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Letter from the DeanSeptember 2009
reDESIGN alumni news November - December 2009 is now online |
Dear Alumni and Friends, The school year has begun and the campus looks very different from just a year ago. On the Minneapolis campus, a new classroom and student services building has begun to rise next to the Washington Avenue Bridge and the Weisman Art Museum. Designed by alumnus Bill Pedersen of the New York firm KPF, with the local firm HGA, the building will provide a welcome home for student advising and an appealing connection to East River Road and the river. Across campus, the new football stadium stands complete and ready for competition. Designed by Populous, with the local firm Architectural Alliance, the stadium is huge, with enough seating for our entire student body of almost 50,000. As part of Homecoming week, the College of Design will host a reception for our alumni and friends on October 4, just before the public tours of the stadium, at the offices of Station 19, an alumnus-owned firm immediately across the street. The St. Paul campus temporarily hosts a structure of a different sort: ICON House, the U of M’s entry in the 2009 Solar Decathlon. Architecture, graphic design, interior design, and landscape architecture students have participated in the design and building of the house, along with engineering and construction management students. We will offer tours of the structure at its Buford Place location in St. Paul before it gets shipped to Washington D.C.’s mall, where it will be open to the public during the solar decathlon competition in October. We’re proud of these accomplishments and I hope you can join us for these events. Tom Fisher Dean |
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There are a number of ways alumni, friends, and donors have become involved in the College of Design:
- There are 200+ alumni and friends that signed on to mentor students last fall
- Over 1,000 donors (700 alumni) stepped up to financially support their favorite area of the college last fiscal year
- Faculty, staff, alumni, and community members have become involved in "communities of interest," taking on issues like affordable housing, and the relationship of design to pre-K through 12th grade education.
To see more about how alumni, friends, and donors can become involved, click any of the links below.