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Fall 2024 Lecture Series

UK College of Design hosts Fall 2024 Lecture Series

Haley Simpkins
 Nov 11, 2024
Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Product Design, Research

The University of Kentucky College of Design’s Fall 2024 Lecture Series offered a dynamic lineup of talks, exhibitions and workshops that explored the intersection of design, architecture and innovation. This semester’s events included insights from renowned professionals, interactive workshops and exhibitions that highlighted both emerging and established voices in the design world. Find a full list of the featured events below:

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Slip Casting - Spring 2025 Elective

Nov 7, 2024
College of Design, Product Design

This Spring 2025 elective course explores the art and technique of slip casting, a ceramic process that involves pouring liquid clay (slip) into plaster molds to create precise, repeatable forms. 

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College of Design Fabricating Play - Spring 2025 Elective

Oct 31, 2024
Architecture, College of Design

Fabricating Play is a design build course focused on the design, development, fabrication, and assembly of an architectural installation. The course begins with individual investigations of material and form and then moves forward as a team to select the elements, aesthetics, forms, and methods to fabricate the final construction(s). 

Wright leads a hands-on design workshop. Mark Cornelison | UK Photo

Nike’s VP of Design Culture inspires UK students through collaboration and creativity

Haley Simpkins
 Oct 28, 2024
College of Design, Product Design

The University of Kentucky College of Design, College of Education and Gatton College of Business and Economics hosted Nike’s Vice President of Design Culture and Blue Ribbon Studio Ronnie Wright for a series of events across campus earlier this month.  

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Spring 2025 Electives Offered by the School of Interiors

Oct 24, 2024
College of Design, Interiors

The School of Interiors is offering a range of electives for the Spring 2025 semester, for both Interiors students and non-majors. Register Now

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Interiors students lead donation drive for hurricane-impacted NC communities

Oct 24, 2024
College of Design, Interiors

On October 19, 2024, second-year Interiors students Kat Pence and Noah Nolan headed to Swannanoa, North Carolina in a vehicle loaded to the brim with relief supplies for communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. 

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Department of Historic Preservation hosts Dry Stone Masonry Workshop

Haley Simpkins
 Oct 15, 2024
College of Design, Historic Preservation

The Department of Historic Preservation and the Dry Stone Conservancy cohosted a dry-stone masonry workshop at the Lower Howard's Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve in Clark County earlier this month.   

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College of Design 2024 Lyman T. Johnson award recipients

Haley Simpkins
 Oct 14, 2024
Alumni, College of Design, University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky Alumni Association, in partnership with the UK Office for Community Relations honored two members of the UK College of Design community during the 33rd annual Lyman T. Johnson Awards Luncheon. 

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Meakins and Chugh to present at Interior Design Educators Council Regional Symposium

Sep 23, 2024
College of Design, Interiors, Research

School of Interiors faculty members Jennifer Meakins and Aanya Chugh will be part of a peer reviewed panel discussion at the Interior Design Educators Council Regional Symposium, scheduled for Oct. 31- Nov. 1, 2024. 

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Swanson selected as Lewis Honors College Faculty Fellow

Sep 19, 2024
College of Design, University of Kentucky

Liz Swanson, associate professor in the School of Architecture and Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the College of Design, was one of six professors selected as inaugural Faculty Fellows for the  Lewis Honors College. The program "celebrates excellence in teaching and supports LHC students in the university’s degree-granting colleges through new opportunities in coursework, field trips and speakers."

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