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DTSTAMP:20151118T141053
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Shakespeare on Page and Stage: A Celebration
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit is a historical journey through different versions of Shakespeare’s plays as they were edited for publication or interpreted  for the stage. Starting with the Second Folio (1632)\, our display includes a selection of landmark editions by authors and scholars like John Dryden\, Nicholas Rowe\, Alexander Pope\, Samuel Johnson\, and Edmond Malone. It explores the staging and costuming of productions such as Charles Kean’s archaeologically-informed\, elaborately-costumed 1856 production of The Winter’s Tale\, and Maurice Browne-Ellen Van Volkenburg 1930 production of Othello casting Paul Robeson as the first black actor to play Othello in a century.\n\nMost of the titles included in this display come from the McMillan Shakespeare Library. Materials are also displayed from the Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Volkenburg Papers\, 1792-1968 and the Zelma Weisfeld Archive\, 1954-2006. All these books and artifacts are held in the Special Collections Library.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm
UID:26647-2127372@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/26647
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Library,Books
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160309T163823
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Wall in Process
DESCRIPTION:This wall-in-process represents a snapshot into the year long collaborative project Humanize the Numbers at the University of Michigan. Led by Virginia artist and prison reform activist Mark Strandquist\, this campus-wide endeavor aims to link together community partners—prison reformers and advocates\, faculty\, staff\, students\, artists\, the incarcerated\, and their families—in various artistic outputs to foster knowledge and to reveal the human face of the Michigan prison system. \n\nWhat will emerge on this wall over the course of its eight week duration is the product of partnerships between the Institute for the Humanities and artists and prison reform activists. We have collected material from the Prison Creative Arts Program (PCAP)\, the Citizens’ Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending (CAPPS)\, Ana Fernandez’s undergraduate printmaking course in the Residential College\, Natalie Holbrook from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)\, the AFSC’s Good Neighbor Letter Writing Project as facilitated by Ron Simpson-Bey\, and a quilting workshop in a Michigan girls’ treatment unit facilitated by Theadra Fleming and Heather Martin. \n\nThis wall is not static\, fixed\, or ever meant to be complete. Its appearance will change week by week\, both in an additive and reductive sense. The room will also serve as a meeting place for lectures and workshops by Humanize the Numbers partners throughout the exhibit’s duration. Displaying both the seemingly mundane and the extraordinary\, the wall aims to engage viewers and garner interest in the pursuit of knowledge on Michigan’s prison system\, acting as a humanistic lens into the lives affected by our prison system on a personal\, institutional\, statewide\, and nationwide scope.
UID:28555-2757599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28555
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Public Policy,Social Justice,Exhibition
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160316T171311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Accent Elimination
DESCRIPTION:About Accent Elimination\n\nNina Katchadourian’s work Accent Elimination\, the last installation in the Institute’s Year of Conversions\, meanders and parses through our notions of identity. Katchadourian considers the ongoing quandary of where we really come from\, who we are\, trying to isolate our sense of ourselves in counterpoint with the way people define or judge us based upon their assumptions. It is\, of course\, the unique combination of things that offers our most comprehensive and authentic self-reflection\, not one thing or another\, and this amalgamation is to some degree indecipherable.\n\n\nAlthough they have lived in the United States for over 45 years\, Katchadourian’s foreign-born parents both have distinctive but hard-to-place accents that the artist has never been able to imitate correctly. Inspired by posters around New York advertising courses in “accent elimination\,” Katchadourian decided to hire a professional who could teach her to speak in each of her parents’ accents and teach them to speak with a so-called “standard American accent.” Katchadourian and her parents took intensive lessons with accent coach Sam Chwat at his office every other day for several weeks\, and also practiced in the artist’s studio between lessons. They worked with two scripts: one written by her mother and the other by her father\, both modeled on the typical conversation that each of them has when talking with a stranger who notices an accent and is curious about its origins.\n\nKatchadourian plays the part of the stranger. The dialogues are first performed in everyone’s natural accents\, then at the end of the piece\, after much practice and struggle\, they attempt to perform the\nsame scripts—in the best version they can muster—of their new accents.\n\nIn light of recent and all-too-familiar seismic political shifts consumed with “otherness\,” and building walls rather than bringing them down\, Accent Elimination feels especially prescient. It reminds us there\nare so many layers that comprise our cultural identities\, stacked up like markers\, artifacts of our points of origin as well as our extraordinary journeys. It is an ongoing and painstaking process as to what we save and what we lose along the way by choice\, necessity\, or circumstance. And in all of this\, perhaps we discover ourselves on common ground.\n\nAccent Elimination was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion\, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Nina Katchadourian is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery.\n\nNina Katchadourian’s University of Michigan visit is the result of a collaboration between the Institute for the Humanities and the Armenian Studies Program.
