You are cordially invited to join us on Friday, May 2, 2014 in celebration of a new generation of design critics, editors, authors, curators, researchers, and educators. "Lingua Franca: The 2014 D-Crit Conference" promises a fast-paced afternoon packed with fresh thinking about design, featuring SVA MFA Design Criticism graduating students, British architecture critic and Strelka Press director Justin McGuirk and, as guest speakers: novelist and critic Nicholson Baker; curator of Design and Architecture at Hong Kong's M+ museum Aric Chen; material anthropologist and researcher Emily Stokes-Rees; and digital humanities advocate Peter Lunenfeld. 

Thanks to the generous support of our supporting partners, including Mailchimp, the 2014 D-Crit conference is free and open to the public, but you do need to sign up to save your comfortable seat in the SVA Theatre. You are welcome to join us for one or all of the presentations.

12:30  Registration and refreshments
1:00   Alice Twemlow, Opening Remarks
1:15   Nicholson Baker, "Wrapping Sentences Around Things"
2:00   Justin McGuirk, Opening Remarks
2:15   Emily Stokes-Reese, "Museumizing the National Imagination: Reflections on Citizenship and Time Traveling"
2:45   Anne Quito: "Designing a Country from Scratch: Nation Branding in South Sudan"
3:00   Anna Marie Smith: "Materializing Miniature Living: The Rise of Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments"
3:15   Q&A: Emily Stokes-Rees, Anne Quito, Anna Marie Smith
3:30   Coffee Break
3:45    Aric Chen: "Building a Visual Culture Museum from Zero, or The World, from Another Point of View"
4:15    Nawar N. Al-Kazemi: "Khaleeji Design: An Imported Aesthetic?"
4:30    Sandra Nuut: "Curating Critically: New Forms of Fashion Exhibition"
4:45    Amanda Vallance: "Thinking Through Chinese High Fashion Design"
5:00    Q&A: Aric Chen, Nawar N. Al-Kazemi, Sandra Nuut, Amanda Vallance
5:15    Coffee Break
5:30    Peter Lunenfeld: "Your Client is the Future"
6:00    Lynda Decker: "Sex Wax on the Subway: Mythology and the Urban Surfer"
6:15    Caterina Francisca: "Designers in White Lab Coats: When Design Meets Scientific Research"
6:30    Q&A: Peter Lunenfeld, Lynda Decker,Caterina Francisca
6:45    Closing Remarks
7:30    Reception

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