Fall 2016

CHI College Dean’s welcome

CHI Theatre & Music 2016/17 theatre season

LA Art & Art History Marientina Gotsis and the art of solving problems

CHI, DXB, Architecture JED Adrian SmithCHI comes to Projecting the Forum

CHI College Projecting the future: a UIC legacy the future: a DET Design at IDSA conference UIC legacy LIS, VCE Architecture City views: School of Architecture represented in Lisbon and Venice

CHI College In memoriam

CHI Architecture Legos Brick by Brick at the Museum of Science and Industry DET Industrial

CHI Design High in the Modern Wing: Amir Berbic’s installation at the Art Institute of Design at IDSA CHI College Alumni step out at Steppenwolf

NYC Design conference The future, now

ACC Art & Art History Congratulations, Daniel Dunson

CHI College Sides to our story: east side/ west side collaborationsLIS School of University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts Architecture to Lisbon and Venice

CHI East side/ west side collaborations Dean’s UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts 2

Fall 2016 has arrived at the University of an arts center for UIC and the city of Geissler, Beate, Oliver Sann, and Brian Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Chicago. You can also read descriptions and Recent faculty publications Holmes. Volatile Smile. Nuremberg: Moderne welcomeDesign, and the Arts (CADA), and the see images of luminous design concepts Kunst Nurnberg, 2014. learning environment here is as vibrant as for a new visual and performing arts facility The faculty of UIC's College of Harmansah, Omur. Place, Memory, and ever. Every day, visual and performing here at the College created by three teams Architecture, Design, and the Arts are Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian artists, art historians, designers, architects, of UIC architects and graphic designers. leading, internationally recognized Rock Monuments. London and New York: and musicians step on campus, into the Also included: CADA accomplishments scholars. The following publications are Routledge, 2015. classroom or studio, onto the stage ready and other recent news — updates on faculty among their contributions to discourse and eager to teach and be taught, to ponder Lyster, Clare. Learning from Logistics: work and publications, a new theatre in a wide variety of disciplines. and provoke, and to imagine and invent. How Networks Change Our Cities. Berlin: season on campus, and accomplishments Birkhauser, 2016. This newsletter chronicles some of these of our faculty, students, and alumni, as activities and the myriad ways we are well as poignant remembrances. Archias, Elise. The Concrete Body: Yvonne Stimson, Blake. Citizen Warhol. London: engaging with our work and with each Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci. Reaktion Books, 2014. We hope you enjoy this newsletter, which other. We have the good fortune to be part New Haven, CT: Press, 2016. reflects that we are many disciplines, of a College community with four distinct four schools, and one college — an eclectic Becker, Catherine. Shifting Stones, Shaping schools in the city of Chicago, so we are community with countless projects on the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist creating and connecting in an energetic our minds and in the works. Comprising Stupas of Andhra Pradesh. New York: Oxford place with a strong urban character and highly motivated people who love to University Press, 2014. an extensive international reach. As noted inquire, speculate, and create, our College in this newsletter, members of our College Brown, David P. “Lots Will Vary in The has great stories to tell. community — students, faculty, alumni — CHI Available City.” In The Oxford Handbook are doing important work on both sides of Critical Improvisation Studies, Vol. 2, Cordially, of the UIC campus, throughout the city, edited by George E. Lewis and Benjamin Steve Everett and across the country and globe. Piekut, 57–75. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. The College’s ingenuity has historical roots, of course. In this issue you can read about Dean, Penelope, ed., Flat Out magazine, Walter Netsch’s original design for the 2016. campus, and his aspirational work for the Everett, Yayoi Uno. Reconfiguring Myth and secret “Project Y,” a stunning vision for Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.

