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SUMMARY:Presentation:OUTx
DESCRIPTION:Join Out for Business for OUTx 2026: We’re Still Here\, our annual storytelling event celebrating LGBTQ+ voices\, experiences\, and perspectives across the Ross community.\n \nVoted Ross’s #1 Educational Event last year\, OUTx creates space for members of our community to share the personal stories that have shaped who they are. This year\, six Ross student speakers will take the stage alongside keynote speaker Shalanda Baker\, a former U.S. Air Force officer\, law professor\, and former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity.\n \nWhether you identify as LGBTQ+\, consider yourself an ally\, or simply want to hear perspectives and lived experiences different from your own\, OUTx is an opportunity to listen\, learn\, and connect with the people who make up our Ross community.\n \nThursday\, October 8 | 5:30–7:00 PM\nTauber Colloquium\nFree and open to the Ross community
UID:151639-21911884@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151639
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Amy Franceschini / Futurefarmers
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAmy Franceschini is an artist and designer whose work facilitates encounter\, exchange\, and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the \"certainties\" of a given time or place where a work is situated. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between \"humans\" and \"nature\". Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions related to this divide by challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to \"hunt\" and \"gather\". Using this as a starting point\, she creates relational objects that invoke action and inquiry\; not only to imagine\, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.\n\nIn 1995\, Franceschini founded Futurefarmers as a collaborative platform to consider the social\, political\, and environmental organization of space. Futurefarmers use various media to deconstruct systems to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics\; food systems\, public transportation\, education. Through this disassembly\, they find new narratives and reconfigurations that form alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems.\n\nFuturefarmers work is based in enmeshed acts of wandering and material processes. In the context of public art works\, they cultivate public life in place\, rather than inserting pre-determined forms and concepts into public space. They do so through a process-led approach\,inviting materials and communities to arrive and intersect at a specific site or situation. Through time and the practiced presence of Futurefarmers\, the meeting place of people and materials transform from provisional arrangements into durable forms and functions of their work\n\nFranceschini is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow\, a 2019 Rome Prize Fellow and a 2017 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award for Visual Arts. She is the author of A Variation on the Powers of Ten\, For Want of a Nail\, and\, most recently\, Silicon Forest in 2026. Franceschini received a BFA in Photography from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in the visual arts graduate programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Stanford University\, and in the Master of Eco-Social Design at the Free University in Bolzano\, Italy. \n\nWith support from Design Core Detroit\, Detroit UNESCO City of Design\, and U-M Student Life Sustainability. \n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n
UID:150479-21909502@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150479
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CATEGORIES:Art,Systems Thinking,Sustainability,Public Art,Detroit Design Festival,Design,Collectivism,Collaboration
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