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“Design and Mobility” The Twenty-Second Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design April 26 and 27, 2013. Parsons The New School for Design Theresa Lang Student Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor New York, New York Schedule: Friday, April 26 5:30 p.m. Professor Edward Cooke, Yale University "Material Culture and Mobility: Explicit and Implicit Notions of Movement." The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address, Reception to follow. Saturday, April 27 Session I. “Going Mobile” 11:00 a.m Dr. Iris Moon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Cabinet de platine (1800-1804): Monumentality, Materiality and the Mobile Interior at the End of the Enlightenment Penny Wolfson, Parsons The New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The Wheelchair in Post–Civil War America Rebecca Gross, Parsons The New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Holiday magazine: Paving the postwar American dream road with patriotism. Session II. “Place/No-place” 2:30 p.m. Jonathan Patkowski, City University of New York Graduate Center. Transformation, Reproduction, Reuse: The Reception of Asian Silks in Late Medieval Italy Dr. Neil Malcolm Douglas Ewins, University of Sunderland. UK ceramic manufacturing strategy, marketing and design, in response to globalization c1990-2010. Elise Hodson, York University. “Born and Raised on Kickstarter:” The Near Immaculate Conception of a Smart Watch Named Pebble The symposium is free and open to the public. R.S.V.P. by April 22 to 212-849-8344 or [log in to unmask] This symposium would not have been possible without the support of donors to the Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Memorial Fund, whom we thank for their continued generosity. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------