The industrial and interaction design (IID) program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) is celebrating two national awards achieved by a faculty member and a recent alumna.
Assistant Professor Kathleen Brandt is co-director of Syracuse University’s Thinklab, which was named an Educational Initiatives Professional Notable by Core77 as part of its 2013 Design Awards, celebrating the richness of the design profession and the brilliance of its practitioners. Thinklab is a collaboration environment designed to foster and apply imaginative thinking for real-world change.
IID alumna Amanda Savitzky ’12 won the $10,000 top prize in Metropolis Next Generation Competition for the Match Cooking Prep System for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which she developed for her IID senior thesis project. The system encourages adults with autism to prepare food using a set of tools—measuring cups, prep bowls and an iPad app—and was inspired by her brother Steven, who has ASD. Savitzky talks more about the system in Metropolis’s June issue.
A new exhibition at Syracuse University’s Sue and Leon Genet Gallery features Peter Piening’s dynamic abstract commercial work and his role as an educator. According to exhibition curator Meri A. Page, assistant professor of communications design in the College of…
Those strolling through the Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle may notice a new addition to the landscape this week, as the first phase of a new Onondaga Art Installation—led by the Indigenous Students at Syracuse (ISAS), Native Student Program, Ongwehonwe Alumni…
La Casita Cultural Center hosted a reception Sept. 18 for the opening of a new exhibition, “Corazón del Barrio (Heart of the Barrio),” celebrating the center’s 10th anniversary. The exhibition’s opening reception, held in person and via Zoom, coincided with…
Syracuse Stage is back. With the opening of Jonathan Spector’s timely play, “Eureka Day,” Syracuse Stage marks a joyous return to live performance. The first of six shows in the 2021/2022 season, “Eureka Day” runs Oct. 13 -31. Tickets on…
Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC) newest exhibition, “Explore and Connect: Selections from the Special Collections Research Center,” spotlights a curated selection of rare and archival materials which offer a small window into the possibilities that abound within…
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