DDM Speaker Series

The Design and Dynamic Media Speaker Series connects the ECU Community to local and global communities of practice in Design, Film & Screen Arts, and Animation.

Recorded talks are available to our internal community via log-in.

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Previous Talks

2023-24 Talks

Spring 2024 Term

Katherine Benjamin
April 5		Service Design: Tips on making a career out of turning messy problems into solutions
Pete Nash
Mar 19		Performance Building in Animation
Nadia Beyzaei
February 7		Designing Moments: How design can enhance engagement in evidence-based medicine
Gaku Tada
February 6		3D Illustration with Blender Grease Pencil

Fall 2023 Term

Miwa Matreyek
October 26		Presence, Transformation, and Embodiment
Bryce Duyvewaardt
October 19		Designing for Play, Any Time, Any Place
Shih-Ting Hung
October 19		The World of Music Videos
Michael MacDonald
October 18		Michael MacDonald

Kathleen Sleboda
October 17

From Papers to Books
Shira Avni
October 5		Artist Talk with Shira Avni
2022-23 Talks

Spring 2023 Term

Clara Chan
March 30		Finding Yourself in Animation and Filmmaking
Jorge Gutierrez

March 28

How to keep your culture and soul almost intact in Hollywood!
Guy Maddin
March 20
In Conversation
Nicole Klenk
March 16		Taking an aesthetic stance in transdisciplinary environmental research and decision-making
Kristin Reeves
March 7
Reanimating Media Cadavers [What Is This Feeling] Media Artworks
Briar Levit
February 16		Design Practice and Archives: How spending time with the past can inform the thinking and making of the present
Hayley Morris
February 14		Shape & Shadow's Fantastical Worlds
Elene Neveriani
January 27		Workshop
Koji Yamamura
January 19		Giving Shape to Invisible Light
Vincenzo Lombardo
Janaury 17
Virtual Electronic Poems

Fall 2022 Term


Dr. Celia Cussen
November 24		The global reach of an Afroperuvian holyman
Jin-Me Yoon
November 23

Artist Talk

Hanna Ahlberg
October 27
One designer's journey from products to sustainable systems for IKEA
Dr. Kaveri Mayra
October 19
Qualitative Research Methods: iPoems & body-mapping as relevatory tools
Corrie Francis Parks
October 12
A Handful of Sand
Karen Byskov
September 29		One designer's journey through products, services, and systems
2021-22 Talks

Spring 2022 Term

Artist Film Workshop
April 29
NEW WORKS ON 16MM
Arun Ram-Mohan
April 1
Let's Talk about Lighting
Katherine Benjamin
March 31		Design in Government Digital Services
Atom Egoyan
March 31		Atom Egoyan
Rejane Dal Bello
March 31		Rejane Dal Bello: Citizen First, Designer Second
Kunal Sen, Sitji Chou, and Diego MacLean
March 30
Motion Graphics Alumni Panel
Dr. Renata Leit?o
March 29
Foundations for a Pluriversal Social Design
Kevin King
March 25		Supporting Indigenous language preservation through redefining digital text standards
Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter
March 23		Tiny Inventions
Noura Kevorkian
March 23
Noura Kevorkian
Nicole Killian
March 15		Occasionally a Moment of Openness
Jinko Gotoh
March 9		Democratizing Animation, a Conversation with Jinko Gotoh
Behzad Mansoori-Dara
Feb 18		A Dive into the Creative Process of Animated Features
Archie Boston
Feb 17
Archie Boston: Heart & Soul of Communication Design
Bettina Oberli
Feb 11		Workshop With Bettina Oberli

Fall 2021 Term

Mimi Gellman
November 27		Indigenizing the White Cube / Turning Back the Gaze
Sam Gurry
November 25		Animated Ecologies
Jennifer Abbott
November 24		Film Screening + Q&A | The Magnitude of All Things
Athomas Goldberg
November 18		Virtual Circus Arts
Nicole Killian
November 10		tending to the garden: manifesting queer praxis
Nathan Thomas
November 5		Nathan Thomas: Animation's Next Big Movement
Elizabeth Klinck
November 1		Authenticity, Research, and Panning for Gold
Dan Hicks
October 23		The Brutish Museums: Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Desmond Wong
October 21		Desmond Wong: A Decade Later
Sadie Red Wing
October 19		Designing for Sovereign Nations in Higher Education
Ryan Smith and Adrian Chong
September 13		Human Experiences: UX Career Paths

Summer 2021 Term

Montasser Drissi
July 22		Why Bi-Scriptual Typography?
2020-21 Talks

Spring 2021 Term

Nayeli Jimenez
March 11		Communication Design for Social and Climate Justice
Suresh Eriyat
March 3		My Trek Through the World of Animation
Naomi Kolsteren and Vincent Vrints
February 25		Vrints-Kolsteren Design Studio
Silas Munro
February 23		Bearing Witness: A Designer's Struggle for Integrity
Tina Oullette
February 9		Animation Producer at Global Mechanic
Kaho Yoshida
February 9		Animation Director and Animator

Fall 2020 Term

Ahmed Ansari
November 19

Speculation in Design Intending Towards a Pluriverse: Theory and Praxis

Musa Brooker
November 17
Animation
Sasha Constanza-Chock & Victoria Barnett
October 29		Design Justice Workshop
Daniel Sousa
October 27		Animation

Jane Abernathy
October 20

Evaluating Sustainable Product Design

Rebecca Burgess
October 15		Building Fibersheds

Ramon Tejada
October 9

Puncturing: Or making space(s) as a practice.

Dylan Davis & Jean Lee
September 24

Ladies & Gentlemen Studio

Spring 2020 Term

Mark Rutledge
March 13		Indigenous Design: Beyond Medicine Wheels, Ox Carts, and Inukshuks
Amanda Strong
March 11		Artist Talk with Amanda Strong
Dimeji Onafuwa
February 6		What Inclusion Really Means | A pluriversal approach to user experience