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2013 SEED Award Honorees Announced
Yesterday, Design Corps announced the honorees of its 2013 SEED Awards, recognizing excellence in social, economic, and environmental design. This year’s jury, chaired by Thomas Fisher of the...
View ArticleFisher Interview on Fracture-Critical Design
Following up on our earlier posts about Designing to Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design, University of Minnesota Dean Thomas Fisher‘s latest book, we’re happy to share the above...
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Kimmelman PID Week Keynote Recap
New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman gave a powerful and inspiring keynote address last night to officially kick off Public Interest Design Week. Kimmelman was introduced by both Katie...
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Metropolis Q&A with Thomas Fisher on PID Week
Continuing Metropolis Magazine‘s expansive coverage of Public Interest Design Week, writer Mason Riddle interviewed Dean Thomas Fisher of the University of Minnesota College of Design, for a piece...
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"We Have Designed Cities To Make People Ill"
Although the 2014 AIA Convention concluded this past weekend in Chicago, the thought-provoking conversations and discussions are seeping out online into the larger architecture community. One of the...
View ArticleThomas Fisher on "Redefining Practice"
Thomas Fisher, Dean of the College of Design at University of Minnesota, recently spoke about “Redesigning the Practice of Architecture to Reach the 95%” with Enoch Sears on the Business of...
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Dean Fisher Leaving UMN College of Design
Last week University of Minnesota College of Design Dean Thomas Fisher announced he was stepping down in June. In 18 years at the helm–a decade as dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape...
View ArticleNew Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook Released Today
We are happy to announce that the Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues has officially been released today. Edited by Lisa M. Abendroth and...
View ArticleBook: Designing to Avoid Disaster
Tuesday marked the official release date of Thomas Fisher‘s latest book, Designing to Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design (Routledge, 2012). Fisher is dean of the College of Design...
View ArticleTEDx Talk on Fracture-Critical Design
Yesterday, TEDxUMN–an independently organized TED event at the University of Minnesota–posted Tom Fisher‘s talk from the group’s April event. Fisher, dean of the College of Design and a prolific...
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