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Two things we're excited about today:

1⃣ This view👆
2⃣ Ten days until #Inktober2021 ...

TUESDAY, 9/28 - 🔗 in bio!

Please join us for the first event in our Fall Architecture Lecture Series with poet Ross Gay.

Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

His new poem, Be Holding, was released from the University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2020. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. ...

@aiasncsu is hosting its annual Pop-Up Print Shop this semester!

This is an opportunity to submit your art that will be sold in prints by AIAS, and half of the proceeds will go back to you (the artist) and half of it will be donated to student efforts here at the College of Design! AIAS is currently accepting submissions on their website (link in bio) by September 24th, and the sale will go on from Sept. 29 - Oct. 11.

Each student may submit up to 5 submissions, and make sure to come back in a couple of weeks to support your fellow student artists! This is open to faculty, students, and alumni. ...

Mark Johnson, of Denver-based @civitasinc, will present the annual Charles H. Burger Lecture on Wednesday, September 22 at 6:00 pm in Burns Auditorium. The lecture will also be broadcast live over Zoom.

In this lecture, entitled "Finding the Missing Landscape", Mark Johnson will reflect on the increased value of connected green places resulting from the pandemic. Green connectivity, green infrastructure, and green mosaics are no longer a desire or even a need, they are imperative to support public health, mitigate climate impacts and urban heat island conditions.

This discussion will show a range of efforts to improve green connectivity across North America in urban locations. The landscapes that are missing are the ones we pass through but do not identify as whole places - threads, patches and voids that have neither social nor ecological identity or integrity. 🔗 in bio! ...

WEDNESDAY: Industrial Design Studio Hour with Holly Coggings [BID '17] of @BOLTGROUP!

Holly won a 2021 Red Dot Design Award for the design of the Oransi Mod Air Purifier. 🔗in bio! ...

Did you know that our Master of Art + Design program hosts their own podcast series? CTRL+ALT is a podcast hosted by students in our Master of Art and Design program here at NC State.

They investigate the evolution of technology, media, and society, questioning how our past, present, and speculative futures influence the creative process and its potential outcomes.

Check it out: 🔗in bio ...

Fire up the kiln! Or, rather, the printer!

In Architectural Ceramic Fabrication (ARC 590) taught by professor Shawn Protz, students are tasked with applying 3D printing techniques to traditional North Carolina ceramic crafting.

Through algorithmic modeling, digital fabrication, hands-on making, observation, collection and discussion, the course spans the history and techniques from native makers and folk potters to emerging digital systems. ...

“When you do public art, it’s about the public not the artist,” says Stacy Utley – an artist and educator whose work addresses complex narratives found within the African-American diaspora.

J. Stacy Utley [BED ’01, B.Arch. ’06] has executed projects which can be found in galleries and public spaces reflecting the communities that inspired them.
Read his full story: 🔗in bio ...

The College of Design has named Kofi Boone, FASLA, professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning, as the Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor.

The Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professorship rotates between NC State’s colleges and is awarded for a period of three to five years. In 2021, the chancellor and provost invited each college to nominate an outstanding tenured professor whose scholarship addresses issues of equity, inclusion and diversity in their field. 🔗in bio ...

As students return to campus for the first time in over a year, it's understandable that reacclimating to life at the College of Design can be a challenge.

Jenny Tiet started a completely new position at the college in April with the mission of providing support to students experiencing academic difficulty and working with student organizations to help the design students feel a sense of community

We spoke with Jenny on what it means to advise a community of creatives, what services are available for students and her mission at the college. 🔗in bio! ...