UID:28557-2757645@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28557
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Exhibition,Film,History,Language
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160512T143154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time
DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time?  What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons?  Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too!  The exhibit is open!
UID:27873-2579395@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160319T130732
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fellow Fellows
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents...\"Fellow Fellows\"\, the Architecture Fellows Presentation and Exhibition Opening. \n\nThe exhibition of projects of the 2015-2016 Architecture Fellows opens on Wednesday\, March 23 and runs through the end of the Winter term (May 2). The Fellows will present their projects to the college at 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium. The projects present their ongoing research during their yearlong fellowship. A reception will follow the presentations\, with exhibition on view in the college gallery.\n\n\nCyrus Peñarroyo - William Muschenheim Fellow\n\nBLDG_DRWG\nBLDG_DRWG recoups handwrought drawing effects and rearranges drawing conventions at the building scale in order to reorient the ways in which architecture is produced and consumed. Oscillating between analog methods (ink\, paint\, tape) and digital processes (scanning\, photoshop filtering\, milling)\, this project intensifies attributes of drawing otherwise lost in translation. A series of 1:1 investigations harnesses the potency of these effects and uses them to emphasize\, deemphasize\, or reconstitute existing architectural conditions. The results of these studies are reassembled in the gallery as a room––one fragment of an unfinished building––that speaks to the instability of its own representation.\n\nTeam members: Andrew Barkhouse\, Peter Watkins\nWith assistance from: Chris Campbell\, Samantha Eng\, Matt Culver\, Asa Peller\, Tafhim Rahman\n\n\nAshley Bigham - Walter B. Sanders Fellow\n\nSafety Not Guaranteed\nArchitecture is inseparable from defense. From its most primitive and revered “origins\,” architecture was rehearsed in environments of conflict. As an alternative to the term defense architecture\, a category which typically refers to forms and types (fortresses\, citadels\, bastions\, urban walls)\, this project proposes the idea of an architecture of defense. An architecture of defense sees all of architecture as a reaction to some measure of paranoia and studies the built environment to recognize measures and methods used to subdue these fears. Safety Not Guaranteed explores the architecture of paranoia through a series of design manipulations and exaggerations. Its setting is the network of suburbia and everyday domestic scenes—spaces most commonly associated with privacy\, safety\, and security and where fortification occurs on the scale of the front door\, the home\, the cul-de-sac\, and the neighborhood.\n\nTeam Members: Connor Brindza\, James Howe\, Neall Oliver\, Sasha Pfeiffer\, Mark Boynton\, Kamsy Anyachebelu\n\n\nDavid Eskenazi - Willard A. Oberdick Fellow\n\nFor the Trees\nAt first I noticed how naked the papers were\, since they didn’t seem to be acting like something else. I guess they were supposed to be models\, it was an architecture exhibit after all\, but they were missing all those things that point elsewhere: no doors\, no windows\, nothing that particularly looks like anything but itself. They were formed\, sure\, but that’s not really enough to point outwards. Or is it? Before you answer\, there was one more thing: some of the papers were near an enlarged duplicate. Actually\, maybe they were shrunken copies. It was a lot like that moment at the top of Runyon Canyon when you turn around and realize there’s an entire other\, slightly smaller Los Angeles behind you. Were you just looking at the original\, or the copy? I think the most interesting part is right afterwards when your focus shifts around you to the ground\, the dirt\, the trees.. all that stuff that frames what you’re looking at\, like the base of a model or scale figures or model trees. Come to think of it\, the papers did look like trees. But the resemblance is fleeting\, and now I’m certain the papers were in fact models pointing around at each other. Or were they in the background\, acting like a frame for something else\, something that wasn’t there?\n\n\nAbout University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning:\n\nThe Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful\, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice\, advancing global engagement\, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture\, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally\; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report)\, Master of Science in Architecture\, Master of Urban Planning\, Master of Urban Design\, and PhD programs.
