Faculty

03/01/19 AMES, Iowa — A team of Iowa State University College of Design faculty has received the inaugural BNIM Regenerative Design Challenge grant to study the potential conversion of existing buildings into homes for young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder using the principles of regenerative design. Sponsored by BNIM, an award-winning national design firm with offices in Des Moines, Kansas City and San Diego, the BNIM Regenerative Design Challenge supports…

March 1, 2019

February 13, 2019

01/14/19 AMES, Iowa — An exhibition of works merging the analog and digital will be on display Jan. 16 through Feb. 2 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. Titled “Very Very Real,” the show will include still-life surfaces of vegetative matter and digitally-derived works by Roman Chikerinets, ISU lecturer in architecture; embroidery by Leslie Forehand, lecturer and the David Lingle Faculty Fellow…

January 14, 2019

November 28, 2018

November 13, 2018

10/31/18 AMES, Iowa — Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske, Iowa State University assistant professors of architecture, are the recipients of the 2018 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Research Incentive Award for their project "Polycasting: multi-material 3D printed formwork for reinforced concrete." Doyle and Senske, together with lecturer Leslie Forehand, are co-founders of the ISU Department of Architecture's Computation and Construction Lab. The $5,000 award will support their developing…

October 31, 2018

08/27/18 AMES, Iowa — Recent artwork by 18 faculty of the Iowa State University Department of Art and Visual Culture is on display Aug. 22 through Sept. 8 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “For the Common Good” features prints, paintings, photographs, illustrations, furniture, video, and fiber, metal and interactive works. The exhibition was inspired in part by an essay by Johnnella E.…

August 27, 2018

08/17/18 AMES, Iowa — Following an internal search, the Iowa State University College of Design has appointed Seda McKilligan to serve as its associate dean for academic programs, effective immediately. McKilligan, an associate professor of industrial design, will oversee the college’s undergraduate and graduate academic programs, including international programs, interdisciplinary programs and the first-year Core Design Program. She will also provide oversight for the Office of Student Services and Programs, including…

August 17, 2018

June 8, 2018

03/14/18 AMES, Iowa — A traveling exhibition celebrating the geological history and landscape of Ledges State Park is on display March 17-April 28 at the Boone History Center, 602 Story St., Boone. “Common Channel: Responses to Ledges State Park” features three-dozen artworks by Iowa State University College of Design faculty and graduate students with a common interest in the Ledges and in nature art, said the show’s curator, Nancy Thompson,…

March 14, 2018