Deadline for submission of award nominations to the College of Design Awards Board via Bobbi Jo Kruckenberg in 134 Design. 

The CRP Club will sell Papa John's pizza (cheese, pepperoni and sausage) for $1.50 per slice from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the foyer outside the College of Design Dean's Office. Funds will support club activities.

NEW LECTURERS' LECTURE
Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series
Tactics: The Art of Finding and Implementing Means to Achieve Particular Immediate or Short-Term Aims
Jungwoo Ji, Silvina Lopez-Barrera, Ziad Qureshi, Patrick Rhodes, Chamila Subasinghe

This event will highlight the current work and research interests of five new lecturers (as of fall 2011) in the Department of Architecture at Iowa State University. Presentations include:

"Re-discovering Boundary, Re-building the Gradations"
Jungwoo Ji

"Informal settlements in Latin America: opportunities to build sustainable and resilient communities"
Silvina Lopez Barrera

"Urban Geographies: marginal, interstitial and post-industrial landscapes"
Ziad Qureshi

"Guerrilla Architecture: Project Locus -- a successful model for community-based design"
Patrick Rhodes

"Changing trajectories: discursive fields of sustainability"
Chamila Subasinghe

The CRP Club is hosting a series of LEED workshops for anyone interested in becoming a LEED Green Associate. Workshops are open to all majors, and snacks will be provided. Tonight's topic is "Water Efficiency."

Contact Jesse Thorsen for more information.

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GIS SEMINAR SERIES
Evaluating Public Transportation Access for the Disadvantaged in the Des Moines Metropolitan Area
Colin Robin, GIS certificate candidate, community and regional planning

Abstract
Accessibility is an important component of analysis for any type of future development. A city with high levels of accessibility means that all citizens, despite any economic or social barriers, will be able to get from their homes to anywhere they need to go within the community.

Accessibility in the Des Moines Metropolitan Area was measured at the regional level with the targeted population of study being those who do not have private vehicles and who must rely on public transportation in order to satisfy their daily tasks/needs. Their accessibility to places such as parks, schools, retail outlets, etc., was analyzed not only in terms of what exists, but what could exist.

Three types of accessibility were important to examine: the accessibility of current bus routes/network to major public facilities or points of interest, the walking accessibility to these bus stops, as well as a total measure of accessibility. By using GIS, these evaluators were calculated and mapped in an attempt to quantify the area’s amount of access.

The GIS Seminar Series is sponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning. Presentations are free and open to the public.

Brent Holland, associate professor of integrated studio arts, and Eric Cooper, associate professor of psychology, will visually explore the past and the present, the imagined and the observed through art and the science of visual cognition.

This event is part of the Relationships: Spheres of Influence exhibition on view through May 6.

The CRP Club will sell Papa John's pizza (cheese, pepperoni and sausage) for $1.50 per slice from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the foyer outside the College of Design Dean's Office. Funds will support club activities.

Weekly meeting of Design Across Boundaries student organization.

The CRP Club is hosting a series of LEED workshops for anyone interested in becoming a LEED Green Associate. Workshops are open to all majors, and snacks will be provided. Tonight's topic is "Energy and Atmosphere."

Contact Jesse Thorsen for more information.

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Paintpushers is a group of Des Moines area artists with a dual purpose: to critique members' art monthly and to exhibit work annually. The group's current show, "Paintpushers: Art of the Critique," is on display through Feb. 14 in the Gallery of the Iowa State Memorial Union.

The exhibition includes work by College of Design alumni Andrew Clarridge (BFA 2009 Integrated Studio Arts), Story City; Kristine Clemons (BFA 2000 Art & Design), Norwalk, and Chris Vance (BFA 2000 Art & Design - Visual Studies), Bondurant.

A free public reception and open critique will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the MU Gallery. Area artists are invited to bring a current piece of artwork for a group critique. Attendees may participate in a candid discussion of the art, or just observe how a critique works.

Looking for ideas or feedback? Bring your resume and/or portfolio for review. 

Experimental course forms must be approved by program director before submitting to Room 134. 

The University Print Society will sell handmade cards and T-shirts printed with a valentine theme as a fundraiser for student club members to attend an international professional printmaking conference in New Orleans over spring break.

Agenda forthcoming.

