Upcoming sessions:
07 FEB 2012 George Smart of Triangle Modernist Houses - Mayberry modernism: North Carolina's modernist legacy
20 FEB 2012 Calloway, Johnson, Moore & West (CJMW) - The design of CDI's future facility
Past sessions:
06 DEC 2011 Mike Ananny of Microsoft Research, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Harvard Law School on participatory design, large-scale projections, "newsware" and the public right to hear
16 NOV 2011 Collaborators in Winston-Salem's emerging Community Design Studio - Introducing community design
07 OCT 2011 Michael Rappa of NC State University's Institute for Advanced Analytics - Surviving and thriving in the new data reality
06 SEP 2011 Dieter Breithecker of the Institute for Posture and Mobilisation Support - Design meets functionality
19 APR 2011 The interpretive and communicative power of illustration
15 MAR 2011 3D modeling for animation, medical imaging and industrial design
15 FEB 2011 Students' views: City skylines, King Kong, Disney ImagiNations and more
18 JAN 2011 Nickolay Hristov, Scott Betz, Louise Allen and other enthusiasts - Art/science collaborations and technologies for community development via biking
21 DEC 2010 Will & Deni McIntyre and other area "light writers" - Comparing images to explore photographers' uses of light and lighting
16 NOV 2010 DATS'10 revisited - StoryLine's Creative Couples, Salem College's multimedia collage of creative works by regional students and professionals, the United Nations concept of Food Security and designing for availability, access, utilization and stability
APR 2010
27 Aaron Notestine - A student’s view of SIGGRAPH, Sony, DreamWorks and the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archives
20 Michael Swantek - Filming a large corporation’s move toward "green" for RiverRun's "So Right So Smart"
13 [Phil Hedrick] - Small, green and beautiful: Variations on the one-room house
06 Margaret Collins, Thomas Tucker, Andrew Young - Triad Design Consortium serious games
MAR 2010
30 Eric Hirsh - Techniques for understanding and re-creating how musicians perform
23 Ben Watson - On the increasing importance of design in visualization
16 Jay Dunbar, Eric Jackson - Principles of permaculture design for microfarming and urban sustainability
09 Brad Bennett, Sadie Caplan, Tony Cooler - A “boot camp” for digital marketing skills and methods
02 Judi Lawson Wallace, Matthew Burczyk - Designing a walk- and bike-friendly community
FEB 2010
23 Margaret Collins, Carol Strohecker, Leslie Winner - Creativity iNC: A forum of NC State University’s Institute for Emerging Issues
16 Frank Harmon - Designing the built environment so as to leave to future generations a better place than we received
09 Nadja Rauber-Moe - A template for iPhone app development and distribution
02 Kay Endriss - The Institute for the Future's report on "learning agents and disruptive innovation"
JAN 2010
26 Marian Bell, Herb Burns, Margaret Collins, [Ken Mayer], Carol Strohecker, [Elliot Strunk] - Promoting regional visibility and economic development through the Triad Design Leadershop
19 Loren Little, Clive Muir, Margaret Norfleet Neff, Salem Norfleet Neff - Designing nudges for the health of our community
12 Scott Wierman, Jean Irvin, Doris Paez, Jim DeCristo - Community indicators as elements for creating Forsyth’s futures
DEC 2009
15 Kim Thore, Jon Epstein - Developing our community’s creative potential through a diverse music scene
08 Michael Meyer - DIY engineering for “animatronic” puppet characters
01 [Michelle Brasseur] - A curriculum for video game design and animation based on Scratch software
NOV 2009
17 Ken Bloom, Jack Dent, Joe Thrift, Steve Wishnevski, Bill Kerr, Jason Romney, Keith Wilson - Aesthetic and technical considerations in making musical instruments
10 Dorothy Bethea, Elizabeth Fain - Techniques for innovative virtual rehab and games promoting health care and wellbeing
03 Bob Bradley - An NCAA-like model for engaged scholarship based on college students’ creations with digital media
OCT 2009
27 Corey Bruse - Techniques for 3D modeling and rapid prototyping
20 Michael Tiemann - The participant listener
13 Carol Strohecker - Eames, Morrison, “Powers of 10” and the power of scaling and scoping in visual communications
06 Mike Wakeford and collaborators - ARTStem: Teaching and learning at the intersection of the arts and STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering an math)
SEP 2009
29 Jason Romney, Jennifer Burg - Linking science, art and practice through digital sound
22 Nickolay Hristov - Techniques for motion data capture and analysis using thermal imaging and high-speed videography
JUN 2009
02 Alastair Somerville - 3D printing and other techniques for tactile design
MAY 2009
