Digitizing Reality
Digitizing Reality: XR Workflows with Volumetric Video Workshop
The John & Fonda Elliot DI Faculty Fellows Event Series with David Silva
Uncommon: Material Futures with Common Reed
In response to the mounting urgency to identify regenerative, low-carbon materials for the built environment, this exhibition will narrate the process of material harvest, experimentation, and identifying speculative futures for a regional agroecological solution to climate change through the development of a novel, low embodied carbon reed-based material. There will be simultaneous projections of video and imagery documenting this project as well as a curated collection of artifacts and visualizations.
The Polydisciplinary Lens
Working across platforms such as woodworking, writing, painting, printmaking, 3D modeling, graphic design, consumer product and industrial design, I have developed a polydisciplinary approach. The polydisciplinary approach does not allude to an oscillation between media or a synthesis of independent approaches. Also, the word 鈥榩olydicsciplinary鈥 is a proxy for an approach that eschews notions of the 鈥渋ntersection鈥 of disciplines or the 鈥渕ixing鈥 of media. Instead, work is idea-driven and rooted in language, with decisions about materials and processes shifting along the way.
For Karla Gutierrez Cuevas, Ph.D. 鈥17, the start of her Kent State journey brought a mix of excitement and uncertainty. 鈥淲hen I got accepted, I was pregnant,鈥 Karla recalled. 鈥淚n Mexico, there鈥檚 the perception that being a mother and pursuing a demanding academic career don鈥檛 go hand in hand. I was hesitant about whether I could do both.鈥 That hesitation changed after a conversation with Robin Selinger, Ph.D., a professor whose words gave Karla the courage she needed. 鈥淚 was eight months postpartum when I arrived, and I had just sold all my belongings and left my job in Mexico,鈥 Kar...
Kent State American Academy student Alexandre Andrade sat barefoot in a Chinese business meeting last summer, dressed in a suit but without shoes or socks, sipping tea with manufacturing executives.It wasn't what Andrade expected when he left his hometown of Curitiba, Paran谩, Brazil, where he was enrolled in the American Academy, a dual-enrollment program offered jointly by Kent State and the Pontifical Catholic University of Paran谩 (PUCPR), located in Curitiba.But the 21-year-old, who is majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and En...