New class: redesign a Chicago Public School cafeteria, Spring + Summer 2012

It is with great pleasure that I annouce my new class in Spring + Summer 2012: to redesign a Chicago Public School cafeteria. Through a generous donation by the Motorola Foundation, this project will hit at the intersection between design and public policy, and will make tangible and concrete the impact research and design can have on today's problems.

Download a PDF of the info session poster here.

My proposal to redesign a Chicago Public School cafeteria was awarded the Motorola GFRY Studio Grant

I'm incredibly honoured (and thrilled to bits) to say that I have been awarded a grant and an opportunity to teach a class to redesign a Chicago Public School cafeteria next year. The GFRY Studio is funded through a generous grant from the Motorola Foundation and is described below (by the SAIC)

The GFRY is a collaborative, trans-disciplinary design and fabrication studio that actively cooperates with industry to explore how new technologies, social forms and materials can be integrated to produce innovative objects, media, environments and experiences for the challenges of an increasingly complex world. The studio produces work for targeted public opportunities such as art, design and technology expositions, design competitions and topical research publications. Students are admitted via an application reviewed by the faculty.

I also have the honor of working alongside the talented Mr. Parsons (another British design professor teaching at the School) and other faculty from other departments.

Now the really hard part begins, finding just the right CPS Elementary school.