Resources & Recordings from Opening Art and Design Education for a Just and Sustainable World

Recording from Panel on Thursday, April 4, 2024

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Panelists:

Yongyeon Cho

Assistant Professor of Interior Design, Iowa State University

Yongyeon Cho is an assistant professor in the Interior Design Department and a teaching affiliate in the Human-Computer Interaction Program at Iowa State University. He holds MFA, NCIDQ, WELL AP, and LEED GA. In 2017, he was an interior designer at HOK, Chicago. Since 2018, he has been working as a design advisor at Keumkang Enterprises Inc in Seoul, Korea. His research interests include wellness design research, visualization techniques, user-centered and human-centered design, and design pedagogy.

Justine De Young

Assistant Professor and Chairperson of History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology

Dr. De Young specializes in the intersection of art and fashion, teaching courses on modern art and fashion history. Her research and writing interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and literature, visual and material culture, modernism and fashion. She is the editor of Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 (I.B. Tauris, 2017) and of the Fashion History Timeline. Her work has been generously supported by grants and fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty, Kress, and Mellon Foundations.

Before coming to FIT, Dr. De Young taught art and fashion history at Harvard, Wellesley, Lesley, and Northwestern University. She has published many essays, notably contributing to the exhibition catalogs for “Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity” (2012-13) and “Tissot: Fashion & Faith” (2019-2020). She lectures widely and has held fellowships at the Met’s Costume Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Northwestern’s Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art. Her book, The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Visual Arts in Spring 2025.

Panel Moderator:

Amy Ballmer

Chair of Research and Collection Development, Pratt Institute

Prior to joining Pratt in 2017 I worked as a reference & instruction librarian at academic and museum libraries in Chicago and New York City. My research intersects the study of small press and ephemeral artist publications with critical librarianship. I am co-creator of the open access discovery tool Avalanche Magazine Index, and have published articles in Art Documentation, Art Libraries Journal, and Serials Review.

Opening Remarks:

Kim Bobier

Adjunct Assistant Professor of History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute

Kim Bobier specializes in modern and contemporary art historical periods. Her work takes a social justice lens while emphasizing critical race studies, Black studies, and gender and sexuality studies, surveillance studies, and archives.

She harnesses these perspectives in her teaching. Many of them also inform her dissertation, “Representing and Refracting the Civil Rights Movement in Late Twentieth-Century Art.” Bobier is the recipient of fellowships from institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, the Mellon Black Metropolis Research Consortium, and the Luce American Council of Learned Societies. Her writing appears in Afterimage, African Arts Journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Journal, International Review of African American Art, Panorama: Association of Historians of American Art, Routledge’s anthology Social Practice Art in Turbulent Times, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on the book project Monitoring and Modeling Citizenship: Racializing Surveillance in Contemporary Art. Her related article on Crystal Z Campbell’s installation Model Citizen: Here I Stand was published in the spring 2024 issue of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s journal. Other recent projects include her work with Marisa Williamson as co-curator of the 2024 exhibition EscapeRoom at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Gallery and as co-editor of Women & Performance’s special issue “Views from the Larger Somewhere: Race, Vision, and Surveillance.”

Erica Morawski 

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute

Dr. Morawski is dedicated to exploring the intersection of design, politics, and identity. Her research and writing center on the history of design in the Americas, with a particular focus on the Hispanic Caribbean. Her work traverses the nature of these relationships across different scales, from a designed object to larger national or international frameworks of trade, manufacture, and knowledge systems. She is presently completing a book that examines design and development policy in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico from roughly 1900-1960. This project focuses on design related to the tourism industry as a means to analyze Hispanic Caribbean responses to and engagement with the co-constitutive projects of imperialism/colonialism and modernity. She is also researching a second book project on the institutionalization and role of design, specifically industrial design and architecture, after the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Dr. Morawski is a currently lead editor of Interior Design On Edge: History, Theory Praxis (Routledge, forthcoming 2024), which is the latest volume to come out of Interior Provocations, an ongoing symposium and scholarly collaboration between the History of Art and Design and Interiors Department at Pratt Institute.

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