AS OF MARCH 12, 2020: Due to the uncertainty of the health crisis we currently face and the University’s decision to move classes online and cancel or postpone campus events until at least April 6, we have decided to postpone our Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit. We will focus on planning events and activities to be held during fall semester that will deepen our investigation of arts/design/health possibilities at Penn State. Please contact adri@psu.edu to express interest in a future ADRI event such as this.
Location: 125 Borland (Borland Project Space)
Discussion Moderated by Lisa Iulo, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Hamer Center for Community Design; Lacey Goldberg, Ph.D. candidate for the dual-title degree in Architecture and Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment, instructor in Landscape Architecture and researcher in the Hamer Center for Community Design; and William Doan, ADRI Director, professor of theatre, artist-in-residence in the College of Nursing, 2019-20 Penn State Laureate
This session is part of the Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit organized by the Arts & Design Research Incubator and the Hamer Center for Community Design at Penn State: https://adri.psu.edu/news/arts-design-and-health-exploration-whats-possible-penn-state. Faculty, students, and staff in all disciplines are invited to register for sessions.
Decision-makers, including designers, often lack timely access to relevant science and ways of facilitating community dialogue about trade-offs or community priorities. Direct engagement with affected communities can help to ensure that scientific resources address the problems, that appropriate questions are posed to inform the science, and that the design solutions proposed respond to science and the needs of the community.” How can we further facilitate this transdisciplinary, reciprocal dialog?
Potential Questions:
How do we get to Actions? What defines the questions that we ask, the research we do, and the work we create?
Engagement Actions
To have an impact, it is important to align knowledge with what people need/want. Research = creating new knowledge. We can frame the questions – but how do we know we’re asking the right questions?
Register for this session: https://research-questions.eventbrite.com
Lisa D. Iulo is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Hamer Center for Community Design (HCCD) at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research and creative accomplishments focus on building and planning for a more sustainable and resilient built environment. Specifically, Lisa’s work has been recognized in research and design related to residential green building and affordable housing, energy efficiency and strategies for the implementation of renewable energy at the building and community scale. With support from Penn State, NSF and DOE, she has been working with colleagues to better understand the building/community relationships and opportunities where research, data and improved decision-making can inform the design of resilient sustainable homes, buildings and communities. Lisa has been a member of the architecture faculty at the Penn State since 2003. Her teaching and research is closely linked with outreach and community engagement with a goal of facilitating collaboration across disciplines.
Lacey Goldberg is a Ph.D. candidate for the dual-title degree in Architecture and Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment, an instructor in Landscape Architecture and a researcher in the Hamer Center for Community Design (HCCD) at the Pennsylvania State University. She also has a background in fine art doing sculptural and installation art, often with community, ecological and environmental themes. Through the HCCD she is working on transdisciplinary research and design approaches to community- and regional-scale flood resilience in Pennsylvania. Lacey’s research has focused on cultural resource conservation in the National Capital Region and the visual impacts of energy development, specifically natural gas extractive industries, and their effects on the scenic and cultural landscapes of Pennsylvania and other locales. Her current research focuses on utilizing crowdsourced photography and geospatial data to develop procedures for integrating visual and cultural resource conservation into regional-scale landscape management plans.
William J. Doan, Ph.D. is a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a Fellow in the College of Fellows of The American Theatre. In addition to articles in scholarly journals, Doan has co-authored three books and several plays. He has created solo performance projects at a variety of venues across the U.S., and abroad. His current work includes a new performance piece, Frozen In The Toilet Paper Aisle of Life, part of a larger project titled The Anxiety Project. Work from this project includes multiple short graphic narratives published in the Annals of Internal Medicine/Graphic Medicine, and Cleaver Magazine. He is a Professor of Theatre in the College of Arts and Architecture, Director of the Arts and Design Research Incubator, and Artist-in-Residence for the College of Nursing at The Pennsylvania State University. Doan is serving as the Penn State Laureate for 2019-2020. You can see more of his work at his website, https://williamjdoan.com/