The Story The Secret in the Wings Glengarry Glen Ross Life’s a Dream

Friday, September 30–October 9, 2016 Friday, November 11–20, 2016 Friday, February 17–26, 2017 Friday, March 31–April 2, 2017 September 30, October 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30 pm November 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm February 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 at 7:30 pm March 31, April 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30 pm October 2, 9 at 2 pm November 13, 20 at 2 pm February 19, 26 at 2 pm April 2, 9 at 2 pm CHI A rookie reporter sidesteps her editor’s From the fertile imagination of Tony award In an economic market speeding Tales of political machinations and orders to investigate a murder in this winner Mary Zimmerman, this stunning toward disaster, aggressive power plays jilted lovers intertwine in this masterful enigmatic drama drawn from a true work adapts little-known classic fairy dominate a real estate game where the play by Shakepeare’s Spanish counterpart, story. American playwright Tracey Scott tales to weave a darkly beautiful new story. common consumer is prey. David Mamet’s Pedro Calderon de la Barca. For a prince Wilson packs a punch with a perilous Beasts, beauties, and other familiar and testosterone-fuelled 1984 Pulitzer Prize imprisoned in a tower by his father reality mix of newsroom politics, racial tension, unfamiliar characters journey from close winner shifts into the 21st century, set in a blurs as he wrestles with the conflict and implacable personal ambition. corners of childhood to distant basements women-owned firm in late 2007. between free will and fate, and control of of imagination. the nation hangs in the balance. Directed by Hallie Gordon, Artistic Directed by UIC faculty member and Jeff and Educational Director of Steppenwolf Directed by Christine Mary Dunford, Award winner Derrick Sanders.Fri Directed by Josep Galindo, head of theatre for Young Adults at Steppenwolf Lookingglass Theatre Company Ensemble 2.17 at Barcelona’s Eolia Conservatory. Theatre Company. member, and Director of UIC’s School of Theatre and Music. For tickets, see the calendar page on Fri Sat Sun the School of Theatre & Music website: 9.30 2.18 2.19 theatreandmusic.uic.edu.

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applications for health, happiness, and Art & Art History rehabilitation. She also teaches courses and the artand supervises students of on the design and Marientina Gotsis (BFA ’99, MFA ’03) never evaluation of games, mobile media, and wanted to choose between the study of virtual reality applications in health. She art and the study of science. Fortunately, works across departments, universities, her UIC education did not require her states, and countries to identify and solve to make that choice. That’s a very good problems through new products, and solvingthing for the estimated 25,000 people problemswho she credits her UIC education as her “first, are able to help thousands more because great path to doing that.” they have played The Brain Architecture AT UIC, Gotsis earned a BFA in photography/ Game, and for the countless others yet film/interactive media and an MFA in to benefit from it. Developed by the electronic visualization from the Electronic Creative Media and Behavioral Health Visualization Laboratory (EVL). She Center at the University of Southern managed a lab and also served as a research California (USC), which Gotsis directs, assistant on large-scale computing the game teaches the science of early efforts for networked virtual reality (VR), childhood to laypeople, and producing it sponsored by the National Science required collaboration among graphic Foundation. designers, industrial designers, experts in e-commerce, scientists, communication “In terms of the remarkable collection of experts, public policy leaders, and a artists at UIC,” she says, “I remember variety of other professionals — in part- going to sit in on critiques that weren’t nership across USC, Harvard University, even for my classes, just to go listen to the University of Pittsburgh, and the the professors talk. At Professor Wilson’s FrameWorks Institute. critiques everything that came out of his mouth was magical. I had to hear Gotsis has a broad background in the arts, him think. I remember he would have Marientina Gotsis (BFA ’99, MFA ’03). LA design, and virtual reality with a special something amazing to say even about Photo by Roberto A. Gomez. interest in interactive entertainment a piece of paper glued to the wall. You just had to be there. You didn’t miss those opportunities.”