GIS SEMINAR SERIES
Using Facilitated-VGI and Smartphones as a Component of the Geodesign Process when Collecting Infrastructure Data for Improved Decision Making in Safe Routes to School Programs
Christopher J. Seeger, associate professor, landscape architecture, and ISU Extension landscape architect

Abstract
As designers and planners begin to utilize Geodesign more broadly in their projects, it is important to recognize how crowdsourcing and facilitated-VGI methods along with smartphone technologies can be utilized in community design and planning projects as a component of the Geodesign process.

This presentation will focus on how these tools were incorporated into the Iowa Department of Public Health’s I-WALK (Iowans Walking Assessment Logistics Kit) program to deliver a sustainable model for community coalitions to continuously update, implement and evaluate their local Safe Routes to School (SRTS) plan. Specific VGI technology shared in the presentation will include ESRI ArcGIS, Google Maps and smartphone (iPhone) apps for geospatial and transportation data collection. Illustrated examples showing how 12 communities participating in the 2011 I-WALK program used this technology will also be included.

The GIS Seminar Series is sponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning. Presentations are free and open to the public.

The Graduate CRP Club will sell red roses and baked goods (cookies, brownies, bars) for Valentine's Day. Prices are subject to change, but in general:

Single-stem roses - $5
Half-dozen roses - $30
Dozen roses - $60
Rose with package of goodies - $6
Package of goodies - $2
Small package of goodies - 50 cents
Hot chocolate - 50 cents

In the event of inclement weather, the sale will be moved to the foyer outside the Dean's Office in the College of Design building.

The University Print Society will sell handmade cards and T-shirts printed with a valentine theme as a fundraiser for student club members to attend an international professional printmaking conference in New Orleans over spring break.

The CRP Club will sell Papa John's pizza (cheese, pepperoni and sausage) for $1.50 per slice from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the foyer outside the College of Design Dean's Office. Funds will support club activities.

Archi-Chemical Reactions
Alessandro Cece

The postmodern condition of semantic consumption of architectural space demands a rigorous scientific method of analysis and research. As in a research lab, Cece will address this general statement in his lecture through a limited theoretical tool set of reagents applied to selected projects as elements of a metaphorical chemical reaction.

About the Speaker
Alessandro Cece is a registered Italian architect whose theoretical and practical research activity focuses on the philosophies of Peter Eisenman and Manfredo Tafuri, Italian modernism and typological studies. As a designer for Eisenman Architects, Cece participated in a number of international commissions and competitions, and his work was published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Marsilio, Edizioni Kappa, Federico Motta, Electa Napoli and Editrice Universitaria Weger. From 2009 to 2010 he was an editor for the magazine Compasses.

Cece served on the architecture faculty at the Second University of Naples from 2003 to 2009, and since 2010 he has taught interior design as an instructor for the Iowa State University College of Design Rome Program. He holds a doctorate in architectural and urban design from the Second University of Naples and a Master of Science in advanced architectural design from Columbia University.

Cece's presentation is sponsored by the ISU College of Design Rome Program.

The CRP Club is hosting a series of LEED workshops for anyone interested in becoming a LEED Green Associate. Workshops are open to all majors, and snacks will be provided. Tonight's topic is "Materials and Resources."

Contact Jesse Thorsen for more information.

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The Rome Student and Family Orientation, for participants in the summer and fall 2012 Rome Program and their families, will be from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design. A dessert reception will follow in the college's Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum.

Family members will learn what their students can expect when they study and live in Rome, view images of the College of Design's studio space in the heart of Rome's historic district, and learn about the history of the Rome Program. Faculty members will present details of the summer and fall programs, and students who previously studied in Rome will share their experiences. Our special guest will be Rome Resident Director Pia Schneider. Representatives from the Office of Financial Aid and the Office of University Counsel also will present information.

At the reception, speakers will be available for an informal question-and-answer session.

GIS SEMINAR SERIES
Real-World Private-Sector GIS and GPS Applications in Iowa
Pete Buckingham, GIS director, JCG Land Services

Abstract
Pete Buckingham has been working in Iowa as a GIS professional since 1996 with experience iIn E911 development, eight years in county government, and more than four years as a GIS consultant. This presentation will explore mid-level GIS and GPS projects in the private sector, including pplications of use of public data and county parcel information in addition to private project design to make utility projects more efficient. GPS and Trim-pix applications will also be touched upon.

The GIS Seminar Series is sponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning. Presentations are free and open to the public.

