James Gilmore, author of “The Experience Economy”

Arnold Hall, auditorium
Thursday, Sept. 13, 6 p.m.

James Gilmore, the author of “The Experience Economy,” will share his “economic theory of everything.” Gilmore will describe the future landscape in which students will be asked to create value in the lives of others and the world around them.

Performing Architecture is a one-day graduate symposium, bringing together emergent discourses in architecture and performance in order to identify shared critical methods and to devise new territories for practice.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• activism and the public sphere
• temporality and the event
• filmic architecture
• public art
• artistic adaptation
• curatorial practices
• institutional frameworks
• theater
• spectatorship
• ephemeral/temporary architecture
• utopia

Please submit abstracts of 300 words for 20 minute presentations, along with a curriculum vitæ to performing.architecture2012@gmail.com by August 11, 2012.

http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/listing/7713/

Join Ph.D. candidate and MIT researcher Anthony Vanky as he discusses the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory, which explores the “real-time city” growing implementation of sensors and personal devices that allow a new approach to the study of the built environment.

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http://www.alvaraaltosymposium.fi/

School of Building Arts students should not miss these events that are part of SCAD Style this year. Both are at the SCAD MOA, and are an easy commute from Eichberg.

Monday, Apr. 16
Lecture
Florian Idenburg, SO-IL (so-il.org)
7:00 pm SCAD Museum of Art

Wednesday, Apr. 18
Lecture
John Bricker, principal and creative director, Gensler
11:30 am SCAD Museum of Art

SCAD School of Building Arts is offering a series of tutorials and question-and-answer workshops for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. These tutorials will be held on Friday afternoons throughout Spring Quarter in Eichberg 202A, and will be followed by an open workshop for any questions with a specific project. Each session will be peer-taught by SCAD Architecture graduate student Kristi Buchler. Sign up for each tutorial will be in Eichberg’s main office – room 205 – during the week that tutorial is held. The schedule is below; topics listed for each tutorial are minimum, additional topics will be addressed based on need and schedule.

Please email Krisit at kbuchl20@studnet.scad.edu, or McKenzie Lynah at elynah@scad.edu, with any questions.

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Friday, March 30th (week one)
1:00 – Adobe Suite Basics (best use of each program, file types, workflow)
2:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, April 6th (week two)
1:00 – Introduction to Photoshop (getting started, basic cleanup tools)
2:00 – Introduction to Illustrator (getting started, basic tools)
3:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, April 20th (week four)
1:00 – Introduction to InDesign (getting started, basic layout tools)
2:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, May 4th (week six)
1:00 – Intermediate Photoshop (advanced selection tools, masks, brushes, gradients)
2:00 – Intermediate Illustrator (drawing tools, masks, patterns, brushes)
3:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, May 11th (week seven)
1:00 – Intermediate InDesign (advanced text tools, frame and image tools)
2:00 – Advanced Photoshop and Illustrator
3:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, May 25th (week nine)
1:00 – Document Production Workshop (help with boards, portfolio, thesis book, process book)

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Dana Thomas is a Paris-based fashion and culture journalist and is a contributing editor for the Wall Street Journal’s monthly magazine. She served as the European editor of Conde Nast Portfolio from 2008-09, was European cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris from 1995-2008, and contributed to various publications including The New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times in London and Australian Harper’s Bazaar. She also writes regularly for Architectural Digest and ELLE Decor. Penguin Press published her New York Times bestselling book, “Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster,” in 2007. Open to SCAD students, faculty and staff free of charge. Available to the public with the cost of admission to the SCAD Museum of Art. Visit the SCAD Museum of Art website.

Jan 19 – Urban Design, Roger Sherman
Jan 26 – Architectural History, Kim Sexton
Feb 2 – Furniture Design, Rob Eastman
Feb 16 – Architecture, Dolan Daggett
Feb 23 – Interior Design, Will McGovern
Mar 1 – Historic Preservation, Ron Stanley
Mar 8 – Urban Design, Lola Sheppard