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Adrian Smith

Smith certainly stands tall in the CADA On April 7, Smith was honored at the Image: Architecture community, not only as a preeminent 2016 Legacies and Leaders event at the UIC Adrian Smith, Hon.Litt.D, comes toarchitect and alumnus, but also as a Forum — a celebration of philanthropic FAIA (BARCH ’69). In 1969, Adrian Smith graduated from UIC generous donor to the College. Through support of UIC. A recent recipient of theJED with a bachelor’s degree in architecture, a scholarship he established in his Adrian Smith Scholarship, Juan Andrew and went on to become an internationally name, Smith supports the legacy of the Suarez, currently a student in the College of renowned architect. Among his many School of Architecture and its continued Architecture, attended the ceremony. landmark buildings are the world’s two international presence and excellence in thetallest structures: Forum Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the field. Since 1987, the Adrian Smith the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Scholarship has been awarded to a fourth- year student recognized by faculty as a design leader. DXB Images at right: BS ’03). Cheryl Towler Weese, 4 Walter Netsch, Proposed Associate Professor and Project Y, 1967, UIC Archives. 1 Arts Performance Center: Director of Graduate Studies, Sam Jacob, Clinical Professor, 5 Play: Andrew Zago, School of Design; Principal, School of Architecture; Clinical Professor, School of Studio Blue. With UrbanLab: Principal, Sam Jacob Studio. Architecture; Principal, Martin Felsen, Jeff Macias, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Zago Architecture. Sarah Matt Busscher (MARCH ’15), Assistant Professor, School Blankenbaker, Clinical Aishwarya Keshav, Yue Li, of Architecture; Partner, Assistant Professor, School of and Joe Perry; School of Studio Offshore. Mischa Leiner, Architecture. Sharon Oiga, Architecture: Caylen Doyle, MDES Faculty, School of Associate Professor, School Alejandra Edery-Ferre (BARCH Design and HGK Basel; of Design (BFA ’96); Principal, ’16), Ruta Misiunas (BSARCH Principal, CoDe. With Webb Sharon Oiga Design. With ’16); Studio Blue: J. Brad Sturm Yates Engineers. Zago Architecture: Laura and Silja Hillmann. Bouwman, Andrew Adzemovic, 2 The Center: Sarah Dunn, 3 Class in progress on roof Nan Yen Chen, Begum Baysun, Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Art (A&A) Kazurhiro Okamoto, Shao of Architecture; Principal, Building, date unknown, wen Tou, and Linbo Zie; Arup UrbanLab. Kelly Bair, UIC Archives. Los Angeles: Bruce Danziger, Assistant Professor, School Russell Fortmery, Daniel Kim, of Architecture; Principal, Matthew Wilkinson, and Central Standard Office of Toshiyasu Yoza; Sharon Oiga Design. Maya Nash, Adjunct Design: Guy Villa Jr. (BFA ’96). Assistant Professor, School of Architecture (MARCH ’11,

Projecting

On the cusp of the new school year, the After designing a series of rectangular For the Back to the Future exhibition, focus for performance, research, exhibition, theCollege of Architecture, Design, future: and the forms with brick, precast concrete, a and three faculty-led teams from the School of scholarship, and teaching. As a public Arts reveled in two exhibitions at Gallery glass exteriors, Netsch based his later Architecture and School of Design put forth incubator for artistic innovation, production, 400: The Netsch Campus: Materializing UIC buildings, including the Architecture speculative architectural proposals for a and scholarship, The Center serves as a the Public at UIC and Back to the Future: and Art Building, on his “Field Theory,” state-of-the-art visual and performing research site for both thinking and making. Visualizing the Arts at UIC. Curated by a three-dimensional geometry based on arts facility for the campus. Although each Associate Professor of Architecture Judith the double helix of DNA. With Field Theory, proposal is aesthetically and conceptually K. De Jong and Gallery 400 Director Lorelei Netsch turned corridors into exhibition distinct, all three provide a compelling Play UICStewart, the exhibitions affirmed legacy UIC’s role spaces, stairs into amphitheaters, and vision for how architecture can enhance as an urban laboratory and cultural hub — roofs into classrooms.1 and promote the arts. In Play, the number three emerges again, one through the lens of Walter Netsch’s this time with three material elements original design for the UIC campus, and Amid all this activity, Netsch was also resting on an articulated ground surface: the other through proposals for a dynamic designing “Project Y,” a little-known Arts Performance Center the Performance Tower, an Arts and 21st-century visual and performing arts initiative by a small group of University Education Wing that its creators call building. Together these presentations, administrators in the late-1960s for a A triad resides within the Arts Performance “tectonically expressive,” and, tying them along with UIC’s legacy as a visionary massive new UIC arts complex to be Center — sidewalk, block, and skyline, all of together, the “bright and animated Fifth institution, reflect both the necessity and located across the highway in the West them conceived, according to the design Theatre,” which is envisioned as the lobby, the power of the arts in higher education — Loop. Conceiving the complex as “an team, as “architectural actors that perform the central area for circulating through and the exciting potential of a new arts equivalent of Lincoln Center to Chicago,”2 to both campus and city.” The ground- the building, and as an experimental center for the UIC campus. Netsch planned a Field Theory project with level “sidewalk” flows seamlessly betweenCHI performance venue. The ground surface, a central plaza, as well as four theatres, city and campus and proceeds into the which is landscaped, continues deep But first, a look back.The Netsch Campus a recital hall, spaces for music, drama, interior as “an expansive urban carpet,” into the building complex with outdoor exhibition revisited the ideas and ideals and dance education, and an art museum. the “block” relates to the building’s seating for a cafe, a large bicycle storage present in the original conception of UIC as Project Y never materialized, but the core immediate context, and the “skyline” is “a facility near the Blue Line station, and a a truly public university. Accessible by the ideas remained. An internal UIC document series of figurative pavilions that collage Divvy bike station. expressways and public transportation of written in 1970 outlines a vision for a themselves into their urban context.” All of postwar Chicago, the east side of campus, College of Creative Arts at UIC: “For it has these components reflect urban theatre designed by Netsch between 1961 and been recognized that the arts are not itself, as the building stages intersections The future is now — with a sense of then 1968, was built at the cost of relocating a condiment, but a nutrient . . . a primary between departments, between public area residents through a program of urban force in human society and therefore an and private, and between city and college. renewal, making the birth of UIC both a essential study in an educational system.”3 As Netsch and the University administration

