graduate media design program Call for Proposals
2010 Ideas-in-the-Making
Summer Research Residency
Submission Deadline: CLOSED

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 Residency Award Announcement

April 8, 2010:
We received at least three times the submissions we expected, and an overwhelming number of them were exceptional. We were sincerely blown-away by the quality of work proposed. Our jury had to make a selection however, and – based on a variety of factors – Sean Donahue, Ben Hooker, Fiona Raby, and Bruce Sterling asked us to support the following TWO projects:

SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF
Daniel Salomon and Ingrid Hora

SUPERCALIFORNIA
Sascha Pohflepp

The results will be publicly presented in a Research Review on August 18, 2010, and as part of the MDP's fall exhibition, "made up," in the Wind Tunnel Gallery on Art Center's South Campus.

We are so grateful to all who submitted such thoughtful and intelligent proposals. Please keep an eye out for our upcoming events in the "made up" project.

—Anne Burdick and Tim Durfee

 

 

 

 This call welcomes designers, filmmakers, architects, scholars, researchers, and artists to submit proposals for design-driven research projects to be conducted in Summer 2010 in the Graduate Media Design Program studio. We are looking for projects that are motivated by research questions and that use design/making as a mode of inquiry. We are particularly interested in projects that address the theme “made up” which explores the role of fiction in design.

The residency is open from May 2 – August 27, 2010 and includes dedicated project space within the MDP studio – a former supersonic wind tunnel, recently renovated – on the south campus of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Candidates will receive a $5,000 stipend and a $5,000 budget for materials and support along with access to the College’s shops and production facilities ranging from letterpress to video editing to rapid prototyping. Each researcher will get to work with a team of between 2–5 graduate student research interns (media designers/design researchers) depending on the needs of the project.

The results of the research residency – which may assume a variety of forms – will be exhibited as part of the MDP’s first annual Ideas-in-the-Making Exhibition in the 3,000 sq. ft., 40 ft. high Windtunnel Gallery. The project will eventually be published and the researcher will be expected to deliver a research report by the end of August 2010.

 

 Jury

Fiona Raby, principal, Dunne & Raby

Bruce Sterling, science fiction author, Wired Columnist, early Design Fiction author and advocate

Ben Hooker, multimedia artist and designer, MDP core faculty

Sean Donahue, designer, design researcher, principal, Research Centered Design, MDP faculty