Announcing the Fall 2020 Lecture Series!

We are delighted to announce our Visiting Lecture Series lineup for the Fall 2020 season. Read more below about Dori Tunstall, Paola Antonelli, Timothy Bardlavens, Mariana Prieto, and Danny Alexander below! And if you want to attend one of these events, just reach out!

Dori Tunstall

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual, and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory, culture, and design. She is Dean of the Faculty of Design at OCAD University and the first black Dean of a Faculty of Design anywhere. Tunstall holds a PhD and an MA in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College. At OCAD, Dr. Tunstall plays a vital role in steering aspects of the academic and administrative agendas within the Faculty of Design, as well as related research, outreach, fundraising and operational activities. As the university has initiated the challenge of decolonizing its institution, Dori advocates and communicates how Respectful Design serves the appropriate design ethos for this process.

Paola Antonelli

 Paola Antonelli has become a force to be reckoned with in the design world. Working at The Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994, she is senior curator of Architecture and Design and, as of 2012, the museum's first ever director of research and development. She has worked on shows such as "Humble Masterpieces," which celebrated traditionally unheralded design icons such as the paperclip; "Design and the Elastic Mind," considering the relationship between design and science; "Talk to Me," which looked at design and the communication of people and objects; "Items: Is Fashion Modern?" which highlighted the 111 items of clothing that had a strong impact on the world in the past 120 years; and "Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival", introducing the concept of "restorative design."

Timothy Bardlavens

Timothy Bardlavens is Product Design Leader, a Cultural Strategist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) specialist, a Fellowship Co-Founder, and International Speaker & Facilitator. Currently, a Product Design Manager at Facebook, Timothy supports Community Experiences within the Facebook App, leading teams focused on new Member Experiences and Ecosystem Growth. Previously, he has led teams for Zillow’s newest venture, Zillow Offers, and at Microsoft, where his leadership focused on core UX and Intelligent (AI/ML) experiences in Outlook across all endpoints, platform experiences that span the O365 Suite and core browsing experiences in Edge. As a Cultural Strategist, Timothy specializes in Organizational Culture through the lens of Human-Centered Design. His work shifts the focus of DEI from a Human Resources to a User Experience challenge, helping organizational leaders  understand teams, organizations and companies are designed entities that need unique approaches to cultivate and thrive in an increasingly diverse space. Most importantly, Timothy works with these leaders to develop people-centric strategies with clear, actionable steps to increase diversity, create more inclusive spaces and design more equitable systems.

Mariana Prieto

Mariana Prieto is a designer for wild animals by supporting wildlife conservation organizations through design thinking. Previous to her work in conservation Mariana was Design Innovation Lead for the International Rescue Committee where she led teams working on innovative solutions for the Ebola crisis in West Africa and the redesign of the refugee resettlement process in the United States. She was named TED Resident in 2018 and 2019 and IDEO.org Global Fellow in 2013. Mariana graduated as a product designer from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and has taught at USC Marshall School of Business and been a guest lecturer at Berkeley Haas School of Business, Stanford University, Parsons School of Design, Art Center College of Design and Caltech University and speaker at TED HQ in New York.

Danny Alexander

Danny Alexander is the Co-Founder and Chief of Product & Purpose at Who Gives A Crap, the world’s most delightful toilet paper company. He oversees the creative, product, and marketing teams, and as an avid toilet user, is also passionately involved in guiding the direction of the company’s donations (over $1.3 million donated to help build toilets to date!). Prior to Who Gives A Crap, Danny spent several years as Senior Designer at IDEO.org, the non-profit sister company of the acclaimed design consultancy IDEO. While there he led the organization’s sanitation portfolio and developed his deep love of toilets and for working with communities around the world. He's led projects with organizations such as Marie Stopes Zambia, PSI Tanzania, Sanergy, Unilever and others, working primarily in East Africa and Asia.