declaration of the right of access to higher recognized more than four decades ago, education, and, for some Chicagoans, the The ten-page proposal goes on to lay out an architecturally significant arts facility in The Center: Gateway, Hub, Incubator disruption of a cherished neighborhood. an arts institution of the highest calling, the heart of Chicago’s Near West Side will with UIC’s well-established civic sensibility: elevate the cultural life of UIC and the city. The context, however, was the urgency “What is required by talent, internationally, The Center asserts the College’s agility in A diverse community of artists, faculty, and of bringing higher education to Chicago’s are generous opportunities to create supporting artist and audience interactions. audiences will be able to engage in multiple working families. As De Jong points and to perform at the summit of the art, Yet intense focus within each field of study arts and cross-disciplinary activities, out, “Netsch and his team from Skidmore, in an environment, both physical and must be encouraged as well. The Center thus in the creative expression of ideas, all in Owings & Merrill sought to materialize cultural, which is conducive to excellence, expresses three key ideas for the building: a singular, vibrant hub. The legacy of a new expression of public education which urges vivid urban experience, and gateway and bridge, mixed-use hub, and Netsch’s design ethic — expansive urbanity, through urban and architectural design.” which offers unsurpassed resources both incubator. As a gateway and bridge, The the perpetual dissemination of knowledge, The Drop of Water Scheme — the notion technical and atmospheric for realization Center links university and city, providing a places designed for intellectual exchange that a pebble dropped in a pond represents of what is created.”4 As this history attests, new public face for the east side of campus, and kinship — will continue to reverberate “knowledge spreading out,” can be seen UIC was conceived for the public good, and inviting broad and deep participation across campus and the city. The College in the inner rings of shared lecture halls, with a deep commitment to the arts, and in its activities. As a mixed-use hub, The is on a clear trajectory, powered by the classroom buildings, the library and student seminal, civic architecture has always Center offers a cross-disciplinary ground most efficient of fuels: memory merging union, and in the outer rings of buildings been intrinsic to that identity. floor and roofscape to foster this exchange, with foresight. for individual academic disciplines. The promoting interchange and collaboration raised walkways were conceived as between the arts and programs across pathways into the amphitheater at the Visibility in the making the university. Moving vertically, floors 1 Judith K. De Jong, “The Netsch Campus: center, and buildings were placed in relation become increasingly disciplinary, providing Materializing the Public at UIC,” Gallery 400 to one another to create exterior spaces exh. pub. (Chicago: Gallery 400, University So what do the arts require of UIC today? where students would be inclined to linger of Illinois at Chicago, 2016), p. 32. 2 De Jong, A new facility that “urges vivid urban “The Netsch Campus,” p. 33, note 6. 3 From “The and interact. experience” should not only aid and abet College of Creative Arts,” the University of art-making in its boldest forms, but Illinois at Chicago, January 5, 1970, “General also celebrate both process and presentation. Statement,” p. 1. 4 Ibid., p. 5. 1

