The Alberini Family Speaker Series is supported through
an endowment by the Carlos and Andrea Alberini Family Foundation.
It brings renowned innovators and thinkers in design to campus
and in virtual formats to inspire students and encourage
community engagement and learning.
The second season of the Manetti Shrem
Museum’s summer internship program is now accepting
applications. The museum will be selecting 4-6 interns to
participate in this 8 week (30 hours/week) program
Gozde Goncu-Berk, associate professor, is among UC Davis’
newest class of Chancellor’s Fellows, a title given to early
career academics doing exemplary work.
Filmmakers and professors Glenda
Drew (of Design) and Jesse
Drew (of Cinema and Digital Media) have completed a project
decades in the making — a documentary about the roots of American
Country Music titled Open Country. It
tells a longer arc of country music that is not rooted in ‘God
and Country’ but in working class people telling their stories,
seeking freedom from government interference and a good,
dignified life.
Associate Professor Beth Ferguson will give two upcoming talks
centering on her recent work on climate adaptation and
sustainable mobility at the UC Santa Cruz and a WTS Advancing
Women Advancing Transportation event in Sacramento.
Krystle Moody Wood (B.A. design ‘07) is the founder and principal
consultant of Materevolve,
LLC. After almost a decade of corporate materials and
product development and working in non-profit education, Krystle
found she could best pursue her passion for sustainability,
textiles and adventure by starting her own business
(Materevolve), which focuses on providing brand and material
innovators with technical textile consulting and inspirational
educational experiences.
Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall, who received her Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1999, is a distinguished design
anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational
design leader, consultant and coach. Tunstall will give a talk
titled “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook” for UC
Davis Department of Design’s Alberini Family Speaker Series in
Design.
The event is April 26 at 4:30-6 p.m. with a reception to
follow at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of
Art. The talk is free and open to the public.
Tunstall will address two aspects of decolonizing design: (1)
putting indigenous first and (2) dismantling the racist bias in
the European modernist project in design. She provides a
framework to understand one’s positionality vis-a-vis indigenous
sovereignty and how that sets conditions for design that provides
liberatory joy to bodies and communities. By showing the racism
inherent in the focus on modernist design as the standard, she
demonstrates in both theory and practice how institutions and
individuals can open space for decolonial and diverse
perspectives on making.
Tunstall is the author of Decolonizing
Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook. Her
progressive approaches challenge conventional design paradigms
that exclude and harm indigenous cultures and champion diversity,
equity and inclusivity practices in communities and
organizations.
With a global career that includes being an associate
professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Illinois at
Chicago and Swinburne University in Australia, Tunstall made
history as the first Black scholar and Black female dean of a
design faculty with her position at OCAD University in Toronto,
Canada.
Supported through an endowment provided by the Carlos and Andrea
Alberini Family Foundation, the speaker series brings renowned
innovators and thinkers in design to campus to inspire students
and encourage community engagement and learning. The talk is
organized by the UC Davis Department of Design and co-sponsored
by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
The Department of Design is part of the College of Letters and
Science at UC Davis.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
The UC Davis Design Museum examines the vibrant fusion of
traditional innovative designs in the Jiangnan style in a special
installation. “Tradition Meets Modernization: The Wisdom of
Livelihood and Design in Jiangnan Style” will be on exhibition
April 30 through May 3 only.
The Jiangnan style was developed in Southern Yangtze Delta area
over many centuries. As the important birthplace of Chinese
civilization, the Jiangnan style carries the values of profound
traditional culture as well as reflecting innovation in
modern-day designs.