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Curb Internship Blog: Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
Jul. 1, 2014—By Anjelica Saulsberry This blog is part of the Curb Scholars Internship Program. My beginning days with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless have served as some of my most humble. I began this internship expecting to be in the office making phone calls and assisting the Finance Department; however, I feel as though I will...
Apply now: Curb Fellow in Media, Art, and Public Policy, 2014-15
Mar. 10, 2014—Applications accepted through Friday, March 28. The Curb Center is pleased to announce a continuing fellowship opportunity for advanced graduate students in the humanities or humanistic social sciences at Vanderbilt University. For the academic year 2014-15, the Curb Center offers a year-long fellowship to support a student who has completed his or her comprehensive examination...
Using Google Forms in the Classroom (HASTAC Cross-Post)
Feb. 7, 2014—This post originally appeared on HASTAC.org on February 7, 2014. The original post and comments can be found here. Weekly course assignments can be a headache for both instructors and students. Students lament having to print them (let alone do them), and instructors lament opening several hundred emails in the course of a semester. However,...
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,...
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...
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...