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5 Industrial UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts 6 The conference concluded with the Student Design Merit Awards presentations. Nicholas Savidge (BDES ’16) received the top award. The 2016 Industrial Designers Society of Savidge advanced to this final regional America (IDSA) International Conference, round of the IDSA Student Merit Awards as Design“Making Things Happen,” was held atin the top nomineeIDSA from the UIC School from August 17 to 20, and exciting of Design. things certainly happened there for This is the third consecutive year that the School of Design’s Department of a UIC Design student has been selected for Industrial Design. this prestigious award — evidence that On Friday, August 19, Clinical Professor and the School’s status as an independent School conferenceof Design and related curricular advance- Chair of the Industrial Design Department Stephen Melamed (BFA ’80, MFA ’82) ments are making a national impact was named a Fellow of the IDSA. The IDSA on industrial design education. The 2015 Academy of Fellows recognizes members winner, Rotimi Solola (BDES ’15), is now of the Industrial Design community who a designer at Motorola, and the 2014 winner, have gained special respect and affection Jillian Tackaberry (BDES ’14), is a designer through distinguished service to the at the firm MNML. society and to the profession as a whole. As an IDSA Fellow, Professor Melamed joins an elite group of design luminaries that includes Donald Deskey, Niels Diffrient, DETJay Nicholas Savidge (BDES ’16), Doblin, , Raymond Loewy, bent steel tube chair. Katherine McCoy, Bill Moggridge, George Nelson, and Tucker Viemeister.

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Eisenschmidt is presenting two high- FedEx, the once US and now global shipping Images, above: Architecture resolution drawings, one that he describes network that was founded by Fred Smith Alexander Eisenschmidt, represented in Collective City, at Bi-City as representing “unbuilt but architectur- in 1971. The Lisbon Architecture Triennale ally significant proposals,” while the other closes December 11. Biennale of Urbanism and School of Architecture Assistant Professor Architecture, Shenzhen, Alexander Eisenschmidt and Associate “shows built innovations that are largely unknown.” Eisenschmidt characterizes his China, December 4, 2015– Professor Clare Lyster are currently present­ March 1, 2016. ing work at the Lisbon Architecture juxtaposition of the two drawings as As reported in the spring newsletter, works LisbonTriennale. Curated by Fabrizio Gallanti and and an endeavor to “articulateVenice a new form of by two School of Architecture faculty — Francisca Insula, who founded FIG projects architectural urbanism that is able to Kelly Bair and Andrew Zago — are on view in Montreal in 2003, the exhibition The navigate the contested but highly produc- at the Venice Architecture Biennale: World in Our Eyes investigates architecture, tive realms of contemporary urbanization.” Bair and Kristy Baillet’s The Next Port of Call and Zago’s A New Federal Project. urban research, and the visual arts in an A graphic study of the material flows in interdisciplinary exploration of urbanism. the built environment, Lyster’s Drawing the Both works are part of The Architectural Logistical City reveals the invisible pro- Imagination, a US exhibition exploring VCE cesses, seemingly anonymous landscapes, the city of Detroit as a site of architectural and operational intelligence of contempo­ and urban speculation. The Venice rary regimes of flow. Lyster’s project Architecture Biennale closes November 27. focuses on the space and procedures of Of note at 7 the College