26 Richard Serge - Designing “For Youth International” to help teens develop advanced life skills, make informed decisions and become productive adults
19 Margaret Collins - Educational initiatives and a strategic plan for developing creative enterprises and the arts in the Piedmont Triad
12 Jinghua Zhang - Social networking environments
05 Thomas Tucker, Ryan Gilliam - Game design and implementation with Maya and Torque
APR 2009
28 Gail Fisher - Building social capital in Winston-Salem through StoryLine
21 Jim Toole - Design principles for sustainable healthcare
14 Daniel McKinney - Foundations for a public space age and other transformational movements
07 Wildfire - Exchanges leading to a logo for the Center for Design Innovation
MAR 2009
31 Thor Mirchandani - Open source strategies for development of software and other designed things
24 John Balestrieri - Artfully, economically designed imagery and sound for an online ‘serious’ game
17 Leslie Boney - Innovation iNC
10 Rachel Cohn - Translating manuscript to book to film for “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist”
03 Elizabeth Dull, Margaret Collins, Jim DeCristo, Amy Purcell, Carol Strohecker - A preview of the regional Design, Art & Technology Symposium
FEB 2009
24 Brian Middleton - Animal Kingdom Lodge: An inside look at the design collaborations of Walt Disney Imagineering
17 Dwedor Morais Ford, Tarina Whitfield - Translating course content for online participation
10 Thomas Tucker - Strategies for 3D animation and visualization
03 Jason Romney, Jennifer Burg - Linking science, art and practice through digital sound
JAN 2009
27 Falcon - Business models supporting creation and dissemination of photographic images with vibrancy, angularity, intensity of detail and emotional impact
20 Keith Hobgood - Coordinating eye, hand and machine for animated imagery
13 Betsy Gatewood - Creating learning opportunities and partnerships to promote entrepreneurship
06 Elizabeth Carlson, Richard Emmett - Music and technology: Spurring innovation by creating new relationships among composers, performers, and participatory audiences
DEC 2008
16 Scott Betz - Learning about design by creating an art park at Goler Heights, leveraging entrepreneurship to celebrate community pride
09 Carol Strohecker [Thomas Tucker] - ICEC 2008: The 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing
02 Dale Pollock - Where is animation going?
NOV 2008
18 Michael Lord - Economic triggers of cultural change in China’s evolving society
11 Clive Muir - Considering “taste” by thinking critically about chocolate
04 Richard Phillips, Carol Strohecker, Wildfire “creatives” Election coverage through graphics and information design
OCT 2008
28 Josh Tan - Fright and delight with real-time 3D data visualization
21 Bill Mitchell - Mobility and public spaces in the smart city
14 George Scheer, Stephanie Sherman - Creative collaboration at Elsewhere
07 Herb Burns, Jonathan Crumpler, Paula Hindman - SIGGRAPH interactive techniques and emerging technologies
SEP 2008
30 Peter Marsh, Carol Strohecker - “Intelligent” environments that respond to purposeful interventions from individuals, groups and the surrounding culture
23 Keith Hobgood - Animating Out of Our Minds
16 Ben Watson - Innovating design graphics
09 Jane Detter, Rence Callahan, Sharif Bey, Syed Ahmad - Pecha Kucha fast-paced, informative, sometimes irreverent design presentations in under seven minutes
02 Scott Betz, Herb Burns, Jim DeCristo, Joe Lopina, Forrest McFeeters, Antionette Moore - Creativity and self-expression through Scratch visual programming
MAY 2008
29 Michiel VanderSommen - Working with rather than against physics to make self-sufficient buildings
27 Tony McGee - StokesCORE: Designing local food systems for regional economic development
22 Rebecca Fuller, Bill Watkins - Designing and fabricating tactile models
20 Andrew Young - Making better online games though art and design
15 Michael Rothkopf - Creating interactive music
13 Maggie Orth - Electronic fabrics and new potentials for the textile industry
08 Donna Juselis - Rainwater harvesting: A “green” solution for drought, from a design team at the State Energy Office
06 Joe Paradiso - Designing responsive environments and “signal-friendly” buildings
01 Michael Pulitzer - Getting ready for DTV (digital television)
APR 2008
29 Matt Barr, Cornelia Barr, David Williams - Unheard voices in the Triad’s diminishing furniture industry
24 Joe Lopina, Carol Strohecker - Bridging the global digital divide through the $100 Laptop’s educational agenda
22 Son-Rah and the Healing Force - Learning through storytelling and music
17 Kevin Watson, Sheryl Monks - The birth of a small press and how it energized our community while startling the literary world
