Opening Reception and Live Crit: Evening of Wednesday, May 13

4:00:Guided Exhibition Tours and Press Preview   

5:00:Introduction:Alice Twemlow, Chair of SVA Department of Design Research, Writing & Criticism

MA Students' Presentations:

Brittany Dickinson on fashion design education’s attempts to stitch sustainability and ethics into its pedagogy.
Lisa Silbermayr on the impact of language in the political decisions and regulatory frameworks that shape New York’s public housing.

Alper Besen on how critical thinking is taught, learned, and reflected upon in architecture education.

Christina Milan on the shifting relationship between viewer and design object in the digitization of design museums.

Susan Merritt on what the design of burial containers says about changing attitudes towards death and burial practices in the US.

Molly Butcher on the material culture of the race to colonize Mars.

Meg Farmer on the role of the image in influencing the preservation of mid-century domestic architecture in Southern California..With guest critic Alexandra Lange, architecture and design writer/critic
Lauren Palmer on the problematics of archiving the live performance as arts magazine.With guest critic David Senior, bibliographer at The Museum of the Modern Art Library

Mariam Aldhahi on the creation of Design Districts and their varying definitions of design.With guest critic Sharon Zukin, urban sociologist, author and professor, CUNY Graduate Center

Justin Zhuang on piracy as a force for innovation in the world of industrial design.With guest critic Christopher Sprigman, co-author of The Knockoff Economy

Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, contributing to New York Magazine, the New Yorker blog, and The New York Times, Design Observer, and Dezeen, among others. She has taught architecture criticism in the SVA MFA Design Criticism program and at NYU. During academic year 2013–2014 she was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), as well as the e-book The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism (Strelka Press, 2012). 

David Senior 

David Senior is the bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library, where he manages collection development. Senior lectures often on the history of artists' publications and contemporary art and design publishing. He also curates exhibitions of MoMA Library materials including, most recently: "Ray Johnson Designs," "Please Come to the Show," "Millennium Magazines," and "Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968–74." 

Christopher Sprigman 

Christopher Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy and comparative constitutional law at NYU Law School. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. He is the co- author of The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford 2012), co-authored with Kal Raustiala of the UCLA School of Law. Sprigman has served as appellate counsel in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and been a partner at King & Spalding.

Sharon Zukin

Sharon Zukin is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Zukin is the author of books on cities, culture and consumer culture, and a researcher on urban, cultural and economic change. She was Broeklundian Professor from 1996 to 2008. She received the Lynd Award for Career Achievement in urban sociology, from the American Sociological Association, and the C. Wright Mills Book Award for Landscapes of Power. She was visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, 2010-11, and a distinguished fellow in the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center in fall 2014.

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