Center for Design
The Center for Design is Northeastern’s platform for interdisciplinary design research; it’s a space for collaborative research activities and a hub for connecting the actors of the design eco-system. It aims at sharing knowledge and practices, shaping common tools and methods, strengthening a unified disciplinary ground.
The complexity of the grand challenges surrounding health, security, mobility, sustainability and democracy demands a long-term shared research effort that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Design as an ‘interdisciplinary and integrative discipline’–with its capacity to map the complex dynamics of an issue, foresee its evolution, and shape tangible and intangible interfaces, experiences, services and systems–can empower the network between and across disciplines. Design also facilitates the cross-disciplinary discourse itself through innovative communication methods, and as a ‘third discipline’ mediates across humanics.
The Center for Design opens up a new space for these interdisciplinary exchanges; it is where the design research agenda is collectively shaped and innovative solutions are collaboratively conceived and developed through joint research initiatives. Building solid ground for the bridges that CAMD faculty members have already established internally and promoting new collaborations with other areas both within and beyond Northeastern University, the Center for Design gathers the critical mass needed to leverage existing research initiatives, providing them a fertile environment to grow and systematically sustain them.
Design Research Week
In conjunction with Design Museum Week, the Center for Design at the Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design hosts an annual Design Research Week— a week of presentations, conversations, studio visits, exhibits, and workshops with colleagues, faculty, and students in design research.
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How to reserve space at the Center for Design, space amenities, acceptable reasons for reserving space, and rules for using space at the Center for Design
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Architecture professor debunks "lone genius" myth in new book
The Center for Design and the Department of Architecture will present a talk for Amanda Lawrence's latest book, The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century on Friday, December 1.
November 28, 2023
Learning Experience Design and Technology
Co-op (or, cooperative education) is an experiential learning program enabling you to explore potential career paths while alternating semesters of academic study with 6-month periods of full-time, paid employment.
January 27, 2023
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