ACAD continues Stirring Culture through a series of public dialogues with six international forces from the world of design. Join us to explore the impact of transformative design thinking on our culture, our communities, and our lives.
ACAD is pleased to announce the upcoming 2009 - 2010 season of the much anticipated Stirring Culture lecture series. ACAD’s Stirring Culture is a free, public, bi-annual event, and has brought some of the most important voices in art and design, culture, and innovation to Calgary.
This year, ACAD is celebrating the continuing evolution of this important series with Stirring Culture 3: Women Innovators in Design, a unique series of public lectures by prominent women with successful practices in the various fields of design that have had significant impacts through their innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to design practice, business, theory, use of materials, and education.
The speakers presenting at ACAD as part of Stirring Culture 3: Women Innovators in Design are leaders in the use of design as a tool for transformation within our businesses, our communities and our daily lives. ACAD is thrilled to welcome Jane Brown of the firm MetaDesign, Meredith Davis of North Carolina State University, design anthropologist Dr. Dori Tunstall of the University of Swinburne in Australia, Shelley Evenson of Microsoft, Sandy Chilewich of Chilewich Sultan LLP and Marianne McKenna of KPMB Architects. All of these women are changing the way design is considered in our world today, and we are fortunate to be able to host them at our College. All Stirring Culture 3: Women Innovators in Design speakers will also serve as Visiting Artists at ACAD, interacting with students and faculty. The first public lecture, featuring Jane Brown, will be held on November 25, 2009 at 5:30 PM in the John Dutton Theatre at the Calgary Public Library.
Jane Brown | November 25, 2009 >>
Sandy Chilewich | January 20, 2010 >>
Shelley Evenson | February 11, 2010 >>
Meredith Davis | March 17, 2010 >>
Dori Tunstall | April 7, 2010 >>
Marianne McKenna | May 18, 2010 >>
ACAD's highly successful Stirring Culture speaker series was initiated by the Institute for the Creative Process at the Alberta College of Art + Design (ICP@ACAD). This 2009-2010 series of public lectures will build upon the success of the 2004/2005 Stirring Culture series which brought Bruce Mau, Charles Landry, Will Alsop and others to Calgary, and the 2007/2008 series, featuring Jean-Daniel Lafond, Peter Sellars, Louise Blouin MacBain and Richard Florida.
ACAD’s Stirring Culture 3: Women Innovators in Design will be held at Calgary Public Library’s Central Library, and will run as six lectures between October 2009 and April 2010. This series is sponsored by the generous support of the ACAD President’s Circle.
The Alberta College of Art + Design is committed to the cultivation of dialogue, research and to our role as a catalyst cultural institution. We look forward to presenting the Stirring Culture 3: Women Innovators in Design series in 2009 and 2010, and to igniting valuable dialogue about the commitments we must make as a community to foster the transformative power of design thinking and to nurture the creative design process.
Stirring Culture 3 is sponsored by the ACAD President’s Circle.
Stirring Culture 3 is made possible with the generous support of the Calgary Public Library.
John Dutton Theatre at the Calgary Public Library
John Dutton Theatre (CPL)
616 MacLeod Trail SE
Calgary, AB, Canada
