Center for Integrative Design

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Center for Integrative Design (C4iD) provides students, faculty, staff, scholars, researchers and the public with a collaborative and interdisciplinary hub for research, education, and outreach centered on design issues, processes, and products. The C4iD fosters appreciation of design histories and intercultural intelligences, nurtures holistic design, and promotes integrative design as our hope for the future.

VISION:

The Center for Integrative Design will be a noteworthy and essential scholarly hub for ideas and outcomes by facilitating the creation of new knowledge and new insights. It will foster the integration of a wide range of disciplines in confronting the various ethical and physical dilemmas that will face tomorrow’s world.

VALUES:

- We believe in the power of design to envelop and enrich us, creating beauty, harmony, efficiency, and sustainability.

- We believe that great design can change our world for the better.

- We believe that the integration of disciplines (science, engineering, art, design, ecology, anthropology, to name a few) will be the key to progress in the future.

CENTER FUNCTIONS/CORE PROCESSES:

Create Networks, Partnerships, Relationships that enhance collaborative research

Be a hub for information and resources on design theory and practice Library

Print resources (i.e. Center & HLATC Newsletter, Exhibition pubs.)

Electronic resources (Web sites and data bases)

Scholar resources (faculty and staff make themselves available to other organizations, university projects/research)

Enable interdisciplinary research with design as fulcrum of understanding between art and science.

Maintain and nurture a permanent textile collection of international significance

Develop and mount exhibitions

Create gatherings for intellectual exchange

Sponsor conferences

Provide public lectures

Host designers and visiting scholars

Create an integrated Resource Center

Textile Collection

Textile Library

Interior design resource library

Gallery

Create virtual resources including a web site with a dynamic series of lectures, primarily organized on the UW Campus, that can become a searchable, pod-cast library of great ideas.

Provide subscriptions to design data bases and resources for the benefit of the University Community (in association with the library system)

CONTACT: Mark Nelson, Faculty Director
EMAIL: center4design@mail.sohe.wisc.edu
PHONE: 608-261-1003

Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

Design Gallery

Department of Design Studies

School of Human Ecology, Madison, WI 53706 (Visit directory for address)
Student Academic Affairs Office Phone: (608) 262-2608
Deans's Office Phone: (608) 262-4847 Fax: (608) 265-4969
Feedback, questions or accessibility issues: webmaster@mail.sohe.wisc.edu
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File last updated:

November 7, 2011