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Professor Gozde Goncu-Berk Named Chancellor’s Fellow

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. 

Announcement

Film About The Roots of Country Music Debuts in Davis

A blue sky with short mountains, a freight train in the distance and an illustrated 'longhorn' skull with a red star on it.

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.

Announcement

PROFESSOR BETH FERGUSON GIVES talks on Climate Adaptation Solutions

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.

Announcement

Research Partnership Established Between CLTC and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
California Lighting Technology Center

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The California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) at UC Davis and the Smart City Research Center at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) recently established a formal research partnership. Harnessing the combined expertise and resources of the CLTC and KAIST Smart City Research Center, this partnership will accelerate efforts towards energy efficiency and decarbonization in cities. To inaugurate this partnership the CLTC hosted distinguished visiting professors from KAIST on January 23, 2024, for a research seminar covering several topics related to the understanding and development of ’smart cities.’

Upcoming Events

Event

STILL: Racism in America, A Retrospective in Cartoons
Jan. 23 – April 23, 2024

The UC Davis Design Museum explores racism through cartoons in the installation “STILL: Racism in America, A Retrospective in Cartoons.” Showcasing the work of pioneering father/daughter cartoonists the late Brumsic Brandon, Jr. and Barbara Brandon-Croft, the exhibition runs Jan. 23 through April 21, 2024. 

Event

Wearables Collective: Weaving Innovation into Stages of Life
March 25–26

The UC Davis Department of Design in collaboration with Royal College of Art, London present WEARABLES COLLECTIVE, a two-day symposium focused on e-textiles, smart clothing and other forms of wearable technology applications for health and wellbeing. Associate Professor of Design Gozde Goncu-Berk is the UC Davis conference chair. 

Design Museum, 124 Cruess Hall, California Avenue, Davis, California
Event

“Revival,” FADS Fashion Show, Picnic Day 2024

The UC Davis Fashion and Design Society (FADS) will present “Revival,” the 2024 Picnic Day Fashion Show, on April 20. The event will spotlight  fashion created and executed by Department of Design undergraduate students in the Signature Collections course. 

The event will be presented live and outdoors on the Cruess Hall Makerspace Courtyard at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 

Event

Research in Design Talk:
Krystle Moody Wood

Research in Design Lecture Series

Room 1105, Cruess Hall

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.

Creuss Hall, Davis, CA
Event

Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall: “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook”
ALBERINI FAMILY SPEAKER SERIES IN DESIGN

Community Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

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

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