Andrea Dezso Teaching Collaboration Studio 5

ART

Tunnel Books 1 2 3 4
Insect Books 1 2
Painted Journals 1 2 3 4 5
3D Books 1 2 3 4 5 6
Color Pencil Books 1 2
Sketchbooks 1 2 3 4 5
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Mural Art 1 2 3 4 5 6
Silhouette 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Drawing 1 2 3
Embroidery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Installation 1 2 3
Animation 1

PROJECTS

McSweeney's 1 2 3
Publikum Calendar 1 2 3
The Demon Bridegroom 1 2

WRITING

Illustrated Fiction 1 2 3 4
Non-Fiction 1 2 3 4 5 6
Fiction Writing 1 2 3

TEACHING

Interface Studio 1 2 3 4 5 6
Typography 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Collaborations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Design Process 1 2 3
Book Design 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Immigrant Mural 1 2 3 4

FEATURES

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

STUDENT WORK 2003- 2004
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Collaboration Studio

DESIGN A ROOM

Using this interactive educational game children can design their own historic interiors with items from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

by Chantal Mora
Diana Berkowitz
Soojin Choi
Ching-Yin Liu
Larissa Pickens

Parsons School of Design, Design & Technology MFA
Instructor: Andrea Dezsö
Try it out! (This is an outside link)

During this Collaboration Studio students have followed a design process I call "evolutionary".
I was inspired by the folk craft methods artisans in traditional cultures use to develop objects over several generations. In this process heritage and mindful iterations are important. Students learn to work with something that existed before their time. They add their contribution, maintaining the integrity of the original work. Then they pass it on to the next generation of students who will join the Collaboration Studio one semester later. Students "learn the craft" by first adding functionality, de-bugging, improving pieces inherited from the previous semester. Later they propose and create brand new, original pieces.