I have been offered, and have accepted, a continuous appointment as senior editor at the University of Minnesota’s new College of Design. My working title is ecommunications manager in the College of Design. The job description couldn’t have been written to be a closer fit for my talents and interests.
The College of Design was formed by combining the College of Design, Housing, and Apparel (DHA) and the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) in keeping with the university’s goal of becoming one of the top three research universities in the world within a decade. The College of Design unites all of the university’s design disciplines as first envisioned by Ralph Rapson in the 1950s:
- Graphic design
- Apparel design
- Retail merchandising
- Interior design
- Housing studies
- Architecture
- Landscape architecture
The College of Design also has a wealth of institutes and centers that are now unified:
- Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR) contributes to Architecture’s M.S. track in Sustainable Design and is the only graduate program of its kind in the country
- Metropolitan Design Center (MDC) is a recognized leader in urban and suburban design
- Design Institute (DI) is widely recognized for its publications and events
- Goldestein Museum of Design (GMD) is a museum devoted to design located on the Saint Paul campus
- InformeDesign is a publicly-accessible research database
My first day on the job is tomorrow, so writing here is going to be even more embarrassingly infrequent for a while.
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