Highlights from 2019-20
“Design is about giving people the quality of life they deserve.”
Industrial designer and gerontologist Patricia Moore spoke on universal design at ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus. The lecture, titled “Design and Wellness: Creating Innovative Healthcare,” was presented by The Design School in the Herberger Institute and the Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging in Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation.
Architecture students showcased their fall studio designs in a comprehensive exhibition that included work from Global Engagement Studios in Mexico City and in Puerto Rico, work from a community-partnered studio focused on addressing design and policy challenges of homelessness, work from an Alternative Desert Cities studio and many others.
Above Juntos Together: Iván Argote
Aug.17, 2019–Jan. 4, 2020
“They did what students should do: imagine the possible, even if it seemed far-fetched.”
November 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of Tempe Town Lake, a project that transformed the dried up Rio Salado riverbed into a cultural, economic and recreational success for the community. The history of the lake dates back to 1967 when a class of architecture students at ASU were tasked with envisioning the project. ASU’s Wellington “Duke” Reiter, senior adviser to the president and executive director of the University City Exchange, said at the celebration that the university’s role in creating the lake demonstrates ASU’s charter principle of “assuming fundamental responsibility for … the communities it serves,” and he praised the architecture classes of 1967 and 1968 who first started drawing up plans.
Three professors from The Design School were recognized by Design Intelligence as the most admired educators in their fields. Associate Professor Joseph Ewan and Clinical Assistant Professor Kristian Kelley were both recognized as most admired educators in landscape architecture, and Assistant Professor Milagros Zingoni was recognized as a most admired educator in interior design.
A first-of-its-kind class assignment at ASU harnessed the power of industrial design to solve real-world business challenges. Thirty six graduate students — 18 studying business at the W. P. Carey School of Business and 18 studying industrial design at The Design School in the Herberger Institute — worked fall semester incubating ideas that could transform Republic Services’ garbage collection trucks into models of 21st-century safety and efficiency.
Design for all photo by Charlie Leight.
Architecture showcase photos by Laura Segall.
Tempe Town Lake photo by Deanna Dent.
Admired educators photos by Tim Trumble.