Upcoming sessions:
The Idea Exchange will resume from the 2010 summer break in October, after DATS'10.
Past sessions:
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
7 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 |
