Upcoming Spring Events in CoDES:
CoDES Alumni Spotlight with Rami Hamati ‘20
Lead Mechanical Design Engineer, SPACEX
Monday, February 24, 12:15 – 1:15pm; Olson Commons, Gordon Career Center
Join us for an informal lunchtime conversation via zoom with Wesleyan graduate. During his first semester at Wesleyan, Hamati approached a professor at the fluid dynamics lab, requesting to join him in research while balancing a full academic load. Continuing his research at the lab throughout his three years at Wesleyan, Hamati published an article as second author. At Columbia, he shifted from a more academic focus to practical application, joining the Columbia Space Initiative and participating in rocket building competitions. Today, Rami works as Lead Mechanical Engineer at SpaceX.
Co Sponsored by CoDES and The Gordon Career Center (Pizza Lunch is provided)
Talk by Keller Easterling: Medium Design
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:30pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Free and open to the public.
Designer and writer Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale, gives a talk entitled Medium Design.
Keller Easterling is a designer, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. She is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Other books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934–1960. Easterling lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design.
Co-sponsored by the Samuel Silipo ’85 Distinguished Visitors Fund and Department of Art and Art History; College of Design and Engineering Studies (CoDES); and Fries Center for Global Studies.
CoDES Student Lounge and Textile Hub Grand Opening
Friday February 28; 11:30 - 12:30pm; Fifth Floor of Exley
The winning design of the CoDES Logo Design contest will be unveiled!
Pizza lunch provided.
All students are welcome!
Sarah Elmalch '07
Thursday March 6, 12-1pm; Albritton 103
On Thursday March 6, Sarah Elmaleh’07 will join us at noon in Albritton 103 to meet with the Wesleyan community and share her experience in the voice over and game industry. Sarah is known for her roles in blockbuster titles Helldivers 2, Hi-Fi Rush, Fortnite, and Gears 5 and in critically acclaimed indie games Goodbye Volcano High, Pyre, and Gone Home.
In addition, Sarah is currently the SAG-AFTRA* Interactive Media Agreement Negotiating Committee Chair where she has been leading the fight for fair compensation and sustainable working conditions.
Thursday March 27, 12-1pm; Boger 113
Co Sponsored by CoDES and The Gordon Career Center (Pizza Lunch is provided)
Thursday April 3, 12-1pm; Woodhouse Lounge, Exley Science Center
Co Sponsored by CoDES and The Gordon Career Center (Pizza Lunch is provided)
Past Events in CoDES:
Lecture by Miho Mazereeuw: Design Before Disaster
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 4:30pm;
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Fabricating Fabrics: Design and Computation
Panel Discussion with Victoria Manganiello, Megan Hofmann, Yu Nong Khew & Sonia Roberts: Monday, February 10, 4:30pm; Woodhead Lounge; Exley Science Center
Lecture by Megan Hofmann:
Tuesday, February 11, 4:30pm; Woodhead Lounge; Exley Science Center
Thursday, November 21, 2024, Boger 113, 12:00-1:00pm
CoDES Faculty Spotlight with Camilla Zamboni
Monday, November 18, 2024, Olson Commons, The Gordon Career Center, 12:15-1:15pm
CoDES Alumni Spotlight with Amy Schaap '21
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, Gribbel Room (Second Floor of Olin) 11AM – 12PM
Interdisciplinary Project Lab showcasing final projects
College of Design and Engineering Studies Candidate Talks
February 19, 4:30pm, Exley Science Center 58, Elizabeth Chang-Davidson, Northeastern University
Successful Build Strategies in Large-Scale Metal Additive Manufacturing: Addressing Geometric Error, Heat Buildup, and Residual Stresses
February 22, 4:30pm, Exley Science Center 58, Xiangyi Cheng, Ohio Northern University
Empowering Healthcare and Education Through AI-Enhanced Intelligent Systems
February 26, 4:30pm, Exley Science Center 58, Abhishek Sharma, University of Chicago
Computational Design of Stimulus Response: Nanoparticle Self-Assembly and Networked Metamaterials
February 27, 2024, 4:30 PM colloquium with Dr. Laura Wolf-Powers
Constructions of Community in the Era of the Innovation District: The Case of West Philadelphia
One of the biggest trends in contemporary urban economic development is the campus-adjacent Innovation District, an endeavor in which higher education institutions are crucial partners. This talk draws on two emerging innovation districts in West Philadelphia's University City neighborhood to unpack innovation districts' economic and social logics and compare today's university-investor partnerships with those that were operative during the Urban Renewal era. The talk also highlights the work of organized residents who have acted to contest dominant understandings of innovation and economic progress.
February 23, 2024, 12:00 PM, Digital Design Studio, Open House for new and prospective IDEAS majors and minors
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 . 5:00-6:00pm . Digital Design Studio, CFA
NOTE NEW LOCATION
Rux Studios is an award-winning NYC-based design/manufacturer that develops inspirational lighting products and brands. The studio is led by Creative Director Russell Greenberg and Managing Director Christopher Beardsley, who are on a mission to create products that catalyze positive change.
Russell and Chris co-founded STICKBULB in 2012 to turn wood waste from demolished buildings, dismantled water towers, and fallen trees in NYC into cutting-edge light fixtures. Their latest design, TREELINE, helps to pioneer a new material supply chain and is the first consumer product to ever be manufactured out of wood salvaged from NYC’s urban forest.
In 2018 they co-founded GRADUAL as a vehicle to re-tell the story of time. Their first collection called LIGHTWEIGHTS measures the passage of time as ebbing and flowing accumulations of light, visually linking short-term time (minutes, hours, days, years) with long-term time (centuries, and millennia).
This lecture will give a brief overview of the origins of RUX Studios, and deep dive into the nuts and bolts of the Stickbulb lighting collection and brand mission.
ABOUT STICKBULB
Stickbulb was co-founded in 2012 by Yale School of Architecture graduates Russell Greenberg and Christopher Beardsley as a way to combine their mutual love of architecture, modular systems, and sustainable manufacturing. Born from a pile of scrap wood, the original objective of Stickbulb was to “build with light,” which has since been fulfilled in collaborations with brands like Google, Blue Bottle, and Erewhon as well as private commissions for hotels, offices, and residences across the globe. Designed by RUX Studios, Stickbulb LED fixtures are B Corp Certified, Climate Neutral Certified, and handcrafted in New York City from sleek wooden beams using reclaimed materials sourced from locally demolished buildings and sustainably managed forests. Stickbulb products range from small desk lamps to room-filling custom installations and can be found in a growing list of international showrooms.