In today’s globalized marketplace, with ubiquity across designed products, individuals in diverse cultures around the globe may be found carrying the same iPhones and wearing the same Nike sneakers. Tonya Sweet—artist, designer, and lecturer in the Department of Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand—will address this pervasion in her talk “Culturally Reflective Design: Strategies for the Development of Culture-Specific Products.”
Her talk will be held Wednesday, April 17, at 4 p.m. in the Batza Room of Goucher College’s Athenaeum. A discussion session and light refreshments will follow.
Sweet teaches furniture design to undergraduate design students at Victoria University. Her research entails the development of pedagogical strategies that support the introduction of cultural- and context-specific design production in beginning design education.
This lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Goucher College’s Masters of Cultural Sustainability (MACS) Program For more information, contact Amy Skillman, co-academic director of MACS, at amy.skillman@goucher.edu or Tom Walker, co-academic director of MACS, at thomas.walker@goucher.edu.