UID:29842-3230283@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Education,Graduate,Graduate School,Lecture
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Auditorium (Rm 2104)
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DTSTAMP:20160314T181550
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mind Your Head: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show
DESCRIPTION:Mind Your Head: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by 92 graduating BFA\, BA\, and Interarts students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. The exhibition unfolds over 17 days in five exhibition sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: Michigan Theater\, Duderstadt Video Studio\, Slusser Gallery\, Work Gallery\, and Argus Building. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings\, live performance\, and opening receptions. The exhibition is free and open to the public.\n\nExhibition Openings & Events\n\nThursday\, April 14\nScreenings: Michigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty Street\, 4 - 5:30 pm\nLive performance and Screenings: Duderstadt Video Studio\, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard\, 7 pm\n\nFriday\, April 15\nOpening Reception: Slusser Gallery\, 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard\, 5 - 8 pm\nLive performance and Screenings: Duderstadt Video Studio\, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard\, 7 pm\n\nSaturday\, April 16\nOpening Reception: Work Gallery\, 306 South State Street\, 5 - 8 pm\nOpening Reception: Argus Building\, 400 Fourth Street\, 6 - 9 pm\n\nVenues\n\nSlusser\nOpen during exhibitions Monday through Friday: 9 am - 5 pm\, Saturday: 12 - 5 pm. Closed Sundays and Holidays.\n2000 Bonisteel Blvd. Ann Arbor\, MI 48109-2069\n\nWork: Ann Arbor\nOpen during exhibitions Tuesday through Saturday\, 12 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sundays\, Mondays and Holidays. \n306 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\n\nArgus II Building\nOpen during exhibitions Tuesday through Saturday\, 12 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sundays\, Mondays and Holidays. \n400 4th Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI
UID:29703-3187066@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29703
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Film
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160323T081336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Hidden Worlds: The Universe of Pollen Revealed in Large-scale Ceramic Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the beautiful forms that pollen takes\, the amazing power of these tiny grains of life\, and the challenges that honeybees and pollinators face\, U-M Stamps School of Art & Design professor Susan Crowell fashioned large-scale ceramic sculptures of pollen. The sculptures will be displayed in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. As part of the exhibit Crowell has also created three sculptures of  pollen collected from the 80-year-old agave that bloomed at Matthaei in 2014. The agave pollen sculptures are based on scanning electron microscope images of the pollen taken by the U-M Hospitals imaging lab.
UID:27101-3065131@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27101
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Environment
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20151118T144634
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Christianity to Islam: Egypt between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Selected papyri from the University of Michigan's Papyrology Collection illustrate the government\, society\, and religious culture of Egypt during its transition from Byzantine Christian to Arab Islamic rule (4th to 8th centuries AD). Texts Greek\, Coptic Egyptian\, and Arabic\, many never before on public display\, further highlight the richness and diversity of the U-M Collection.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10am to 5pm.
