Please join us in congratulating the 3rd annual Northeastern University Humanities Center Resident Fellowship Program. This fellowship provides a focused period of time for fellows to pursue research, to collaborate around a common theme, and to share their work with the Northeastern community. The theme for the 2015-16 academic year is “By Design”
2015 – 2016: By Design: The appearance of design—fine detail, intricate patterning, and evidence of planning—is ubiquitous in nature and culture. The 2015-2016 Northeastern Humanities Center fellows presented projects that are concerned with aspects of design —ornamentation, utility, aesthetics, creativity, emotion, rationality, and intention— as well as projects that theorize and question principles of design. Among the questions members considered were: Is design approached differently in different contexts: for example, the design of objects and physical structures, of experiments, of organizational structures, of public policies, or works of art? How should we design for change? What makes for good design? Is absence of design possible? How is design linked to unintended consequences? What is gained from reflecting on design?
Convened by: Lori Lefkovitz
Director, Northeastern Humanities Center
Department of English
Jewish Studies Program
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Liz Bucar: “Pious Fashion”
Department of Philosophy and Religion
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Victoria Cain: “Worth a Thousand Words: Photography, Technology, and Making of Modern Education”
Department of History
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Theo Davis: “Determinism and Unpredictability in Naturalist Fiction”
Department of English
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Matthias Felleisen: “How to Design Programs”
Trustee Professor
College of Computer and Information Science
Benedict Jimenez: “Inequality by Design?”
Department of Political Science
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Andrea Parker: “Designing for the Qualified Self”
Assistant Professor
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
College of Computer and Information Science
Stuart Peterfreund: “From Natural Theology to Irreducible Complexity: The Way of the Argument from Design after Darwin”
Department of English
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Gillian Smith: “Understanding the History of Generative Design: Uncovering Themes in Procedural Content and Generative Methods across Media”
Assistant Professor
College of Arts, Media, and Design
College of Computer and Information Science
Emily Cummins – GRADUATE FELLOW: “Designing Uncertain Futures: Building Home and Unhomely in Detroit”
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Charles Lesh – GRADUATE FELLOW: “The Spatial Rhetorical Function of Graffiti Writing in Boston, Massachusetts”
Department of English
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
