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Since 1990, the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection has proudly sponsored the annual Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture series in honor of Ruth Ketterer Harris, the collection’s first curator. We…
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Professor Ann Coddington presents a lecture on the origins and history of the fiber art movement, and how the field of contemporary basketry emerged in the 1960’s. She also discusses her fiber…
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Dr. Maria Patsarika and Professor Scott Townsend’s public talk will overview their design research conducted over the last seven years primarily in Greece. With a focus on design and social…
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Please join us for a conversation between shoemakers Amara Hark-Weber, Jesse Moore, and Sarah Madeleine T. GUERIN, and creative director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum Elizabeth…
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Fashion is anything but frivolous. This talk will explore the economic and social implications of footwear and how mass production, market fragmentation and the commodification of identities has made…
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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 graduate (’06 BS,…
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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.” They offer arrangements as a…
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River’s End reveals California’s complex struggle over who gets fresh water, and how moneyed interests game the system. Constant battling over uncertain water supplies heralds an…
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Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using…
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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 permeates our lives. It’s a…
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Roberto Torres Mata, Dakota Mace, John Hitchcock, and Carolyn Kallenborn will discuss their international interdisciplinary creative collaboration for Intercambios: Art, Stories, & Comunidad.…
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Swedish artist, Sofia Hagström Møller, will present her artistic work in the field of weaving. Hagström Møller will show images from previous projects that have been important…
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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 frequently portrayed as…
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A lecture one week before the COP26 international summit analyzing the climate emergency and how we can achieve climate justice.John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of…
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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 nineteenth centuries; these…
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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 Louise Allen Textile Collection…
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