10 Jeff McFadden - Design and intellectual property law
03 Ed Finn - China: From offshore to the shore?
MAR 2008
20 Notis Pagiavlas - Translating creativity for business start-up and practice
13 Hoyle Koontz - Photosynth: Image interaction with a Triad focus
06 Dwedor Morais Ford - Memoir writing to explore persona and generate a resume
FEB 2008
28 Margaret Mertz, Jim DeCristo, Amy Purcell, Elizabeth Dull, Carol Strohecker - Growing a regional symposium to celebrate creative inspiration and practice
21 Sophie Mihalko - Interactive presentation strategies for responding to audiences’ interests in real time
14 Elliot Strunk - Design grants for community consciousness
07 Faye Foster - Sculpture, poetry of memory
JAN 2008
31 Jan Detter, Jane Doub - The deep legacy of craft in the Piedmont Triad
24 Josh Tan - Medical imaging from 3D visualization and modeling to rapid prototyping
17 Mary Jamis, Marlon Hubbard, Joy Hyland - Representing human diversity in visual media
10 Carol Strohecker - Designing so others can design
DEC 2007
13 Johannes Knesl - Convivial, innovative working and living at the regional scale
06 Dwayne Godwin - Seeing with the mind's eye
NOV 2007
29 Marty Marion, Anne Tambling - Green building design
15 Margie and John Antoine Labadie - Evolving digital fine art
08 Jim DeCristo, [John Kovalich] - Having a plan makes small businesses big
01 Natalia Romero - Developing a methodology for working with diverse source materials in fashion design
OCT 2007
25 Robert Bradley, Bob King - How a ballad moved from poem to song to economic development project
18 Debbie Dineen - Basic finance for small businesses
11 Eleanor Russell - Do our educational systems encourage cheating?
04 Sarah Kuhn - Recollections of an internship at the Eames studio
SEP 2007
27 Lucie Yang - Visualizing the effects of caffeine on the brain
20 Glenn Johnson - Designing airplane interiors
JUN 2007
28 Patricia Pence-Sokoloff, Bill Dean - Water as an urban design element in downtown Winston-Salem
21 Scott Betz - Creativity and Cognition conference, Washington DC
14 Lynn Book - Community activation through creative processes
07 Michael Lord - Chinnovation
MAY 2007
31 Jennifer Gentry - Medical illustration
24 Karl Rodabaugh - Quick turnaround strategies for enhancing the educational level of the Piedmont Triad's workforce
17 Hoyle Koontz - Making 360 degree photographic images
10 Jed Macosko - Life of the cell
03 Carol Strohecker [Tammy Webster] - Segmenting and personifying WalMart's customer base
APR 2007
26 Jon Babek - Balancing teamwork and individual contribution in designing high-performance mechanical systems
19 Dwayne Godwin, Bill Conner - Biomimetics
12 Gillean Dickey - Building a brand from the inside out
05 Peter Marsh, Carol Strohecker - Reflecting grass-roots design development in the Piedmont Triad
MAR 2007
29 Peter Perret - Mind and music
22 Leo Morrissey - Digital design and public sculpture
15 Joe Lopina - Social and political implications of thinking and learning styles
08 Carol Strohecker - TexTales public fora with large-scale projections of photos and dynamic SMS captions
01 Jason Romney, Jennifer Burg - International Digital Media and Arts Association conference
FEB 2007
22 Josh Tan, Charles McClennahan - Visualizing medical conditions
15 Christia Thomason, Leslie Kamtman - Innovating iPods
08 Carol Strohecker - Nature Trailer and Amble Time location-sensitive travel guides |