeritus… -
From Laura Peck
An emerging model of new housing developments is experimenting with mixing older and younger people in one place. Although the two ends of the population spectrum are… -
From Laura Peck
Xia Gao presents her work and her exploration of equity through her practice. “I would never feel confident to say that my work centers on equity. I would often… -
From Laura Peck
The exhibition Politics at Home: Textiles as American History, in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery, features several woven coverlets from the late eighteenth and early… -
From Laura Peck
Sydney-based maker Maggie Hensel-Brown will join the CDMC to talk about her approach as a contemporary lace maker. With work currently on view in Lace from the Helen… -
From Laura Peck
Politics at Home: Textiles as American History, on view in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery, and Lace from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, on view in the Lynn… -
From Laura Peck
The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the second annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Tuesday, August 24 at 10AM.… -
From Laura Peck
D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem presents on her multi-hyphenate practice as an award-winning, self-described “space sculptor”, designer, writer, performance artist,…
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