A colloquium on the occasion of the opening of the exhibitions "Gio Ponti and the Villa Planchart" at the Busch-Reisinger Museum and at the Graduate School of Design. This is the second event in the GSD's new Design Arts Initiative. The workshop will explore, among other topics: the ambiguous and ambivalent relationship between interior design and architecture since modernism; the current blurring of boundaries among the design disciplines; "total design" from an historical/critical perspective; the mechanisms of fashion and how they affect architecture education and practice; differing paradigms of design; etc. A goal is to inform a primarily architectural audience about issues and realities in the practice and study of product design, industrial design, interior design, graphic design, Web design, etc.

Jorge Silvetti
Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture, and Chairman
Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Introduction

Mark Wigley
Director of Graduate Studies
Princeton University School of Architecture
Total Design: A Critical/Historical Review

Toshiko Mori
Professor in Practice of Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Design and Fabrication

Paola Antonelli
Associate Curator of Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Materials and their Use in Design

Calvin Tsao
Partner
Tsao & McKown Architects, New York and Singapore
An Architect's Path to Designing with His Hands

Ellen Lupton
Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Design
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Typography as Environmental Form

Derek Ostergard
Associate Director and Founding Dean
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York
Creating a Graduate Program in the Decorative Arts and Design