Coming Spring 2008....

All 1 credit (1 hour)

Based on College of Design Lectures

1. How Housing Matters: Towards an Evidence-Based Design Practice in Affordable Housing – Sherry Ahrentzen, Ph.D. – Keynote Lecture June, 2007

Mini-courses based on InformeDesign® Research Summaries

1. Design for People with Chemical Sensitivity
2. Design Influences on Workplace Performance
3. Design to Reduce Risk for Children
4. Design Issues Related to Urban Planning
5. Design for Eco-Tourism
6. Ergonomics
7. Design for Assisted Care Facilities
8. Graphic Design Influences on Signage and Readability
9. Influences on Daylighting Design
10. Influences on Landscape Design

Mini-courses based on InformeDesign® Implications

1. Stadium and Sports Facility Design
2. Design Ethics
3. Design for Adolescents
4. Culturally Sensitive Housing
5. Color Research
6. Collaborative Design
7. Design Influences on Planning for the Public
8. Homeless and Public Housing
9. Sustainable Design via Green Roofs and Indoor Air Quality

InformeDesign® Webcasts

1. Building a Better Cubicle, featuring Guy Newsham, Ph.D.
2. Creating a Business Case for Healing Environments, featuring Jain Malkin
3. Productivity in Buildings: The Killer Variables, featuring Adrian Leaman
4. Universal Design Intervention for Stress Reduction, featuring Cynthia Leibrock, MA
5. Sustainable Design/LEED, featuring Kevin Flynn, AIA

InformeDesign® Upcoming Webcasts

                 Author and Title

                 Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Dept of Design, Housing and

                 Apparel, University of Minnesota, Toward              

                 Culturally Sensitive Housing – The Case of     

                 Hmong and Somali Refugees

                 Julia Robinson, Dept. of Architecture, University                    of Minnesota, Institutionality in Architecture

                 Barbara Martinson, Dept of Design, Housing,                  and Apparel, University of Minnesota, Design                  Strategies for Bilingual Visual Communication

                 Sherry Ahrentzen, Arizona State University,  College                  of Design, How Housing Matters: Toward an Evidence-

                 Based Design Practice in Affordable Housing

                 John Koepke, Dept. of Landscape Architecture,                  University of Minnesota, Work with Native American 

                 Communities: Lessons Learned form Indian Country

                 Lin Nelson-Mayson, Goldstein Museum of Design,

                 University of Minnesota, An Object’s Path: From

                 Donor to Discovery