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.
“Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature” Spring 2021 issue is now live via “Wordgathering’s” website. The 57th issue of this quarterly digital, open access journal is made possible by generous support from Syracuse University’s Office of Interdisciplinary Programs…
If a quality of a good play is to be both timely and timeless, then “I and You,” the next play in the reimagined 2020/2021 Syracuse Stage season, succeeds admirably. It is a play that seems to directly address the…
The pandemic caused events around the globe to be canceled, from concerts to fairs. With vaccines becoming widely available, some events are coming back—although in altered ways or with limited capacity. Here are a few of Central New York’s most…
Lorenza D’Angelo, a graduate student from the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as the 2021 winner of the prestigious Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award for her piece titled “Emotional Experience and the Senses.”…
“Exhibition Interrupted,” a display of work designed by School of Architecture Professor Anne Munly, will open Tuesday, April 27 in the Slocum Hall Marble Room and online. Munly is retiring at the end of the spring 2021 semester following more…
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