1 Joseph Jachna, Door County, Wisconsin, 1970. © Joseph Jachna, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

1 College: In memoriam Kevin Jennings, 1979–2016 3 Design: High in the Modern Wing — 5 Design: The future, now School of Art & Art History Amir Berbic’s installation at the Ken Isaacs, 1927–2016 Kevin Jennings (MFA ’04) was a much-loved Led by faculty members Sharon Oiga (BFA Professor Emeritus of Architecture and long-standing member of our UIC com- ’96) and Ted Burdett (BFA ’04), students munity as a student, mentor, artist, and lab The Art Institute of Chicago commissioned from the School of Design exhibited their Ken Isaacs was a professor of architecture specialist. Although he taught occasionally Associate Professor of Graphic Design work How Do You Read Design? at the 29th at the School of Architecture for 30 years at UIC and the School of the Art Institute Amir Berbic (BFA ’02) to design the instal- International Contemporary Furniture and the husband of Sara Isaacs, a long-time NYC of Chicago, it was through his day job as the lation that spans across the windows Fair (ICFF) in New York City last May. “The department assistant in UIC’s School of Art. instructional lab specialist for studio arts overlooking Griffin Court in the museum’s exhibitions chosen for this year’s program An innovative architect and designer, at UIC that he trained, influenced, inspired, Modern Wing. Karen Kice, Curator of showcase what’s new and what’s next Isaacs gained worldwide attention and and befriended a legion of artists. Architecture and Design at the Art Institute, from design futurists currently enrolled in celebrity in 1962 with his design of the said “Berbic’s design derives from the the top design programs,” said ICFF Event “Knowledge Box,” a multimedia immersion correlations between typography and the Director Kevin O’Keefe. chamber. Isaacs and the “Knowledge Box” Vincent A. Paglione, 1950–2016 objects in the three exhibitions. . . . While appeared on the cover of Life magazine Associate Dean of Student Affairs the black shapes on the gray wall reference in September 1962, wherein he was included elements from the exhibitions on the mod- 6 Art & Art History: Congratulations, With over 33 years of dedicated service to among the “red hot hundred” — the young ern chair and postmodernism, the words Daniel Dunson UIC, Vincent “Vince” Paglione held numerous leaders of the “Take-Over Generation.” Architecture & Design are indicated in white positions ranging from the coordinator vinyl stripes on the windows, in a nod to the ACC for the exchange program, to interim chair “You couldn’t pay me to hang out in a vertical characteristics of the Modern for the Department of Theater & Music cemetery in the ,” says Daniel Joseph Jachna, 1935–2016 Wing’s architecture. The design rests on the and Associate Dean for the College of Arch­ Dunson (BA ’16). Cemeteries in Ghana, Professor of Photography, School of Art & edge of legibility to highlight the graphic itecture, Design, and the Arts. Educator, however, hold great allure for Dunson, who Art History characteristics of type.” mentor, counselor, friend, and father figure became captivated by their grave markings A professor of photography at UIC for are only some of the enduring terms used when he was there as an undergraduate more than three decades, Joseph Jachna by members of the UIC community to de­ student on a study-abroad program. Now 4 College: Alumni step out at Steppenwolf died on March 14. In the era before digital scribe Paglione. the recipient of a US State Department manipulation of images, Jachna used Gilman Scholarship and a Fulbright Award, time exposure, natural light, mirrors, and On June 23, alumni and friends attended an Dunson has re­turned to Ghana via Morocco a distorting lens to create surreal and 2 Architecture: Legos Brick by Brick at the evening at Steppenwolf Theatre for the to continue his research: “The graveyards often mystical images. A 1958 graduate of Museum of Science and Industry premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer through­out Ghana are so beautifully done. the Institute of Design at the Illinois Prize–winning play Between Riverside They have become this curated, symbolic Institute of Technology, he studied under and Crazy, directed by Associate Professor memorial not only for the dead but for Brick by Brick at Chicago’s Museum of Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and of Theatre Yasen Peyankov. The play relays those who had scattered and those who Science and Industry features spectacular Frederick Sommer, among the first artist- the story of a retired African-American died during the Middle Passage in the all-Lego structures, a number of them photographers in the Midwest. The Chicago- police officer who was shot while off-duty, Atlantic.” Dunson plans to pursue a doc- by faculty and students from the School born photographer’s work won him an by another cop. According to critic Chris toral degree in art history with a focus of Architecture, including: Design w/Co international reputation and numerous Jones of the , the production on the arts of the Black Atlantic. (faculty members Stewart Hicks and Allison grants, as well as fellowships from the “resonates in America’s hour of need.” Newmeyer); UrbanLab (Martin Felsen National Endowment for the Arts in 1976 Peyankov is head of UIC’s theatre program and faculty member Sarah Dunn); and the and the Guggenheim Foundation in 1980. and a Steppenwolf Theatre Company Have news to share? Email cadaconnect@ student team of Tyler Boyett, Jamie Ensemble Member. uic.edu. And stay involved with UIC, Goldsborough, Andrew Jennings, AndyCHI Lang, the College, and your School by visiting U Kei Long, Spencer McNeil, and Preston cada.uic.edu. Welkerand. Closes February 12, 2017.

