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- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design, Cornell Human Ecology
- MVR 1250 Gallery
Re-Imagine: Sustainable Art & Objects
Re-Imagine: Sustainable Art & Objects features work by the Cornell Community and local artists. The exhibit is curated by the College of Human Ecology’s Green Team.
- Oct 3 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building, T01
Threads: Sustaining India’s Textile Tradition
Threads: Sustaining India’s Textile Traditions features four Indian designers and their collaborations with traditional textiles artisans that produce fashion collections for a contemporary market. Through in-depth interviews and visually stunning footage, this film demonstrates how these committed, creative collaborations innovate traditional textile techniques and reinvigorate the communities who produce them.
Katherine Sender, PhD is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication. She is also a member of Feminist, Gender, and
- Oct 17 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building T01
Fast Fashion Before Fast Fashion: Rethinking Histories of Mass-Produced Clothing
Fast fashion is often understood as a recent business model defined by speed, low cost, and disposability. Yet many of its challenges—labor exploitation, environmental harm, and the normalization of overconsumption—have much deeper historical roots. This talk traces the emergence of “fast fashion” through the lens of nineteenth- and twentieth-century shifts in media, merchandising, and consumer culture at large, showing how notions of “progress” and “prosperity” helped obscure the human and environmental costs of mass-produced clothing
- Oct 10 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Virtual
What do we talk about when we talk about fashion?
As a society, we talk about fashion – a lot! What we do to and put on our bodies, the social and economic value of those products and processes, and the identities into which we might step by participating in fashion/style/dress are constantly being reconstituted through the text and images published at a near constant rate into the contemporary media landscape. In this talk I will share what I have learned from more than a
- Sep 16 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- MVR G151
Reimagined Health Spaces of the Future: A Kaiser Permanente Journey
Kaiser Permanente, founded 80 years ago, is a value-based health care delivery system. This presentation documents the last 10 years of our work, success, and the lessons we have learned along the way. Designing healthcare spaces for the future requires a deep understanding of future care delivery, the necessary technology, and the spaces that support it. This presentation explores the processes and tools used to define these spaces and technologies.
Most designs stop at this
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- by Melissa Conroy
- Human Centered Design
- Jill Stuart Gallery, Human Ecology Building
Re-formation
Re-formation, The Barbara L. Kuhlman Scholars Exhibit features work by Kate Stiens, Liriana Nezaj, Roan Grace Harvey, Jr., Margaret Lily Watkins, and Margaret Pei-Ru Tsai. The exhibit is up in the Jill Stuart Gallery in the Human Ecology Building through Oct. 27.
- Sep 19 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- T01 Human Ecology Building
The Hand in the Design Process
Melissa Conroy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design who specializes in knitwear design and cross-disciplinary creative collaboration. She will discuss the differences and intersections between the disciplines of art, craft and design with an emphasis on understanding how the disciplines of art and craft can benefit the design process using hands-on processes.