The CRP Club will sell Papa John's pizza (cheese, pepperoni and sausage) for $1.50 per slice from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the foyer outside the College of Design Dean's Office. Funds will support club activities.

Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series
The Formation of Energy in Architecture
Kiel Moe, assistant professor of architectural technology, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

A registered architect, Kiel Moe is an assistant professor of architectural technology and the area coordinator of the sustainable design concentration in the advanced studies MDesS program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He was awarded the 2009-2010 Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize in Architecture and is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Moe recently received the 2011 Architectural League of New York Prize, the 2011 AIA National Young Architect Award, and has been recognized with numerous design awards for individual projects from the American Institute of Architects, North American Wood Design Awards and Boston Society of Architects, among others.

In this lecture, Moe will address the formation of energy in contemporary architecture. He posits that all material practices are but a subset of energy practices and that this is a transformative premise for design. The focus is the degree to which energy practices can help make discipline-specific decisions in this century. One design-build project in central Colorado serves as the primary study.

The CRP Club is hosting a series of LEED workshops for anyone interested in becoming a LEED Green Associate. Workshops are open to all majors, and snacks will be provided. Tonight's topic is "Indoor Environmental Quality."

Contact Jesse Thorsen for more information.

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This exhibition features work by 58 ISU students majoring in integrated studio arts, graphic design, and interior design, who studied in Italy with the College of Design's Rome Program in summer and fall 2011.  

All students and faculty, regardless of prior experience or skill level, are invited to attend a freehand sketching workshop with Matthew Brehm, associate professor of architecture at the University of Idaho and a correspondent for Urban Sketchers.

Each summer, Brehm leads an eight-week architecture program in Rome that includes a strong focus on location drawing. He recently received the Hoffman Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Idaho, and his sketches have won awards in the Design Communication Association's Juried Drawing Exhibit. View Brehm's blog

This workshop will offer instruction on fundamentals and advanced techniques for observational sketching. Topics will include composition, basic perspective, value, media choices and discussion of sketchbook types and uses. Bring a sketchbook or pad of paper, pens and pencils (watercolors optional) to the workshop.

Seating is limited; please RSVP to Jihyun Song, assistant professor of interior design, by 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17. The workshop is funded by a TEACH grant from the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT).

GIS SEMINAR SERIES
Exploring Metadata
Amy Logan, GIS analyst, Iowa GIS Service Bureau

Abstract
In 2011, the Iowa Geographic Information Council received a grant for metadata outreach in the state of Iowa. This presentation will cover: 1) the importance of metadata creation; 2) challenges facing metadata creation as a result of recent updates to the metadata tool in ArcMap 10 along with workarounds that are being adopted by users around the state; 3) tips for creating metadata, and 4) recent work that done in conjunction with the IGIC grant.

The GIS Seminar Series is sponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning. Presentations are free and open to the public.

Chris Martin, associate professor of integrated studio arts, will share reflections on his two years living in Ghana as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and the new perspective he has gained of his own American culture as expressed through his new body of work. Robert Mazur, professor of sociology, will consider the "us and them" mentality when it comes to aid and assistance to the developing world and how this has affected development on the African continent.

This event is part of the Relationships: Spheres of Influence exhibition on view through May 6.

The CRP Club will sell Papa John's pizza (cheese, pepperoni and sausage) for $1.50 per slice from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the foyer outside the College of Design Dean's Office. Funds will support club activities.

The CRP Club is hosting a series of LEED workshops for anyone interested in becoming a LEED Green Associate. Workshops are open to all majors, and snacks will be provided. Tonight's topic is "Innovation in Design."

Contact Jesse Thorsen for more information.

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Graduate CRP Club Social Justice Lecture Series
Myths and Realities of Homelessness and Poverty: A Plan for Transforming Cities
Jane Ramsey, executive director, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

Jane Ramsey is the executive director of the Chicago-based Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, which combats poverty, racism and anti-Semitism in partnership with the city's diverse communities. Under Ramsey's leadership since 1979, JCUA has become one of Chicago's most influential organizations addressing human and civil rights issues, including immigration, homelessness and community displacement, community reinvestment, police misconduct and government accountability.

Ramsey served for two years as director of community relations for Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. She also has served on the boards of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the Chicago Coalition to Protect Public Housing and the Public Welfare Coalition, and as a commission for the Private Industry Council and the Women's Commission of the City of Chicago.

She holds a master's degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Administration and a bachelor's in sociology from Washington University in St. Louis.