UID:26651-2127476@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/26651
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151208T154015
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T123000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Mindfulness-Based Dementia Care
DESCRIPTION:A free\, 7-week program specifically designed for family caregivers of persons with dementia. Learn how the practice of mindfulness can help you cope with the challenges and stresses of dementia care\, and also greatly improve the experience of the person in your care. For information and to register call U-M Memory Connection at 734.936.8803. (Note: program skips May 2\, with Day of Mindfulness\, 10 am-4 pm on Mon. April 25.)
UID:27094-2308833@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27094
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151208T154015
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T160000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Mindfulness-Based Dementia Care
DESCRIPTION:A free\, 7-week program specifically designed for family caregivers of persons with dementia. Learn how the practice of mindfulness can help you cope with the challenges and stresses of dementia care\, and also greatly improve the experience of the person in your care. For information and to register call U-M Memory Connection at 734.936.8803. (Note: program skips May 2\, with Day of Mindfulness\, 10 am-4 pm on Mon. April 25.)
UID:27094-2308838@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27094
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120410@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160308T121704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29503-3129494@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160316T125430
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:COLOR CODE\, MARIANETTA PORTER
DESCRIPTION:Color Code: Conundrums and Complexities will be presented at GalleryDAAS\, located on the ground floor of Haven Hall on the University of Michigan’s central campus\, from March 11 to April 29\, 2016. The exhibition showcases the recent work of mixed-media artist and University of Michigan professor Marianetta Porter. Color Code celebrates the artistry and eloquence of the black experience in all its complexity--its brutal history\, the richness of its folklore and traditions\, and the beauty of its vernacular expression.
UID:29488-3138766@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Justice,Exhibition,Diversity,Culture,African American,Africa
LOCATION:Haven Hall
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DTSTAMP:20160413T142218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival
DESCRIPTION:China watchers have been looking for signs of regime change and democratization for years\, and yet the Party remains firmly in power. The Party enjoys more popular support than is often recognized\, but that support is soft in a variety of ways. Using recent public opinion data\, this talk will examine the Party’s strategy for survival and the public's response to it.\n\nBruce Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. His research focuses on the evolution of the Chinese political system and the role of the Chinese Communist Party within it. His latest book is \"The Dictator's Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival\" (Oxford\, 2016).
UID:30419-3454191@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30419
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160328T121544
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160425T210000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nick Tobier: Utopia Toolbox at Literati Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:The Stamps School celebrates the launch of Utopia Toolbox: An Incitement to Radical Creativity on Monday\, April 25\, 2016 at 7 pm on the main floor of Literati Bookstore (124 E. Washington St.). A collaboration by Juliane Stiegele and Nick Tobier\, Associate Professor at the Stamps School of Art and Design and the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan\, this book is a hybrid between a how-to manual and a theoretical framework that invites artists\, designers\, planners\, architects\, and cultural producers to consider their actions in context.\n\nThink of a hybrid between something like a how-to book and a theoretical framework that asks artists\, designers\, planners\, architects and cultural producers to consider their actions in context. Utopia Toolbox contains an anthology of texts\, quotations\, interviews\, documentation of art and design projects\, and do-it-yourself actions and performances.\n\nThe contributions in practice and in text are from a broad array of disciplinary rubrics\, including philosophy\, art\, science\, technology\, economics\, and spirituality. They also provide perspectives from across the stages of life - from an 8 year-old child to octogenarian physicist Hans-Peter Duerr. In content and in proximity to one another\, the wide-ranging contributions offer unexpected and fresh impulses\, directions\, estimations\, suggestions and approaches to serve as a catalyst for creativity. The book encourages new and unknown combinations of thinking and also contains a number of empty pages for readers to sketch their own ideas and thinking processes.\n\nNick Tobier is an Associate Professor at the Stamps School of Art and Design and the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. His focus as an artist and designer is with the social lives of public places\, both in built structures and events.
UID:30022-3312289@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30022
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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