Conceptualizing and prototyping (maker workshop 1)

Date: Tuesday, May 31
Time: 1:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: 218 Gore Hall

Representing the need for STE(A)M education in higher education, workshop leaders will guide participants through the process of creative prototyping: a hands-on experience of manifesting ideas into electro-mechanical objects. This thinking-through-making workshop will allow faculty to experience the “maker” approach to cross-disciplinary higher education as a response to the needs of our students and society.(Participants can take all three of this week’s maker workshops as a series or participate in any one or two of the sessions independently.)

Georgia Guthrie

Georgia Guthrie
Executive Director, The Hacktory

Georgia Guthrie is formally trained as a human-centered designer and art historian. Her DNA, interests, and life experiences have made her a maker. Her professional work is focused right now on being the Executive Director of The Hacktory, a hacker/makerspace in Philadelphia, PA. Formerly, she was a designer at the Action Mill, where she helped conceptualize, design, and launch My Gift of Grace, a game to help individuals and families talk about end-of-life issues. This spring, she was a student at the School for Poetic Computation. Find out more at georgiaguthrie.com.

Ashley Pigford

Ashley Pigford
Associate Professor, Art & Design

Ashley John Pigford, Associate Professor of Graphic and Interaction Design at the University of Delaware, applies design thinking to interrogate meaningful relationships between technology, materials and human experience. He received his MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 and his BS in Visual Communications from the University of Delaware in 1996. From 1996-2003 He had a successful career as co-founder and Creative Director of a design company in Los Angeles, CA. His notable design work includes motion graphics for Firefly TV series and DMX’s “Who We Be” music video, plus packaging design for Blink 182’s major label debut “Dude Ranch”. He has received research grants from the Center for Creativity, Craft and Design, the University of Delaware and the Creative Arts Council at Brown University, and a State of Delaware Established Artist Fellowship.