Schools

School leading the workshop: Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design’s Associate Professors of Environmental Design, Penny Herscovitch & Dan Gottlieb, will lead the 2014 workshop. For more than 80 years, Art Center has achieved an international reputation for a rigorous, transdisciplinary curriculum, faculty of professionals, strong ties to industry and a commitment to socially responsible design. In recognition of its success in applying design innovations for humanitarian purposes worldwide, Art Center became the first design college to be granted NGO status with the United Nations.
Other schools participating: Tama Art University (Tokyo), Centro University (Mexico), ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres (Paris), ENSCI les ateliers (Paris)

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Art Center College of Design Student work (clockwise from upper L): Chairs for ATU by Youmin Kim; AHA 3D Printed Light by May Liu, Shingo Mamiya & Taizo Suzuki; OriAkari Light by Scott Lee & Hayato Saito; Slice Light by Jenny Chen; Harbor Chair by Brandon Ki

Learn to create. Influence change. This is the mission of Art Center College of Design. For more than 80 years, we’ve achieved an international reputation for our rigorous, transdisciplinary curriculum, faculty of professionals, strong ties to industry and a commitment to socially responsible design. At Art Center, we prepare artists and designers to make a positive impact in their chosen fields—as well as the world at large.

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Photo courtesy of Tama University

Tama University is for students who seek a well rounded education, academic excellence, personal attention, inspiration, and support. Tama University is known for its academic rigor, its outstanding student-centered curriculum, superb faculty, and beautiful campus. It is a place where teachers and students – or students among themselves – “communicate” their burning ambitions. It is also a place where new ideas are created.

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Photo courtesy of Centro

CENTRO is an institution of higher learning that specializes in creative studies, training alongside leading professionals and study programs that strike a careful balance between theory and praxis, talent and discipline, and risk and certainty, with interdisciplinary and enterprising focus. It is a program that is congruent throughout each of its parts, in everything from its physical installations and its people to its content. All elements share the same spirit of redefining creativity’s reach.

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Photo courtesy of ENSCI les ateliers

ENSCI les Ateliers is recognised for its innovative approach to design education, based on diversity of student profiles, individualised programming and project-based learning. Academic study is balanced with professional experience and the study platform allows each student to develop his / her own profile, vision and field of practice.  Students gain experience in applying design intelligence to a range of socio-economic and cultural contexts and are exposed to a constantly evolving range of design fields and projects.

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Located in the heart of Paris, France, ENSAAMA has an outstanding reputation for educating undergraduate and postgraduate students. With 950 students and 18 studios, the school covers all fields of design as well as contemporary crafts. Its mission is very much focused on making sure that our graduates are fully equipped to impact the business world significantly. With long-standing relationships with the art and design industries and permanent teaching staff, all experts in their subjects, are supported by associate and visiting lecturers who are active practitioners in their chosen fields. The school is always adapting its curriculum to the requirements of the changing economic, marketing and industrial paradigms.