Design for the Senses

Design for the Senses

The Design School Lectures are free and open to the public.

Design Discussion featuring Richard E. Cytowic and Ellen Lupton 

Curator and writer Ellen Lupton will actively engage the audience in processes of perception, interpretation and storytelling. How do vision and language interact with taste and smell? How is a joke like a trainwreck? How does a Nina Simone song taste? What makes the shower scene in Hitchcock’s Psycho seem so violent? Expand your brain as you discover these answers and more! This presentation draws on Lupton’s ongoing research on design and storytelling.

Ellen Lupton
Senior Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Recent exhibitions include
Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (with Andreas Lipps), How Posters Work, and Beautiful Users. Lupton also serves as director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she has authored numerous books on design processes, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen. Her upcoming book, Design Is Storytelling, will be published by Cooper Hewitt in 2017. Lupton earned her BFA from The Cooper Union in 1985.

Richard E. Cytowic
Professor of Neurology, George Washington University

Richard E. Cytowic, MD, MFA, Professor of Neurology at George Washington University, is best known for having rediscovered synesthesia — the cross–coupling of the senses — and returning it to mainstream science. He received the Montaigne Medal with David Eagleman for
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue, a book Oliver Sacks called “a unique and indispensable guide for anyone interested in how we perceive the world.”

An author of TED–Ed lessons, Dr Cytowic writes “The Fallible Mind” column at
Psychology Today and has spoken at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and cultural institutions worldwide. Media appearances include BBC documentaries of his work, Good Morning America, and All Things Considered. He received his MFA in creative writing from American University, and is an Artist Fellow of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is currently finishing Digital Distractions, a book about screen addiction.

“The Fallible Mind” column at 
Psychology Today  http://bit.ly/rFVQd6
Twitter: @Cytowic
LinkedIn:  Linkedin.com/in/cytowic
Website: Cytowic.net  

Elaine Miller
The Design School
480-965-9588
Elaine.Miller@asu.edu
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Design North, Room 60, Tempe campus