3 Amir Berbic’s (BFA ’02) installation at the Art 4 Head of Theatre Yasen Peyankov. Photo by 5 Work by Ricardo Garcia, School of 6 Daniel Dunson (BA ’16). Institute of Chicago. Joel Moorman. Design student. University of Illinois at Chicago cada.uic.edu Non-Profit Org. College of Architecture, Design, [email protected] U.S. Postage and the Arts PAID Chicago, Illinois 303 Jefferson Hall Permit No. 4860 929 West Harrison Street Chicago, Illinois 60607

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in the legs, made worse when patients Opportunities for students to study music and to take risks in order to accomplish im­- Theatre & Music, Design walk. Walking, however, is precisely and sound design are expanding, Everett portant things,” Rosenblatt said. “I’ve the thing they most need to do to treat explained. His students find jobs using their been tremendously impressed with the Inno- This summer, researchers from the east the disease and feel better over time. musical skills in fields such as computa- vation Center and what’s happening there.” and west sides of the UIC campus began tional informatics and signification, which “These patients are limited to walking half The course perennially draws students collaborating on a solution to a classic involve using audio to express data. a block to a block before they experience from a range of disciplines to solve problems. conundrum — making something difficult “Students are finding work in industries now significant leg pain,” Bronas said. Collins Just weeks before his graduation from into something doable — using the arts that weren’t there 20 years ago,” he said. explained that supervised exercises help the School of Design, for instance, Daniel as a catalyst. “Ideas are no longer formed in silos. Great relieve pain, but those programs often are Helm (BDES ’16), a senior in industrial universities develop ways to build conversa- “We’re trying to find a way to use music to not reimbursed by insurance. “Patients design, was collaborating with students tions across silos.” promote exercise,” said Eileen Collins, essentially are told to go home and walk, in bioengineering, business, and design. Professor of Biobehavioral Health Science in and they don’t do it because it’s painful,” They gathered in the Innovation Center to the College of Nursing. Collins has joined she added. Everett thus created playlists tackle their product development projects Another cross-campus collaboration forces with Ulf Bronas, Associate Professor based on musical genres that the par­ under the direction of three professors: at UIC brings together science and of Biobehavioral Health Science, and Steve ticipants enjoy, and he manipulated songs Stephen Melamed (BFA ’80, MFA ’82), indus- design students at the UIC Innovation Everett, Dean of the College of Architecture, to encourage them to walk. trial design; Miiri Kotche, bioengineering; Center, through a popular course called Design, and the Arts and a noted composer. and Jelena Spanjol, business. Music also has medical applications beyond Interdisciplinary Product Development. The idea is for Everett to manipulate music peripheral artery disease, Everett said, Students in the class collaborate to “It’s really great to get that team-based so it encourages therapeutic exercise. such as helping patients with Alzheimer’s develop an idea for a product, create and type of environment right before going into “He’s able to take the artistic part of music, disease recall songs they enjoyed in their test it, and formulate a marketing plan. the workforce because that’s what you’re play with it a little, and turn it into child­hood: “There are so many examples going to be dealing with your entire life,” During the two-semester course, which science to make the brain and the muscles of people trying to understand music's said Helm. has been offered since 2002, students work together in ways that we don’t CHI unique ability to affect certain medical typically develop products to suit the needs The College’s collaborations across campus ordinarily think about.” conditions. . . . There’s an underlying under- of a corporate partner. In the spring of are aligned with the broader efforts of standing that music may not only create Participants in the group’s summer 2016, however, the course partnered with the University Provost and Vice Chancellor pleasure, but is something that may be 2016 pilot study were patients from the Mark Rosenblatt, professor and head for Academic Affairs, Susan Poser, and much more critical for our own psychologi- University of Illinois Hospital and the of ophthalmology, to address health care the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, cal health.” Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Administration problems identified by faculty members. Robert Barish, to forge ongoing, dynamic Hospital who suffer from peripheral artery connections between the east and west “We want to create a culture of innovation disease. The disease causes intense pain sides of the UIC campus. within our department, to think differently,