2012-2015 AY
Tepper named dean of ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Dec. 27, 2013—After ten years of exceptional research and practice at the Curb Center, Steven Tepper has accepted an appointment as dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Steven’s opportunity is an extraordinary one, and a testimony to his expertise and stature in the field of arts careers, creative practice,...
Conversations/Conversas with Ashley Larson
Dec. 18, 2013—Ashley Larson talks “Conversations/Conversas,” the Vanderbilt Art Dept & University of Sao Paulo collaboration People often ask me (family members especially), “why are you learning Portuguese?” or “why do you speak Portuguese?” The answer I frequently give is that I have always had a love for the Spanish language and so when I was earning...
What is a Victorianist doing at the Curb Center? Or, Everything Old Is New Again
Sep. 24, 2013—[Guest post by Elizabeth S. Meadows, @MorbidVictorian, new Faculty Director of Curb Creative Campus & Curb Scholars Program] Early this summer, Sotheby’s, the famed auction house that brokered the sale of such iconic works as Vincent van Gogh’s Irises and Edvard Munch’s The Scream, announced that a version of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpine will...
“Frantic & exciting”: Clayton reflects on week one of his Coursera LOTR MOOC
Sep. 17, 2013—Curb director’s Coursera course launched September 9th Professor Jay Clayton got 40,000 new students this week, and for a moment, the thirty-year writer and lecturer is at a loss for words. “It’s been … dizzying!” he finally laughs. Fifteen minutes after “Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative” launched last Monday afternoon, more than 1000...
Tepper: technology doesn’t fundamentally change what people want from life/work/social encounters/culture; it changes how we go about achieving these human goals and desires
Sep. 5, 2013—Last month’s NYTimes cover story, “High Culture Goes Hands On,” argues that the renaissance of the “quest for experience,” revived by web 2.0 technologies, has museums scrambling to provide “the kinds of participatory experiences available almost everywhere else,” and this has author Judith H. Dobrzynski concerned: “Some of these initiatives are necessary, even good. But...
Getting Unplugged by Harvey Burrell
Aug. 14, 2013—“If you aren’t being challenged, you die” -Soren, Noma Restaurant Farmer In light of the Media Immersion workshop I am co-teaching this week, I thought now would be a good opportunity to think about how to introduce people to design thinking practices for the first time. Learning about design thinking is a bit like...
One-on-One: Steven J. Tepper talks Creativity Camp at the University of Hartford
Aug. 5, 2013—One-on-One: Steven J. Tepper talks Creativity Camp at the University of Hartford A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Steven J. Tepper guided colleagues at the University of Hartford (Connecticut) through a week of creative experimentation. As happy as we were to see him back in the office, we were even more curious about how others...
What Exactly Is It That You Do? by Curb Scholar Harvey Burrell
Aug. 2, 2013—I have spent the summer dodging the question: “What exactly is it that you do?” There is no simple answer. The technical answer is that I work for a design consulting firm, whatever that means, by the name of Future Partners. Future is known for helping companies jump the ingenuity gap aka companies that need...
Diebenkorn by Curb Scholar Keith Berquist
Jul. 29, 2013—A couple weekends back I went to the De Young museum on a Sunday afternoon, just to check it out. They had a special exhibit on Richard Diebenkorn, who was this abstract impressionist painter from the 1950’s-60’s living in the SF Bay Area. I’d never really been a fan of abstract or modern art up...